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

[Andrew Gray]

On 23/01/2008, Rama Rama <ramaneko at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

Regardless of where we fall on the matter of "up-front" image
crediting (I like it in principle, but worry about the
practicalities), it's worth remembering that we should be careful
about *promising* this. Commons can certainly encourage it, but if a
project chooses to do things differently, there's not a lot we can do,
and there's nothing worse than being trapped by a guarantee we can't
hold to.

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk