It's strange the things you never really see until your bogosity alarm
goes off.
I only registered that we give an image credit for the featured
picture on the main page because of the author name appearing next
to today's image. Leaving aside the cognitive dissonance episode that
made me notice
Oh, this is the issue of where restorers get credit? It should be
indisputable that restorers get credit, the issue is where to display
that. The common situations are:
1) Photographer is Joe Bloggs - appears on image page
2) Photographer is famous and has article - gets mentioned in caption
on
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
For restorers, I would say that the image page
is where they should be named, but the image caption could maybe say:
restored by Wikipedia/Wikimedia volunteer - that is the key point,
Would I encounter a wave of
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Bod Notbod bodnot...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com
wrote:
For restorers, I would say that the image page
is where they should be named, but the image caption could maybe say:
restored by
Is there a guideline that prevents a restorer (or other author) from
crediting themselves in the image itself? Other discussions I've seen
today about this subject include the topic of in-image credit,
beginning with its expected presence in traditional media and debating
whether its acceptable in
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
Would I encounter a wave of hostility if I said that a short list of
volunteers should be credited for featured articles?
Probably. Try it and see! :-)
Hee hee.
Well, it's something that could potentially arise
Keegan Paul wrote:
Can you explain the obvious to people it isn't obvious to? With references?
- d.
Ah, well, that's the advantage of a wiki. If you know what to do and can't
explain it, you can {{sofixit}} yourself with others to review and figure
things out on their own.
Ray Saintonge wrote:
When sourcing and original research rules start to exemplify a phobia
about being wrong the system has come around to bite us in the ass. The
trickster/raven has come home to roost.
My personal bugbear is cite tags on facts that are attributed
in plaintext rather
