Contributing to wikipedia, commons, wikinews by donating images for the sake of personal promotion feels like it is in violation of the project goals. Wikimedia projects shouldn't be allowed to get spammed like that. We aren't that desperate.
- White Cat
On Jan 23, 2008 1:43 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 23/01/2008, Rama Rama ramaneko@gmail.com wrote (on commons-l):
- 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.
We can't promise that, and on en:wp it's general practice not to. *However*, where possible I like to credit the photographer in the caption anyway - particularly if they're a professional. (I like detailed captions in general - place, date, photographer.)
Many do get very stroppy about a lack of caption credit especially if it's CC-by - even if we're within the letter of the licence by only having the credit on the image page, it's IMO not only polite but often *useful to the reader* to note who took the picture.
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