Board Thread:Ask the Staff/@comment-508329-20160308005342/@comment-3571637-20160308025700

The fact of the matter regarding images, is that the file situation on this wiki is frankly too far gone.

You saw how long it took just to get all the files categorized, and that was done using a lot of bot help. Unfortunately, we can't program bots to detect whether or not something needs to be sourced. None of us want to try and manually reverse image search the more than 20,000 user files on the wiki to find the source of the fanart (I mean, I'm assuming, maybe you like that ;) ). Yes, it does seem like something that would be nice for us to do, but I think its easier for a user to just reverse image search a piece of fanart that they may be trying to find elsewhere on the wiki.

I realize it's a little pessimistic, but unless we assemble a large force of people committed to finding sources, I feel that it's a bit unrealistic.