LittleDan wrote:
Maybe we should make it easier to include external images. Then, in reprints from the server dump, it would always either be linked externally or ignored. No one's infringing, I don't think, especially if we say that all externally linked images must be under fair use. Externally linked images would also decrease the server load.
We used to allow these, but got rid of them after a rash of links to <goatse.cx>. That they could change without any sign on Wikipedia (that is, no detection by Recentchanges or a Watchlist) was also a motivating factor.
-- Toby