On 01/11/05, Tom Cadden thomcadden@yahoo.ie wrote:
Politeness is. Informing people why he is doing things is elementary politeness. Checking facts rather than blanket unexplained deletions is elementary.
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I had written something here about these virtues being exhibited in the case of the four templates I know of; I found it hard to manage it without it reading like a personal attack. This may say something.
And evidence that he actually knows what he is doing is a help. His actions show rudeness, contempt for others, and a dodgy understanding of the law he is 'enforcing'.
He is enforcing _Wikipedia policy_, not the US copyright laws. I accept that copyright law is difficult to understand, but the fair use policy really is not in this context.
"[Fair use] material 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."
It's what it says. The vagaries of fair use *law* regarding templates do not enter into the vagaries of fair use *policy* regarding templates.
-- - Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk