:::Actually I think there is a loose consensus to do so as the only thing the RfC over these established was that a lot of people don't like them but had no replacement and beyond the aesthetic changes already made had no alternative. Ergo this is the latest and best we have for now. And, the biggest reason there was a split is that they do work, it was pointed out in the RfC and last time at ANI OTRS volunteers pointed this out as well. - these placeholders are very successful at getting us free photographs. We get on the order of several dozens of photograph submissions per week for articles that have such placeholders. A new RfC was proposed suggesting that OTRS present some statistics and that part of the RfC "ask people if they would accept the placeholder if it simply looked cooler?" I don't think anything has moved forward on that front. Meanwhile this is something that is getting images for the project. I suppose a beneficial study, if someone is up for such a thing, would be to track a set of several hundred(?) BLPs and see how many that employ the placeholders until replaced - versus prematurely removed - a compared to BLP that never have the image placeholders actually get images over a reasonable length of time.