[WikiEN-l] Re: yet another image lost for posterity

Thu Dec 1 09:40:33 UTC 2005

Steve Block wrote:

> Anthere wrote:
>
>> A year ago, fair use was authorized, with no mention if it was 
>> authorized in the encyclopedic content or in the user page.
>> Amongst the two untaggued pages listed above, one was a picture of my 
>> daughter and labelled as such. It was clearly not meant for 
>> encyclopedic space.
>
>
> Ah, I see what you are saying. Yes it looks like policy was changed in 
> this edit, 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion&oldid=23949737 
> on the 24 Septembe 2005, 23:53 by Kelly Martin, who comments it is 
> Jimbo approved.  There's probably an important lesson here somewhere.

That page has been edited nearly 100 times since.  It's tagged as 
official policy, but it's difficult to consider a page as representing 
policy when its text is so unstable. Since checking the background of 
each paragraph in a policy page would be unreasonable everything on the 
page is in doubt.

Ec