Matt Brown wrote:
On 6/12/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/12/06, Anthony DiPierro wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
There's no reason it has to be an international match, or even a real match at all. Get a few people together, have them throw a ball at some sticks, and take a picture of it.
Oh god no, I've seen photos like that, I abhor them. They're so amateurish I cringe...
I suspect if one got a local cricket club to act it out, it'd be a bit more convincing. Still, too many people introduce fair-use images into Wikipedia just because they think that user-produced pictures are too amateurish - I think amateurish-but-free is better.
Something that I think people don't consider is the value of practice; maybe the first user-produced image is amateurish, but it's also a learning opportunity. We see that with our maps for instance - many of the user-produced maps from three years ago are embarassingly poor, but more recently we've been getting some really fine uploads, as good as or better than professional work. I know my own "encyclopedic photograph" technique has been much improved since my first uploads.
Stan