[Commons-l] Musing with professional photographers: further lessons learned

[David Gerard]

On 23/01/2008, Rama Rama <ramaneko at gmail.com> wrote (on commons-l):

> 2) There is definitely a trend of professional photographers to request
> credits under the image in articles. This is what they are accustomed to.
> I (and a few others) think that we should make efforts to sensibilise our
> users to this. We can definitely afford to credit people in articles. This
> is a small concession which costs us very little and can benefit us greatly.


We can't promise that, and on en:wp it's general practice not to.
*However*, where possible I like to credit the photographer in the
caption anyway - particularly if they're a professional. (I like
detailed captions in general - place, date, photographer.)

Many do get very stroppy about a lack of caption credit especially if
it's CC-by - even if we're within the letter of the licence by only
having the credit on the image page, it's IMO not only polite but
often *useful to the reader* to note who took the picture.


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