User blog comment:Kirkburn/Photo gallery launch/@comment-20644-20100326060141

Can we opt out?

Some wikis, such as Star Wars Fanon, strongly discourage galleries in articles (instead preferring image categories, such as Category:Images of *inset subject here*), and we remove them if we see them. This, to me, is just going to cause confusion amongst people who aren't familiar with our wiki yet, thinking they can do it when, probably a few minutes later, we may remove the gallery&mdash;this could in turn prompt questions about why SWF even has this feature in the first place.

Also, it fails to take into account the fact that not all images are going to be freely available for use by everyone (such as if permission has been given solely to you to use an image but not to someone else, for example), which could also cause confusion because this essentially says "here, feel free to use these images because they're listed here in a nice neat screen."

An opt out would be great.