I can understand that using images willy-nilly in articles to which they
bear only the most lateral of relationships might well give rise to a real
problem, and I have no argument with the idea of removing such uses.
However it would appear that some people are taking the argument to rather
silly extremes. I have just discovered the school of thought that believes
that including an image in a category contravenes the "Fair Use" principle
because displaying the image on the category page amounts to using the image
in an unfair way!
Is it me, or is this just plain silly? A category is simply an
organisational tool, not an article. Surely a case can be made that the
proper categorisation of images within an encyclopedia is essential to using
those images correctly.
I was under the impression that ideally, **all** images should belong to at
least one category, depending upon their licensing status. Obviously there
are those who disagree.
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Phil
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