[WikiEN-l] NYT: Wikipedia May Be a Font of Facts, but It’s a Desert for Photos

[Matthew Brown]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 5:18 AM, Carcharoth<carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Or if people upload a photo of an obscure person with Wikipedia
> article and say "photo from my family album", is that an acceptable
> source on Commons? Can the photo be verified in any way?

We generally believe someone if they state they own the copyright and
are the creator.

I'm not sure if there's any real way, in the end, of verifying the
true authorship or provenance of a photo.

-Matt