[WikiEN-l] If anyone ever says Wikipedia is too deletionist

[Ken Arromdee]

On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Sarah Ewart wrote:
> > This is similar to the whole "fair use" brouhaha at
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Madeleine_close2.jpg#Licence (the
> > photo of Madeleine McCann, a child who's been missing for 2 years) -
> > as if Madeleine's family wouldn't wholeheartedly agree to that picture
> > being plastered on every website in the world.
> I'm sure thats correct and it also makes it easy to resolve - get
> permission.

The kind of permission we require would allow the image to used as a part of,
say, toy advertisements or political ads.  The family of a disappeared child
may not wish to give that sort of permission.