[WikiEN-l] More fair use image overreaching

[David Gerard]

On 02/03/2008, WJhonson at aol.com <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:
>  In a message dated 3/2/2008 12:47:01 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
>  dgerard at gmail.com writes:

>>  So a  fairly hard-arsed policy of (almost) no non-free images on living
>>  bios  notably works to get us, and hence the world, more free content,
>>  often  quite good free content. And once it's free content, it's free
>>  forever  [*].>>

>  And the harm to the project is hundreds if not thousands of article with no
>  picture of the biographed whatsoever.  Seems like quite a harmful
>  interpretation to me.


I'd call that one immediatism vs eventualism. The lack of an image, or
the presence of a placeholder, reminds people that Wikipedia remains a
work in progress. And placeholders do score us new free content.


- d.