Stan Shebs wrote:
Justin Cormack wrote:
On 11 Apr 2006, at 12:42, Andrew Gray wrote:
Of which 1600 have been marked for more than a week - admins, please!
http://tools.wikimedia.de/~gmaxwell/cgi-bin/report_orphan_fair_use.py
And they are such a load of rubbish too. We need to stop this stuff
from being uploaded. Maybe we should allow non-admins to delete
images...
It's been said before, but further study of upload patterns bears it out - a large percentage of bad uploads could be prevented by disallowing image upload until a new user has been around for at least a week, and by blocking persistent copyviolaters.
Many of the uploaders are so new they haven't even figured out how to get images displayed in an article. The contributions list shows edits to topic X, then upload of X-copyvio.jpg, then maybe another couple of edits, and then that's it - the image, good or bad, is an orphan. The especially sad cases are when they upload pictures of themselves, but never edit their user page.
Stan
I agree. We already restrict uploading to logged-in users only, since allowing IP-only uploads was a disaster; increasing that restriction to allow only logged-in users whose accounts are not recently created, using the same criteria used in the semi-protection mechanism, seems eminently reasonable to me.
-- Neil