Board Thread:The Drax Cave/@comment-28743561-20200820202907/@comment-188432-20200831231116

This feature makes the creation of pages about actors and other real life topics a lot easier. You just use the same filename of the image on Wikipedia, and there ya go. Indeed, there are a number of real life pages which would suddenly go image-less if we flipped the switch at this point. And it would be very difficult to find all of them quickly, since there's no mechanism that easily distinguishes between a WM and a Tardis image.

Moreover, this use case does not violate Tardis image policy; in fact, it makes T:OOUI massively easier to uphold. There's really no excuse for not using a promotional image of an actor when they're "on-tap" from the Wikimedia Foundation.

The number of conflicts that are caused here are quite limited. Maybe you personally have encountered the odd case or twenty, depending on how much you edit, but the general editor probably never does.

So I think on balance, there's more harm than good in getting rid of this feature, given the age of this wiki. (indeed, the fact that this is the first real statement of a "problem" with this feature in more than a decade indicates it's not all that common an issue.)

The solution really is to just choose a different file name. It's no big deal. Just upload the file under a different name, and then you can ask an admin to delete your original one. That said, there's no particular reason deletion of a WM file needs to happen — the file, after all, doesn't actually live here at Tardis, so you don;'t really have to involve an admin at all.

Finally any NSFW images that you're seeing coming in from Wikipedia should definitely be referred to me, because this wiki may not be the only one having to deal with it.