On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 12:14 AM, WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 3/2/2008 12:00:03 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, saintonge@telus.net writes:
IIRC some people were claiming that he should have gotten permission from the convenient passerby who actually snapped the shot before he put the picture online.
A good example of the kind of ridiculous behaviour that causes people to leave the project, and which harms the project. Bureaucratic adherence to some letter or worse a fixated interpretation of some policy, instead of making any attempt to understand the *spirit* of what we're trying to do.
In this case, I seem to remember that it was deliberately provocative behavior by someone with a personal dislike of the user, rather than by some Wikipedia bureaucrat.
-Matt