[WikiEN-l] Re: Userboxes and fair-use images in userspace

[Garion1000]

On 1/5/06, Phil Boswell <phil.boswell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> "Redvers @ the Wikipedia" <wikiredvers at yahoo.ie> wrote
> in message news:20060105131743.68330.qmail at web26414.mail.ukl.yahoo.com...
> [snip]
> > Perhaps we can prompt people a little better: the
> > boilerplates for {{fairuse}} {{albumcover}} etc could
> > be modified to include the words
> > "Note: This image must '''NOT''' be used on User
> > pages, Talk pages or Template pages. If used there, it
> > ''will'' be deleted from the page '''without
> > notice'''."
>
> Indeed, it should be possible for a bot to scan images marked "fair use"
> or
> similar, find usage in forbidden namespaces, and nuke them with extreme
> precision: it could even leave a little polite notice on the appropriate
> talk-page saying what happened to all the pretty pictures.
>
> I wonder if there's scope for a tweak of Mediawiki's handling of images?
> You
> could mark a given namespace as an "image-type" namespace, in that
> references to "articles" in that namespace actually work as images do now.
> You could then possible specify that this "transclusion" should only occur
> in certain namespaces, and anywhere else you would simply get a link.
>
> Maybe I should stop for lunch...;-)
> --
> Phil
> [[en:User:Phil Boswell]]


I am not a coder or this might have been mentioned before, but isn't it
possible to only allow images from commons on user/talk pages and templates?

Garion