User:Dulcem/Hi, Mom!

Have you ever been browsing Wikipedia only to come across an obvious vanity image? Maybe in the cola article you found a picture of a hammy guy holding a glass of sugar water. Or maybe you visited the Mount Fuji page and saw a picture of somebody's kid and his dog at the summit, beaming for the camera. This is different from the article on, say, foot, where someone by all rights ought to take a picture of their extremity for use as an illustration. Rather, these are situations where there is absolutely no good reason for some random Joe Schmo (or Jane Schmo, or their cat, or their kid) to be in the picture mucking up the view of the fairy ring or the millet fields. Luckily, such blatant vanity images usually get removed. But this page is here to rescue them, to serve as a repository of sorts, and to remind us about that all-too-human instinct to be noticed.