On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 08:15:37 +0100, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
I really do think that the only way people will not say "but $reason means it's alright" would be a blanket ban. As this is not about to come from our community, which is very fractured over this issue, it can only come from above.
Is it technically possible at the moment to prevent images marked as fair use (ie, with a fair use template) from being used in user space? If so, is there a good reason for not enforcing that?
I suspect it's not possible because images are marked by using templates rather than, say, categories, but that could fairly easily be changed, no?
I doubht there is any such feature at the moment, though it might be possible implement by building on the existing "bad image" feature, effectively turn anyting labeled with a "fair use" template into a "bad image" with regards to the User: namespace (and others). You can't hard code this in because templates change, new are added and so forth, but a list in the MediaWiki namespace of "blacklisted" templates (or categories if that is easier) might be doable.
In the meantime someone with toolserver access could relatively easily make a bot that automaticaly remove anyting "fair use" from userpages, userbox templates and things like that.