Interior art

[orangeandblue]

Why scan Interior art? I can understand the fanzine covers for reference and I can understand posting art which is already online. But posting interior art from zines I don't understand. Has anyone contacted the artists and gotten permission from them? Do you need to?
Why not start scanning the stories from all the older fanzines and posting them too.

Comments

[ratcreature]

I didn't just mean on the image file page, though I think if the artist is known it would be good to add it there too, because for example if you browse the recent file gallery because you enjoy looking at the art, you come from there to the image page, and may not even click to the zine article, so seeing the artist associated with the file would be cool. But that is secondary.

I did mean also on the zine pages, because as you say, often the information is just not known to editors who add a zine that they find listed somewhere (or even own if the zine neglected art credits). I didn't mean that as some kind of accusation that editors would intentionally not credit artists, just as a statement of fact. Quite often there is a cover of a zine, with fanart, and no indication who did the fanart, unless someone who was involved with creating it came by and added that info.

But IMO it's no use when the official image policies end up just talking about some kind of ideal (all art is credited, art is uploaded because the article talks about it etc) that is rather removed from the practice of many of the image sources that are there, and pretend that is what is done on the wiki, rather than acknowledge the reality, and handle the potential conflict that comes from uploading images like that.