[WikiEN-l] Proposal on userbox disagreement

Wed Jan 4 02:19:06 UTC 2006

SCZenz wrote:

>Here's what I think we should do.  I don't expect it to be popular, but
>compromises never are...
>
>1. The userbox wikiproject go through and get rid of all userbox images used
>that have inappropriate copyright permissions for userpages, including fair
>use images.  Likewise they make sure there are no meta-template issues in
>the userboxes.  The Wikiproject agrees to police these problems itself in
>the future.
>
>2. Kelly Martin aknowledges that there are many serious contributors who
>like userboxes, so her decision to delete userboxes in defiance of those
>contributors' opinions was an overreaction.
>
>3. We all go back to the live-and-let-live attitude that lets us write an
>encyclopedia.
>
>SCZenz
>  
>
I support that and I suggest that a note be posted on AN/I immediately 
to the effect that all fairuse images outside of the article space are 
subject to immediate deletion and that our fairuse and userbox 
guidelines be changed to reflect that.

-Jtkiefer