The premise that the only photos on Wikipedia are absolutely awful. E.g.
exaggerating how bad the photos of Janney, Bonds, and Beckham are.

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Steve Summit <[email protected]> wrote:

> The Cunctator wrote:
> > Yeah, the article is kind of premised on a lie.
>
> Was it?  It rang perfectly true to me.
>
> Our de-facto policy is that we utterly prefer having no photo at
> all to having an improperly licensed one, and we utterly reject
> any of the opportunities that fair-use law would easily grant us.
> Corollary 1: most living celebrities will have amateur snapshots.
> Corollary 2: most dead celebrities will have no photo at all.
>
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