[WikiEN-l] Re: On speedying "halfway decent stubs"
Phil Boswell
phil.boswell at gmail.com
Tue Sep 20 07:55:25 UTC 2005
"Chris Lüer" <chris at zandria.net> wrote in
message news:6.2.3.4.2.20050919093012.03d15dd8 at mail.zandria.net...
[snip]
> An example of what I'm thinking of: [[Attila the Hun]] has a whole bunch
> of pictures of Attila -- but all of them are fictional. To the credit of
> the article, it is actually mentioned that there are no real pictures of
> him. But this is way at the end, and the first fictional picture is at the
> very beginning of the article. Unexperienced readers that don't read all
> the way to the end might be misled into accepting these pictures as
> factual representations.
Proper captions should help: does the caption for that picture not give
proper attribution? {{sofixit}}
> Shouldn't the same encyclopedic standards we have for text be applied to
> images, too?
Yes.
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Phil
[[en:User:Phil Boswell]]
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