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Michael Peel wrote:
There is also a big downside with this sort of exclusion: you have to turn around to people and say "thanks for releasing your reasonably good image, but we don't want it." That's not only somewhat unpleasant to do, but it also puts people off making other images available that might be more useful.
That's happening already: there are those users who don't seem to understand the formalities of uploading files, like including description, source, author, licence/permission, that get tagged for not adding the required information. After a little while, they "quit" contributing because of frustration. Of course, failing to understand how to properly upload files may be your own fault, but the principle of frustration still applies. If any of the exclusion mentioned in the quote ever gets implemented, this user frustration problem may likely grow much worse.
To me, this leads into the difference between categories and galleries/pages, though - the latter should be much more selective and shouldn't include very similar photographs.
That's how I've always known the system on Commons to be—and it should stay that way. I think the source of this exclusion proposal stems from the fact that there are much more categories than are galleries/pages. The lack of gallery pages in some content areas where categories already do a good job of organisation is justified, however.
- cultural sensitivities aside, there are also worries about impact of an increased workload on the Wikimedia community and strain on the servers, but not large ones at the current time IMO.
Note that deletion only hides the stuff from regular and anonymous users, for those who don't know or have forgotten.
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