Forum:CT Archive/Addition to userpage policy

Since this idea gathered a surprising amount of support voices on SH, here is a proper CT vote for it.

Suggesttion: make the following additions to the Userpage and User Image policy.


 * For the Userpage policy - Rule 11: Per a consensus decision on XX/OX/2009, all users with no contributions for more than 18 months are labelled as Inactive and are ineligible for the 3 user images. Their userpages thus should be replaced with Template:Inactive to inform other users of their status and allow their images to be deleted.


 * For the Image policy - Rule 7: Users with no contributions for more than 18 months are labelled as Inactive and are ineligible for 3 user images.

The main purpose of the addition: to get rid of hundreds of stupid images uploaded by long inactive users. Details at Forum:SH:They've been gone for too long!.  Mauser  Comlink 05:09, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Support

 * 1)  Mauser  Comlink 05:09, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 2) I'd rather see 6 months instead of 18, but otherwise it's a great idea. &mdash;Master Jonathan(Jedi Council Chambers) 05:18, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 3) Definitely.  Grunny  ( Talk ) 05:21, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 4) I had to think a while about this, but I've made up my mind. Personally though Master Jonathan, I think 6 months is way too little. Cyfiero 06:07, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 5) - Esjs (Talk) 06:08, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 6)  IFYLOFD  ( You will pay the price for your lack of vision! ) 06:09, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 7) --Eyrezer 06:36, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 8) A necessary evil in this case in the name of economics. Andykatib 06:40, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 9) Though the wording should be improved. --Imperialles 09:31, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 10) *You're welcome to try in comments.  Mauser  Comlink 09:35, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 11) Atarumaster88  Jedi_Order.svg ( Talk page ) 15:43, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 12) -- Darth tom Imperial Emblem.svg (Imperial Intelligence)  15:49, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Comments
Please leave any suggestions here instead of the original SH thread. Also, please do not add any additional vote-splitting options.  Mauser  Comlink 05:09, 9 July 2009 (UTC) The wording should be changed to something like: Also, the proposed Inactive template should probably be made more lightweight. Something like User:Imperialles/Sandbox, perhaps? --Imperialles 09:44, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * In the interest of fairness, should there be a grace period (say 3 days) after a user's page is marked as inactive before their images are deleted? If a user has his/her user page or talk page marked as "watch", they should get an email notification that their page has been updated - enough warning for them to come check out what's going on and become active again.  Just trying to allow as much "benefit of doubt" as possible. -  Esjs (Talk) 06:23, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Indeed. You can't delete them without a warning first, though I wonder how many times that will reset the time for those that just check one thing every 18 months.. --  Riffsyphon  1024 06:29, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * It doesn't work quite like that. Once the image is no longer used on any page, within the day it appears on the Unused Files page. Since that day, it takes mote than a week to delete the image - a period long enough for any who want to actually use the image.  Mauser  Comlink 06:54, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Well I'm all for recycling images if people want to use them for other means, although I agree that a very specific picture of something non-Star Wars would have difficulty surviving past that period. --  Riffsyphon  1024 07:01, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * For the Userpage policy - Rule 11: All users with no contributions for more than 18 months are considered inactive and lose their privileges in regards to user images. Their userpages should be replaced with Template:Inactive to inform other users of their status and allow their images to be deleted.
 * For the Image policy - Rule 7: Users with no contributions for more than 18 months are considered inactive and lose their privileges in regards to user images.
 * No objections from me to either of those.  Mauser  Comlink 09:55, 9 July 2009 (UTC)