On 23/01/2008, Rama Rama ramaneko@gmail.com wrote:
- 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.