[Foundation-l] Fair use being badly abused on en.wikipedia

Mon Jan 7 16:31:24 UTC 2008

The abuse of fair use images is absolutely rampant on the English Wikipedia.
During my tenure as an administrator, I deleted over 26000 pages, the
vast majority
of which were Fair Use Images.

Thousands upon thousands are deleted every month, and yet it still
never seems to
stem the tide of incoming images. Until uploading FU images on the
English Wikipedia
is forbidden, the problem will not be getting smaller.

Chad H.

On Jan 7, 2008 11:23 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 07/01/2008, Brian Hammer <hammersoft123 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The mission of Wikimedia is to generate "neutral educational content under a
> > free content license". The Foundation's resolution from March 2007 states
> > that EDP use must be minimal, within narrow limits.
>
> The key issue that seems to be causing this problem is a
> misunderstanding over the definition of "minimal". It does *not* mean
> "small".
>
>
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