[WikiEN-l] Fair use outside of mainspace

Wed Jan 4 19:33:12 UTC 2006

On 1/4/06, grm_wnr <grmwnr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:

The paradory aspect makes that a non standard fair use claim with the
result it can be used in non standard ways

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geni