[Foundation-l] a new free image!

[Jeremy Tobacman]

Better still, *within* a category like "NBA players," randomize at the level
of the individual page.  I think this sounds like a great idea; let me know
off-line if I can help.

Best,
Jeremy

2007/2/24, teun spaans <teun.spaans at gmail.com>:
>
> Ray,
>
> if you want to have a little experiment, NBA players might be a good
> playingfield. But as in medicine, you should have a check group. Take a
> similar sized group, make a list of the persons with fair use images, and
> at
> the end of the experiment, see which group has more free images added to
> them.
>
> i wish you health and happiness,
> teun spaans
>
> On 2/24/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> >
> > daniwo59 at aol.com wrote:
> >
> > >In a message dated 2/23/2007 7:21:31 PM Eastern Standard Time, writes:
> > >
> > >Is your  point that we should remove all "fair use images", causing the
> > >articles to  be without an image making someone donate a free  one?
> > >
> > >Cbrown1023
> > >
> > >More or less. My point is that we don't *need* fair use images, and in
> > this
> > >particular instance, a fair use image would have prevented us from
> > obtaining a
> > > free one.
> > >
> > So let's try a controlled experiment.  Remove all non-free and fair use
> > images of current NBA players, and measure the rate at which free
> > pictures are added.  If the experiment fails there should be no
> > technical difficulty in restoring the fair use images.
> >
> > Ec
> >
> >
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