Matt Brown wrote:
I do find myself wishing so very often for a time
machine to go back
and take GFDL'able photographs of historical events, scenes, stuff ...
I've uploaded a fair number of fair use, or permission-and-fair-use,
images of historical things to Wikipedia where I've had no luck
finding an image available under a free license and it's impossible to
photograph it now, but I hope for a day where this is no longer
necessary, and I am forever on the lookout for images and the
opportunity to persuade photograph owners to help Wikipedia.
That's where the image tagging is useful; it focusses attention
on the pool of troublesome cases, which will then tend to shrink
as people look around for substitutions, enabling even more
scrutiny for the remainder.
I expect that some day celebrities and organizations will donate
images to WP just to keep their articles from being illustrated
with mugshots and perp walks... 1/2 :-)
Stan
