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David Gerard wrote: | 2008/8/1 geni geniice@gmail.com: |> 2008/8/1 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com: | |>> Quick Guide for How To Upload Your Own Pictures: |>> 1. Create a Commons login. Say something about yourself on your user page. |>> 2. Upload your stuff. Pick one of the "Own work" options. |>> 3. Fill in some categories, etc. (wikitext, same as on Wikipedia). |>> Would that be worth putting in above or in place of one of the huge |>> walls of text presently on the upload form? | |> Nope adding further text to the page is hardly going to help matters. | | | Well, yeah. Can any of the tl;dr be removed? I realise instruction | creep only works upward ...
I agree with this. We want to make things simpler, less complicated, not more complicated--I realize our admins have a tough time combating copyvios, but a determined copyvio person is going to ignore anything we throw at them and upload anyway--we want to make it easier on the regular person!
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