On 23/01/2008, Delphine Ménard notafishz@gmail.com wrote:
On Jan 23, 2008 1:15 PM, Artur Fijałkowski wiki.warx@gmail.com wrote:
And why professional photographer should be better treated on Wikimedia projects than me or any other contributor?
I don't see in Rama's sentence anything that says "we should credit professionals and not others". As a matter of fact, the rest of the thread suggests that crediting the photographer altogether, whoever they are, should be a rule. Except we can't promise it to anyone.
Previous discussions of this on wikien-l have noted that text authors don't get a credit on the page itself (theirs is in the history), so why should photographers?
That's why I'm speaking in terms of "useful to the reader" - and date, place and photographer are the basic expected information about a photo that a reader would expect to see.
- d.