[WikiEN-l] Fair use outside of mainspace

Wed Jan 4 19:18:52 UTC 2006

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Wp_ayb.gif

Like Jimbo Wales (even though I guess he didn't put it in his userspace 
personally), David Gerard and Jayjg? The text on Yelyos' page also has 
to go, it's fair use as well. Yes, I'm being a dick here, but I just 
want to demonstrate that this is more fundamental than it seems. If 
we're going to take a radical approach, we give up a lot of the little 
jokes and amenities we're used to. I'm against plastering fair use 
images all over the user namespace via templates, but it's not just a 
problem of "omg all these new editors have no clue about our policies 
and need to be whacked over the head".

grm_wnr

P.S. Please inform me if this is deleted, I'll host it in my personal 
webspace because it's darn funny.

jkelly at fas.harvard.edu wrote:

>  "Fair use" images aren't allowed in template- and user-space by our current
>guidelines (although there was some edit-warring where that clause was removed
>last week, if I recall).  Enforcing this in any way is problematic, because the
>number of people who like to decorate their userpages with professional graphic
>design is larger than the number of people devoted to free content.
>
>                      Jkelly
>  
>
>>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.
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