On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 20:24, Carcharoth <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:05 AM, SlimVirgin <[email protected]> wrote: >> What kind of reusers do we have in mind? The reason I ask is that the >> image policies are crippling, or the way they're being applied is. >> I've lost count of the number of times Holocaust images are proposed >> for deletion because, we're told, there's a free equivalent somewhere. >> Prisoners risked their lives in concentration camps to smuggle out >> images to prove to the world what was happening, images that are PD in >> their country of origin, yet we're not supposed to use them (in the >> opinion of some Wikipedians) because they're not PD in the U.S. and >> there might be a free equivalent somewhere. If this is happening to >> make things easier for reusers, it would be good to know who they are >> and what this kind of policy application protects them from, because >> all it does is cause problems for us. > > Possibly the reusers who stick images on T-shirts and mugs and sell them?
I can't tell whether that's a serious answer. I hope we're not making editors jump through all these hoops, and depriving readers of important historical images, for the benefit of people who sell T-shirts. :( _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
