On 11/12/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
For the same reason anyone can edit. Our usual practice is to get the maximal contribution input then clean it up afterward, rather than try to limit it before the fact.
If a user uploads an image without information and we're unable to get ahold of them we must delete it. This is a pretty different situation from a user who makes a few copyedits to the text of an article.
This substantial difference is demonstrated clearly by the relative deletion rates of images and article on enwiki. Images are deleted at a much higher rate relative to new image uploading than articles are relative to new article creation.
I welcome contributions from new users on commons... but I think it's both unfair and masochistic to demand users who are currently unwilling to undertake the burden of participating in a multilingual project to make their uploads to commons.
It's so trivial to move a properly sourced/tagged image after the fact, I just don't see why you are whining David.
I'd like to consider your views but considering your poor ratio of commons contributions to mailinglist outspokenness right now (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/David_Gerard) I'm having a difficult time seeing your messages as anything other than a waste of my time.