I fully agree the fact we must not use external pictures in articles, but
why don't allow them in meta/user/talk pages ? I had a pictures of my baby
on my user page, I can't see it any more :o(
More seriously, I'm afraid prohibit external link will make people copy more
non encyclopedic pictures on the server and will make harder to select right
pictures when we will make a static version.
Aoineko