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

Fri Sep 23 00:28:45 UTC 2005

On 9/22/05, Stan Shebs <shebs at apple.com> wrote:
> 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.

The policy Jimbo set out allowed a seven day window for a use to be
found for a nonfree image.  If you need an image held longer, I
suggest putting a comment on the image description page so that
patrollers know that is what's going on.

Kelly