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Make sure that the image has a valid Fair use Rationale (A guide can be found here)
I will not add rationales for you as the uploader it is your responsibility NOT mine.
I do not want to see images deleted
All images must comply with policy
A generic template tag is NOT a valid fair use rationale.
If you're here to whine and complain that But <place image name here> is just like my image and isn't tagged for deletion I will tag that image too, I just haven't gotten around to it yet.
For quite some time, we have attempted to encourage people to provide rationales. The results of this effort have been dismal at best.
The creator of this bot has come under fire for performing this work manually. One of the main complaints is that the effort to tag images could just as readily be spent providing rationales. This is not the case; the uploader and/or user of each fair use image is the person who should provide the rationale. A non-involved editor can not know under what principles the user of an image intended such use as fair use.
The use of fair use, copyrighted images on the Wikimedia servers is covered by United States law. Our policies with respect to this bot's actions are based on that law. Please see Fair_use#Purpose_and_character.
Bug reports are very welcome; tagging images as this bot is doing per policy is not a bug.
I once had a job that required that certain tasks be completed, and the completion of the tasks be recorded; the record was to be submitted to the corporate office. I forgot to record the work one day, and the boss got on my case about it. I pointed out that it was entirely possible to do no cleaning, falsify the record, and make corporate happy without all the work, and that corporate seemed to only demand that the unimportant aspect of the job be complated, because they had a beurocracy that checked forms according to an infexible procedure, without any real investigation of what was actually happening in the store.
Well, all the pictures I've submitted are legal and proper, and have been marked as such, but something that used to be done by bone-headed beurocracies is now being done by a machine, and I guess that my sumbissions lacked something that the machine was looking for.
So how about instead of building inflexible beuracracies to tear down the work of others because some trivial filing wasn't completed properly, we investigate, and fix these little details so that Misplaced Pages doesn't become a desert of dry text, completely devoid of visual content.--Drvanthorp (talk) 20:05, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
It's not clear why this image (Image:Mig15.gif) should be removed after a fair-use rationale was provided. Am I dealing here with a plain mechanical digital bot that just marks up for deletion anything which comes its way? Can you shed some light on the situation?Petitgirard (talk) 11:04, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
