[WikiEN-l] "Fair use" abuse on user pages

Thu Sep 22 22:04:57 UTC 2005

On 9/22/05, Daniel Mayer <maveric149 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> I agree completely. Last time I checked, the deletion policy is very much
> so
> biased toward keeping everything by requiring a supermajority to delete.
> It
> should be the other way around whenever a fair use claim is made.
>

Remember that a fair use claim would come under the Copyright policy, which
being a key policy takes precedence over the deletion policy.

In short, if someone makes a fair use claim they should need a consensus to
support it if anything.

Under deletion policy, the rule is "if in doubt, don't delete." The
copyright policy should adopt the reverse approach. Wikipedia is known for
the quality of its product. Let's not ever risk it being known as a
purloiner of other people's hard work.