On 6/12/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On 6/12/06, Anthony DiPierro
<wikilegal(a)inbox.org> wrote:
There's no reason it has to be an
international match, or even a real
match at all. Get a few people together, have them throw a ball at
some sticks, and take a picture of it.
Oh god no, I've seen photos like that, I abhor them. They're so
amateurish I cringe...
I suspect if one got a local cricket club to act it out, it'd be a bit
more convincing. Still, too many people introduce fair-use images
into Wikipedia just because they think that user-produced pictures are
too amateurish - I think amateurish-but-free is better.
Something that I think people don't consider is the value of practice;
maybe the first user-produced image is amateurish, but it's also a
learning opportunity. We see that with our maps for instance - many of
the user-produced maps from three years ago are embarassingly poor,
but more recently we've been getting some really fine uploads, as good
as or better than professional work. I know my own "encyclopedic
photograph" technique has been much improved since my first uploads.
Stan