On 8/1/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/31/06, Michael Snow wikipedia@earthlink.net wrote:
While I like that we're debating ways to encourage more copyright-compliant uploads, I'm not sure about this particular idea. Right now, when I happen across an article with a red link for an image, I know to remove it and/or look for a substitute. Do we want to make people wonder whether they should wait around in case there's an upload forthcoming?
That bring around another question... Why do we consider redlinks for non yet created articles benificial while we conisder redlinks for not yet created illustrations to be a problem that must be fixed? :)
Because image names are the next best thing to arbitary, redirects don't work AFAIK, and arbitary image names don't canonicalize to a discrete and clear subject, unlike article names which generally do (and we have disambiguation pages for the ones which don't).
~maru