Talk:New Camera Page Template

This does look helpful; but there's a couple of things to consider before we can start publicizing it: We ought to use the current Template:Flickr image format which adds its own attribution and image rights fields. While the wiki text is under copyleft, we need to help protect the copyright of photos that users kindly donated to us, e.g. when their Flickr license specifies All Rights Reserved. Even for CC-licensed photos, we want to note if the license specifies {{non-commercial}} use only.

The sample photos should use the image_source URL format http://blahblahblah/in/pool-camerawiki to encourage its use--it makes the origin of the image permissions human-readable; also I believe specifying pool membership helps stop link breakage if a Flickr non-Pro account adds >200 photos after the linked one (not conclusively tested yet). One final minor note is that it's nice to run together the words in the template fields so double-clicking will select the whole field for editing.--Vox 10:56, 22 February 2011 (PST)

Good points. I've updated the New Camera Page Template with the new Template:Flickr image, so that's taken care of. I just hadn't been aware of it when I created the page and found the old template in the help forums here Camera wiki: Adding images. Perhpas that coding should be updated to reflect the new image template. And as far as your suggestion about the sample photo on the New Camera Page Template being from the camerawiki pool, it's not in the pool because it doesn't belong in the pool as it's not a camera. I saw your other suggestion about creating a "companion" camera wiki group for images such as this or from manuals. I think that's a very good idea and this blank image holder image I'm using here could be uploaded to that pool for usage here. Thanks for all the suggestions and sooner or later, we'll have everything working smoothly. This open dialogue we enjoy between members really is a benefit! HaarFager 19:49, 22 February 2011 (PST)