User blog comment:Sarah Manley/Sneak Peek at the New Look - Community Activity/@comment-13301-20100830174207

What about unacceptable usernames? Some of them could not have been banned because weren't showing up inside article pages, but what now? And not only offensive names. I'm thinking of extremely long names, gibblerish or just not convenient to be shown inside articles.

If according to your experience, newbies weren't able to respond correctly to who created the content, do you really think that showing totally random links or names next to every image would solve that? If they were so retarded they won't notice that most of the nicknames they'll see are nicknames of real people. They would even think that those names are in fact article pages instead of userpages, expanding more the sense of "this is a social network, not an encyclopedic site"

The image attribution is eating a lot of precious space in the small area that now has the content of the article. Even if we hide it using CSS, it's still there, and it will be seen by search engines, that would probably end up showing irrelevant results because someone with a specific nickname has uploaded an image to that page.