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Commons:Village pump

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: The policy specifically warns against those ''somewhere by someone'' arguments: ''Not all images for example are realistically useful for an educational purpose, and an image does not magically become useful by arguing that “it could be used to illustrate a Wikipedia article on X”, where X happens to be the subject of the file''. There should not be such sentences in the policy if they don't actually mean that. --[[User:Ilaiho|ilaiho]] ([[User talk:Ilaiho|talk]]) 08:45, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

: The policy specifically warns against those ''somewhere by someone'' arguments: ''Not all images for example are realistically useful for an educational purpose, and an image does not magically become useful by arguing that “it could be used to illustrate a Wikipedia article on X”, where X happens to be the subject of the file''. There should not be such sentences in the policy if they don't actually mean that. --[[User:Ilaiho|ilaiho]] ([[User talk:Ilaiho|talk]]) 08:45, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

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::However, there has traditionally been some leeway granted to users to express opinions on user pages (which is why [[Template:User page image]] exists, to start with), and in this area an image is not usually deleted because of a technical scope violation alone, but because of scope considerations plus some additional aggravating factor... [[User:AnonMoos|AnonMoos]] ([[User talk:AnonMoos|talk]]) 13:27, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

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