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[edit] License tagging for Image:TrussTubeDob.jpeg
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- Some advice on the image since it will help the page Dobsonian telescope, and its something I know about from 10 years in the news/graphics business (can you say checkered career? ;^)). Commercial companies specifically restrict use of their images in any editorial use... even basic news because they make them strictly for promotion. An editorial article may not be promotion of a product.... it may even be detrimental or derogatory. That is probably why there is no good tag to use a commercial image (I have banged my head against this my self asking "WHY CANT I SCAN IN A QUESTAR AD PIC?!?!?!?!?!?!?" till I though back to what I have seen on AP image service "to be used ONLY with stories about the specific product"). The best tag I have seen is Fair use in|article (add tag code to work). The problem is it wont pass "Where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information".... there is a free equivalent available--->
[edit] Dobsonian telescope edits
Good addition to the page but there are a few problems fact and encyclopedic wise. A section is titled "Second Generation “Truss Tube” Dobsonians" but describes commercial adaptations instead of describing the designs in the amateur telescope making world where Dobsonians were really developed. Second Generation “Truss Tube” Dobsonians were not "invented" in 1989. Many existed way before then. And is there proof of a clearly demarked "Second Generation" and not just an evolution [citation needed]? A better title for that whole section would probably be "Continued Evolution of the design" and it should be re-writen to describe those evolved designs and not commercial adaptations. Info on commercial adaptations could go under a sub heading titled "Commercial adaptations". Statements like "Truss Tube Dobsonians are the largest commercially available telescopes available to amateur astronomers" need to be backed up by references. The info is all good and a worthy addition IMHO, it just needs a little cleanup to make it more encyclopedic. Halfblue 15:54, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
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