Probably too lazy to deal with all the GFDL stuff we keep hounding them about. :)
bibliomaniac15 --- On Mon, 1/26/09, Carcharoth <carcharot...@googlemail.com> wrote: From: Carcharoth <carcharot...@googlemail.com> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] BBC article on Flagged Revisions To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Date: Monday, January 26, 2009, 4:55 PM On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:45 AM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/1/27 Philip Sandifer <snowspin...@gmail.com>: > >> As I said, I'm sure there is context - I would assume it was from the >> Taipei Wikimania, etc. And that it is cropped so that it looks more >> feminine than it probably actually did. >> Still, the BBC picked a photo where he appears to be wearing a dress. >> And this was not for lack of other options. > > > BBC journalists are actually very nice people, and (because they're > not working for advertisers) do try very hard to do a good job. > However, they've had so many ridiculous cutbacks that stuff is done > very fast and semicompetently. This is why the writing on > news.bbc.co.uk verges on the semiliterate these days. Thankfully > they're willing to take corrections. > > But I would suggest assuming good faith, i.e. it really was the first > picture they found in the pile. Yeah, but it was a GETTY image! Why not a freely licensed image? :-) A cropped version was used here: http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/biztech/battle-to-outgun-wikipedia-and-google/2009/01/22/1232471469973.html Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
