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(a)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(a)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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