[WikiEN-l] OT photocruft (was Re: Technical solution to bad fair use)

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

Steve Bennett wrote:
> On 8/1/06, Stan Shebs <shebs at apple.com> wrote:
>> Heh, my productivity machine is botanical gardens. Photo of label,
>> whole plant, closeups of leaves/flowers, three steps to the left,
>> repeat. :-) UC Berkeley botanical garden sez they have 12,000 taxa
>> for instance, I've only racked up about 300 of them so far...
> 
> Bastard! I do European castles. I don't have a car. You have any idea how
> long it takes to take those "three steps to the left"?
> 
> Actually the real problem is getting to the article after visiting the
> place, and discovering that someone has already taken a (better) photo of
> it.
> 
> Amusing case in point:
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Rock_of_Cashel_inside_cathedral.jpg
> (my image)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Rock_of_Cashel-castle_interior.jpg
> (existing image)
> 

Yours is bigger, which makes it better :)

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