Guettarda wrote:
Of course it won't solve all of our problems, but it might make matters easier. While some people don't care about copyright, in my experience a lot of people are just clueless. Most of the untagged (or obviously mistagged) images I come across were uploaded by newbies - sometime all they have done it upload a pile of images and add them to aricles (full sized, and the top of the page...) They generally are people who mean well - I guess they just figure that we are the clueless ones who "don't know that you can get images of X everywhere on the web" or don't know about Google image search or... These people are often apologetic when you explain the situation to them.
Now there's an idea: maybe we should just add a big notice to the upload page saying "Yes, we know there are lots of images you can download off the web. We don't want them." and in a smaller font "(For exceptions, see [[Wikipedia:Fair use]] and [[Wikipedia:Free image resources]].)".