On 29 Dec 2005, at 20:03, Andrew Gray wrote:
On 29/12/05, jkelly@fas.harvard.edu jkelly@fas.harvard.edu wrote:
Hi,
There has been some strife, meaning edit-warring and page- protection, over the use of unfree copyrighted images in userspace over the past week or so.
Two specific cases are [[:Template:User democrat]] and [[:Template:User firefox]]. In both cases, a number of users are arguing that because the images involved are logos, there is no real legal concern over the copyright infringement. Following from this, the passage in [[Wikipedia:Fair use]] disallowing Fair use images in Template and Userspace has been removed.
It's still there.
*Fair use images should only be used in the article namespace. They should never be used on templates (including stub templates and navigation boxes) or on user pages.
There seems to be an exception to allow FU images on the main page, which seems just about ok. Although the main page ought to exemplify our policies really; I dont think featured articles for example should have any non free content.
If we had cross-project usernames it would make moving all the free media to commons in a non invasive way much easier. Mirrors could then just not download the en image dump and remove broken links; forking a free wikipedia would then be easier.
Justinc