Tim Starling wrote:
[...] Hopefully, however, Wikipedia can find some compromise between the copyleft fundamentalists and those like me who believe that a psychological separation between public and private space is important. Given the objections to the posting of meetup photos which have arisen at the past, I don't believe I'm alone. I think this concept of a balance between freedom and privacy is one which could use some more discussion.
I could see the addition of a special tag/category of non-free images specifically designated for use only on user pages, and enforced with bots. The point of being strict about fair use is to facilitate free downstream usage, but downstream users don't really have any use for user pages anyway; for them we just need a way that they can automate the filtering of images they don't want, and a special tag will do the job just fine.
Stan