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Hello. I recently added a later image of Constantine III, and I specified that it was posthumous in the image caption. I thought little of it until it was removed with the same tired argument that is always used: "Knowledge (XXG) should aspire to scholarly standards, and these images are not
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Probably not suitable for inclusion in the article itself, but Constantine III made an appearance as a character in the episode "Avalon Part One" of Disney's
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I do not think that Knowledge (XXG) should be scholarly. Knowledge (XXG) itself doesn't think it should either, (see
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Nowhere in this comment do I see an argument for the repetition of the image in the infobox.
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Constantine's image, Knowledge (XXG)'s aspirations and the issue of posthumous pictures.
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