Wow.
Editors put in thousands of free hours of labor here, I don't think the permission to put up a picture of their dog or kids is such an outrageous thing to allow them.
-Gamaliel
Matt Brown morven at gmail.com:
"There has been 'de facto' tolerance of unfree-with-permission images on user pages; I think this should go, too. If you're not comfortable with putting pictures of yourself, your family, your dog et al. under GFDL or another compatible license, don't put them on Wikipedia even for your userpage. After all, you could say 'Go to my personal web site for more info about me', or something - links are perfectly fine."
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On 9/13/05, Rob gamaliel8@yahoo.com wrote:
Editors put in thousands of free hours of labor here, I don't think the permission to put up a picture of their dog or kids is such an outrageous thing to allow them.
Who's denying them the permission to put up pictures of them, their dogs or their kids? They can make the images PD, Creative Commons, GFDL ...
But if they want to put up restricted-license images, that's a step too far, IMO. Your userpage isn't the same as your personal homepage, and if you care so much about those image licenses, keep them there.
Given that unscrupulous mirrors will probably suck up the whole contents anyway, it's not smart.
I've put in probably thousands of hours of free labor too, and I'm sure most of us have, so that's a cheap shot.
-Matt