On 7/12/07, WikipediaEditor Durin <wikidurin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Bottom line here; the Foundation has mandated that we
come into
compliance by Spring of '08. I'm telling you this is flat our impossible
under the current situation where little in the way of clear demarcation
has been given.
The obvious strategy would be to start with the most obvious
violations. But even for those, our only means (as non-admins) of
dealing with such images, even the ones whose "fair use" wouldn't be
defensible in a million years (after which copyright will have
hopefully expired, mind you) -- even for a copyrighted picture of a
common household object -- is to put the little red and white dated
tags on there and hope it actually stays there for seven consecutive
days (or whatever the common-law requirement is, which has no basis in
policy).
It could be argued that we need a swifter formal deletion process, one
that isn't functionally identical to WP:PROD, or it could be argued
that people who actually have a working knowledge of image use policy
should be both technically able and morally empowered to delete
obvious violations on sight.
—C.W.