[WikiEN-l] BBC article on Flagged Revisions

[Carcharoth]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:45 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/1/27 Philip Sandifer <snowspinner at gmail.com>:
>
>> As I said, I'm sure there is context - I would assume it was from the
>> Taipei Wikimania, etc. And that it is cropped so that it looks more
>> feminine than it probably actually did.
>> Still, the BBC picked a photo where he appears to be wearing a dress.
>> And this was not for lack of other options.
>
>
> BBC journalists are actually very nice people, and (because they're
> not working for advertisers) do try very hard to do a good job.
> However, they've had so many ridiculous cutbacks that stuff is done
> very fast and semicompetently. This is why the writing on
> news.bbc.co.uk verges on the semiliterate these days. Thankfully
> they're willing to take corrections.
>
> But I would suggest assuming good faith, i.e. it really was the first
> picture they found in the pile.

Yeah, but it was a GETTY image! Why not a freely licensed image? :-)

A cropped version was used here:

http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/biztech/battle-to-outgun-wikipedia-and-google/2009/01/22/1232471469973.html

Carcharoth