I've just been whacking [[Image:Replace this image male.svg]] and [[Image:Replace this image female.svg]] on all living biographies I can find without pics.
So tell me: how the hell do we have an article on the Deputy Prime Minister ([[Harriet Harman]] for those of short memory) without a free content image?
Anyone feel like making initial approaches to the parties? (Alison, James, I expect you two to get us pics of every Lib Dem with an article ...)
- d.
So tell me: how the hell do we have an article on the Deputy Prime Minister ([[Harriet Harman]] for those of short memory) without a free content image?
Because nobody stands next to red carpets at premiers with a digital camera waiting for Harriet Harman to come along? I think you're right, contacting the parties is the best approach.
On 23/03/2008, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
I've just been whacking [[Image:Replace this image male.svg]] and [[Image:Replace this image female.svg]] on all living biographies I can find without pics.
So tell me: how the hell do we have an article on the Deputy Prime Minister ([[Harriet Harman]] for those of short memory) without a free content image?
Anyone feel like making initial approaches to the parties? (Alison, James, I expect you two to get us pics of every Lib Dem with an article ...)
Given MP's demonstrated ability to come up with copyright terms that are some of the most bizarrely messy I've ever seen (and if rather than a International Obfuscated C Code Contest there was a International Obfuscated Copyright Statement Contest some of the stuff I've run across would probably win) I'd rather not. We get a slow flow of images through fromowner of MPs and the ones from the MP's offices tend to be the most problematical.
On 23/03/2008, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Given MP's demonstrated ability to come up with copyright terms that are some of the most bizarrely messy I've ever seen (and if rather than a International Obfuscated C Code Contest there was a International Obfuscated Copyright Statement Contest some of the stuff I've run across would probably win) I'd rather not. We get a slow flow of images through fromowner of MPs and the ones from the MP's offices tend to be the most problematical.
Sounds like making free content normal (and our jargon definition of the word "free" normative) is more important than I'd thought ...
- d.
On 23/03/2008, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 23/03/2008, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Given MP's demonstrated ability to come up with copyright terms that are some of the most bizarrely messy I've ever seen (and if rather than a International Obfuscated C Code Contest there was a International Obfuscated Copyright Statement Contest some of the stuff I've run across would probably win) I'd rather not. We get a slow flow of images through fromowner of MPs and the ones from the MP's offices tend to be the most problematical.
Sounds like making free content normal (and our jargon definition of the word "free" normative) is more important than I'd thought ...
Yes and no an example would be
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Kevan_jones_mp.jpg
The problem is not so much definitions of free more that I ultimately have no idea what the uploader's statement adds up to (actually I note they replied on their talk page so now I do know that it adds up to non free).
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