[WikiEN-l] Userboxes and fair-use images in userspace

Thu Jan 5 03:20:05 UTC 2006

Jtkiefer wrote:
> Nathan Russell wrote:
> 
>>
>> Don't tempt me.
>>
>> Quite a few of the "pinups" around the outside of Trekphiler's
>> userpage are also fair use, as are the Enterprise and DS9 images on
>> the right side.
>>
>> Nathan
>>
> Remove the images and put it on your watchlist and also tell the user
> why they can't have the images up there and if they put them back then
> lock the user page and/or temporarily block the user for violating
> copyrights and Wikipedia's guidelines on using fair use images.  Jimbo
> himself has stated that we now should have zero tolerance for people who
> knowingly violate copyrights.
> 

I accidentaly uploaded a bunch of images which I thought were "free" to
Commons but which turned out to be trademarked logos. I don't know if
they've been deleted yet. Should I be banned from all Wikimedia
projects, from Commons, or at the very least desysopped from there?

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