[WikiEN-l] First fair use criterium

[Gregory Maxwell]

On 12/5/06, Bogdan Giusca <liste at dapyx.com> wrote:
[a random user wrote]
>> I have looked for a free alternative of this image, without finding one.
>> No luck on Flickr or Google. Short of forking out for a digital camera
>> and going to take the image myself, I can't see how "a free image that
>> provides substantially the same information might reasonably be found or
>> created".

I'm not known for kind answers, but my response might be something
along the lines of:

"If you're going to contribute, then yes we do expect you to buy a
camera.. or at least borrow one, or talk a friend with one into
contributing. If instead you'd rather not contribute, that is your
decision... but if you're not going to contribute then please stop
disputing our policy. Our goal is to make an encyclopedia of [[free
content]], and uploading an unfree image of a building that anyone
could photograph will do far more to harm our goal than it will move
us closer to our goal."