Talk:Millennium Bridge (London)

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Contents 1 Retrofitted Dampers 2 Redundant Image 3 Image layout 4 Ownership

[edit] Retrofitted Dampers

User:Solipsist found this paper on the dampers retrofitted to the bridge. --Tagishsimon (talk)

[edit] Redundant Image

I think that second image of the bridge is redundant. It's basically the same one as the first image, except reversed and in color-- and that first image already been cited at a Wikipedia picture of the day. Any objections to removing the second image? TheCoffee 10:16, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for being thoughtful and asking before you did anything. Yes, I would definitely object to its removal. If you click on each pic and read the info there, you will see that the colour pic is public domain but the black and white pic is copyrighted. Wikipedia dislikes copyrighted stuff so it would be crazy to remove a PD pic in favour of a copyrighted pic. In any case. any reader wanting to use a Millennium Bridge pic in homework or in a project would surely use the colour pic! - Adrian Pingstone

Actually, I think that if Wikipedia has a preference at all, it prefers copyrighted and appropriately licensed (preferably with the GFDL) pictures to ones in the public domain. The black and white image here is licensed with a Creative Common open licence, which is different to GFDL but with very similar objectives. However I do agree that the fact one picture is color and the other b&w is enough of a difference to retain both. -- Chris j wood 22:02, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image layout

Well I agree that the previous image layout had become untidy, but I'm not sure the two column table works that well. I would suggest going with a largish version of Image:London_millenium_wobbly_bridge.jpg as the lead picture since it is a Featured Picture, put one other image down the right hand side (probably of people on the bridge), then a horizontal row of three just above the External Links section. -- Solipsist 3 July 2005 12:04 (UTC)

[edit] Ownership

Bridge House Estates is the actual owner of the bridge, and fund all repairs and maintenance - no 'ratepayers money' is used for this. There is a real and legal difference between the trust and its trustee, although the Corporation of London has sometimes blurred the boundary in its representations.

Mauls 21:58, 15 October 2005 (UTC)