[WikiEN-l] Making damn sure image attribution is very clear

[George Herbert]

On 8/24/07, Eugene van der Pijll <eugene at vanderpijll.nl> wrote:
> David Gerard schreef:
> > There's an editorial habit on
> > English Wikipedia of not putting attributions on photos in the
> > articles themselves, leaving that to the image page ... I think that's
> > a matter for discussion as well."
>
> I would be in favour of allowing some kind of attribution in the captions
> of photos. These should be kept as short as possible, probably just the
> name, and a link to more information.
>
> If attributions would be included in the article itself,
> I think outside photographers would be more willing to license their
> work for inclusion in Wikipedia.
>
> At [[User:Eugene_van_der_Pijll/Image_attribution_test]], I've worked out
> some ideas of what this attribution would look like.
>
> Eugene


I made a minor improvement to your first method, see:
[[User:Georgewilliamherbert/scratch3]]

Wikilinked the credit text, basically...


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-george william herbert
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