Board Thread:Community Decisions/@comment-24510587-20191026212603/@comment-24510587-20191026215838

1. Given how much of a grey area fair use is, the fact that one would remove an image if requested already gets rid of that hurdle.

2. Visual cues are generally helpful and make for more attractive articles. I'm not saying articles can't be good without them, of course - I'm saying articles can be even better with them.

3. While Space Marine and IG painters and such are of course very helpful tools, often enough such tools don't quite fit the bill of what you want to display, or are not applicable to the kind of article you want to make at all (i.e. individual characters that don't belong to Astartes IG, or similar uniformed organisations). Going through the hurdle of trying to contact an artist, which is not always possible, can also be a fair bit of hassle, that is honestly not entirely necessary.

4. Learning to draw, let alone learning to draw well, is an immense investment of time, effort, and potentially money. And even then, many people (most people, even) simply do not have the talent. People can spend years trying to learn to draw and still be bad at it.

All in all, the lenient image policy is not vulnerable to legal repercussions at all, given that even if an image does turn out not to comply with fair use, legal instruments don't get involved until requests by the artist to remove the image go ignored.