[WikiEN-l] "Fair use" abuse on user pages

Tue Sep 20 14:25:32 UTC 2005

I've just removed two references to [[Image:Mac Internet
Explorer.png]] and two to [[Image:XPlogo.png]] from user pages.  While
both of these images have a good argument for fair use on the
appropriate articles about their related products, there is no fair
use argument for placing these on user pages or in cutesy little
"product endorsement" boxes (see [[User:NSR/userboxes]]) for people to
put on their user pages.  Wikipedia doesn't need to carry
advertisements for anybody, especially not using copyrighted logos.

Kelly