On 29 Dec 2005, at 20:03, Andrew Gray wrote:
On 29/12/05, jkelly(a)fas.harvard.edu
<jkelly(a)fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
Hi,
There has been some strife, meaning edit-warring and page-
protection, over the
use of unfree copyrighted images in userspace over the past week
or so.
Two specific cases are [[:Template:User democrat]] and
[[:Template:User
firefox]]. In both cases, a number of users are arguing that
because the
images involved are logos, there is no real legal concern over the
copyright
infringement. Following from this, the passage in
[[Wikipedia:Fair use]]
disallowing Fair use images in Template and Userspace has been
removed.
It's still there.
*Fair use images should only be used in the article namespace. They
should never be used on templates (including stub templates and
navigation boxes) or on user pages.
There seems to be an exception to allow FU images on the main page,
which seems just about ok. Although the main page ought to exemplify
our policies really; I dont think featured articles for example should
have any non free content.
If we had cross-project usernames it would make moving all the free
media to commons in a non invasive way much easier. Mirrors could
then just not download the en image dump and remove broken links;
forking a free wikipedia would then be easier.
Justinc