[WikiEN-l] Proposal on userbox disagreement

Wed Jan 4 02:27:31 UTC 2006

On 1/4/06, Jtkiefer <jtkiefer at wordzen.net> wrote:
> 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

Why? This has been policy for quite a while (don't ask me about
templates that appear in articles though).

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geni