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[edit] Dispute of fair-use rationale

Very well, if you wish participation at "discussion". A fair-use rationale needs to clearly enumerate how the image passes the fair-use requirements, not simply contain a handwave assertion that "X is allowed in Y." It needs to address this specific image in that specific article, not a class of images in a class of articles. As this has not been changed, the disputed tag will be reinstated; if you can specify the rationale, please feel free to remove it. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 20:14, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

The this specific image in that specific article stuff is a busywork requirement instituted to discourage fair use contributions. It may or may not be policy. Nobody knows. ~-Mosquera

Rationales are pretty clearly required to address the specific image, see the fair-use rationale guidelines. As to Badagnani's assertion that the rationale requirements are designed to discourage fair-use submissions, well, yes, they are! We should only be using fair-use images when absolutely necessary, since this is intended to be a free-content project. The idea of a rationale is to answer "Why is this particular use absolutely necessary, irreplaceable, genuinely covered under the legal definition of fair use, and serving more than a decorative purpose?" Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 21:32, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

That's wikilawyering talk to me. Deleting admins have armloads of excuses for deleting fair use images, simply because they are GDFL ideologues. Truth does not matter, because admins routinely cite themselves as consensus. He can (and, yes, should) write all the rationales he can think of, but that may have little or effect on a politically driven admin. ~~-Mosquera