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

[White Cat]

Contributing to wikipedia, commons, wikinews by donating images for the sake
of personal promotion feels like it is in violation of the project goals.
Wikimedia projects shouldn't be allowed to get spammed like that. We aren't
that desperate.

   - White Cat

On Jan 23, 2008 1:43 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 23/01/2008, Rama Rama <ramaneko at gmail.com> wrote (on commons-l):
>
> > 2) There is definitely a trend of professional photographers to request
> > credits under the image in articles. This is what they are accustomed
> to.
> > I (and a few others) think that we should make efforts to sensibilise
> our
> > users to this. We can definitely afford to credit people in articles.
> This
> > is a small concession which costs us very little and can benefit us
> greatly.
>
>
> We can't promise that, and on en:wp it's general practice not to.
> *However*, where possible I like to credit the photographer in the
> caption anyway - particularly if they're a professional. (I like
> detailed captions in general - place, date, photographer.)
>
> Many do get very stroppy about a lack of caption credit especially if
> it's CC-by - even if we're within the letter of the licence by only
> having the credit on the image page, it's IMO not only polite but
> often *useful to the reader* to note who took the picture.
>
>
> [cc to wikien-l]
>
>
> - d.
>
>
>
> - d.
>
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