[WikiEN-l] Proposal on userbox disagreement
Jtkiefer
jtkiefer at wordzen.net
Wed Jan 4 02:19:06 UTC 2006
SCZenz wrote:
>Here's what I think we should do. I don't expect it to be popular, but
>compromises never are...
>
>1. The userbox wikiproject go through and get rid of all userbox images used
>that have inappropriate copyright permissions for userpages, including fair
>use images. Likewise they make sure there are no meta-template issues in
>the userboxes. The Wikiproject agrees to police these problems itself in
>the future.
>
>2. Kelly Martin aknowledges that there are many serious contributors who
>like userboxes, so her decision to delete userboxes in defiance of those
>contributors' opinions was an overreaction.
>
>3. We all go back to the live-and-let-live attitude that lets us write an
>encyclopedia.
>
>SCZenz
>
>
I support that and I suggest that a note be posted on AN/I immediately
to the effect that all fairuse images outside of the article space are
subject to immediate deletion and that our fairuse and userbox
guidelines be changed to reflect that.
-Jtkiefer
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