In a message dated 3/2/2008 12:47:01 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, dgerard@gmail.com writes:
So a fairly hard-arsed policy of (almost) no non-free images on living bios notably works to get us, and hence the world, more free content, often quite good free content. And once it's free content, it's free forever [*].>>
---------------------- And the harm to the project is hundreds if not thousands of article with no picture of the biographed whatsoever. Seems like quite a harmful interpretation to me.
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On 02/03/2008, WJhonson@aol.com WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 3/2/2008 12:47:01 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, dgerard@gmail.com writes:
So a fairly hard-arsed policy of (almost) no non-free images on living bios notably works to get us, and hence the world, more free content, often quite good free content. And once it's free content, it's free forever [*].>>
And the harm to the project is hundreds if not thousands of article with no picture of the biographed whatsoever. Seems like quite a harmful interpretation to me.
I'd call that one immediatism vs eventualism. The lack of an image, or the presence of a placeholder, reminds people that Wikipedia remains a work in progress. And placeholders do score us new free content.
- d.
On 02/03/2008, WJhonson@aol.com WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
And the harm to the project is hundreds if not thousands of article with no picture of the biographed whatsoever. Seems like quite a harmful interpretation to me.
Extremely useful one. The quality of the average fair use rational for a pic on a living person bio is basically crap and since there is almost never any criticism or comment on the actual picture in the article the odds of building a worthwhile fair use case are basically zlich. Thus technicaly they could be nailed under EDP section 10)C but since that would involve trying to teach your average internet user about fair use law it is far less effort all round to zap them under EDP section 1)