https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65445

--- Comment #11 from Tisza GergÅ‘ <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Jean-Fred from comment #9)
> Some context that seems overlooked : Credit line was created five years ago,
> in August 2009. This was more than a year before Magnus deployed the
> StockPhoto gadget. At that time, Wikimedia Commons was incapable of
> building/displaying a ready-made, copy-pastable Credit line. This template,
> I believe, spread among users who cared so much about license compliance and
> wanted to make it easy and obvious for reusers, that they were ready to take
> upon themselves the extra work of adding the template with repeated
> information.

Kudos for the people who did extra work to make reusers' life easier,
certainly. But today, Commons (and Media Viewer) *is* capable of building a
credit line from other elements of the file page. Can we close this bug as
invalid, then?

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