[Commons-l] Good words for upload form from formerly frustrated prospective user

[Cary Bass]

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David Gerard wrote:
| 2008/8/1 geni <geniice at gmail.com>:
|> 2008/8/1 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
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|>> Well, yeah. Can any of the tl;dr be removed? I realise instruction
|>> creep only works upward ...
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|> Probably not but I'm not sure which of our collection of simplified
|> upload forms you are talking about.
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| Per context, [[Special:Upload]] on Commons.

See, at one time, when there were many fewer uploads, and many fewer
admins, we looked at new people's uploads and helped them out with
understanding what they were doing wrong, why something is not free,
what they need to say while uploading, maybe show them a bit of template
magic, while we're at it.  We'd do this by going to their talk page, and
~ leaving a few kind words.  If it was evident it was a language we
didn't understand, we'd find a nice admin in their language who would
also help them.

Now it's like a video game; search for copyvios and destroy... beep
beep, boop boop... pow pow! don't hit that one, that's a friendly one!

Pow! 2500 points!

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