[Commons-l] Professional photographers on Commons: sucess story

[Cary Bass]

Rama Rama wrote:
> What should we do from there ? my suggestions:
> 1) On the moral aspect: Rejoice: there are really interesting people
> on Commons.
> 2) On the social aspect: Do our outmost so that people like Evstafiev
> feel at home on Commons and really become part of the family (Seek
> them on the Internet, ask them to join, explain how it is around here
> and how contributing to Commons is a symbiosis, provide technical
> support)
> 3) On the technical aspect: Watch this sort of images over and over
> and over again and learn how to compose photos that strong ourselves.
>   
Above all, don't do something like the following comment at 
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Template:Evstafiev_Mikhail>: 


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Looking at all his images. I have actually strong doubts that the 
uploader is the author of all these photos. --ALE! 
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:ALE%21> ¿…? 
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:ALE%21> 12:19, 22 October 
2007 (UTC)

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