On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 12:08 AM, Brian Salter-Duke b_duke@bigpond.net.au wrote:
Sure you can take a picture of yourself with timing devices on a camera. I understand the point above but this is not it. Also what about my wife takes the picture and then hands over all rights to me?
enwp and commons take reasonable claims of self-authorship on faith but refuse to take any claim of permission or rights transfer on faith in most cases.
This has sometimes been taken to ridiculous extremes, even though it's a reasonable rule in most cases (after all, we accept peoples' text contributions on faith as well).
-Matt