So if someone download the article dump and the image
dump with
plans of publishing it in the US (outside they would have to delete
all the faur use images anyway, or obtain permission for each
individual image) then your humorous fair use image from your
userpage become a copyright violation for that reuser because
without your userpage he has no fair use defence for it. This means
that re-users would have to spend time and effort to purge these
humor, parody and other orphanded userpage stuff from the dump, and
while it's not rocket sience to automate such a purge it's still an
extra burden on re-users that is completely unnessesary.
Wouldn't they purge the entire User: namespace anyway? We're not so
interesting as for our user pages be republished in an actual
encyclopedia.
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Philip L. Welch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Philwelch