I'm with the majority of commenters here where I'd rather we just...didn't post photos of people on Fanlore. Photos of fan art, taken with the artists' permission? Sure. But the facial recognition algorithms out there now make being a fan online scary, especially when you have entire countries (::cough: China ::cough::) using facial recognition in conjunction with social media to rate its population and tie metrics to what's "good and proper".
I get that cosplayers love getting their photos taken and there's a whole culture around that sort of recognition, but within that culture, there are usually explicit rules about whose photos are taken where and when and who can post - but as many have found, once on the Internet, always on the Internet. I'm lucky in that where I currently live and work is fairly liberal - but I remember the years I spent terrified of being outed as a queer fangirl, and even being in the background by accident in a photo was grounds for never wanting to be in one.
If you do allow photos, I'd love a policy where the subject(s) of the photos are very clearly the *only* people in the photo - no background people, and they have *all* signed off on the photo being posted to Fanlore, with some sort of way to bury the image behind enough links that it takes expert knowledge to remove the photo from the page once embedded (e.g., you can't just right-click and grab the photo, and screen-grabbing is disabled).
ETA: Also, if the people in the photo are dead, let's not assume they'd be OK with their photos being online, because the family might go hunting for photos and that might not go over well.
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I get that cosplayers love getting their photos taken and there's a whole culture around that sort of recognition, but within that culture, there are usually explicit rules about whose photos are taken where and when and who can post - but as many have found, once on the Internet, always on the Internet. I'm lucky in that where I currently live and work is fairly liberal - but I remember the years I spent terrified of being outed as a queer fangirl, and even being in the background by accident in a photo was grounds for never wanting to be in one.
If you do allow photos, I'd love a policy where the subject(s) of the photos are very clearly the *only* people in the photo - no background people, and they have *all* signed off on the photo being posted to Fanlore, with some sort of way to bury the image behind enough links that it takes expert knowledge to remove the photo from the page once embedded (e.g., you can't just right-click and grab the photo, and screen-grabbing is disabled).
ETA: Also, if the people in the photo are dead, let's not assume they'd be OK with their photos being online, because the family might go hunting for photos and that might not go over well.