On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 14:27:51 +0100, Phil Boswell phil.boswell@gmail.com wrote:
"Redvers @ the Wikipedia" wikiredvers@yahoo.ie wrote in message news:20060105131743.68330.qmail@web26414.mail.ukl.yahoo.com... [snip]
Perhaps we can prompt people a little better: the boilerplates for {{fairuse}} {{albumcover}} etc could be modified to include the words "Note: This image must '''NOT''' be used on User pages, Talk pages or Template pages. If used there, it ''will'' be deleted from the page '''without notice'''."
Indeed, it should be possible for a bot to scan images marked "fair use" or similar, find usage in forbidden namespaces, and nuke them with extreme precision: it could even leave a little polite notice on the appropriate talk-page saying what happened to all the pretty pictures.
I wonder if there's scope for a tweak of Mediawiki's handling of images? You could mark a given namespace as an "image-type" namespace, in that references to "articles" in that namespace actually work as images do now. You could then possible specify that this "transclusion" should only occur in certain namespaces, and anywhere else you would simply get a link.
Maybe I should stop for lunch...;-)
That bot sounds like a good idea, at least for userspace, wich is where people get most upset if you start "censoring" theyr stuff. At least no one could blame a bot for playing favourites.
I fear the result might just be for more people to simply "invent" new license tags that give them permission to use images for theyr userpage anyway though. Case in point http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Mozilla wich currently looks like it might survive it's second run on TFD (at least if you just count the "votes"). Hopefully a dozen "keep per IAR" votes won't be given too much weight, as IMHO it's basicaly a fork of {{permission}} for one very spesific purpose.