Imran Ghory wrote:
I would like to propose the following:
That any new image uploads should be required to give a source for the image (be it a URL, book or photographers name). Failure to provide a source should make an image a candidate for speedy deletion.
A required field in the upload page for source information is an excellent idea. I would not carry it so far as to subject images without source information to speedy deletion, at least not in the sense that is practiced on en.wikipedia. Such images should go on VfD if there is concern about the use, to allow time for us to track down the actual source and investigate whether we can still use the image.
Improperly used and inadequately documented images are a big problem, but there's also a danger of overreacting to the problem. Let's not resort to draconian measures in solving it.
--Michael Snow
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Michael Snow wrote:
A required field in the upload page for source information is an excellent idea. I would not carry it so far as to subject images without source information to speedy deletion, at least not in the sense that is practiced on en.wikipedia. Such images should go on VfD if there is concern about the use, to allow time for us to track down the actual source and investigate whether we can still use the image.
To give a source take 30 seconds on the part of the uploader. To go through a VFD procedure for a single message can take hours for other wikipedians. It's as much as matter of courtesy as fixing links when you make a disambiguation page.
Imran
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