On 04/03/2008, Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
This process will inevitably cut down the use of fair-use images in enwp down to a tiny subset where there are a group of people who'll spring to that image's defense.
A consummation devoutly to be wished!
It takes a few second for somebody to upload an image he doesn't have copyright on and cannot possibly release as a free image, and pop it into an article. It takes *days* for us to get around to deleting it.
It could be argued that this will be the group of images where we really NEED fair use images, but this is a change in de facto policy.
We could quibble forever, but the policy is no non-free images. We're making exceptions where those images are really necessary and those exceptions do need to be argued.