Board Thread:Site Discussions/@comment-26831136-20150426043743/@comment-1392727-20150426161247

I'm not sure. The rule makes no mention of avatars the policy page, it only makes mention of files uploaded on this wiki, which is a different thing. Avatars are not saved on Special:NewFiles. I think some users were not aware of this and they were, for some reason, not corrected when they imposed this unwritten rule. Also, I don't remember anyone bringing up the usage of avatars back when the image policy was in discussion.