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