On 23/01/2008, Artur Fijałkowski wiki.warx@gmail.com wrote:
2008/1/23, Rama Rama ramaneko@gmail.com:
- 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.