Well if they have an email listed, It is (I assume) fairly easy to email them. However sometimes, If Commonsticker lists an image deleted, I go look and investigate it, Figure out who uploaded it. Then I look at their talk page. - it usually has only a deletion notice, and nothing else. I notice that the user page link is blue - look at that, it says basicly "I'm never going to be back here again - goto wikipedia to talk to me". If we were able to make a bot that saw that (yes I know this is more or less impossible), and put a notice on the wiki that pointed to, it would go a long way to getting users to listen/hear. ~~~~
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On 11/10/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Florian Straub wrote:
"bawolff" bawolff+wn@gmail.com wrote on Friday, November 10, 2006 7:49 AM:
[...] They get a deletion notice on their commons talk page - which is quite useless, as they're not coming back there for at least a year, if they ever come back. However if a message was left at their home wiki, the image would be saved. However its totally unrealistic for CM's to track them down against everything listed at [[special:sitematrix]]. perhaps a bot is needed or something like that, but I think it would go a long way to having more contributors trust commons.
We at de.wp started emailing "our nld-uploaders" with A FEW basic links and the opportunity to solve the problem via e-mail. Any useful emails are forwared to the OTRS after improving the image description.
The result: Some people change the descriptions of the pictures by themselves and some do it via email. The best reply ratio is found when we mention that the image was requested for deletion.
Maybe this can be optimized by using a bot (as long as the emails are not caught in every spam blocker).
Of course this can only work, if they either specify there home-wiki or their email adress. Maybe we can force them someone to do at least one of these things when they register ...
I think "require valid email before allowing uploads" is one of those proposals which everyone but the people with the power to make it happen thought was a good idea.
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