On 1/20/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) <alphasigmax(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Actually I think you've just highlighted a point
where Wikipedia /does/
have a claim to fair use: commentary. Parody and satire are not within
the scope of an NPOV encyclopedia, but commentary probably *is*.
BTW, what is the current reason fair use images are allowed on en:?
I suspect historical ones. They were allowed to start with (since if
they are truely fair use they probably are better than nothing) and I
doubt you could get a consensus together to get rid of them.
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geni