Board Thread:New Features/@comment-5275700-20161109233932/@comment-1738746-20161111035618

BertH wrote: Bluesonic1 wrote: Would be nice if your bots didn't pull random placeholder images from the internet and use them unlawfully on our wikis. I contacted staff support about this and they were clueless to the fact that you could get into a lot of trouble for that kind of copyright violation (it was violating agreements of 2-3 different individuals & companies), and they didn't care about your company's violation either. On top of the fact that the image had NOTHING to do with our wiki. My recommendation is you make some simple placeholder image (which already exists on wikis if I'm not mistaken) and use that instead until admins upload their own image. It's not that hard.

Oh, and maybe re-educate your staff on copyright violations :) The image on your community was selected by a human being, several years ago when Special:Promote was introduced. It was migrated to the Mobile Main Page as part of the updates described in this post.

While I can't speak to the criteria used when the image was chosen, I can confirm that the Mobile Main Page is not being populated by bots. I can see an image was originally uploaded years ago, and then removed- I don't if it was the same image but this original one was uploaded by WikiaBot. The image was then re-uploaded a few days ago by FandomBot- this is the one I found problems with. It's even worse to know that a human picked that image- if you want to continue with this system, staff are going to need to be trained in copyright laws as well as having respect for not uploading some random photo (from a different fandom no less) to act as a placeholder for a certain wiki. Perhaps I've not made myself clear in explaining how that affects a wiki, but it's like placing a picture of the Marvel logo as a placeholder for a DC wiki; it's just downright insensitive, copyright violations aside. I still think a generic placeholder image would be a much safer & easier alternative. Your staff won't have to hunt images, they can't infringe copyright and they won't disrespect any communities by giving them a random image.