[Foundation-l] a new free image!

Walter van Kalken walter at vankalken.net
Mon Feb 26 18:25:46 UTC 2007


I personally have pictures of many Thai moviestars, comedians and 
singers (I perform as a comedian almost everyday myself and meet them, 
live in tv-shows and when I play in movies), and it would be easy for me 
to make pictures on request (especially of all Thai comedians) as I know 
where to find many of them. But what makes me hesitating from uploading 
to commons is a couple of things ....

1) Non Thai people will not know them so they will probably be deleted 
from commons in no time, it would take time for the Thai and other 
communities to write articles on them as info on them is scarce and in 
English virtually non existing. (of most I wouldn't even be able to give 
their names, I know they are on tv regularly though)
2) I have seen people "upgrade" pictures resulting in horrible colours 
on paintings and other pictures. Usually this means imho pictures get 
maimed.
3) I do not want these pictures to be used commercially (although I 
could solve this by uploading low quality small pictures)

I also have pictures of Indian moviestars: Dharmendra Deol, Bobby Deol , 
Sunny Deol, Shilpa Shetty and a lot of others with whom I played in the 
movie Apne. But the above reason keeps me from uploading to commons. I 
feel that many people have pictures of stars but they hesitate to upload 
them for some of the same reasons.

Waerth



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