File talk:Erimem.jpg

Not an appropriate illustration of the character

PROSE: Blood and Hope describes Erimem as having dark skin ("a most striking colored girl", "This is my slave, Erimem", "he was crazy and he hated black people", and others). It's not just a throwaway line, but central to that story's narrative, set as it is during the American Civil War. This picture is clearly of a white woman wearing Egyptian headdress. Equally, she's called "dark-skinned" in AUDIO: The Mind's Eye and The Council of Nicaea (where, incidentally, Peri's light skin is noted as exotic).

I realise this is the actor who portrays the character, but in no way does she look Egyptian or match the description given in other media. I'm removing this picture from the Erimem article, because it's so obviously inappropriate. CzechOut ☎ | ✍ 17:50, December 20, 2010 (UTC)

It's a somewhat contradictory image of the character.

I don't think this is grounds for it to be deleted and should still remain within the Category:Erimem images so that we have a gamut of Erimem images to draw upon should we wish/need to write something up about it. --Tangerineduel / talk 15:47, August 9, 2013 (UTC)

Six years late to the party, but I wish for it to go on record that I support Tangerineduel here: whether that image makes much sense as being Erimem based on what we know of her from other sources is besides the point. If a valid source tells us that this is what Erimem looks like, ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do and document terrible cover-design decisions. Taking out the matter of perceived whitewashing (and I'd like to note, there, that the image is placed under such a filter that one would be hard pressed to divine the character's skin tone either way, though it's clearly not black outright)… this is no different from the fact that images of the First Doctor from The Five Doctors (which tell us the First Doctor looks like Richard Hurndall) are not rendered invalid by the fact that they conflict with images from any other First Doctor appearance ever (which tells us that he looks like William Hartnell).

I'll grant, of course, that it wasn't a proper page image due to being a nonstandard depiction, any more than we'd use Hurndall (or David Bradley) for the First Doctor's page image. But we don't get to say "this isn't Erimem". It's not our place. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 23:28, January 28, 2019 (UTC)