[WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Foundation Licensing Policy

[David Gerard]

On 27/03/07, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> What I'd like to see is a total cleanup of all non-free images of
> living people that can be replaced with free content, using the "No
> free image" method as e.g. demonstrated on:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tommi_Hovi&oldid=114878341


I've been doing this whenever I happen across a bio without a picture
at all, though the last one I zapped a promo pic on was [[Charlotte
Church]]. (Famous current TV host? Get a picture!) As it happened,
Heligo and I were on IRC, and Heligo promptly found a CC-by-sa image
on Flickr, so it was imageless for a very short time.

Though that's not going to happen in every case - I doubt anyone's
going to find a free image of [[J. D. Salinger]] any time soon - but
IMO is a principle we could do with being a fair bit harsher on.


> It would also be nice if free content became a more consistent part of
> the featured article candidate process; at least a couple recent
> articles featured on the Main Page had to have their images removed
> because of excessive use of non-free content.


FAC does police this pretty strongly and has done for quite some time.
I recall they were very reluctant to let [[Chuck Palahniuk]] through
until it had a non-promo image (it now has a free image).


- d.