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

Fri Sep 23 07:32:05 UTC 2005

On 9/23/05, Stan Shebs <shebs at apple.com> wrote:
>
> 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
> >>
> You could just add a note to those images to let others know about your
> plans and more importantly tell about the copyright status of the image. If
> both of those are mentioned, deleting admins will check with you before
> deleting anything.
>