User talk:Slyman17

July 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contribution by uploading the image Metrosexual. Your test worked, and the image that you uploaded has been or soon will be deleted. Please use the sandbox for any tests you may want to do and please read our introduction page to learn more about contributing. Thank you. Vianello (talk) 07:26, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop. If you continue to upload inappropriate images, such as Metrosexual, to Wikipedia, you will be blocked. Vianello (talk) 07:28, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
The next time you add an inappropriate image to an article, as you did to Metrosexual, you will be blocked from editing. Vianello (talk) 07:33, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

In response to your question

1: Because using Wikipedia pages to try to embarass your friends is disruptive.

2: Because it's a huge, cumbersome image that severely marrs the page (and isn't worth fixing, for the above reason).

3: Because its status as a "classic" image of a "steriotypical" (sic) metrosexual is entirely debateable.

If this is some image used somewhere as a photograph specifically to depict the metrosexual stereotype, that would be different. But considering your fair use rationale on the image page says you took the photo yourself, what you are actually trying to do here is abundantly clear. - Vianello (talk) 07:41, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That would make it "a photo you took of some guy who you think looks like a metrosexual". That is not encyclopedic. That is... well, a photo you took of some guy who you think looks like a metrosexual. So, perhaps I should say you're trying to embarass your acquiantance, or perhaps your enemy. Either way, all you're trying to do here is embarass and/or make fun of somebody you photographed. If you come back with a fair-use-compatible image of some image that a verifiable, reliable source describes as a good depiction of the heterosexual stereotype, then we'll talk. But considering this is the only editting you've done here on Wikipedia, your motives are awfully transparent, so I rather doubt that's going to happen. - Vianello (talk) 07:48, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]