Image talk:K Waldheim.jpg
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[edit] Image:Haider in Carinthia.jpg, Image:K Waldheim.jpg, and Image:Miller&Monroe.jpg
- Image:Haider in Carinthia.jpg
- Image:K Waldheim.jpg
- Image:Miller&Monroe.jpg
Hi, and thanks for your multiple messages. I've said this at least a hundred times in answer to queries such as yours, and okay, I'm going to say it again:
(1) I uploaded the images you are referring to back in 2002. In those days, Wikipedia tags had not yet been invented, and no one was asked to cite any sources. If there had been any such requirements, I would have fulfilled them to the best of my knowledge.
(2) In the course of the following years, I tried to update the image descriptions by adding the appropriate tags, but as the text within these image tags is continuously being changed the descriptions again and again turned out to be inadequate. For example, an image such as Image:Haider in Carinthia.jpg, a promotional photo (I even said so in the caption on the Jörg Haider page) taken from the FPÖ web site—back then, Haider is no longer a member of the FPÖ—, has been able to pass for a fair use image for more than three years; now suddenly all this is no longer valid. But what on earth could I do about it now?
(3) A photographer from Vienna, Conny de Beauclair, has a web site with thousands of his own images from the last 20 years. He seems to enjoy the wide circulation of his (free) images, and I e-mailed him just to make sure. I uploaded three of his pictures for Wikipedia, two of which—Waris Dirie's and Franz Antel's—have again been removed, the former as a "possible (?!?) copyright violation", the latter without any comment. The third one is Kurt Waldheim's, which, all of a sudden, is contentious, too. Again: What can I do other than stop uploading images altogether?
(4) I very much appreciate the idea of a collaborative effort, but my idea does not include working against each other. This has been happening for years now, especially on the actors' and actresses' pages: User A (me, for example) uploads a "safe" image (an old publicity still—for example of Lauren Bacall—or a screenshot), and then User B (in many cases a newbie) comes along, deletes the image and replaces it with a "better" picture, which is copyrighted and removed again within days. In the meantime, the original picture is gone of course and can no longer be retrieved.
(5) The past has shown that I never seem to be able to choose the "right" tag for an image I uploaded, so I'm not going to try again. If you can't find a tag yourself and you think it's necessary or if it makes you happy, please delete all those images.
