User talk:Smial

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"Fan cruft" ?
Hello, Could you tell me why an artist's impression is contraindicated in an article dedicated to a literary character, unlike the fair use of movies captures or a graffiti art ? Is this a English Wikipedia policy, different from the other languages Wiki ? Regards. Guise (talk) 19:33, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Is the artist or his work covered in reliable secondary sources which comment on or analyze it? We need to have standards for inclusion, to be fair. See WP:DUE. Also relevant is WP:ELNO which prohibits linking to external sites like your edit did. Elizium23 (talk) 19:58, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
 * The image combined with the web link appears to me as SPAM. Found it on german wikipedia and it was pushed to many other language versions. But I speak little English and no other languages besides German, so reverted only here and at de-wiki. -- Smial (talk) 22:13, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
 * You're right, Elizium23 : WP:ELNO is relevant, indeed (after all, the URL pages of the artists who generously gave their works to Wikimedia Commons appear in the Commons pages). My bad, then. However, I don't understand very well how various artists' impressions of litterary characters come into conflict with WP:DUE since it does not pretend to impose a restrictive vision, especially if several illustrations are available. And it's a generally agreed practice in Wikipedia in other languages, like in the French featured article. Guise (talk) 02:41, 4 January 2016 (UTC)