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

[David Gerard]

On 23/01/2008, Artur Fijałkowski <wiki.warx at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/1/23, Rama Rama <ramaneko at gmail.com>:

> > 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.

> And why professional photographer should be better treated on
> Wikimedia projects than me or any other contributor?


When it's useful to the reader. I don't expect anyone to care when I
took a picture, but if it's one of Alan Light's (CC-by-sa) celebrity
shots the reader may well be interested.


- d.