`  *Scalhotrod's 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 WP:HOTLINK, 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 WP:COPYVIO 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 Amazon.com. The page in question is a standard format-type html/xml page, including text, images, navigational devices, links, etc. (The relevant image is not hotlinked). This IMDB page states that the image is ``[copyright] 2014 Getty Images - Image courtesy gettyimages.com``. That's a standard form claim that IMDB has licensed the right to use the image from the copyright holder. Unless IMDB is engaged in copyright infringement/fraud here (and massive copyright infringement/fraud at that, since there's no reason to believe they'd be stealing only this one image), there's no copyright violation on the linked page, and therefore no violation of WP:COPYVIO. :The consequences of Scalhotrod's ersatz and virtually unique interpretation of WP:COPYVIO would, again, pretty much forbid all the standard external linking practices. We wouldn't be able to link to any official websites for article subjects which included copyrighted content. We couldn't link to IMDB, because most of its pages include copyrighted, licensed images. We couldn't link to news pages which include wire service or other licensed photos. :Put simply, our policies don't prohibit links to pages displaying copyrighted content. That would be barking mad. What's prohibited is linking to pages which display copyright-violating content. And that's simply not the case here.     Note: Scalhotrod and I really don't like each other, and I'd be inclined to stay out of it if it weren't so wrongheaded and disruptive.`