On 9/18/05, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
Well, I've been warning about this for a long time. We used to have a lot more untagged images, and a huge and ongoing project got rid of the problem for almost all of the good stuff. What's left is... well, most of it has to go away.
Japanese Wikipedia contains a lot of untagged images; once some of them were listed on the vote for deletion, but survived. In discussion, the explanation the below was supported by many editors. "until a certain point, Japanese Wikipedia declared "uploaded images will be released under GFDL" so untagging isnt equal to that no information is provided. Those old uploaded images could be considered under GDFL since the uploadered accepted the condition implicitely." The consensus of JA community goes so, including images uncredited (without information of photographer)
My concern is if it is an acceptable solution glrobally, because it could affect other projects, specially Commons. If not, the current image policy on Ja should be modified.
The problem was discovered one of those images appeared as Featured Image on Commons. It was transwikied to Commons as GFDL image by another editor than the original uploader. Later it was listed as deletion candidate on Commons and an equivalent was uploaded to Commons. But I am not sure all those transwikied images from JAWP to Commons are limited among clearly tagged images by the original uploaders.