[WikiEN-l] Dead wikipedians and how to really make a project boring to death

[Anthere]

Erik Moeller wrote:
> On 7/27/06, Anthony <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
> 
>>What are the good reasons to "prohibit fair use" in the User namespace
>>that don't apply to the Wikipedia namespace?
> 
> 
> The user namespace is treated by most of its inhabitants as a space of
> personal ownership, and its content is almost unregulated. For
> instance, something like [[User:SPUI]] can survive only because it is
> a user page, and indeed, attempts to get rid of it would be dealt with
> as vandalism. Allowing fair use in that space is likely to lead to
> more MySpace pages, with random celebrity photos, O RLY type crap, and
> boobie-shaking GIF animations. Allowing only free content in the User:
> space is a way to limit it, whereas the content of the Wikipedia:
> space is already regulated by the community.
> 
> To me, this is not only about the legal validity of the use, it is
> also about its impact, and whether it is desirable.
> 
> Erik

I agree that allowing fair use in user space would be risky.
Allowing ND or NC seems much less risky. And is a provision many people 
would feel like imposing on self-pictures.

Ant