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

[jayjg]

On 1/4/06, Chris Jenkinson <chris at starglade.org> wrote:
>
> Jtkiefer wrote:
> > Remove the images and put it on your watchlist and also tell the user
> > why they can't have the images up there and if they put them back then
> > lock the user page and/or temporarily block the user for violating
> > copyrights and Wikipedia's guidelines on using fair use images.  Jimbo
> > himself has stated that we now should have zero tolerance for people who
> > knowingly violate copyrights.
>
> Wow, that's incredibly heavy handed. A better first step would be to ask
> that they remove them, then if they don't remove them yourself,
> explaining yourself all the way, and then do protection/blocking if it's
> really necessary. We're not trying to get rid of people here.


So, for example, in order to avoid being "heavy handed", one might ask an
editor (and fellow administrator) to remove "fair use" images from their
page [
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:SlimVirgin&diff=prev&oldid=33916201],
and then when they object to the request on several grounds, including not
considering one of the images to be "fair use", say their comments are "so
full of lies, misinformation and patent nonsense" that you must assume they
are "ignorant, not malicious" [
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:SlimVirgin&diff=prev&oldid=33919864],
and finally (a whole 39 minutes after your first request) delete them
yourself.[
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:SlimVirgin&diff=prev&oldid=33920362]
Have I got that right?

Jay.