--- Chris Jenkinson chris@starglade.org wrote:
Because fair use images are fundamentally against the principles of a free content encyclopaedia. If a fair use image isn't improving an article, or if there is a replacement free image, then the fair use image should be deleted with impunity. Each fair use image on Wikipedia hinders our efforts to create a distributable free content encyclopaedia.
You're confusing user space with article space. User pages are *not* the distributable free content encyclopedia. User pages are part of the framework which builds the distributable free content encyclopedia.
There is a perfectly reasonable goal of avoiding fair use images in *articles*, wherever possible. As I understand it, we also remove most Fair Use images from user pages because we normally don't have any decent Fair Use rationale for using them there. However, as a parody, we do have a rationale for the AYB image.
It's a good thing to keep a few fun things on Wikipedia outside of the article space. It's a good thing to be wary of fair use images. It's a bad thing to delete humour because of misplaced "fair use" political correctness.
-- Matt
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Matt_Crypto Blog: http://cipher-text.blogspot.com
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