Forum:CT Archive/Restrictions on user page pictures

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At last weekend's Mofference, there was a bit of discussion about restrictions on the images people like to put on userpages. Namely, how many pictures should we allow, and what size is OK? Bearing in mind that userpages are not the primary reason for this wiki, I think the following restrictions should be OK:


 * No more than 3 images should be uploaded which are intended solely for a userpage (or customized signature, if we're still allowing that.)
 * None of these images should be above 100 kB
 * Images being used on actual articles as well as a user's page are OK, within reason
 * If more than five such images appear on a user page, the "image gallery" format should be used
 * Images being used on officially approved, shared userboxes (like the little Ewok picture on Template:User ewok) shouldn't count towards these limits (because they're small and relatively unobtrusive), but images on custom userboxes would.
 * Images must be "safe for work" (this should go without saying, and no one on this wiki has violated this rule on their user page as far as I know, but I just wanted to cover all contingencies here.)

We had a discussion back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, but it never really came to a conclusion. So, I'd like to start it up again. Comments? A vote, maybe? (Feel free to add more options.) &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 02:08, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

For restrictions suggested above

 * 1) Well, it's my proposal. &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 02:08, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Works for me. -- Ozzel 02:44, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Ban all user images

 * This would still allow reuse of article images, and the images in userboxes.

Comments

 * Actually, the transcript of the meeting has people suggesting five, not three images. However, it seems to me that most users who have up to three images stop there, while users with more than three soon expand that to six or more. Also, images which come as part of an award by the rest of the community should be treated the same as images in userboxes, once we get some sort of awards system going.  &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 03:38, 17 May 2006 (UTC)