User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-1296654-20191020223216/@comment-5918438-20191021175336

I don't think the actual intent was to exclude those audio-only incarnations. As far as I'm concerned, they're mostly out-of-date simply for not having been updated yet, because, as RingoRoadagain points out, those templates are a pain and a half with each new edition to make at all presentable.

I agree that audio-only characters (or audio-and-prose-only with no decent illustrations) should by represented by their audio cover appearances. A case like Evelyn Smythe is fine because she has a whole story's worth of screenshots to choose from. But a mere cameo in another medium, if it gives us no usable images (per T:GTI), should not in my opinion come before the audio images we have at our disposal. Benny has loads of comics and prose behind her, and thus is not an audio-only character, so I don't think the above would apply to her infobox.

But even in the case of Benny, I've always read the last ditch image rule far more broadly, at least for characters with extensive histories and long pages. Just as an audio cover image might be the only source for a specific incarnation of the Monk, even if we have images of other incarnations, we might have pictures from the comics to represent Benny — and one of those should remain in the infobox — but we might not have pictures of Benny from certain points in her life without turning to audio.

That said, as we use these images as secondary sources, if they conflict explicitly with in-narrative information I don't think we should use those audio cover images.