[WikiEN-l] Non-commercial only and By Permission Only Images to be deleted

Sat May 21 00:38:54 UTC 2005

On 5/20/05, Stan Shebs <shebs at apple.com> wrote:
> This suggests an interesting contest for wikipedian photographers;
> who can illustrate the most previously-unillustrated articles,
> using only new photographs taken on a designated day? The articles
> should already exist at the time of the contest's announcement -
> no fair creating road intersection articles for the purpose! :-)
> Optionally, there should be no existing useful pictures on commons
> or in any language's article (though that's hard to check).

Lets include replacing fair-use, status unknown, NC, and other various
non-free images with images that are substantially similar but free.
:)

The problem is that participants would cheat by saving up photos. :) 
and even if they didn't we'd end up with lots of duplicate photographs
of the same easy-subjects. :)

I could go to a mall and get photographs of dozens of makes of cars I
bet most cars are covered but lots of easy targets remain. :)

You also run into questions of quality, some snapshot of the thing in
question is better than nothing, but it's better if the picture also
teaches you something (i.e. not just some random product photo), and
even better if it is ascetically pleasing at the same time. :)