On 8/19/07, RĂ©mi Kaupp <kaupp.remi(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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Now someone has proposed his "copyright
template" for deletion, while saying
If indeed it's being handled as agressively as your message states
then an error is being made.
Now I'm asking, what is this stupid rule about
about personal copyright
template ?
It is an important rule.
As explained on the wiki, personal license templates are fine but they
must be substed. If the templates are not substed, then the licensing
of all images tagged with it can suddenly be changed without anyone
noticing.
Personal license templates also frequently make the commons licensing
data hard for computers to read.
Simply a matter of good project orginization, personal templates
should be in the users userspace.
Now if we start deleting templates like this, we can
surely say goodbye to
our best contributors. We surely do not want people like Luc Viatour to get
out from Commons, do we ?
All the criteria you've mentioned is reasonable. It would be fine in a
substed template.
Normally the way I been handling personal license templates is
contacting the author, and offering to have my bot go and subst all
the uses. Then the template is moved into the userspace. From there
they can continue to subst it as they upload.