--- David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Well, theoretically we could. But it's IMO a bit sideways from the mission (we're here to write an encyclopedia) *and* it's a fair use image, and we do have a reasonably accepted policy to minimise fair use images to when there really isn't a substitute. And to get the fair use images off the user pages. So it really doesn't belong on my userpage and Gmaxwell was entirely right to remove it (and I left a note on his talk page thanking him).
I feel we've got this backwards. We've set about removing fair use images from user pages because we usually don't have a fair use rationale for them; OK, that's reasonable. We avoid fair use images in articles if we can because we want to be as free as possible -- again, completely reasonable. However, when we do actually have a solid fair use rationale for using an image on user pages, and it's a piece of community humour, why then should we remove it? It just seems like the tail wagging the dog.
My apologies; I don't think this is worth this much debate, but it ticked me off.
-- Matt
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