Considering this thread, I want to report on the story of Terry, otherwise
known as [[User:Googie man]]. Terry has two passions, baseball and photography,
and he knows a lot about both. He is also a veteran Wikipedian, from the
days before there even was a Wikipedia.
Looking through his contributions,
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Googie_man_
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Googie_man) , you will see that Terry
has contributed some amazing free images of
baseball players (and other subjects). He lug his camera equipment to the
games, takes the pictures, and spends hours cleaning them up to make them high
quality, wikipedia-worthy FREE images. He then gets into endless arguments
with people who would rather have "professional" images instead of the ones he
took. It is frustrating.
Since we are discussing free images, I just want to point out that we need
more people like Terry, not like the people who go out and rob copyrighted
images under the claim of fair use. After all, that's what this project is all
about. He shouldn't have to argue with people in defense of his images.
Danny