These two points seem very clear now that you mention them. I can't really see a compromise between my proposal and the situations you mention. Such is brainstorming!
On 11/07/06,
peter green <plugwash@p10link.net> wrote:
>It does seem a little silly that people can upload images without a license tag.
>This functionality could easily be added - perhaps any upload without a tag
>selected from the drop down or an appropriate template in the summary should
>not be able to be uploaded.
at first that sounds like a nice idea but it has two problems.
1: very often for large groups of images from the same (particularlly PD) source a new tag is created both to save the uploader time and to provide a usefull sorting of such images. Any mechanism like this would put a lot of beuracry in the
2: we will most likely end up with a lot of people picking tags at random which is a much harder behaviour to deal with than people not tagging at all.
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