geni wrote:
On 5/1/06, Pete Bartlett pcb21@yahoo.com wrote:
Over at the Tree of Life wikiproject we like to have people upload photos of any species they don't recognise and we try to identify them before dispatching them to a suitable article. That hasn't come under threat yet as "original research" but I fear it is only a matter of time.
No the issue of pictures has been raised before. It is generaly accepted that since they pretty much have to be original reseach we are not going to worry about them.
That's not quite what he said. He said that the identification of a species depicted in an image could be regarded as original research -- not taking the image itself. Taking an image in a zoo and noting the species that is written on the cage is different from just taking an image and having other people guess what species it might be.