On 01/11/05, Tom Cadden <thomcadden(a)yahoo.ie> wrote:
Politeness is. Informing people why he is doing
things
is elementary politeness. Checking facts rather than
blanket unexplained deletions is elementary.
[...]
I had written something here about these virtues being exhibited in
the case of the four templates I know of; I found it hard to manage it
without it reading like a personal attack. This may say something.
And evidence that he actually knows what he is doing
is a help. His actions show rudeness, contempt for
others, and a dodgy understanding of the law he is
'enforcing'.
He is enforcing _Wikipedia policy_, not the US copyright laws. I
accept that copyright law is difficult to understand, but the fair use
policy really is not in this context.
"[Fair use] material should *only* be used in the article namespace.
They should *never* be used on templates (including stub templates and
navigation boxes) or on user pages."
It's what it says. The vagaries of fair use *law* regarding templates
do not enter into the vagaries of fair use *policy* regarding
templates.
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk