Talk:Talks Machina/@comment-25046206-20180201145656/@comment-27025402-20180201201514

Hi, Supergril62!

A gallery is a great idea! However, the copyright issues would need to be addressed first. This wiki has long struggled with users uploading content they don't own, or adding inaccurate licensing information (if any). I was trying to tackle that issue before an unexpected leave of absence over a year ago. Now I'm still trying to catch up on episodes and am trying not to peek at the wiki too much in fear of spoilers! But I do hope to come back and work on the image/copyright issues. Here's what I started:
 * Individual category pages for each artist, which includes permission from the artist.
 * I built a template for creating artist category pages.  There's some code in these pages that allows background things to happen around the wiki.
 * Here's an of an artist category.
 * The template provide copy/paste code for adding captions when images are used in wiki articles.
 * The template provide copy/paste code for descriptions/licenses to the actual image files on the wiki.  (See Allura-Vysoren-by-Nadz-Salvo.jpg.)
 * I also started sifting through all images uploaded to this wiki and individually contacting the artists to request permission or, if not permitted, removing the images from the wiki.  I hadn't finished this before my leave of absence, and I can only imagine how many images were uploaded in the year I was gone, so there's gonna be a lot of work to do on this!
 * I started contacting wiki users who were uploading content they didn't own.  I tried to explain the issues individually whenever I noticed it, with the goal of creating a more formal/standardized wiki policy that we could refer to in the future, but I never finished it.

Once all these other issues are addressed, and once image uploads are standardized with user-friendly instructions and restrictions (and admin policing!), then galleries like you mentioned would be a great idea.

In general, users should not upload content they don't own (including text ripped from other websites). Fair use would allow, for example, properly quoting someone else's text (with a reference/citation), or taking a screenshot from an episode's video to use as a thumbnail or to illustrate a point made in our wiki article (with a reference/citation). Taking a photo from a cast member's Twitter or Instagram and using it without permission is also a copyright violation. Actors typically have publicity shots used for the press, and those are okay.