[WikiEN-l] Wikimedian image restorations exploited on eBay

[Ray Saintonge]

Durova wrote:
> You're starting to touch on the vigorous debates that a few media editors
> have and which hardly anyone else understands.  Let's frame the terms of
> discussion properly, though: you begin from the debatable presumption that
> restoration and creative input are mutually exclusive concepts.

I would frame it somewhat differently by saying that restoration and 
*original* input are mutually exclusive. In printed matter it brings up 
questions about correcting spelling errors or typos in the original of a 
text, or altering the spelling of a British text for publication in the 
US.  The further we drift from the original, the mor3e important it is 
to have the changes documented.

Ec