User blog comment:Sannse/Important Updates on Wikia’s New Look/@comment-1273849-20101002145411

Since Susan Taylor seems to be dodging the question, I'll repost it here. I hope Sannse can give a satisfactory answer.

"Please directly answer the following question: Why did you disallow the removal of photo attribution? I don't want any "fluff" answers that dodge the substance of the question.

Photo attribution is completely against the fundamentals of a wiki. Wikis are supposed to be free and open places where people edit for enjoyment. By adding photo attribution, it incentivizes the whole process and creates bad reasons for people to edit. Furthermore, many wikis have a policy along the lines of "ownership" or "don't sign articles". Users are not supposed to sign articles for a REASON: no one owns any article or image that is found on a wiki. By forcing wikis to unceremoniously slap names of users all across mainspace, the fact is that newer users will take the wrong message from that, and will start editing "to become better known" or something ridiculous like that.

I've looked far and wide for the responses to the photo attribution issue that you claim are there, but I cannot find any, and it is not mentioned in the above post. Please respond to this issue."