[Commons-l] English Wikipedia needs some help.

Mon Dec 25 15:44:14 UTC 2006

Considering this thread, I want to report on the story of Terry, otherwise  
known as [[User:Googie man]]. Terry has two passions, baseball and photography, 
 and he knows a lot about both. He is also a veteran Wikipedian, from the 
days  before there even was a Wikipedia. 

Looking through his contributions, 
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Googie_man_ 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Googie_man) ,  you will see that Terry has contributed some amazing free images of 
baseball  players (and other subjects). He lug his camera equipment to the 
games, takes  the pictures, and spends hours cleaning them up to make them high 
quality,  wikipedia-worthy FREE images. He then gets into endless arguments 
with people  who would rather have "professional" images instead of the ones he 
took. It is  frustrating.

Since we are discussing free images, I just want to point out that we need  
more people like Terry, not like the people who go out and rob copyrighted  
images under the claim of fair use. After all, that's what this project is all  
about. He shouldn't have to argue with people in defense of his images.

Danny
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