Tim Starling wrote:
[...] Hopefully, however, Wikipedia can find some
compromise between
the copyleft fundamentalists and those like me who believe that a
psychological separation between public and private space is
important. Given the objections to the posting of meetup photos which
have arisen at the past, I don't believe I'm alone. I think this
concept of a balance between freedom and privacy is one which could
use some more discussion.
I could see the addition of a special tag/category of non-free images
specifically designated for use only on user pages, and enforced with
bots. The point of being strict about fair use is to facilitate free
downstream usage, but downstream users don't really have any use for
user pages anyway; for them we just need a way that they can automate
the filtering of images they don't want, and a special tag will do the
job just fine.
Stan