--- David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
The image itself has been deleted too. Does anyone have a copy to hand? I want to put it on Uncyclopedia, where it would almost certainly be just fine in a suitable context. Parody and satire allow *fantastic* leeway for fair use ...
Why can't we use it as parody and satire within Wikipedia user space?
Well, theoretically we could. But it's IMO a bit sideways from the mission (we're here to write an encyclopedia) *and* it's a fair use image, and we do have a reasonably accepted policy to minimise fair use images to when there really isn't a substitute. And to get the fair use images off the user pages. So it really doesn't belong on my userpage and Gmaxwell was entirely right to remove it (and I left a note on his talk page thanking him).
People can still link to it at [[Uncyclopedia:Image:Wp ayb.gif]] as they wish (interwiki link), though you can't make it display as an image that way.
- d.
