[WikiEN-l] image placeholders allegedly latest thing deprecated by MOS

[Charlotte Webb]

On 10/9/08, Philip Sandifer <snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh, did we finally do away with an innocuous innovation that actually
> measurably and demonstrably increased the number of free images we
> have in favor of short-term concerns about how "pretty" articles look?
>
> Some day I hope we can finally develop policies that are actually a
> complete impediment to the development of a free content resource
> instead of these minor speedbumps we usually muster.

Well, it's one thing to say "don't over-use 'em" but it soon becomes a
race to see who can first run a thinly disguised bot to remove them
all, just like the fucking date links.

—C.W.