File talk:Replace this image1.svg

Initial comments

see Wikipedia:Fromowner documentation for image details.

Copyright wise the image is PD

Geni 15:48, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Um... why is the default size so small? — CharlotteWebb 11:55, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Because beack when it was first made I was going to use the image page as the page that is now at Wikipedia:Fromowner.Genisock2 11:59, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

I believe the last line should be: "If so, please click here." Geni, would you mind changing that and re-uploading the image with the comma inserted? Many thanks. Flcelloguy (A note?) 21:32, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

can't. Image is protected again editing.Geni 21:51, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Should I unprotect it for you to upload it? (Give me a note on my talk page, and I will do so.) Flcelloguy (A note?) 21:58, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Copy from (this is a lot easyier to do in seamonkey than in firefox) Image:Replace this image1commer.svg and you can upload it yourself.Genisock2 23:18, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Text reading "click here" is no user-unfriendly, as our own click here article explains, but i can't think of an alternate. Can anyone else? Foobaz·o< 21:17, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Add an IW

{{editprotected}} to the Norwegian version at [1]. Regards Nsaa 20:42, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Done. Cheers. --MZMcBride 16:10, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Non-gender-specific

I edited this to be non-gender specific, with the blessing of shimgray in #wikipedia.

In the meantime, if you ever get bored, you can look at the image page to see what links to this file, and go through and replace all references with either Image:Replace this image female.svg or Image:Replace this image male.svg as appropriate, which looks nicer. -- Vystrix Nexoth 23:34, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Sorry but I think these gender stereotype images look terrible. It's much better to have gender neutral images as people of different sexes all have different hairstyles and we shouldn't imply that to be either sex you should have a certain build or appearance. Gustav von Humpelschmumpel 20:29, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

This neuter version is getting ripped down everywhere because it really is downright ugly. Why couldn't we have left it as the original (now male) version and simply added the female version? Frankly I thought the one now labeled as male could just as easily be seen as female with a short haircut or her hair tied/bunned etc. —Elipongo (Talk contribs) 03:54, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

What makes this completely featureless image male? Is it just because male is the default whereas female must be specifically indicated? - ∅ (∅), 22:31, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

It's not male now that they've neutered it. The image here used to be the one that's now at Image:Replace this image male.svg—Elipongo (Talk contribs) 22:49, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Wow, look at those neck muscles. :D Well, it could still be a female bodybuilder!

I agree with Humpelschmumpel though, we shouldn't need gender specific (stereotyped) images. And anyhow, I don't think these filler images are a good idea; they make the page and by extension Wikipedia look ridiculous. Better use no image and look professional than stick what are basically under construction signs everywhere like we're nothing but a bunch of Geocities users in 1996. :-p - ∅ (∅), 23:28, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Category:Fromownerviewed suggests it works.Genisock2 23:44, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia is under construction. It would be misleading to imply otherwise. Why do you think people get pissed and threaten to sue when they find inaccuracies? — Omegatron 04:35, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Rename

{{ifr}}

Rename to something descriptive like Replace this portrait.svg — Omegatron 04:34, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

No the name appears in various bits of documentation and the upload forms. Are you volunteering to edit every article this image appears in?Genisock2 14:33, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

discussion?

Was there any discussion about adding a background colour to the image? — pd_THOR ^{| =/\=} | 01:35, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Some now list village pump discussions Wikipedia:Graphic_Lab/Images_to_improve#Placeholder_Images and Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Slightly_less_hideous_placeholders.Genisock2 03:16, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Category

{{editprotected}} Due to a category rename, please remove Category:Images for renaming from this page and replace it with Category:Media renaming requests. Thank you. --Russ (talk) 10:55, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

For some reason, this image had gotten "stuck" in the old category even though the template with the actual category tag had already been updated. I made a dummy edit to the image page and that seems to have fixed it. Must've been a glitch in MediaWiki. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 17:11, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Effectively disable

{{Editprotected}} I keep encountering this thing in articles; not all editors are aware of the Centralized Discussion that nixed, by WP community-wide consensus, the use of this and similar images on article pages, and some are thus still deploying it. The status of this image as deprecated is very clear and needs to be made clearer (but it should not be deleted; the centralized and pre-centralized debates about it are of great precedential value, but would be rendered rather inexplicable if the image disappeared, as it is used numerous times in the course of the debate).

1. Please place the following at the top of the image page: {{Warning|1=Do not add this image to article pages. The proposal to add such images to articles [[Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/Image placeholders|has been rejected]]. The image is preserved for historical reasons, as it is frequently cited in the proposal debates.}}
2. Please also remove the HTML comment and transclusion, or at least comment-out the latter (and collapse the pointless blank lines in such a case). The transclusion in particular still strongly suggests that these placeholder images are accepted and directly encourages their use.
3. The Category:Protected redirects code should also be removed, as this page is not a redirect.

These changes should be applied to any and all images in this series. I have so far tagged two of them for this editprotected cleanup.

— SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 09:23, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

 Done. — Huntster (t • @ • c) 10:01, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

• Where is the aforementioned centralized discussion? I certainly didn't see any notice of it. -Hit bull, win steak^(Moo!) 14:37, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

No license or source indicated

This image does not currently show a license or a source. Please add:

{{PD-user|Geni|en}}

Thank you.--Rockfang (talk) 20:25, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

Not done: It's already got a {{PD-because|See Image:Replace_this_image1.svg/Description for details of license}} although that is hidden inside a <div style="display:none;">...</div> --Redrose64 (talk) 20:43, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

If you have admin rights, see here. --Redrose64 (talk) 20:53, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

I don't have admin rights but that link will be useful for any admins that come by and read this section. Thank you.--Rockfang (talk) 20:57, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

Edit request

Should be tagged {{esoteric file}}Sfan00 IMG (talk) 12:11, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

 Done -- WOSlinker (talk) 18:06, 30 November 2013 (UTC)