Well anyway, I think that scanlation groups that include signature pages (with manga art, etc) should put a small caption somewhere on the page telling what manga the picture is from. It'd save us a lot of time in the "I'm looking for..." threads and it only takes the group the finest bit of time.

So, what so YOU think? 'u'

Or you could just ask the scanlator what series it's from or use a reverse image search. And it really doesn't matter what you say here, MU can't do anything about it. =/

What really makes me interested is if people really see them... like all those colored pages, i usualy skip them on mangastream and any other zip i found @, but if they do caption the signatures i feel like it will be a great deal to stop some im looking for threads.

Textile, MU cant do anything BUT many group members come here and they MAY give Word of this idea. I at least find it helpeful if they name it many group signatures have fan art as base... and its really hard to find them when u want to know if it is a manga.

Perhaps, I've found myself that most credit pages or signatures come from a series the group is doing. Little digging at it's easy to find. People just like to be lazy. As for fanart, that just irritates me, especially if it's from Pixiv, you know they didn't get permission for that. But that's my nit-pick.

Why would fan-art irritate you? There are some works that are done by the group itself too. There are some really good works out there. Why wouldn't you wanna' show em off? There are some groups where the signature page art that they use is completely irrelevant to any of the projects they're doing. Also, so what if people like to be lazy? It's human nature to think life can be sweet without doing anything, get bored and work, only to laze around again. Geez, talk about a stickler.

I think they should. Crediting the original artist of the picture they're using should be as natural as listing the artist of the project they scanlated. At the very least they should include the artist's name. When most groups I know use fanart they make sure the name of the artist is on the page. Why should they treat Japanese artists any differently?

As far as I know the only reason groups don't do it is because they're too lazy to bother. There's no drawback to crediting the artist other than it taking a few extra seconds of their time to type it on the page. Whether or not people actually look at those extra pages is a moot point, in my opinion. The scanlation group thought the page was important enough to stick their own text on top of the art. Surely that makes it important enough to credit the artist who did that art.

The only legitimate excuse for not crediting the artist is if they don't know who it is. In that case maybe they shouldn't be using the picture in the first place. How good of an advertisement is it when even the people using the pic don't know where the heck it comes from? Random eyecandy might earn a momentary glance but it's recognizing or being able to learn about the pic (by the credit info) that keeps one's attention on it long enough for them to maybe read the blurb the group pasted on that page. Those who are curious enough to ask about the unknown pics tend to be resentful of the groups by the time someone (outside that group) tells them where it came from. I doubt that's what the scanlators had in mind when they decided to include that blurb/recruitment/credit/signature page.