[WikiEN-l] Attributing "attribution required" free images

[Andrew Gray]

On 11/11/2007, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Can you be more precise than "less than ideal"? Do you think
> all URLs should be banned as "attribution"?

This is the thing - even though many don't think we should have a
caption, we all agree that if we do, "Image - Joe Smith" is a
perfectly acceptable attribution. How do we feel about nicknames?
Usernames? Community attributions? URLs? Any or all of the above with
deliberately inflammatory phrases?

The community is going to have quite strong differences of opinion on
this one; I can see a lot of people strongly against attributing with
anything that isn't a real name, for example, and that's not a
particularly unreasonable position - but one which would make this
very hard to implement.

> In any case, what exactly would Wikipedia be doing with photos of electric
> guitars in showers...

Give us five years and we'll have a portal on it!

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk