[Wikipedia-l] Galleries on Wikipedia vs. galleries on Wikimedia Commons

[Erik Moeller]

Now that the Wikimedia Commons is being widely used as a central image  
archive - if you haven't already, check out http://commons.wikimedia.org/  
- we are facing the question again whether we want to store image  
galleries in Wikipedia. There currently are a few, e.g.:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallery_of_Fayum_mummy_portraits

My proposal would be that such galleries should reside on the Commons,  
unless they include substantial encyclopedic information for individual  
images. Substantial information would be at least a paragraph of text  
describing the image's content. If there is no such information, the  
relevant article should include a link to the Commons gallery and a couple  
of striking example images.

An interesting side effect of such a policy would be that fair use images  
could only be used in an encyclopedic context, as they are not allowed on  
the Commons.

Any other thoughts?

Regards,

Erik