Board Thread:New Features/@comment-13918697-20140924084804/@comment-452-20140924132928

Sadly, yes.

I've had to deal with this problem myself. I uploaded them to Wikia under the expectation that if other wikis used them, they would be required to credit - but this is not the case.

There was a recent Staff blog about crediting, and they did mention that crediting is always nice even if it's not required, but Wikia Staff will not insist that other wikis credit your pictures, or stop other wikis from copying your pictures.

However, you can make a personal request that they credit your images. And you can add the credit to each of the file pages yourself. (Or some, then make the request.)

Another tactic I use is to copy images from the other wiki, with appropriate credit, and then ask for reciprocal credit.

Personally, even though there is nothing wrong with doing this from a copyright standpoint, I think that Wikia should adopt of policy of not allowing wikis to plunder each other without credit, and instead encourage wikis to share images with appropriate credit.

Whether it be for academic uses, sharing funny pictures or blogs re-posting articles: being able to find the source of something is always useful.