[Foundation-l] Fair use being badly abused on en.wikipedia

Mon Jan 7 20:21:37 UTC 2008

On 07/01/2008, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> All this would do is reduce the number of images by
> > creating more hoops to jump through - such a reduction doesn't
> > discriminate between good and bad images.
>
> Sure it does. You can't add an image with a non-free license to an
> article without approval, and non-free license content that is not
> attached to an article is deleted automatically.

The reduction I'm talking about isn't the images that get rejected,
it's the images that people don't even try to add because they can't
be bothered with the hassle. *That* is indiscriminate. The images that
get rejected are going to the same images as get removed at the
moment, it will just happen earlier, that's all.