Am 21.02.2015 um 13:14 schrieb Marielle Volz:
That's what I was going to do originally, but then
I looked at my profile
picture on en wiki[1] I saw this message:
"Do not copy this file to Wikimedia Commons.
While the license of this image or media file, uploaded and used on (a)
Wikipedia contributor(s) user page(s), may be compliant with Commons, its
usefulness to other projects is unlikely. It should not be copied to
Commons unless a specific other usage is anticipated."
I took that to mean that profile pictures in general were discouraged from
being placed in commons. If that's the case, then it makes sense for
profiles on meta to have the same policy.
I would say profile pictures are useful on commons if used on a global user
page. The idea behind the message you saw is that pictures that are only going
to be used on your local profile shouldn't be on commons. If you are going to
use your profile picture on a lot of wikis or, now, on a global user page, then
that's a perfectly good reason to put them on commons.
I haven't been a common admin for years, but I suppose the guidelines there
still allow this.
-- daniel