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

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Agree.

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On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 5:20 AM, Philip Sandifer <snowspinner at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> On Oct 10, 2008, at 12:10 AM, Charlotte Webb wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Whereas, frankly, what would be more appropriate would be running a
> bot on Category:Living people to add them where they don't exist.
>
> -Phil
>
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