A recent image use change was discussed and accepted on Simple English Wikipedia (http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Image_use_policy).

We're going to move towards using the free images available from Wikimedia Commons exclusively. There are several benefits to this move, particularly in helping Simple become a highly-portable source to aid inter-language article translation. By using only free images on Commons, which can be immediately used on any project just by creating an image link, we eliminate potential legal problems and speed the overall process.

A side-benefit is that this move will help discourage proliferation of "pop culture" topics on Simple - such as Pokemon, albums, and movies - which are arguably better done on the home-language Wikipedias. Simple tries to concentrate on "core" encyclopedia topics and related.

If anyone is interested in helping create an easy-to-read, easy-to-translate encyclopedia, please visit http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Welcome.

-- Netoholic