On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 8:38 PM, David Gerard<[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/20/arts/20funny.html > > One error on licensing. Claim that Wikipedia requires you to give up > your copyright unchallenged. Otherwise, pretty good! And should have > the right effect in terms of promo photo donations.
The article I've followed that used to have a bad image is Ian Thorpe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Thorpe Our main image of Thorpe used to be this (awful) one: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ian_Thorpe_on_a_plane_cropped.jpg That was cropped from this one: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ian_Thorpe_on_a_plane.jpg Which is currently further down the article. The other two images we have in the Thorpe article are the main one (much better quality): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ian_Thorpe_with_a_smile.jpg Which is a crop of this one: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Geoff_Raby_%26_Ian_Thorpe.jpg Not sure how the licensing works there. The other image is a non-free one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ian_Thorpe_dq.jpg That shows him as a swimmer, what he is famous for, and shows him in the process of disqualification by overbalancing. There was a time when those arguing for *absolutely* minimal free use would have argued against that (they may still do, I don't know). But in this case, the article being a featured article gives some assurance that this has been considered in several discussions. I also think that it is the drive to improve an article and bring it to featured standards that sometimes gives people the extra oomph to go and find that free picture that might be out there, rather than not bother looking. I had assumed the main image was a promo one under a free license, but it seems not. Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
