Gregory Maxwell wrote:
Here we could improve things by adding a step to new user creation that allows new users to select "for images where I am the creator or copyright holder, I will allow them to be released under this licensing unless I specify otherwise". A default. It could default the license selector, and if the default were made public other people could just fix the tagging rather than nagging. That wouldn't solve the need to ask for authorship, but that issue should be fixed on the upload form.
Only if you know that user is a good one. There was a time where you didn't need to specify the author if using {{GFDL-self}}, and there was only one {{PD}}
Still today, with current rules you see a lot of uploading with fake free licenses from the selector. Showing always the same and autoreorganising the uploaded images might be useful, but also hide copyvios / false claims.