> 2008/12/22 Jiri Hofman <[email protected]>: > >> Is it correct to provide direct inline (inside the text of the article >> or >> infobox) iterwiki links to these images (and generally files)? For >> example: [[:en:File:Metallica and justice for all a.jpg|Image in English >> Wikipedia]]. Is it something what should be avoided because it can >> potentially violate the law or our license? > > Question: what would we say if someone, for example, did a direct link > like this to an image held on Amazon? The situations seem fairly > comparable...
Well, I would not like it as it is a link which should be rather in references or external link section. If it was a link to the official site of the band with this image it would be a perfect candidate to external link section. I disagree this is quite comparable. I do not know under what license Amazon shows the images. Moreover everybody could directly see that this is not a part of Wikipedia, nobody could say: "you are trying to cheat me, not all of your Wikipedia content is free". Is similar linking in use in some Wikipedias? Jiri > > -- > - Andrew Gray > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Wikipedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
