On 23/01/2008, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
On 23/01/2008, Rama Rama ramaneko@gmail.com wrote:
- There is definitely a trend of professional photographers to request
credits under the image in articles. This is what they are accustomed to. I (and a few others) think that we should make efforts to sensibilise our users to this. We can definitely afford to credit people in articles. This is a small concession which costs us very little and can benefit us greatly.
Regardless of where we fall on the matter of "up-front" image crediting (I like it in principle, but worry about the practicalities), it's worth remembering that we should be careful about *promising* this. Commons can certainly encourage it, but if a project chooses to do things differently, there's not a lot we can do, and there's nothing worse than being trapped by a guarantee we can't hold to.
Yeah. We promise a credit on the image page itself, which meets the letter of the licence. We will continue to encourage the projects to credit images in captions, because we acknowledge this is useful to the reader and polite to the photographer.
(Note "useful to the reader" in there.)
- d.