[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #7043: title and caption fields in media upload appear redundant

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#7043: title and caption fields in media upload appear redundant
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 Reporter:  tieguy   |       Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  defect   |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal   |   Milestone:  2.7      
Component:  General  |     Version:  2.5.1    
 Severity:  normal   |    Keywords:           
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 Title and caption should be one and the same. The current situation makes
 me double-enter information every time I upload a picture (since I can't
 figure out any situation why I'd want them to be different), and that is
 really irritating.

 More generally, I've been trying to figure out a use case where you'd want
 the information to be different, and I can't think of one. If there is
 such a use case, then the UI should be changed to make that use case more
 discoverable, perhaps by retitling the fields, or explaining where each
 one is used. Perhaps then the bug should be retitled something like 'media
 UI should explain the difference between title and caption so that users
 can take advantage of the difference'.

 Maybe worth noting that flickr doesn't have this distinction, and it does
 just fine. :)

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