User talk:87.214.47.97

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Wikidata is not a Wikipedia. We don't store images in image (P18) statements that are somehow related to the subject, that have no clearly specified connection to it. The image must illustrate the subject, it can't be ambiguous, it can't require interpretation to find a link to the subject, Wikidata should be in the first place machine-readable, so images have to be directly related to the subject. If there is an item about compound X, images should present compound X; if there is an item about class of compounds, images should present either a general structure of this class or something common to this class; an image representing a chemical entity from this class is not a proper image, it belongs to the item that describe this particular chemical entity, not a class. Also, (1) in Wikipedia you can add images that are loosely related to the subject, but the image description and the context make it possible to understand the role of this particular image in the article. It is not possible in Wikidata, there is no context here, no article text which would explain the relationship between the image and the subject. (2) not every item in Wikidata should have an image, there are many items that shouldn't have an image. Wostr (talk) 19:55, 20 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]


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