[WikiEN-l] Untagged image help

[Wikiacc]

On 1/23/06, Guettarda <guettarda at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/23/06, Wikiacc <wikiacc at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 1/22/06, Jay Converse <supermo0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I've always wondered why there isn't a drop-down box to allow the image
> > > uploader to select the copyright that they think fits best and then it
> > > auto-inserts the template when the image info page is created.
> >
> > There is.
>
>
> The problem is that it (obviously) isn't compulsary.  There would be no
> untagged images if the upload only worked if you selected a tag.  That said,
> we'd probably end up with spurious tags if we forced tagging...which might
> lead to more problems

Quite. When the selector was introduced, quite a few uploaders were
"license roulette"-ing and tagging obviously copyrighted images as
anything they could find, usually tags like GPL and
CopyrightedFreeUse.

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