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

Thu Sep 22 23:52:49 UTC 2005

You could always ask, and if there are those for whom my upload gallery
is not blindingly obvious as a holding/tracking area, I could certainly
add a note to the top of it. Seeing as how I'm the person doing the
physical labor of preparing the scan and postprocessing the image, I
don't think it's too much to ask that my process be accommodated, rather
than "assuming bad faith" as was suggested. I've been very conservative
on deciding whether any given stamp image was PD or fair use - just
deleted all the Israeli stamps on commons after researching their
copyright status for instance - so it borders on the insulting to
suggest that I don't take any of this seriously.

Stan

Phroziac wrote:

>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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