[WikiEN-l] Technical solution to bad fair use

[Stan Shebs]

jkelly at fas.harvard.edu wrote:

>
>  At en we have proven largely willing to say to photographers that their work
>is not valued.  We pay a kind of lip service to how great it is to have
>freely-licensed material, but it is regularly replaced by more
>professional-looking images found elsewhere on the web under a "fair use"
>claim.  That would certainly suggest that doing photography for en is not worth
>one's time.
>
I'm still a little mystified by this claim. To date I've uploaded
about 2,000 of my own photos, and I can't recall a single article
where one of my photos has been replaced by a nonfree image. On
the contrary, I see my pics showing up unexpectedly in additional
articles. That's not to say replacement doesn't happen, no
mechanism to notify if it did, but when I spot-check, I don't see
anything going on. So where exactly is all this replacement with
nonfree happening?

Stan