jayjg wrote:
I'm a little concerned here. While I think policy
should be followed, I've
been disturbed by the way this has been handled recently. Whether or not an
image is "fair use" is sometimes disputed, and in any event handling this in
a friendly way is far preferable to heavy-handed and drastic actions which
might well drive good contributors from the project. If it's not an
emergency (and, given that these images have been on user pages for months,
if not years, I don't see how it could be), then I think delicacy and
diplomacy is the right way to go.
I agree. I think a calm, friendly, and rational explanation of why fair
use images cannot be used on user pages would be a simple way to get the
vast majority of people who currently use them to remove them.
Chris
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Chris Jenkinson
chris(a)starglade.org
"Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra