You'll find a link to my Flickr pages on my en.wiki, commons and meta userpages. All my images are available under the GFDL licence or other licences by prior agreement. You'll also find a number of images I've taken that adorn articles on the English Wikipedia. I'm not exactly in the most brilliant part of Britain to take lots of photos we would really like, but I do what I can.
Now, can you please tell me who we've banned who actually takes photos and uploads them to en.wiki or any of our sister sites ?
You've had my word I'd look into editors who have been banned for contributing photos, hell, I'll look at any editor who was a decent contributor of photographs but has been banned. I do rather need lists of names to work from though.
On 24/09/2007, Armed Blowfish diodontida.armata@googlemail.com wrote:
The easiest way to find a free image is probably to take it yourself, and release it under a free licence of your choice. Okay, so you might not be able to find *that thing in particular you are looking for*, but consider what you do have to take pictures of, and let others worry about the rest.
Then again, maybe you don't have a camera. Maybe banning the people who do have cameras, and use them, isn't always a good idea.
On 24/09/2007, Nick heligolandwp@googlemail.com wrote:
Just thinking about it, how long does it take to track down a photo of a celebrity on Flickr and ask the photographer for him to relicence one or
two
images under CC-BY or CC-BY-SA licences on Flickr ? I'd imagine, about
the
same amount of time it takes to upload a non free image, write a fair
use
rationale and add all the necessary information. There's no benefit in taking a short cut and sticking up a random photo from Google Image
search
when the same amount of time and effort could see a good quality free
image
nobody will annoy you about ever again. Ditto for sending an e-mail to a publicist or publishing house.
I've also found lots of free images on other Wikipedias, if something doesn't have an image, check the interwiki links and see if the image
you
want is on Commons or is free on another project. That's how we got our Pavarotti image.
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