[Wikipedia-l] What would Richard Stallman say?

[Daniel Mayer]

Sean Barrett wrote:
>If so, then I'm wrong and will immediately change my position.  
>If 20% of our images are from questionable sources, we are 
>in a bad position and need to correct it quickly.  Given the 
>large number of images that have no provenance information, 
>perhaps we should rearrange the image-upload process to 
>require uploaders to click through a "where did you get this 
>image" page before they enter the file name.  Of course that 
>won't force anyone to enter anything, but it will make it more 
>obvious that they should. 

We can force them to enter something by not allowing any blank fields. In fact
each upload should have a form to fill out. 

Can we all agree on enforcing a policy that each image needs to indicate
ownership, copyright terms (or 'fair use' claim), and where it was obtained?

I'm sure it would be fairly easy to create a form with those three fields. 

But yes - this is a big problem that needs to be fixed fast. Perhaps we could
have a week-long freeze on uploads to kick-off an effort to fix the problem. 

--mav

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