[WikiEN-l] Uploading images should be a privilige, not a right

[Stan Shebs]

Matt Brown wrote:

>On 7/21/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>On 7/21/06, Stan Shebs <shebs at apple.com> wrote:
>>We have people that work on submitting photos of cars? Where?  I
>>didn't even think we were doing so well as to have dedicated subject
>>area photographers, with only a few exceptions.
>>
>
>I've taken photos of a great number of cars for Wikipedia, but frankly
>I got a little burned out by it.  Partly because of the number of
>times I've seen someone remove my picture or someone else's freely
>licensed picture in favor of a dubiously 'fair use' manufacturer's
>promo photo.
>
Hmph, back when I was spending more time on fair use, I was
evaporating any unfree image that had a replacement, but
that doesn't prevent re-uploads I guess. Shouldn't be
*anybody* uploading unfree images to replace free ones,
sounds like some user spanking is in order.

Stan