Hello Amir, on zh-wp we delete the old version. The old version is no more used at all, and thus no more fair to keep them. Still provide them so that users can find them and copy them looks for me like distributing copy violated content.
Greetings Ting On 31.05.2011 08:16, wrote Amir E. Aharoni: > 2011/5/31 Michael Snow<[email protected]>: >> On 5/30/2011 2:32 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> There's a bit of discussion about deleting old versions of fair-use >>> files in the Hebrew Wikipedia and it may be interesting to other >>> projects as well. >>> >>> The main questions is: Should old versions of fair-use files be >>> deleted? The two main points that support the deletion are that it >>> saves space on the server and that keeping a version of a non-free >>> file violates the fair use policy, because the old version of the >>> image can be viewed, but is not actually used in any relevant article. >> I just want to see if I understand this correctly. Is this a reference >> to files where the current revision is included in some article based on >> a fair use rationale, but the file also has earlier versions that are >> not so used? > Yes, that's exactly what i referred to. > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > "We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace." - T. Moore > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- Ting Ting's Blog: http://wingphilopp.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
