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

Thu Sep 22 23:32:36 UTC 2005

How would we know if it was uploaded in anticipation? Why do you
insist on having it your way?

On 9/22/05, Stan Shebs <shebs at apple.com> wrote:
> Kelly Martin wrote:
>
> >Several of us are now speedily deleting nonfree images that have no
> >article references on the grounds that an image that is not being used
> >logically cannot be being used as fair use.
> >
> I would appreciate it if you would take the trouble to see whether
> an image was uploaded in anticipation of article use. For instance,
> I often upload postage stamp scans in batches, and it may be a period
> of weeks before I write all the articles that will use the uploaded
> scans. You're not doing anybody a service by deleting these beforehand,
> nor are you incentivizing me to create the articles more quickly or
> to write first and upload later - more likely I'll just stop writing.
>
> Stan
>
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