[WikiEN-l] There are no pictures in Wikipedia any more

[David Gerard]

On 25/09/2007, stevertigo <stvrtg at gmail.com> wrote:

> As a footnote to this conversation, I'd like to point out the
> aesthetic issues involved in using any standard image; particularly
> one who's purpose is replacement. Certainly it cannot be pretty, as
> such would be pleasing and therefore incongruent to the purpose of
> replacement. The current image takes this into account and is indeed
> quite ugly, I don't think its particularly ugly enough to make people
> want to replace it immediately.


People do want to remove it as too ugly immediately. So I'd say it's
already going too far on that score.


- d.