Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William-Adolphe Bouguereau gallery (3rd nomination)
Commons is an image repository for material that can be used by other projects. It is not a substitute for them. If the material has encyclopedic value then it should be within wikipedia, where it can be monitored by Wikipedia editors, who are not necessarily Commons editors. The Commons page is less attractively laid out and has surplus information. Commons is multilingual. Commons pages can end up looking like http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Louvre this, i.e. downright ugly, which is no way to view art. Commons is a workshop, not a gallery. This page does not fail , which says, ''"Mere collections of photographs or media files with no text to go with the articles. If you are interested in presenting a picture, please provide an encyclopedic context"''. the encyclopedic context is William-Adolphe Bouguereau, which this is a legitimate content fork of. No one would quibble if there was a list of the artist's works. It makes sense to have pictures to go with that list. You can only know art by looking at it
— User:Tyrenius, 00:44, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NOT (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)