"self appointed license policemen? I hope *all* of us are license policemen, unless we really don't care if the Wikipedia gets shut down. If you have approval for your information, then include it in the Talk page. If you don't, it shouldn't be in the Wikipedia at all. And support for linkage to offsite images has been removed after discussion here on the list. Zoe Lars Aronsson lars@aronsson.se wrote:Chuck Smith wrote:
Another point that seems to be forgotten is how people who are reading Wikipedia offline will be able to see the offsite pictures...
Maybe just the same way they submit changes to the article.
If the original problem here was that selfappointed license policemen are erasing (URLs to) external images, perhaps the problem could be settled by issuing an instruction that external image URLs should be enclosed in a [URL external image] bracket, rather than removed.