Wikinews has never really allowed NC images. That policy disagrees with our practice. NC only images are frequently deleted, as they should be. I have removed the non-commercial images portion from Wikinews:Image use policy and nominated the NC image tag for deletion. There were only two images in the NC category, both qualified as very clear examples of fair use, and were recategorized. Craig
Brianna Laugher wrote:
It doesn't always play out so rosey... Sometimes someone spends hours getting a photograph just right (because unlike wikitext, even in the best case 98% of the work must be done by a single photographer) and they are proud of their work. Then along comes a self appointed wiki-photo expert... who goofs up the image to fit his tastes on his uncalibrated display and insists that it's better. Perhaps the new version is more contrasty, with over pumped saturation and sharpness.... At first glance it's more eye catching, so other passers by support the changed version, but it's lost it's depth, lost detail in the shadow, or just lost it's ability to captivate for more than a moment. Perhaps it's cropped to place the subject dead center, destroying the careful balence achieved in the photo which guides the eye...
We've had photographers leave in digust over this.
Wikinews permits unfree images (CC-BY-ND) as a result of this.
wha....?!?!?!! I can't believe it! How disappointing. According to http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Image_use_policy they also allow NC images! Is that not the very definition of nonfreeness for Wikimedia... is it really that they allow these because of photography quality concerns, or something else?
FWIW I agree on the point of image-editing. I think the best approach is, when the original uploader is offended at "improvements" to an image, revert to their version and upload the edited version as a separate file. Then the community can argue about which they prefer and the original uploader doesn't feel their work is being "mauled" (even if everyone else has incredible bad taste).
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