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[Carcharoth]

It has been discussed before. Can't remember where or the verdict.
Hopefully someone else will find the debate, and the latest form of
it.

OK, here are some:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_25#Photograph_attribution_in_image_captions

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_25#Remove_image_credits_from_name_space.2C_portals.2C_etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)/Archive_44#Photographer_credits_in_captions

Found by using Wikipedia's internal search function. Search terms like
"image credit" and "caption credit" will find most of them. Probably
similar debates on Commons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Captions

This guideline page says (at the bottom):

Credits: "Unless relevant to the subject, do not credit the image
author or copyright holder in the article. It is assumed that this is
not necessary to fulfill attribution requirements of the GFDL or
Creative Commons licenses as long as the appropriate credit is on the
image description page."

I would suggest looking in the talk page archives for more.

Carcharoth

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:41 PM, <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:
> I like having credit right at the article level.  This is the typical
> thing I see in print media (obviously as there is no other level).  Are you
> stating that this was discussed before and rejected?  It's what I was  thinking
> might be a good way of getting more photo contributions.  Just  give credit
> as a byline under the picture.  Even include a link at the  credit line to
> an article on the photographer if one exists.  To me credit,  isn't
> advertising.  It's just attribution.
>
> For example, in-article we give credit to quotations of text and those can
> lead directly to the sale of a book by direct links, without the reader
> needing  to know that clicking an obscure item, like a picture, might lead
> somewhere  else.
>
> Will Johnson
>
>
> In a message dated 7/20/2009 10:36:10 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> carcharothwp at googlemail.com writes:
>
> How many  people click through to the image itself? That is where the
> credit is, and  the link onwards to the source. Would it help if the
> source (if it was an  institution, rather than an individual
> photographer) was automagically  credited in the articles, not just on
> the image page? Or would that be the  thin end of a wedge and be seen
> as overt advertising? There are some  photographer names that will
> never be suitable to be treated this way, but  if doing this for
> reputable organisations made it more likely they would  donate images,
> is it worth looking at it  again?
>
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