On 02/03/2008, WJhonson(a)aol.com <WJhonson(a)aol.com> wrote:
In a message dated 3/2/2008 12:47:01 P.M. Pacific
Standard Time,
dgerard(a)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.