File talk:Viva evolucion.jpg

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Problems[edit]

This is an image with no licence information, yet which regularly appears on the main page. That needs sorting. Talking of the main page, it looks too silly to illustrate a cover story - it makes us look like UC. There are better pictures we can use. Totnesmartin (talk) 21:56, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

It appears there because of its inclusion in the evolution template, thus placing it at the top of every evolution-related page. Perhaps we can change the picture? License info should still be acquired, however, and I'll look into it. Aboriginal Noise Oh, what a lovely tea party! 22:03, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
It seems to be from Bustedtees.com. If it is their design, we'd probably struggle to describe this as fair use. --ConcernedresidentAsk me about your mother 22:14, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
Since when do we care so much? -- Nx / talk 22:16, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
It must be easy to be a peon and let the administrators worry about all the big boy stuff... I say we take it down. — Sincerely, Neveruse513 / Talk / Block 22:18, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
Okay... Well, I agree with the taking down bit, but Abo seems to be looking in to it. --ConcernedresidentAsk me about your mother 22:28, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
Found nothing just yet, though I am skeptical that BustedTees is the holder of the copyright. There is this picture that I thought was pretty neat, though. Aboriginal Noise Oh, what a lovely tea party! 22:32, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
How about a nice Darwin fish? Aboriginal Noise Oh, what a lovely tea party! 22:37, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
That's the first thing I thought of, but the next thing I thought of was how passé that is. — Sincerely, Neveruse513 / Talk / Block 22:39, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
I've sent an email to Busted Tees asking them if they are the originators of that image, and if they hold the copyright on it? I'll let you know once I hear back from them. Yeah, the Darwin fish is recognisable, but been the joke value is probably a bit worn.--ConcernedresidentAsk me about your mother 22:43, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
Quick update. I received a reply from Busted Tees, and it is indeed their design. I think we should ditch it. --ConcernedresidentAsk me about your mother 14:13, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
Concernedresident again on the mobile. It's a pretty cool shirt. I was wondering if we could maybe run a competition for a replacement? I can offer one of those shirts, and another chosen by the winner. We could probably use a distraction from the current events. What do you think? 62.40.36.14 (talk) 18:21, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
WP uses this image on the evo template. Might be worth considering something similar. As much as I love the viva image, it will have to go. Scarlet A.pnggnostic 18:26, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
I think it's "too Wikipedia". I like CR's suggestion to see what we can come up with. — Sincerely, Neveruse513 / Talk / Block 18:30, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
I've added a CC image to the evolution template. We may as well remove the copyright violations ASAP. Scarlet A.pnggnostic 18:36, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Competition idea[edit]

Apologies for the absence. I'm a bit skint until the end of January, but in February I was thinking of picking-up the t-shirt for someone who designs the best replacement. We'd need some way of judging it. Do we want to keep the images anonymous until a winner is chosen, i.e. upload them through sock accounts? We could post the images, and then have some voting via a talk page. Either that or we ditch the socks and just fight it out, as usual, until a winner emerges. --ConcernedresidentAsk me about your mother 21:04, 16 December 2009 (UTC)