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

Fri Sep 23 00:07:53 UTC 2005

Sometimes a quick look into the contributor's track record will help.
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Phroziac wrote:

>How would we know if it was uploaded in anticipation? Why do you
>insist on having it your way?
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>On 9/22/05, Stan Shebs <shebs at apple.com> wrote:
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>>Kelly Martin wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>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.
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