[Foundation-l] Again, a note on recent resolution..

Thu Mar 29 13:50:22 UTC 2007

Sorry if it is a duplicate of any previous messages but it is important.

I have a question.. is it possible to change pages like this [1] or it 
is rock-solid unchangeable?

> An EDP may not allow material where we can reasonably expect someone to upload a freely licensed file for the same purpose, such as is the case for almost all portraits of living notable individuals.

Why base such a policy on expectations? what happens if there are no 
pictures of such notable individuals for.. say 10 years? why not allow a 
low resolution photo of that individual instead of leaving the article 
without a photo where that photo is important in articles talking about 
that individual..

It isn't very good to rely on the unknown (reasonably expect)..

That about this particular issue..another thing is how these pages are 
made..I mean, shouldn't such pages be agreed on by a great number of the 
contributers to all Wikimedia projects and not by "Passed with 7 
supporting" only? I, of course could be wrong on how things people 
agreed to work on it..IMO this kind of things aren't to be agreed on by 
only the 7 members but it should be publicly announced like the fund 
raiser...

[1] = http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Licensing_policy

Mohamed Magdy~alnokta