[WikiEN-l] Why are images deleted in such a hurry?

[The Mangoe]

I'm not sure what the point of saying this is, since the sheer numbers
involved in these categories require dealing with them somewhat
mechanically. Indeed, one could imagine a bot which ran through uses
of a particular infobox (say that for railroads) and tagged the image
with a proper fair use rationale if was not otherwise tagged. Whether
we would approve such a bot is beside the point, because a human doing
the same work would do something of the same thing. They would just do
it more slowly, which is sort of the point of the whole discussion.

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Todd Allen <toddmallen at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Which we should refuse, since the whole purpose of a rationale is to
>  address why a specific use of a specific image in a specific article
>  is justifiable. We should never accept nonfree images by category,
>  only by individual case. It is unfortunate that in some cases we do de
>  facto have categoric acceptance (CD covers, logos, etc.), but that
>  will change in time, and requiring individualized rationales will help
>  with that.