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Gregory Maxwell schrieb:
On 6/5/05, Magnus Manske <magnus.manske(a)web.de>
wrote:
So I thought, why not, upon upload of a new image,
*automatically* add
"{{unverified}}" to any image dewscription that does *not* contain the
sequence "{{"? This is dead easy technically, and will bring untagged
images to our attention without wasting time and effort of people who
could do something more constructive.
A good idea, but I'm concerned that users will just guess a license
when they are fixing unverified images. It is already the case that
wikipedia has many images incorrectly tagged.
Most of the time only the uploader can identify the copyright except
in the rare case of an historically notable image that we're using as
fair use... For other case it would take more effort to locate the
source (if it's even possible) than to replace the image, and in many
of the cases where the image wasn't notable but we could find it
without the uploader the image will not be free for us to use.
Because of this the unverified template need to instruct users not to
add the license. Users should hunt down the uploader and get the
uploader to set it. If the uploader is not available we should dump
the image.
Some can be tagged correctly without the original uploader:
* fair use
* where a suitable source is given
* images that are obviously PD because of age
and probably some other cases.
That said, the {{unverified}} template should probably include a warning
not just to guess a license, and that doing so might have legal
consequences. After all, if I tag a copyrighted picture with, say,
{{GFDL}}, and wikipedia (or someone else using it) gets sued, they can
point to me for tagging it, right?
Magnus
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