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

Thu Sep 22 20:05:47 UTC 2005

On 9/22/05, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22/09/05, Kelly Martin <kelly.lynn.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I would greatly approve of that.  IMO there is no fair use for a
> > nonfree image outside of article space (excluding the temporary use of
> > one in a user sandbox for an article under development).
>
> Oh, there's *probably* some plausible uses in Wikipedia: space, but in
> the general case I concur.
>
> > Several of us are now speedily deleting nonfree images that have no
> > article references on the grounds that an image that is not being used
> > logically cannot be being used as fair use.
>
> Stupid question: I'm purging my merry way through the {{poster}}
> categories (sorting them into movieposter, &c); is there a tag I can
> slap on images to say "is fairuse, is not linked to anything, Someone
> Do Something About This"?

{{db|orphaned non-free image}} works for me.