From: "Steve Vertigum" utilitymuffinresearch2@yahoo.com
--- "Alex R." alex756@nyc.rr.com wrote:
If this is going to be done it is all the more reason for the image description page to be completed with specific information.
There there needs to be a form to fill out (upon upload ) thats more than just a comment line-- something to remind people of the basic info they should get in the habit of including.
This is a good idea and it is something that Anthere has also suggested elsewhere (do you remember where you brought this up Anthere?).
However, that does not solve the problem that each fair use must be specifically described, i.e. when one uploads an image it is available to use on many encyclopedia pages, what is needed is information _about_each_use_ that will help show that the kind of fair use is the kind that Jimbo has talked about, fair use that covers just about any GFDL downstream application of the image in an encyclopedic, informational context.
Otherwise we are going to get as crazy on the English Wikipedia about deleting images as we have become on the French Wikipedia (and perhaps elsewhere that I am unaware).
Alex756