[Commons-l] Making damn sure image attribution is very clear

peter green plugwash at p10link.net
Sat Aug 25 23:53:43 UTC 2007


> My personal opinion is that it is much more fair to photographers to
> have a small byline directly under the picture, or at the bottom of
> the page. Unfortunately that is up to the local community to decide. I
> believe the Norwegian Wikipedia does credit in a byline.
Doing that would give the image contributors much more prominant attribution than the text contributors which I don't think think is very fair, especially as frankly many of the pictures are just decoration with the real information being in the text.






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