[WikiEN-l] Slightly less hideous placeholders

[geni]

On 17/10/2007, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> As an aside, what articles should we be putting these on? Leaving
> aside the cases where it is known as a fact that there are no images
> of the subject*, it seems to me that it's rather impractical to put it
> on the article of anyone active before, say, the Second World War -
> the law of diminishing returns kicks in with time, and having a
> placeholder that's almost guaranteed never to get an image is probably
> a net loss over having a nice clean article with no image, period.
>
> Thoughts?
>

Generally they should be active and appearing in public at the present.

Bus results appear to be musicians and actors. Politicians can result
in images but their are issues with them being uploaded by staff with
ah messy copyright statuses. For example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Kevan_jones_mp.jpg

We've got a couple of pics of people known for their life expectancy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Harry_Patch.jpg

Requests should be avoided for major people of significant importance
in 10-14 year old culture since the level of copyvios is unacceptable
(Zac Efron being the prime example)

As well as the people based placed holders we have:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Image:Replace_this_imageb.svg&redirect=no

Although not widely used it has had some level of success.

Currently someone is looking into creating a warship placeholder.
There is a general purpose one however I don't like it and would
rather people used subject specific ones.

It is also starting to appear on non en projects:

http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Uploadtext/fromowner
http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%93%D7%99%D7%94_%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%99:Uploadtext/fromowner
http://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D0%98%D0%B7%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5:Replace_this_image_male.svg&redirect=no


However I don't know much about that.
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geni