On 17/10/2007, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
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)
Oh, I dunno. I've had a good hitrate on Flickr for that sorta thing. Anyone there's likely to be snapshots of, and snapshots are getting to pretty good quality these days. (c.f. [[will.i.am]])
As well as the people based placed holders we have: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Image:Replace_this_imageb.svg&... Although not widely used it has had some level of success.
*goes to do the same to that one*
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%... http://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D0%98%D0%B7%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%...
:-D
Note that the only significant change to the images was the #E6E6FF background. That's enough to make it less obnoxious but still clear. More like a gap in a stamp album that isn't visually jarring, but still makes you want to fill it.
- d.