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

Matthew Brown morven at gmail.com
Mon Oct 29 23:01:57 UTC 2007


On 10/29/07, Eugene van der Pijll <eugene at vanderpijll.nl> wrote:
> Not really, 99% of our text is written by Wikipedians, who have no
> expectation to be prominently attributed; we have taken many of our best
> pictures from outsiders, many of whom expect more prominent credit to be
> given. They don't care about, and haven't ever explicitly agreed to
> Wikipedia's internal rules on attribution.

No, but they have chosen to be credited in the normal way for the
publication to give credit.  Perhaps we should make it more obvious
that there IS an image description page, however - some suggestions
for that were brought up last time this came around.

-Matt



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