[Wikipedia-l] please support offsite images

[Hunter Peress]

>> To alleviate some of this, we should allow the inclusion of offsite images. This is perfectley
>> acceptable.

>No, that's not acceptable at all. If you want something to appear inline,
>mixed into the page in Wikipedia, it should be *part* of Wikipedia. That
>means it should be hosted on the Wikipedia server, and be easily packaged
>with backups, distributions, and alternative published formats.

>If you'd like to *link* to external images, just like any other external
>resource, that's A-OK, fine and dandy.

<img src> *is* simply linking the images, and you get the benefit of inlining any image on the
internet seen fit without having to go through the process of fumbling around for days and weeks
about copyrights which is too slow, non reliable, and rigorous compared with the option being
argued for.

The above arguments lack any support besides opinion and reptition ("No...it should"), then
counterpoints with more explatives, obnoxious posture, and more opinion.

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