Talk:Newspaper Rock State Historic Monument
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The petroglyph shows a man on horseback shooting a deer with a bow and arrow. How could the carving date from the pre-Columbus era if a horse is on it? Horses were extinct in North America before the arrival of homo sapiens, and only reintroduced by Spanish colonists. CRCulver 06:36, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] photo license
I switched back to the previous photo, as it comes from davejenkins.com where all media is openly declared under the GFDL, and thus free for sharing on wikipedia. The new photo came from flickr, and not from the photographer, and I could not find any declaration of a free license-- in fact I found the copyright yahoo inc 2008 on the flickr page. As far as I can tell from the EULA, Flickr.com ends up absorbing all the rights of photos posted there, and is a bad source for wilipedia media. Davejenk1ns 06:52, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
- You might misunderstand what Flickr.com is - it's a site for private individuals to publish their photographs, while retaining their copyright. Yahoo certainly doesn't acquire or claim the copyright for the images, just for the website. See their FAQ.
- The photo at issue is licensed as Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0, which is quite free enough for us (click on "Some rights reserved" under "Additional Information"). We have very many freely licensed Flickr photos on Wikipedia.
- As such, I think we should use the Flickr photo, which is clearer and better to look at. Sandstein 07:53, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
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- Thanks for the explanation and direction on the flickr license. Okay, I can see the other photo is okay to use. However, the color/contrast is pretty harsh in the flickr photo, no? Have you been to Newspaper rock? The rock is nowhere near that dark/black... Davejenk1ns 06:41, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
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- No, I haven't, and therefore I'll not insist on using it if you think it misrepresents the subject or gives a wrong impression. It's just that I think that it's more attractive to look at, as the petroglyphs are clearer and larger. But that's a matter of taste, really, so I won't change the article back. Sandstein 08:09, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
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