Kogaru1.jpg, aka Kogaru Diaries 1, was specifically designed to resemble an early 2000s DVD/CD cover. The image and its variants were employed to illustrate terms such as panchira, ecchi, eroge, joshikosei etc. Originally posted in 2009, the file was in heavy usage for over ten years. During that time, several attempts were made to have it deleted, starting with Niabot's complaint in 2010, stating that all of Midnight's contributions were either "out of scope or fake."
Evidently, Niabot was unaware of the exact wording of Common's Scope Policy, which reads in part:
A media file that is in use on one of the other projects of the Wikimedia Foundation is considered automatically to be useful for an educational purpose, as is a file in use for some operational reason such as within a template or the like. Such a file is not liable to deletion simply because it may be of poor quality: if it is in use, that is enough.
It should be stressed that Commons does not overrule other projects about what is in scope. If an image is in use on another project (aside from use on talk pages or user pages), that is enough for it to be within scope.
Kogaru1.jpg was in use on ru:Wikipedia in two articles, Панцу and Хентай, making it automatically within scope. Subsequently, the image was eventually restored to mainspace use, much to the annoyance of several hostile administrators including Rlerse, Tiptoety, Herostratus and Martin H.
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