As you said, the first issue of Commons is "demotivating contributors". And
this thread is actually doing a good job at it...
STOP the Commons bashing. Stop calling Commons contributors "anal
retentive" or "fussy neckbeards".
I'm an european. In Europe, one does not call another "nazi", as Americans
do. It's insulting. Do you see people coming to Wikimedia-l when an
american contributor calls someone a nazi (because they do) ?
No. There are places on projects to deal with those kind of situations
(even if they do not work properly imo).
As there are places on Commons to discuss about the scope, the way we
should handle copyright, etc. Nobody is preventing you to go to this places
and start a discussion, share your thoughts and your wishes.
To be clear: Wikimedia is not only ENWP. Other wikipedias and projects are
using Commons every day. But the drama always come from ENWP...
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 12:47 AM, Steven Walling <steven.walling(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On Thu Dec 11 2014 at 12:40:09 PM Pipo Le Clown
<pleclown(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
I'm on the road every two weekends, and
processing pictures the rest of
the
time on my free time. I've provided around
8000 pictures to Commons, and
helped to have pictures for articles like Cristiano Ronaldo, Roy Hogdson
or
Greig Laidlaw...
Just to read that I'm a fascist and an "anal retentive" because someone
proposed a fucking picture of KitKat for deletion ? It was not even
deleted, the discussion is still going on. And even if it was, the right
place to go would have been COM:UDR, with a strong rationale, where
people
would have discuss it in a civilised manner. Not
in this echo chamber...
So yes, one could say that the thread "was accusatory from the start, and
quickly went to vicious". One could also say that this is a fucking
disgrace.
Pleclown
To be crystal clear: I didn't link to the DR or mention the nominator
because I don't actually care much about the individual instance.
Commons is going to do what it's going to do, and whomever nominated it or
comments in support of deletion is just doing what the policies of Commons
is telling them to do.
The problem is a general one with the goals of Commons, what the community
focuses (and doesn't focus on), as I said. I think it should be clear that
the purpose of discussing it on Wikimedia-l as opposed to Commons is talk
about whether Commons is doing a good job of serving as the media
repository for other projects. Not about whether the nominator was correct
in this individual case or something like that.
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 7:51 PM, Austin Hair <adhair(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay, guys, let's all take a step back and remember [[WP:Civility]].
> (Yeah, I know that's a Wikipedia pillar, but can't we all at least get
> on board with that one?)
>
> The tone of this thread was accusatory from the start, and quickly
> went to vicious. Maybe everyone can try it again with a bit of AGF.
>
> Austin
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 7:30 PM, James Alexander <jamesofur(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Fæ <faewik(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> P.S. Stephen, you are young and handsome, in fact rather dishy to my
> >> ageing eyes. Good for you. Keep in mind that your fellow volunteers
> >> might not have been born so lucky, and that being young and pretty
all
> >> too soon passes into memory, sigh.
> >>
> >
> > Fæ, this is not acceptable for the list (or for that matter on wiki).
> > Stephen's neckbeard comment certainly wasn't helpful either but
it's
no
> > excuse.
> >
> > James
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