UploadWizard prefills automatically the EXIF date (or even the upload date) to the "date" field as the date of the origin of the work, even in cases of obviously old works (e.g. photographs from the 19th century or scans of old paintings or maps). Such an indistinguishable statement is then misleading, even outright untrue. Occasional and one-time contributors generally do not have the courage to change or delete the pre-filled date.

Some suggestions to alleviate this defect:

• every such automatically prefilled date should be iserted every time with a template {{According to Exif data}} or {{Upload date}} , to distinguish them from {{Taken on}} which is the default meaning for photos and from intentionally filled date.
• if the device according to exif data is a scanner, not a camera or mobile phone, than the Exif date should use some specific template as {{Scan date}} instead of {{According to Exif data}}.

A more systematic solution would be for the {{Information}} template to have a different field for each of these meanings. However, for such a change, it would be difficult to ensure full backward compatibility and update any scripts that use this data. In addition, this way of entering data will probably be replaced in the future by Structured Data and therefore it is not effective to fundamentally change the structure of the template. To distinguish date meanings using standard templates as proposed above is machine-readable and transformable in the future.

It would also be useful to strengthen context-sensitive help so that the uploader is not afraid to refine, delete or replace all pre-filled data or texts.