Saturday, 6 October 2007, Platonides wrote:
Alex Nordstrom wrote:
Saturday, 6 October 2007, Florian Straub wrote:
What about {{notify me}}? The users are advised to put it on their user page after registration.
- Users who can't be bothered to check their user talk pages
should enable e-mail notifications. It takes all of three clicks. * Users who can't be bothered checking their user talk pages should not expect other users to jump through hoops such as registering on another site or divulging their IP address.
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.
Is it so difficult?
Even disregarding the demand of leaving the entire notification off-site rather than giving notification of the notification... it is if you don't want to divulge your IP address. It is if you tag dozens or hundreds of images with missing source information in a day. It takes more steps every time it needs to be done than it does to enable e-mail notifications--and that only needs to be done once.
I understand that you may not want to register a new account, but *It will be fixed with SUL
As I understand it, talk pages will still be decentralised, so if you change which non-Commons site you want your Commons talk on, getting a good picture of previous messages and warnings received still requires quite a bit of detective work. And since Commons templates don't work there, it's still double the work to leave one message (to honour the request not to use the Commons talk page at all, it's a lot more than that).
On the other hand, you're welcome to nicely recommend email notifications (which are a newer system than {{notify me}}).
Enotif was enabled in November 2006 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump_archive/2006Nov#63288...] and the template was created in February 2007. In any case, the template is obsolete now. We shouldn't encourage people to continue making these demands when there's a way that doesn't inconvenience others.