Roberto Frangi wrote:
I agree completely with Brion. On it.wikipeida we have recently agreed on a proposal to remove all unverified images and also a lot of fair use images (or should I call them fair abuse?). No matter what the upload dialog states, people seems to be struck by selective blindness when it comes to uploading images. I had to put a warning just above the "Source fimename:" box. It's written in red and with a bigger font size. It says somithing like: "Warning: Files lacking an indication of the source and the licence under which are released will be deleted!". Well, seems that some people still are unable to read it (even if they are less than in the past). Is there any way to make the phrase blinking? I've spent the last three weeks deleting images from it.wikipedia and i can tell you 90% of images are just grabbed somewhere else. You can tell the difference, genuine images are usually bigger in size.
The main thing to look out for is that too strong an encouragement may encourage some people to lie. People found lying about image sources should be blocked from editing.
It might be better to let them upload and then delete it, rather than set up incentives for people to lie. (This is harder for us to detect than if there is no source at all!)
--Jimbo