This seems specific to MobileFrontend Beta mode. It does not happen in the default/stable mode.
Whenever the page's default associated image is of portrait aspect ratio, the banner brings negative value to the reading experience.
For example: <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Girl_(film)>
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Short the top portion of someone's hair. Poorly cropped and rather pixelated due to it being stretched beyond the nominal size of the original photo. Presumably in a situation like this (bad aspect ratio, image too small) it may be better left out.
Origin of the image:
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[] If the autogenerated image by page images is not landscape it should not be used
Guidelines:
a) identify the image aspect ratio under which to ignore.
b) Find out the best place to implement ignoring of banner and implement.