What I also find completely disingenuous is the calls for patience to deal with criticism of how images are handled. It is not like suddenly landed over 33000 images in their wiki and surprise!criticism cropped up.
It took from 2008 to 2010 for them to even arrive at an image policy. In that time about about fourteen thousand images had been uploaded, before they even had the current form with the fields for crediting. Nothing was done to discourage image uploading before a policy was there, then nothing was done to go tackle the backlog with better crediting and checking whether it actually met their "fair use" standard at least. And everyone including the wiki committee was aware in 2010 that not everybody was happy with Fanlore's practice. I certainly talked at them at length in the Fanlore comm back then.
Then little was done to improve things in the next years (except that the crediting template was slightly better), and the number of images doubled, making the problem even more intractable. And now they ask for patience again? Maybe in two years it will be 60000 images...
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It took from 2008 to 2010 for them to even arrive at an image policy. In that time about about fourteen thousand images had been uploaded, before they even had the current form with the fields for crediting. Nothing was done to discourage image uploading before a policy was there, then nothing was done to go tackle the backlog with better crediting and checking whether it actually met their "fair use" standard at least. And everyone including the wiki committee was aware in 2010 that not everybody was happy with Fanlore's practice. I certainly talked at them at length in the Fanlore comm back then.
Then little was done to improve things in the next years (except that the crediting template was slightly better), and the number of images doubled, making the problem even more intractable. And now they ask for patience again? Maybe in two years it will be 60000 images...