I am in a disagreement with QueenBuffy about the use of images. Specifically the use of images from an Entertainment Weekly (EW) photo shoot made available last week. QueenBuffy has worked hard on uploading those images and adding them to articles. The whole set can be found at our season 2 article. I had some concerns about the way the images were used:
1. They are the property of EW and we do not have permission to use them. We can make an argument that they are fair use images but I think that necessitates crediting the source wherever they are used. 2. They show several cast members in costume but not with the same hair and makeup that they wear in character so I think it is misleading to say they are images of the characters. Likewise while they were produced to advertise season 2 they are not images of season 2 and instead were produced independently by EW in the post production period.
I began a process of renaming the images to mention EW, adding source information to their description, adding the fairuse licensing tag ({{fairuse}}), removing the categories Image (Season 2) and Image (Character) and ensuring that Image (Promotional) was used (which it already was in all cases) for the images themselves. I then checked that on the pages the images were being used they had an appropriate caption noting their source. For images in infoboxes I swapped them with a suitable image in the image gallery so that I could add a caption.
QueenBuffy left me a message saying that she preferred the EW images. I explained my reasoning about using the images carefully but I think we still disagree. I wonder if our fellow editors might be able to help us to build a consensus?
--Opark 77 10:55, March 18, 2012 (UTC)