jayjg wrote:
Well, that's great, but again, the issue isn't this particular individual. Rather, this is a symptom: Why do we have administrators who are unfamiliar with policy? Why do we have administators who are unwilling to accept community consensus, and, indeed, seem almost unfamiliar with the concept? Why do we have administrators who think that it is so important to have "fair use" images on userboxes that it is reasonable to completely ignore any risks of copyright lawsuits against Wikipedia?
Those are the issues here, and your having a chat with your friend isn't going to fix the root cause.
I really don't know why people think that, but this problem isn't just related to userboxes. There are a number of admins who have fair use images on their user pages, and they aren't all in "the userbox crew". A cursory look at the arbitration committee candidates shows a number with fair use images on their user page also.
Chris