"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...;-)