They want to, but never grasp the basic idea that they need to give up all rights to the image, and they have to own the image outright - that what is acceptable to a newspaper editor is not acceptable for Wikipedia.
Amen. It’s like a large group of Vogons, except they want to be that way of their own free will. Well, maybe not that bad, but surprisingly annoying.
Eek! And the cropping makes it look like he’s posing for a guest appearance on Futurama.
Yes, but how’s his wiki picture?
That’s what I thought also. The purpose of these photos is to help identify someone; most “professional” photos of celebrities are so airbrushed and photoshopped they don’t have much relation to what people really look like.
What’s with the Kate Bush photo? She looks great in it, but it’s kind of blurry. Did Kate’s five year old cousin take a candid shot?
Now if you want a great looking Wiki picture, look at the Wiki for British singer Corinne Bailey Rae.
I think Ellen Barkin could probably find a better picture.
No, by a fan outside of one of Kate’s very rare public appearances.
For a while, Miyazaki had his own animated photo on his wikipedia page. That seemed to me the bast way for an animator to have his picture on Wikipedia. Someone must have found an acceptably sourced photo of him, because that’s what’s there now.
Do you have a link to his drawn photo? I’d like to see it.
My personal description of them is termites - they’re nibbling away at what other people are trying to build. If it was just one or two of them, they could be squished. But there’s so many of them.
I can’t fight them anymore and I’ve stop contributing to Wikipedia.
The worst is the termites with a bot, like Betacommand. Unless the image you uploaded fit some criteria that his FUCKING BOT had, it got deleted. I have no problem with a human marking my stuff, but that was an asshole’s way to be a jerk to a huge number of people while pretending that he was working for the good of Wikipedia.
I keep working at it, but I understand the impulse to quit. I just don’t want the deletionists to win.
Mostly I add images and references. I get annoyed when my portrait shot of a performer gets replaced by a much less helpful concert shot that shows much less of the performer’s face.
I believe I generally leave Wikipedia articles better than I found them.
No, I don’t. Someone real patient with Wikipedia’s history function could dig to find it, or use the comments section to track down approximately when the change was mad, and Wikimedia hay still have it archived, but … no, not me.
Truly believe people make multiple, repeated edits, reverts, and bot corrections, just to bury old versions of Wikipedia pages so we can’t see them.
I have yet to see a good photo of King. He is one of the most unphotogenic people on the planet.
The problem is it’s so much easier to destroy than to create. You can spend an hour writing a single article. In that same hour, some idiot can go around and delete thirty articles.
As for the relative intelligence of creators and deleters - well like I said it’s a lot easier to destroy than to create. I figure a lot of these deleters are incapable of creating anything so they delete something instead to make their mark.
I once made a proposal that people should have to earn the right to delete anything by having created something first. You couldn’t propose deleting an article unless you had already written an article. And you had to keep your ongoing balance of creation over deletion about zero. For every thousand words you wanted to eliminate you had to have written a thousand words first.
I tend to work on subjects that they won’t notice. I’m not usually adding to big, popular articles, but on people and subjects that are not particularly well-known. I’d rather make something that will prove useful to the few that need it.
Sounds reasonable, but it might lead to a huge glut of nonsensical crap by newbies trying to build up their points.
Well, George Hrab looks like George Hrab.
What makes you think he’s not?
There’s no wiki about his wife Alice Vachss, but take a look at her!
I figure it would be too much effort for many of them. Unless they could design a bot to copy and paste content for them.
No, not since her surgery. 
She used to be attractive.