I wanted to post this on Village Pump but, after Bogdan's query, I will
ask this question here. Is it appropriate to indicate in image captions the
website from which a photograph is taken? The way it is done on [[Nestor
Kukolnik]] or [[Taganrog Museum of Art]]? It seems to me odd to advertise
image copyright holders in Wikipedia articles. Andrey
On 12/21/06, Bogdan Giusca <liste(a)dapyx.com> wrote:
I noticed that some people add credits of photos inside the articles,
saying that CC-BY requires attribution.
Shouldn't photo credits be allowed *only* in the image description page?
I don't see why images would have a special status when compared to text
contributions, the credits for which are found also a click away, in the
edit history.
AFAIK, there's no policy disallowing photo credits, but there should
be one clear policy to discourage that -- it would also be a place
to point people when asking about that. :-)
(I'm not referring to photos by famous photographers who have their
own articles, but to photos uploaded by users or found on Flickr)
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