User blog comment:Unrulyruby100/Hey look! Policy updates! Categorization and image sourcing/@comment-16533050-20140124065838/@comment-27202257-20140124174330

I'm glad that helped, and yeah, the Source Needed category should alleviate some pressure I think. Realistically it's going to take some time for the policy to come into full effect, so we're not going to get delete-happy on our images stock right out of the gate. Also, that way people can at least add the template even if they don't know the original source.

Yeah, I didn't think you were suggesting work should be dropped on people--you were saying the opposite, and I just wanted to assure you that dropping the responsibility on big image contributors wasn't the intention and it isn't going to happen. People who have contributed in the past abided by wiki rules as they were when the images were uploaded, so they aren't going to be held personally responsible for not following rules that didn't exist at the time. That would just be rude.

This is coming up now because this particular policy has been brought up a few times (and, to tell the truth, was technically always in effect, just never enforced) and has sound logic behind it, so we finally took the plunge. However, you're right that people who don't want to participate shouldn't have to, and that's going to be the case here. In process the people who want to see this policy in effect will be doing the bulk of the work if they want things to be brought up to standard faster, or be satisfied with the speed of implementation as is.