On 11/28/05, Justin Cormack justin@specialbusservice.com wrote:
On 29 Nov 2005, at 00:43, Anthony DiPierro wrote:
So if 25 people spend 1 hour a week it'll take...less than a year. The problem with this would be?
The other tens of thousands of images uploaded in the mean time. The fact that when people complain about removal of one non free image they point to others and say this hasnt gone yet why should mine go.
But, this person is specifically complaining about an image that was uploaded years ago. I could see deleting the tens of thousands of images uploaded more recently first, though I think you're severely exaggerating how many unfree images are going to be uploaded in the next 44 weeks. And you ignored the point about how many of those images are by *unique individuals*. There's no need to tell someone who has already been told time and time again, but telling people at least once (look, here's a list of images of yours we're going to delete unless you add a tag) is the least that can be done.
Even if it's wasted effort 99% of the time (and I think this is a gross exaggeration), what about at least notifying users who *are* active, like, say, someone who currently serves on the board of the foundation?
How is anyone supposed to remember the usernames of everyone on the foundation and why do they expect to get special treatment? For a while we had some bot assisted notification for some classes of speedy delete; hopefully these will return soon if the bot bureaucracy can be overcome (er, performance improves). This particular deletion is not about this really, it is about communication of changing policies to people.
Justinc
C'mon, if you're going to remember just three usernames, Anthere should be one of them. Does she deserve special treatment? No, that's not what I'm saying. I'd expect the same treatment for any active user, at the least.
Are there really admins who don't know who Anthere is? I mean, I don't know what I'm supposed to call her as her real name (just noticed she signs her emails "Ant", but it feels strange calling her that I guess in part 'cause that's what my family calls me), but, anyway, I digress.
Anthony