Yes, I think that's what Videmus Omnia was doing. He used to have a subpage in userspace to explain it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/Michele_Merkin_1.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Videmus_Omnia/Free_Images&action=edit&redlink=1 -Durova On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Magnus Manske <magnusman...@googlemail.com>wrote: > I could try to automatically generate some lists with people missing > pictures (actors, politicians etc). People with "bad" images could be > listed manually. > > Don't know how to best get agent emails. Maybe use press contact addresses? > > Someone with a wikimedia email could then mail out standard "suggestions". > > Magnus > > > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Durova<nadezhda.dur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yes, that's how we got the featured picture of Michele Merkin. > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Michele_Merkin_1.jpg > > > > Would you like to follow up on that idea? > > > > -Durova > > > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Magnus Manske > > <magnusman...@googlemail.com>wrote: > > > >> Has there ever been a concerted effort to contact some celebrity > >> agents and suggest picture submissions? > >> > >> Like: > >> Your client XYZ has an article on Wikipedia [accessed N times in the > >> last month, if that data is available], but no/bad photo. We'd be > >> happy to display a picture of your choice if you can release one under > >> a free license, e.g., cc-by-sa. > >> > >> I'm sure many agents would at least try to pry a decent picture from > >> the hands of a photographer for this. > >> > >> Magnus > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> WikiEN-l mailing list > >> WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > http://durova.blogspot.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > > WikiEN-l mailing list > > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > -- http://durova.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l