There is a duplicate thread of this on foundation-l. I utterly and wholeheartedly oppose inline crediting either for image or article authors. It is impractical and problematic for many ways.
Contributing to wikipedia for the sake of self promotion feels like a conflict of interest to me. Such a goal is not inline with the goal of ''free encyclopedia''
This may lead to corporate donation of images simply to spam. Wikipedia will no longer be free (as in freedom) if we start allowing corporations to dictate or manipulate our content for a price. Such a thing would actually be in conflict with NPOV among other things.
The history link is there for a reason. Do you have any idea how many authors some articles have?
- White Cat
On Jan 24, 2008 8:24 PM, Shmuel Weidberg ezrawax@gmail.com wrote:
On Jan 23, 2008 6:43 AM, 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.
I think articles should also be attributed to their authors in the body of the article. Every major encyclopedia does it. Certainly there would be some debate about how much of a contribution should be required for attribution, and what form the attribution should take, whether real full names, wikipedia nicks, or real full initials.
Regards, Ezra
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