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