Sean Barrett wrote:

If so, then I'm wrong and will immediately change my position. If 20% of our images are from questionable sources, we are in a bad position and need to correct it quickly. Given the large number of images that have no provenance information, perhaps we should rearrange the image-upload process to require uploaders to click through a "where did you get this image" page before they enter the file name. Of course that won't force anyone to enter anything, but it will make it more obvious that they should.

We can force them to enter something by not allowing any blank fields. In fact each upload should have a form to fill out.

Can we all agree on enforcing a policy that each image needs to indicate ownership, copyright terms (or 'fair use' claim), and where it was obtained?

I'm sure it would be fairly easy to create a form with those three fields.

But yes - this is a big problem that needs to be fixed fast. Perhaps we could have a week-long freeze on uploads to kick-off an effort to fix the problem.

--mav

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