| daniel added a comment. |
@Ghouston there are currently no plans to have any items on commons, only media info entities on file description pages. All items are managed on wikidata. The current inclusion criteria for wikidata would not allow an item to be created for any random flickr user - and even if this would change, we would end up creating essentially empty items that are just stubs for the flickr user ID, especially when importing many files from flickr or a similar repository automatically.
The point is: we have to satisfy the legal requirement of naming the author. And we want to satisfy the technical requirement of identifying the author and linking to some resource describing the author. It seems sensible to link these two things. That's what this new data type achieves.
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