[Commons-l] Requests for permission

[David Gerard]

On 03/05/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 24/04/07, Stan Shebs <stanshebs at earthlink.net> wrote:

> > I've just gotten another email request for permission to use one of my
> > photos. Of course they have permission, but I'm struck by how much
> > trouble people always seem to go to find an address to send to. I'm
> > thinking that we should suggest to commoners that they post direct
> > contact info if they're comfortable with that, at least on user page if
> > not on every image - I think there's only been one time that a reuser
> > found mediawiki's secret email-to-user option and contacted me that way.

> Email-to-user was great... before we locked it down and required both
> parties to have confirmed accounts. I wonder - could we patch it so
> that someone can set, in their preferences, the option to allow use of
> special:emailuser by non-registered users?


I stick it on my userpage ...


- d.