[WikiEN-l] [Commons-l] Musing with professional photographers: further lessons learned

[Steve Bennett]

On 1/24/08, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here we are again ...   And again I find myself saying that it's not
> useful to have articles slathered with names promoting people thought.
>  It creates inappropriate motivations for contributions (already
> spammers submit images to list their companies on the image pages),
> and unfair credit.  No one wants to see the vanity edit warring that

Spammers are submitting useful images? Woohoo!

Seriously, do you have an example?

Is the question of crediting people in article text not perhaps a
question for the board? Do they have an opinion?

> We've talked about some of these before. Where are they?

Yeah!

Steve