On Oct 29, 2007 8:26 PM, Eugene van der Pijll eugene@vanderpijll.nl wrote:
This is the enwiki mailing list. Our first priority is to make it work on the English Wikipedia, and to choose the alternative that is best *for us*.
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Is a solution which no one will bother implementing really best?
In my opinion, the (C) really gives the wrong impression. It will be understood to mean: don't copy this image. Which is exactly the wrong message for an encyclopedia that tries to be Free.
The RED (C) probably does, I agree. But the pale blue icon, the example in the lower left corner?
The images are, in most cases, copyrighted.
When you copy them you have certain obligations.
If your entire understanding of your obligations is going to come from a 15px wide icon, then I'd rather you think you can't copy the images.
How can we worry about respecting the authors on one hand but then worry that we might shatter a reusers misconceptions about his copyright obligations? ;)
What do you think about our practice of only crediting text from third parties, then? Which was the point of my previous mail.
We don't, for the most part, provide inline credit in such cases. Most of the EB1911 notices have long since been removed. They are useful for certain informational purposes, but it's not really a standard practice.