[WikiEN-l] There are no pictures in Wikipedia any more

[Nick]

You'll find a link to my Flickr pages on my en.wiki, commons and meta
userpages. All my images are available under the GFDL licence or other
licences by prior agreement. You'll also find a number of images I've taken
that adorn articles on the English Wikipedia. I'm not exactly in the most
brilliant part of Britain to take lots of photos we would really like, but I
do what I can.

Now, can you please tell me who we've banned who actually takes photos and
uploads them to en.wiki or any of our sister sites ?

You've had my word I'd look into editors who have been banned for
contributing photos, hell, I'll look at any editor who was a decent
contributor of photographs but has been banned. I do rather need lists of
names to work from though.

On 24/09/2007, Armed Blowfish <diodontida.armata at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> The easiest way to find a free image is probably to take
> it yourself, and release it under a free licence of your
> choice.  Okay, so you might not be able to find
> *that thing in particular you are looking for*, but consider
> what you do have to take pictures of, and let others worry
> about the rest.
>
> Then again, maybe you don't have a camera.  Maybe
> banning the people who do have cameras, and use them,
> isn't always a good idea.
>
> On 24/09/2007, Nick <heligolandwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Just thinking about it, how long does it take to track down a photo of a
> > celebrity on Flickr and ask the photographer for him to relicence one or
> two
> > images under CC-BY or CC-BY-SA licences on Flickr ? I'd imagine, about
> the
> > same amount of time it takes to upload a non free image, write a fair
> use
> > rationale and add all the necessary information. There's no benefit in
> > taking a short cut and sticking up a random photo from Google Image
> search
> > when the same amount of time and effort could see a good quality free
> image
> > nobody will annoy you about ever again. Ditto for sending an e-mail to a
> > publicist or publishing house.
> >
> > I've also found lots of free images on other Wikipedias, if something
> > doesn't have an image, check the interwiki links and see if the image
> you
> > want is on Commons or is free on another project. That's how we got our
> > Pavarotti image.
>
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