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Recommended: Image placeholders should not be used on article pages. Recommended: Further discussions on systems to replace image placeholders for the purpose of soliciting images for articles are encouraged and should take place at Project Free images or another agreed location. 2. Garion96 (1) disagreed that the conclusion should be:
Wikipedia: Centralized discussion/Image placeholders/An overview of the history, context, and technical aspects of image placeholders and the related upload system.
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 ...
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).
Comment The image placeholders are unsightly, resembling advertisements found on commercial websites with for-profit motives. I doubt this debate would ever have erupted if many editors didn’t simply find the placeholder images to be distracting and unattractive, leading to scrutiny of whether they violate more “substantive” rules.
There is clear consensus that if placeholder images are retained, they should be modified in appearance. Discussion on those changes has begun under Question 8. The reasons given for wanting the placeholder images modified are: They are "ugly" and inherently distract from the article.
When adding an image to an infobox, thumbnails should NOT be used. Infobox templates should implement the InfoboxImage module to help with formatting of images so simply supplying the file name will work. For example, to use File:Image PlaceHolder.png, you can simply use |image=Image PlaceHolder.png.