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

[Chris Jenkinson]

Jtkiefer wrote:
> 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.

Wow, that's incredibly heavy handed. A better first step would be to ask 
that they remove them, then if they don't remove them yourself, 
explaining yourself all the way, and then do protection/blocking if it's 
really necessary. We're not trying to get rid of people here.

Chris