--- Chris Jenkinson chris@starglade.org wrote:
Matt R wrote:
But user space isn't the encyclopedia. What's the problem with using such
an
image in user space, if we have a decent fair use case for it (parody and satire)?
Because it's a waste of server space if we're not using it in the encyclopaedia.
What? We have lots of other images that we're quite happy to use on user pages, like user photos. Not to mention user boxes, editor biographies, etc. Are they a waste of server space too? Obviously not. Wikipedia is edited by a community. Things that help build that community contribute to writing the encyclopedia. Conserving 105 kilobytes is not a reasonable justification for removing a darn good piece of community humour.
-- Matt
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