I think the "high resolution helps forgers and impersonators" argument is spurious.
Let's assume the logo were to be used improperly. Most people don't know what the "right" logo is. A decent image quality (straight lines, etc) would fool most people if it looked "professional" whether technically accurate or not. Social engineering does the rest (not everyone will argue with someone who claims forcefully they are FBI). Basic image cleanup is something anyone can do these days and any computer can tidy up a poor quality image to look "clean" (photoshop). If there was doubt asd to appearance most impersonators only need to google image: "fbi badge" to get close enough. In simple terms I don't see any merit whatsoever to a claim that a good quality copy helps impersonators. Any impersonator will easily be able to do the job well enough to fool most people, and any capable impersonator will not be affected by Wikimedia's decision. FT2 On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 5:11 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8 August 2010 16:57, Charles Matthews > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I think I found the word, early in 2007. Misunderstanding that Gerard is > > more g'day than have a nice is a poor basis for any such judgement. > > > Yes, the thread has been rather non sequitur all the way down. Assume > some bad faith and why, it's a microcosm! > > > - d. > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
