Forum:Policy on user page images

Okay this topic hasn't been explicitly dicussed yet, but it came up a few times. Currently we allow users to upload any kind of pictures to decorate their user page. While I think that's cool and fun for people, I think it's time we thought about some more restrictions, because frankly we are not an image host site and some users seem to use us as just that.

The only current requirement we have is that the pictures need to be actually used somewhere on this wiki (usually the user page ofcourse) and that they are not violent, pornographic, racist, mocking someone etc.

Here are some more ideas we should consider:
 * some sort of limit to the amount of non canon pictures a user can have on his user talk page. Pictures that are used elsewhere anyway do not count towards this limit. E.g. A user can put all 12 trolls on their page for all I care as long as it's pictures that are currently in use somewhere else on the wiki.
 * If a user wants to use more than 1 or 2 pictures on their user page they need to actualy be used to build some kind of profile (i.e. character box or some info about the character etc). This again could help to avoid user pages being used as image hosts.
 * Users that have been inactive for more than... a year? (or some other limit) have all their images removed. There should definetly be something that makes sure the gallery doesn't grow like some tumor just because of user pictures.
 * We could perhaps also consider only allowing active editors to use many pictures on theit user page.

I'm not saying we need to do all this. I am just throwing out ideas. Any other ideas? BitterLime 14:51, February 23, 2012 (UTC)