User:JoKalliauer/Remove ownWork-option from UploadWizard

If you don't understand derivatives you will just take the first option, since the first is often considered as the "default".

I noticed that the Special:UploadWizard and the Commons-Community encourages Uploaders to lie:

1. Images with missing source will be (speedy-)deleted and images with source but without permission can "easily" be detected and might get deleted
2. however Images with are falsely claimed as {{Own}} are difficult to detect and in most cases won't get deleted

If someone makes a derivative based on a falsely claimed {{Own}}-image, it leads to wasting of work-hours of trustworthy Commons-Users.

I know when I uploaded the first times

1. I was overwhelmed by the "not own work"-choose and wanted to use the "own work", because I wasn't sure what the two options meant and I wanted the simplest possible way.
2. I did not understand the concept of Derivative works, and I didn't know who is the author after modifying/scanning. I thought I might be the author, because the original author may not like the change and may not want to be associated with the derivative, i.e. adding a "don't" into a sentence.

Therefore I suggest simplifying the UploadWizard by removing the single-choice question:

This file was (not) my own work.

. Then everyone must name the source, the author and the license. The author and license must be chosen for both options, and the source is the most important thing to validate the trustworthiness of the license.

For example, source entries such as

1. "Internet", "Google-Image-Search", ... indicate the image is not own
2. "my HP-Scanner", "Combined Images from the Web using Photoshop", "Photo of some object", "Word-Screenshot including icons", "translated a German SVG-file to English" indicate the image is an own derivative of not own work
3. "Inkscape default template", "PDF-Output of FEM-Software", "GnuPlot", "Photo of the tree I planted 7 years ago" indicates own work

in my opinion such statements are much better in validating the trustworthiness of the license than the common {{Own}}. Advanced Users are (mostly) trustworthy and can still use {{Own}} since in such cases it might be more important to have a machine-readable and translatable message, than checking the validity of the license.

Comparison

This file was my own work. (seems to be the default for newbies)	This file was not my own work. (scaringly overwhelming)