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_del…
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