[WikiEN-l] Fair Use suppression getting silly

Tue Sep 27 06:20:37 UTC 2005

I can understand that using images willy-nilly in articles to which they 
bear only the most lateral of relationships might well give rise to a real 
problem, and I have no argument with the idea of removing such uses.

However it would appear that some people are taking the argument to rather 
silly extremes. I have just discovered the school of thought that believes 
that including an image in a category contravenes the "Fair Use" principle 
because displaying the image on the category page amounts to using the image 
in an unfair way!

Is it me, or is this just plain silly? A category is simply an 
organisational tool, not an article. Surely a case can be made that the 
proper categorisation of images within an encyclopedia is essential to using 
those images correctly.

I was under the impression that ideally, **all** images should belong to at 
least one category, depending upon their licensing status. Obviously there 
are those who disagree.
-- 
Phil
[[en:User:Phil Boswell]] 