[WikiEN-l] The userbox fad

[Brock Batsell]

Kelly Martin wrote:
> The difference is that the chess tournament didn't violate copyright,
> and when told to stop violating copyright, scream that its free speech
> rights were being violated.
>
> The userbox aficianadoes are.
>
> Kelly
>
>   
Kelly—

Say an article contained an image not legally usable in Wikipedia. The 
appropriate action in that case is to delete the image, and remove it 
from the article, not to delete the article altogether. How, in any way, 
shape, or form, is the appropriate action for dealing with an image not 
legally usable in a template to delete the template altogether? The 
appropriate action is to delete the image and remove it from the 
template (it can be replaced with simple text or a free image).

Please don't use the copyright issue as a crutch — the reason you 
deleted the templates wasn't because of the images, it was because you 
dislike them. It's perfectly acceptable for you to have an opinion on 
userboxes. What's unacceptable is using your administrative powers to 
delete those userboxes without any clear consensus. I'm okay with 
skipping process sometimes if it's unnecessarily cumbersome and there's 
clear consensus, but that is *obviously* not the case here.

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Regards,
[[en:User:Bbatsell]]