502:. The question here is simply a legal one. Maybe it could be argued that these are illustrating their Scout organisation on a list of all such organisations in the world. Maybe it can not be so argued. There seems to be a feeling that it would be valuable if it was legal. As Chris has said this has been a lot of work (none of it mine) and this is an important year for Scouting. Can someone ask the Wikimedia Foundation lawyer to rule on this and in the meantime put this AfD on hold? A US based Admin not involved with
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is intentionally more restrictive than what we could get away with. This is because
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would be one way to go from here, but unfortunately, I cannot see a way for this not to be deleted. It is a shame; being an ex-Rover it is interesting to see all the logos laid out like that (the only other time I'd seen it done was on a poster sold at the last World
Jamboree), but my liking it does
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the work, and like the coat of arms gallery is a ready reference where the
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This is an interesting gallery, and has the potential to be a useful annotated gallery/encyclopedia article. However, my non-lawyer legal interpretation is that use as a comparison between the
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how to save this article in its current form. The fair use rules for organisation logos (as I understand them) are that the logo should only be used to illustrate an article on the organisation the logo belongs to. Under the rules, using "fair use" images in this way is (to my knowledge) not
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The page is useful and is not a clear violation of any policy. The collection of the images together is itself helpful and useful for those interested especially for the many people who collect such items. To break among the many individual groups would, IMHO be sad.
518:: I am withdrawing my delete nomination. I am not proposing merging every emblem into 400 separate articles (as someone indicated above), but perhaps put this in context on another major article, or use some of the images more extensively elsewhere.
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We don't have to call up a lawyer every time there is a policy question. At any rate, I don't think that anyone questions that under US law, this article is perfectly legal. But our policy is more restrictive than the law.
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