Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-35301431-20130617151144/@comment-12633677-20140226192403

For an external links template, I'm against. I think it's more important to have a standard format.

Now, for images. I don't know why so many editors here are against adding images, which are a crucial part of information presentation. Adding relevant, official images to articles does not make us an image host. We would be an image host if we allowed any images, and our main purpose as a wiki was to host those images for the betterment of other websites. Obviously, this is not the case.

As for the argument that our focus should be the songs, and thus, no images in the song articles... bullshit. If we can explain more about the song through an image, whether it depicts the subject of the song or art from the PV, then there's no reason for an an image not to be on the page. Technically, if we're trying to "focus purely on the songs", then song pages should consist only of sheet music!!

As for the illustrators' images, I think as long as we're using their images appropriately to teach and edify the internet at large about VOCALOID, they fall under fair use.