Board Thread:Debating Club/@comment-3493059-20140922143636/@comment-3493059-20140923132902

Or Christmas in spring! I was really excited when I found those pictures. I just typed "stillphoto.cbc.ca" into the URL bar on a whim (because that was the URL across one of the 1958 pictures we have) and was blown away.

I did feel iffy about posting links to not-really-legal, but interesting, things (like the Many Lives of LMM). My stance is that it's OK to exchange links like that between users, like in the forum or on message walls, but not on a proper wiki article. It's similar to why I wouldn't upload GGF episodes, even though they're on YouTube. We don't have their permission, and it would be taking away views from them (people would watch here instead of on their channel). However, something like the GGF "trailer" is OK, because it's free advertising for them and directs people to Anne's channel.

I wanted to talk about crediting where we get our pictures from as well. We're on the same track again, I see. I only wrote "don't take them without asking" because it was late and I wanted to go to bed, but didn't want anyone to jump the gun, either.

One of the things I've been looking into recently is a way to credit images that isn't too fiddly, yet still does the job. Once Upon a Time Wiki has a great system (yes, I looked there too!), and I'll probably get inspiration from it.

Right now, whenever someone goes to Special:Upload and tries to add a picture, there's a little dropdown for copyright information with items like, "this file is copyrighted, but use is permitted by the copyright holder" or something like that. I haven't really used them, because I'm not totally sure how they work. :D However, we could change those items so that they work better for this wiki. For example: "This image is a still from [a Sullivan Entertainment production], and was taken by [user]". Those would be the templates you're talking about. There would be a lot, but I think it would be worth it.

Anyway, I hope that LONG reply made sense ... it's late and I'm tired, but I really wanted to respond. :D