User talk:Jeff G./Archives/2011/December

User:Jeff G./Massaged photo

Hi. I've removed the template User:Jeff G./Massaged photo from all media files on Commons. I found it to be creepy and unnecessary. --MZMcBride (talk) 00:51, 17 December 2011 (UTC)

How was it creepy? The photo or the word "massaged"? I could substitute "tweaked" for that if you want. As seen above, the "by" portion of {{Cc-by-sa-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0}} gives me, the author or a co-author, the right to specify how reusers may "attribute the work in the manner specified by the author". You have taken that right by taking the text "Please credit this photo Jeff G. in the immediate vicinity of the photo." from those file description pages, you have removed the usability of Category:Photos massaged by User:Jeff G., and I object.   — Jeff G. ツ 04:45, 17 December 2011 (UTC)

Auto-leveling, cropping, and stuff like that does not give you any authors rights. On a free-content project, your making claims on such photos is creepy. /Pieter Kuiper (talk) 09:02, 17 December 2011 (UTC)

I found both the photo and the word "massaged" to be fairly creepy. Especially in the context of images such as File:Kelly Madison 3 crop1.png. I didn't see any other similar categories for other users, so it seemed most sensible to simply remove the template (and the category, where I saw it) from all the media I could find. I don't understand the need for Category:Photos massaged by User:Jeff G. when you have Special:Contributions/Jeff G., Special:ListFiles/Jeff G., and Special:Logs/Jeff G. (plus any personal user subpage you could use to track your work). Any attribution issues are surely covered by the upload log, the file description page history, and/or the file history. I think we're covered here without attaching editor mugshots on every photo. Thank you for understanding. --MZMcBride (talk) 23:08, 17 December 2011 (UTC)