I believe we already have that in the upload form - this user chose not to
use it.

Someone mentioned earlier that if someone is of bad faith, they will always
find a way to fool the system. So lets not worry too much - I'm just saying
that this is a social issue even more than a technical one.

Lodewijk

2017-03-07 14:53 GMT+01:00 Todd Allen <toddmal...@gmail.com>:

>  Could we set it up so that the uploader could set their preferred
> "Attribute me as..." text, if they want something different from the
> default? And make the facilities for generating it automatically more
> prominent?
>
> That would both help good faith uploaders to get better compliance without
> a lot of hassle, and hinder bad faith ones from setting traps. I see that
> as good for everyone.
>
> On Mar 7, 2017 6:35 AM, "Lodewijk" <lodew...@effeietsanders.org> wrote:
>
> > Well, that would technically violate the terms as stated in the template.
> > The result of those buttons would be:
> > "By Taxiarchos228 (Own work) [FAL], via Wikimedia Commons"
> >
> > According to the detailed description it has to be (I think):
> > "By Wladyslaw Sojka, www.sojka.photo"
> > (from the description it's not even 100% clear to me whether the license
> > has to be mentioned).
> >
> > I'm not sure whether this kind of 'trapping' is part of the bad
> practices,
> > but given the stories I read so far, I wouldn't be surprised.
> >
> > Lodewijk
> >
> >
> > 2017-03-07 13:16 GMT+01:00 Jonatan Svensson Glad <
> gladjona...@outlook.com
> > >:
> >
> > > Also, the MediaViewer offers HTML and plain text attribution, if you
> > press
> > > the right icons.
> > >
> > > Jonatan Svensson Glad
> > > Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons
> > >
> > > > On 7 Mar 2017, at 13:01, "wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org" <
> > > wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Re: a second commons,    prevent cease and desist business
> > >
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