Probably too lazy to deal with all the GFDL stuff we keep hounding them about. :)
bibliomaniac15
--- On Mon, 1/26/09, Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote: From: Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] BBC article on Flagged Revisions To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Monday, January 26, 2009, 4:55 PM
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:45 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
2009/1/27 Philip Sandifer snowspinner@gmail.com:
As I said, I'm sure there is context - I would assume it was from
the
Taipei Wikimania, etc. And that it is cropped so that it looks more feminine than it probably actually did. Still, the BBC picked a photo where he appears to be wearing a dress. And this was not for lack of other options.
BBC journalists are actually very nice people, and (because they're not working for advertisers) do try very hard to do a good job. However, they've had so many ridiculous cutbacks that stuff is done very fast and semicompetently. This is why the writing on news.bbc.co.uk verges on the semiliterate these days. Thankfully they're willing to take corrections.
But I would suggest assuming good faith, i.e. it really was the first picture they found in the pile.
Yeah, but it was a GETTY image! Why not a freely licensed image? :-)
A cropped version was used here:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/biztech/battle-to-outgun-wikipedia-and...
Carcharoth
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