On 8/19/07, Rémi Kaupp kaupp.remi@gmail.com wrote: [snip]
Now someone has proposed his "copyright template" for deletion, while saying
If indeed it's being handled as agressively as your message states then an error is being made.
Now I'm asking, what is this stupid rule about about personal copyright template ?
It is an important rule.
As explained on the wiki, personal license templates are fine but they must be substed. If the templates are not substed, then the licensing of all images tagged with it can suddenly be changed without anyone noticing.
Personal license templates also frequently make the commons licensing data hard for computers to read.
Simply a matter of good project orginization, personal templates should be in the users userspace.
Now if we start deleting templates like this, we can surely say goodbye to our best contributors. We surely do not want people like Luc Viatour to get out from Commons, do we ?
All the criteria you've mentioned is reasonable. It would be fine in a substed template.
Normally the way I been handling personal license templates is contacting the author, and offering to have my bot go and subst all the uses. Then the template is moved into the userspace. From there they can continue to subst it as they upload.