[WikiEN-l] Dead wikipedians and how to really make a project boring to death

Sun Jul 30 07:27:06 UTC 2006

Steve Bennett wrote:

>On 7/27/06, Kat Walsh <mindspillage at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>In this case, there must be some sort of special case. Purist though I
>>generally am, surely there must be some way to hang on to a few
>>pictures of deceased editors and tag them appropriately to make their
>>status clear. Considering all the copyright issues on the project, it
>>would be a happy day if this were the most pressing of them. I would
>>be loath for this to be some sort of precedent so that everyone and
>>his dog wants an excuse to be a special case, but, well, really, I am
>>OK with this particular image.
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>Why don't we come up with a "special case" template? "This image is
>copyrighted, and cannot be used under fair use. However, the Wikipedia
>community has decided that in this special case, it is worth breaching
>the copyright anyway".
>
That wording, especially the last bit, could even make their case for 
wilfullness.  ;-) Even a public interest argument would be better than that.

Ec