File talk:Aozora Bunko how-to-make illustration.png

Fair use

I recently uploaded what I considered to be "fair use" images for use only in Aozora Bunko -- an article about a Japanese digital library and public-policy advocacy group. Sdrtirs examined the support information for both of them, finding one to be adequate and the other not. This was the image which was somehow inadequate.

While I regret my errors in properly documenting the modest argument for fair use, I don't quite know how this happened nor do I understand how to correct my mistakes. Using the format of the one image which seems to have been successfully uploaded, I tried to create a full and detailed explanation at Talk:Aozora Bunko#Fair use. Doubtless there is something more I should do now, but what must seem obvious to you remains opaque to me. I'm simply asking for direction? --Tenmei (talk) 14:01, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Ok, first, Image:Aozora Bunko how-to-make illustration.png doesn't seem to be a logo, so I replaced it with a generic fair use template. Check to make sure it looks okay to you now. Second, Image:N0-70.png is simple enough that it may not be copyrighted at all and you can use it as {{PD-textlogo}} without needing a rationale. --Rat at WikiFur (talk) 17:47, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your help. Initially, I would have thought that this particular paper-folding image was altogether too insignificant; but I was moved to upload it because the article inspired what I took do be a good faith complaint. As it happens, Aozora Bunko was merely a digitial library up until 2006; and I found myself facing a persistent critic who seemed to believe that additional information about copyright law was a kind of corrupting irrelevancy. He or she simply could not understand any explanations --- and all efforts to re-state my reasoning seemed unavailing, despite the linked in-line citations and references. These two graphics -- simple though they may be -- seemed to represent some kind of tipping point which helped clarify whatever unresolved issues there were. In this instance, a graphic "picture" really did seem to be more powerful than words ...; but then I somehow managed to mishandle the uploading protocols. As you can imagine, I was beginning to feel quite frustrated -- all of which is to say that, in this unusual set of circumstances, your terse input was appreciated far beyond what would have seemed expected or normal. --Tenmei (talk) 21:00, 3 June 2008 (UTC)