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

Thu Jan 5 13:27:51 UTC 2006

"Redvers @ the Wikipedia" <wikiredvers at yahoo.ie> wrote 
in message news:20060105131743.68330.qmail at web26414.mail.ukl.yahoo.com...
[snip]
> Perhaps we can prompt people a little better: the
> boilerplates for {{fairuse}} {{albumcover}} etc could
> be modified to include the words
> "Note: This image must '''NOT''' be used on User
> pages, Talk pages or Template pages. If used there, it
> ''will'' be deleted from the page '''without
> notice'''."

Indeed, it should be possible for a bot to scan images marked "fair use" or 
similar, find usage in forbidden namespaces, and nuke them with extreme 
precision: it could even leave a little polite notice on the appropriate 
talk-page saying what happened to all the pretty pictures.

I wonder if there's scope for a tweak of Mediawiki's handling of images? You 
could mark a given namespace as an "image-type" namespace, in that 
references to "articles" in that namespace actually work as images do now. 
You could then possible specify that this "transclusion" should only occur 
in certain namespaces, and anywhere else you would simply get a link.

Maybe I should stop for lunch...;-)
-- 
Phil
[[en:User:Phil Boswell]] 