Scalhotrods analysis is completely and utterly incorrect On the technical side despite what Scalhotrod asserts in edit summaries eg  linking to an external page including an image is not a violation of WPHOTLINK or even hotlinking at all As the hotlink article states the essential feature of hotlinking is The ability to display content from one site within another The link here a stard format external link does not display any any content from the linked page within Wikipedia The content at issue is only viewed when accessing the external site outside Wikipedia This is a simple and uncontestable point Otherwise every link would be a hotlink and our policies would pretty much prohibit all external links That position is patently ridiculous  Second linking to an external page hosting copyrighted images violates WPCOPYVIO only if the external site neither owns rights to the images nor has properly licensed their use nor has a valid fair use claim Otherwise there is no copyright violation In this case the external site is IMDB a reputable business owned and operated by Amazoncom The page in question is a standard formattype htmlxml page including text images navigational devices links etc The relevant image is not hotlinked This IMDB page states that the image is copyright  Getty Images  Image courtesy gettyimagescom Thats a standard form claim that IMDB has licensed the right to use the image from the copyright holder Unless IMDB is engaged in copyright infringementfraud here and massive copyright infringementfraud at that since theres no reason to believe theyd be stealing only this one image theres no copyright violation on the linked page and therefore no violation of WPCOPYVIO The consequences of Scalhotrods ersatz and virtually unique interpretation of WPCOPYVIO would again pretty much forbid all the standard external linking practices We wouldnt be able to link to any official websites for article subjects which included copyrighted content We couldnt link to IMDB because most of its pages include copyrighted licensed images We couldnt link to news pages which include wire service or other licensed photos Put simply our policies dont prohibit links to pages displaying copyrighted content That would be barking mad Whats prohibited is linking to pages which display copyrightviolating content And thats simply not the case here     Note Scalhotrod and I really dont like each other and Id be inclined to stay out of it if it werent so wrongheaded and disruptive