Aoineko wrote:
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.
I don't see a problem with people uploading a few unencyclopaedic pictures. Several users have their own photo on their user page, I've got a butterfly that isn't used elsewhere on the 'pedia (there is already a good one of that breed available). Sure, we don't want people using Wikipedia as a personal photo album, but one or two personal photos to illustrate a user page seems fine to me.
Regards,
sannse