[WikiEN-l] FBI vs. Wikipedia

Fred Bauder fredbaud at fairpoint.net
Mon Aug 9 19:04:52 UTC 2010


> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 7:26 PM, FT2 <ft2.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Duty of care is a legal term.
>
> But I note no-one has been able to refute the argument that we don't
> know who took the photograph and thus the photograph has not been
> freely licensed and hence should be deleted. What is needed is a way
> to find a genuine FBI badge and find someone willing to photograph it
> and release that photograph under a free license, or to identify who
> took this photograph and get them to release the photograph. But there
> are problems with both these approaches (namely, getting permission to
> photograph a genuine FBI badge and finding who took this photograph).
>
> Carcharoth

Yes, but those devastating arguments fail to gain a purchase at
Commons:Deletion requests/File:FBI Badge.jpg at least so far.

Fred





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