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.
Examples
Feel free to add your own finds here. Be sure to indicate the most recent date that the image was being used in a Wikipedia article.
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Used on New York City Subway to discuss police searches . . . but where are the police?
Special thanks
This page design has been shamelessly modeled on elements of Ruhrfisch's user page;
Ruhrfish got the design from SandyGeorgia, who, in turn, lifted it from Kirill Lokshin.
The border was snatched from the user page of OSX.