free ones

Typo? Or maybe I just don't understand...

Just before the table of contents the text reads: "...especially if it's explained that the license terms mean it is wider appreciated and that we do not want to use all their material...". What does "it is wider appreciated" mean? Omphaloscope » talk 00:34, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Free Images

Images can be divided between free and non-free ones. Recently, there has been a push to eliminate the non-free ones that, apparently, can be recreated. However, until now I have seen many places with suggestions about how to request free images, but not a project to coordinate efforts. Because of this I am giving the first push to WikiProject Free Images, aimed at centralizing discussion about free images. Currently, it is situated at my userspace, User:ReyBrujo/WikiProject Free Images, but with enough positive feedback and help, it will be moved into the Wikipedia namespace.

The WikiProject aim is broad: first and foremost, educate users about the benefits of free images, but also to teach the differences between free licenses when applied to images. Aside this, the WikiProject will focus in replacing the current fair use images with free ones of good quality, by contacting the media, agencies, publishers or other copyright holders as necessary. It would keep a list of requested images to different organizations, with the different steps that had been taken and the different replies. It will also have an index of all the images that had been donated by these organizations, so that they are able to review their contributions. Also, the members of the WikiProject would review the usage of these images in Wikipedia, verifying that attributions are applied at all times when requested by the copyright holder.

This WikiProject was given as a thought during the Wikipedia:Elimination of Fair Use Rationale in Promotional Photos discussion, and since apparently there has not been a similar one, I decided to try it out. With some luck and effort, it should be possible to replace many of the current fair use images with free ones of similar quality.

Please drop by and give some thoughts in there. Thanks. -- ReyBrujo 18:06, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

When permission is confirmed

Where's the discussion on this? I uploaded an image a year ago. Its copyright owner released it under the GFDL when I asked (through email), perfectly in line with Wikipedia policy at the time. I didn't keep the email, and now, more than a year later, it's going to be deleted because I have to forward private communications to a bunch of strangers? This is absurd. Tuf-Kat 23:42, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Calm down. Where does it say that old images were to be deleted? We all know that for a long time, Wikipedia just relied on an uploader's say-so regarding permissions. We also know that spurious permission claims are sometimes made. The procedure here with forwarding the permission to the Wikimedia Foundation is to have (a) some sanity check to weed out insufficient permissions, and more importantly (b) to give the WMF a means to archive such permissions. That enhances traceability, and makes it possible to re-verify an image even if the original requester of the permission has long left Wikipedia or didn't keep the original e-mails. The procedure has been in place for at least since September 2005. But again, this is not about deleting images, it's about traceability. Lupo 00:09, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Well, the impression I got (regarding