Philip Welch wrote:
Incidentally, why don't we have free-content paparazzi tracking down celebrities to take pictures for Wikipedia articles?
What makes you think we don't? There are indeed a handful of contributors who've taken pictures of celebrities; unlike paparazzi, we have the advantage that we typically want to get them looking at their best, such as at public appearances, and at those times celebrities are happy, nay eager, to smile for our cameras.
We apparently have many slacker editors - not only do they not bestir themselves to photograph celebrities at local shopping mall appearances, but they would rather upload a copyvio image of their *own* *school* while *sitting* *inside* it, rather than get out of their chairs, go outside, and take a picture with their *own* *cellphone* *cameras*. Now that's lazy!
Stan