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Add attribution to license templates within UploadWizard
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Description

The UploadWizard on Commons lets me choose between a variety of license options and adds the corresponding license template to the file description. For the licenses that require attribution, the templates usually provide the option to add the attribution directly to the template via an additional parameter (like attribution in Template:Cc-by-sa-4.0 and Template:Self). However, in UploadWizard I can only add the attribution to the Information template. In order to add it to the license template(s), I need to edit the file description again after the upload.

There should be an extra (optional) field in the UploadWizard that allows specifying the attribution in the license templates. This reduces the need for additional edits to the description, which can slow down uploading significantly, and ensures that the correct attribution is obvious from the license.