On 02/03/2008, WJhonson@aol.com WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 3/2/2008 12:47:01 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, dgerard@gmail.com writes:
So a fairly hard-arsed policy of (almost) no non-free images on living bios notably works to get us, and hence the world, more free content, often quite good free content. And once it's free content, it's free forever [*].>>
And the harm to the project is hundreds if not thousands of article with no picture of the biographed whatsoever. Seems like quite a harmful interpretation to me.
I'd call that one immediatism vs eventualism. The lack of an image, or the presence of a placeholder, reminds people that Wikipedia remains a work in progress. And placeholders do score us new free content.
- d.