String translated in every page view

I installed the devel.module and started to see that in every page a query like this goes:

ms	#	query
47.28	1	SELECT s.lid, t.translation FROM locales_source s INNER JOIN locales_target t ON s.lid = t.lid WHERE s.source = '<p>Admins may create many image nodes at once by uploading all images to a folder on the server. This upload happens outside of Drupal, usually using an FTP client.</p>' AND t.locale = 'es'

I looked at image.module and see that in line 9 there is:

  $common = t("<p>Admins may create many image nodes at once by uploading all images to a folder on the server. This upload happens outside of Drupal, usually using an FTP client.</p>");

This shouldn't be inside the swith? Is that string needed in every page?

álvaro

ps. I don't know how to classify this, as a task or as bug, since this is not really a bug.