WikipediaEditor Durin wrote:
And here we go again
Over the last many months, there's been heavy, acrimonious debate over
the removal of overuse of fair use images from a variety of classes of
articles. Such classes have included album covers from discographies,
screenshots from episode lists. Another class where this work has been
ongoing has been the removal of character images from "List of characters
in ..." type articles.
Seems like a reasonable use of fair use, at least if there is no main
article; the decision of whether to include an image should not be
dependent on the decision of whether to merge the article with others.
I'd argue that the image in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pok%C3%A9mon_%28141-160%29#Snorlax
is equally useful, whether the text is in that merged article or a
separate [[Snorlax]] article. This is not overuse, but common sense;
calling this overuse negates the idea of merging: keep the content but
put it on the same page.
The problem is that we then have people trying to use a fair use
images for two sentences: