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Because of the risk that placeholder material might accidentally be published, it is clearly marked with an FPO indicator in the form of a simulated watermark or overprint, stamp, or the like in the expectation that it will make the placeholder's presence obvious to designers working on the layout; reviewing proof copies; or, as a last resort ...
Lazy loading (also known as asynchronous loading) is a technique used in computer programming, especially web design and web development, to defer initialization of an object until it is needed. It can contribute to efficiency in the program's operation if properly and appropriately used.
An image placeholder is a dummy image designed to draw attention to the need for an actual image. Wikipedia image placeholders were meant to be used on articles, especially those of living people, for the purpose of trying to obtain a freely-licensed image for them. In a Wikipedia Centralized Discussion this idea was found to be controversial ...
You can make a request for an image by adding {{Image requested}} to the talk page of the article, to see if other Wikipedians have access to an image. Be aware that this may take some time. Please follow the guidelines explained on Wikipedia:Requested pictures. You can also use the images at Category:Wikipedia image placeholders as ...
Wikipedia: Centralized discussion/Image placeholders/An overview of the history, context, and technical aspects of image placeholders and the related upload system.
The new Wikipedia:Upload placeholder images page should serve as a general description of the placeholder images and the associated upload wizard setup, providing both introductory information for people interested in using the placeholders, a general description of the goals of the system and technical details of how it is implemented. Categories:
Anyone can monitor and clean-out Category:Images of people replacing placeholders Double Blue (Talk) 06:07, 13 April 2008 (UTC) It is possible that vandalism will occur but that is part of the nature of wikipedia. I don't really think that the possibility for vandalism is a good arguement against image placeholders.
See Wikipedia:Image placeholders for more information. This category consists of image placeholders for requested images . When using an image in this category it is recommended to apply the class attribute values "metadata" (to suppress printing) and "dummy" (to allow users to suppress display).