George Herbert wrote:
- An image on Commons *not* used on any project is... wrong. Regardless of
whether it's controversial or not.
I don't mind there being free image repositories. It would not be a bad thing if the WMF formed one as a new project. Commons, as it stands now, is specifically more focused on supporting the other projects.
This hasn't been true for over a year now---Commons is its own, separate project dedicated to hosting a repository of free images useful for some informational, historical, educational, etc. purpose. It's not expected that every single image on Commons will be used in a Wikipedia article somewhere... in particular a *very* common use of Commons is for the Wikipedia article to include one or two images of a subject, and a link to Commons for the rest of them. We have *dozens* of pictures of the Parthenon, for example, much more than any article on the Parthenon could possibly shove in... so many are unused except in the Commons gallery, which is just fine IMO.
-Mark