User talk:Alexwcovington/Archive 1
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Angela. 08:41, Jan 12, 2004 (UTC)
Good clarification on Sacagawea, thank you! - Hephaestos 01:52, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Hi, Alex. Could you possibly use the Show preview button instead of making so many minor changes? You're taking up a lot of the space in the Recent changes page. Your work is very much appreciated, though. RickK 03:43, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Associated Press photos are NOT fair use, they are copyrighted. RickK | Talk 05:41, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Fair use images are copyrighted by definition; I'm not sure I follow. - Hephaestos|§ 05:42, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)
We're all struggling with "fair use", especially with current events articles. Ideally I think it would be good to cordon them off into a separate section in the database, so that everything could be downloaded under GFDL without them. That would present a lot of coding challenges though I think (removing the preformatting from the articles etc.)
At any rate, there are fair use images all over the 'pedia already, there's no real way to go back from that now, and I tend to think Rick may have been mistaken in his judgment (as I implied above). - Hephaestos|§ 06:36, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)
AP would disagree with you. Album covers, etc. are fair use, but a photo taken by an AP photographer is their property. RickK | Talk 14:56, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)
This is hardly the actual photo though, it's low-resolution and noticeably compressed (see the red areas around his jacket).... This is not the same as the 300dpi resolution version that the AP took for the papers, this is a reduced version for online distribution... and Wikipedia is well within its rights to use the image. Newspapers do just fine simply by adding a photo credit; Why couldn't we? --Alexwcovington 15:30, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Best I can think of at the moment would be to list it on Wikipedia:Fair_use and see what other people think about the matter. (I'm not aware of the AP challenging the fair use doctrine on Wikipedia, or anywhere else for that matter, but I might just be "out of the loop".) - Hephaestos|§ 20:32, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Hi sorry you are annoyed I moved it to match the full and correct name of the party I hate redirects sorry but you know what is great about wikipedia anyone can edit and what is bad about wikipedia is anyone can edit.Smith03
dude check out what the party calls it self and think of this as well no party is going to use the word non partisan in its title the party is call the North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party not the Democratic-Nonpartisan League party or what ever you have put it under Smith03
I don't think we need to identical pages. I think the page should be under the official name of the party. I didn't make up the title I just moved to give people the actual name of the party