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

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:20 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.

I strongly concur.

Wikipedia is a work in progress, and it's pretty much impossible to
hide that. So  I think it's okay to have some dust on the floor as the
result of actions which hasten our long term progress.