Thread:SavageOpress1138/@comment-25898954-20170510232129/@comment-25898954-20170511140328

I personally think it's pointless to enforce this. Heartwarming idealism aside, trying to enforce this policy with every single image uploaded to this site will do little towards actually "fostering an environment of appreciation and respect towards such work" and will instead do much to increase the stress levels of the administrative team and potentially expand the rift between staff and normal users, especially those who find themselves rekt'd by the banhammer for simple sourcing violations.

The average user cares little about the origin of the images in another user's articles, and I'd venture to guess most don't even look at the sourcing info on the file pages themselves. Trying to get n00bs who can barely create a page properly to source and license images as well will only serve to overwhelm them and potentially alienate them from the site. How many potential long term users were discouraged from continued contribution to this site by the image sourcing bans administered by Goodwood and Trak?

This smells more of "policy for the sake of policy" rather than "policy for the sake of improving the site experience for everyone." I agree that it's definitely a good idea to acknowledge an artist's work (and I make an effort to do so whenever I borrow art), but I think trying to force good behavior is the wrong way to go about it, as seen in the past with the multiplicity of sourcing bans that did laughably little to mitigate the problem. If anything, users should be encouraged to source and license, not forced.

(As an aside, I'm in favor of ditching most of our current policies, but that's unlikely to happen.)