Le 3/22/09 1:30 PM, Liam Wyatt a écrit :
So, I ask that when we copy images from galleries/museums/libraries, or even when we take photos of the originals ourselves, we include the comprehensive attribution that the gallery/museum itself includes. I would suggest that this should be the Commons policy when dealing with art.
Some of us are already doing that, see Commons:WikiProject_Museums. We have a meta-template, {{Meta information museum}}, which mentions the artist, the accession number, a credit line, dimensions, references in academic publications and so on. It was designed after the MET's note to the reader, explaining "how to read a caption": http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/noteToReader.asp
See for instance this picture of an Ancient Greek vase: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Discobolus_red_figure_Louvre_G292_ful...
All pictures are not so comprehensively described, but more than 3,000 pictures use {{Information Louvre}}, for instance.
Marie-Lan Nguyen