Anthony DiPierro wrote:
On 11/28/05, Mark Wagner carnildo@gmail.com wrote:
If the administrator places a warning on the uploader's talk page, in addition to removing the image from articles where it's used, and waits a week to give the uploader a chance to respond, it takes over two minutes to delete an image. This represents the additional time needed to check for responses on the user's talk page, check for responses on the talk page of the admin informing the user, and check for responses on the image description page and image talk page -- and 99% of the time, it's wasted effort, as the uploader has forgotten about Wikipedia entirely. Total effort involved in cleaning up the problem images: 1100 man-hours.
So if 25 people spend 1 hour a week it'll take...less than a year. The problem with this would be?
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?
It's also easy to look at look at the person's list of contributions. If he hasn't edited in over a year there's a high probability that he's no longer around.
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