On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:15:53 +0100, Matt R matt_crypto@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
--- Chris Jenkinson chris@starglade.org wrote:
Matt R wrote:
You're confusing user space with article space. User pages are *not*
the
distributable free content encyclopedia. User pages are part of the
framework
which builds the distributable free content encyclopedia.
There is a perfectly reasonable goal of avoiding fair use images in
*articles*,
wherever possible. As I understand it, we also remove most Fair Use
images from
user pages because we normally don't have any decent Fair Use
rationale for
using them there. However, as a parody, we do have a rationale for
the AYB
image.
It's a good thing to keep a few fun things on Wikipedia outside of the
article
space. It's a good thing to be wary of fair use images. It's a bad
thing to
delete humour because of misplaced "fair use" political correctness.
They all get bundled together in the downloads, though.
Do you mean the databse dumps? You can download just the articles.
Yes you can download just the articles, the image dump don't discriminate though, it simply contains all the images on the server AFAIK.
So if someone download the article dump and the image dump with plans of publishing it in the US (outside they would have to delete all the faur use images anyway, or obtain permission for each individual image) then your humorous fair use image from your userpage become a copyright violation for that reuser because without your userpage he has no fair use defence for it. This means that re-users would have to spend time and effort to purge these humor, parody and other orphanded userpage stuff from the dump, and while it's not rocket sience to automate such a purge it's still an extra burden on re-users that is completely unnessesary.
