Wikipedia:Peer review/Karin Sowada/archive1

Karin Sowada
I wrote this a few weeks ago as part of the Women in the Australian Senate project, and have tried to get people to look over it so far to little avail. Any feedback would be appreciated; though a picture is out of the question due to Australian copyright issues. Ambi 11:05, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
 * A picture is not necessary for an article to become featured, however References are. The article is missing a references section. It seems to be written quite well and it is quite long as well. — Wackymacs 11:46, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
 * A very good article only spoiled by the utter lack of references or indeed any external links save to her official website. Regarding a picture, do you simply mean that we can't do fair use with Australian-sourced pictures, or is there some other law restricting it even if we got a Wikipedian to stalk her with a camera?  &mdash;Morven 15:25, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
 * What sort of external links were you thinking of? We simply can't do fair use with Australian-sourced pictures is the problem with images; one way we've got around this is for a Wikipedian to stalk people with a camera, but this is hard for someone who is largely out of public life these days. Ambi 17:37, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Well the biggest concern is references/external links, but a picture sure would be nice. Why can we not do fair-use with Australian pictures? I'm sure there are plenty of Australian source pictures on Wikipedia that are fair-use. Can you not get permission from the website that has the picture of her? — Wackymacs 18:46, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
 * What sort of external links were you looking for? (I know references need doing, but that's always a bit difficult the way I write articles (from a couple of hundred newspaper articles)). The problem is that Australian law doesn't recognise fair use, which puts us in a whole messy grey area that we haven't yet worked out a response to. Getting permission may have been possible, but getting that released under GFDL would be particularly difficult. Ambi 18:59, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
 * External links such as a link to a biography on another website, or a photo on another website, etc. External links are usual for users who wish to read more and read stuff on other websites too. — Wackymacs 20:03, 29 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Official images of Australian senators are copyright the Australian government, but fair use still applies in the U.S. (where Wikipedia's file servers are). There's no legal reason not to have use the official photo, so long as fair use requirements are met. Also, here's a news article about her. – Quadell (talk) (bounties) 21:33, 31 October 2005 (UTC)