Board Thread:Merger/@comment-5007040-20140813184910/@comment-188432-20140814152052

The merge was never supposed to work "out of the box". A bot has no capacity to judge the quality of suitability of articles.

Thus, pages that have been imported are not assumed to be appropriate in their current form for this wiki. This -hides-the-pic thing was something that I noticed in the merge runs, and decided was a cool feature.

It's designed to make you immediately see that the page has been imported from the old wiki, and that you therefore need to look at it and approve it.

In other words, this isn't an "annoyance" that you get rid of to make the image appear. It's an alert to tell you that you need to look at the whole page and approve, disapprove or edit it.

I think, Dean, that you're frustrated by this because you assume that every page on the old wiki was actually worthy of being imported here. And I hope you won't take offence when I say that this is probably not true. After all, the wiki predates your involvement in it by about four years, and I'm sure you can't possibly know every page on it. So it's by no means an attack upon your personal editing skills when I say that there were a number of essentially blank or non-English-language pages that we deleted from the old wiki, prior to the merge. But I have zero confidence that we got them all.

Hence, giving an extra alert in the form of "missing" images was a good thing to keep in the mix merge.