jayjg wrote:
I'm a little concerned here. While I think policy should be followed, I've been disturbed by the way this has been handled recently. Whether or not an image is "fair use" is sometimes disputed, and in any event handling this in a friendly way is far preferable to heavy-handed and drastic actions which might well drive good contributors from the project. If it's not an emergency (and, given that these images have been on user pages for months, if not years, I don't see how it could be), then I think delicacy and diplomacy is the right way to go.
I agree. I think a calm, friendly, and rational explanation of why fair use images cannot be used on user pages would be a simple way to get the vast majority of people who currently use them to remove them.
Chris