Only the ones who have a problem with images. The
rest of us have much
more choice if we have inlines. Put it this way: use linking and you're
forever sacrificing the chance to have the image actually illustrate the
article it's supposed to. Use inlining and you leave the choice with the
user. If he really is bothered by certain images, he can turn them off.
This seems reasonable to me as long as the images themselves are
appropriate to the article in the first place.
The problem lies with the user, and so the user should deal with it. Push
it up the chain and change Wikipedia to suit *some* users, and you simply
distribute an individual problem to lots of other individuals, and degrade
the usefulness of Wikipedia as a whole.
Yuo appear to have forgotten one of the key points of this project.
this is to try and make information availible to everyone.
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geni