It's strange the things you never really see until your bogosity alarm
goes off.
I only registered that we give an image credit for the featured
picture on the main page because of the "author" name appearing next
to today's image. Leaving aside the cognitive dissonance episode that
made me notice this why are we doing it at all? I can understand that
the caption must say that Ogata GekkÅ painted the image, firstly
because we have an article on him and secondly it'd be stupid not to
say so. But anyone else involved is mentioned on the image page. This
is thought to be good enough for non-featured pictures contributed by
editors. And even that is far more than authors and copyright holders
of non-free images might get - usually just a link to the website the
uploader restole ^Wdownloaded it from.
[[Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day/Guidelines]] and the associated
templates could do with some rethinking.
Angus McLellan