[WikiEN-l] There are no pictures in Wikipedia any more

[David Gerard]

On 25/09/2007, Rich Holton <richholton at gmail.com> wrote:
> William Pietri wrote:

> > For example, could photos insufficiently pure be marked as such with a
> > special frame or notice, rather than by outright deletion?

> It's tough to beat no image as an incentive to find one. And it's easy
> to ignore a frame or a notice. How ugly and intrusive a frame or notice
> would you be willing to accept?


An icky coloured frame might be suitable. [[Image:Replace this
image1.svg]] is plenty icky and intrusive, to the point where people
remove it from articles for its ugliness despite its proven efficacy
in securing us free images.



> As I and others have stated elsewhere, the primary purpose is to create
> a *free encyclopedia*.


Yep. Gotta be both.


> "Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in
> the sum of all knowledge."
> Every non-free image we have makes that goal more distant.


Particularly as images of living people are almost always RIDICULOUSLY
replaceable. Apart from extreme cases like J.D. Salinger, there's
pretty much no excuse for a non-free image on a living bio.


- d.