[WikiEN-l] Re: On speedying "halfway decent stubs"

Tue Sep 20 07:55:25 UTC 2005

"Chris Lüer" <chris at zandria.net> wrote in 
message news:6.2.3.4.2.20050919093012.03d15dd8 at mail.zandria.net...
[snip]
> An example of what I'm thinking of: [[Attila the Hun]] has a whole bunch 
> of pictures of Attila -- but all of them are fictional. To the credit of 
> the article, it is actually mentioned that there are no real pictures of 
> him. But this is way at the end, and the first fictional picture is at the 
> very beginning of the article. Unexperienced readers that don't read all 
> the way to the end might be misled into accepting these pictures as 
> factual representations.

Proper captions should help: does the caption for that picture not give 
proper attribution? {{sofixit}}

> Shouldn't the same encyclopedic standards we have for text be applied to 
> images, too?

Yes.
-- 
Phil
[[en:User:Phil Boswell]] 