Sunday, 7 October 2007, Florian Straub wrote:
"Alex Nordstrom" lx@se.linux.org wrote on Saturday, October 06, 2007 7:53
PM:
Saturday, 6 October 2007, Platonides wrote:
You only need to tell them: You have a new message at your [[commons:User Talk:Foo|commons talk page]] ~~~~
That's not what the template says. The template actively discourages leaving messages on the talk page on which it appears.
It's the choice of the ones who read it. It's just a way to make sure, we can keep good images with missing information.
"Please leave me deletion notifications on my talk page *there*, not here" means "do not leave messages here." Whether or not to comply with the rather unreasonable demands should be up to the reader, but that tends not to be the expectations of those who make them, in my experience.
The idea of the template was to notify the uploader by a CommonsTicker. This will be implemented when Duesentrieb is done with his exams. As long as it shows a way to contact users and as long as its useful we should keep it.
Well, if it were done by a bot, it wouldn't need to contain any human-readable demands and it wouldn't inconvenience others for the convenience of the requester, so I'd be more willing to accept that. But until then, I think promoting e-mail notifications would be a better option.
Not all Wikipedians are all about media files. Some occasionally write tiny texts, the so called encyclopedia articles ....
That's rather off-topic, and the sarcasm is uncalled for. I don't need to be lectured about article-writing.