On 12 December 2014 at 11:29, Strainu strainu10@gmail.com wrote: ...
I commented in two chocolate 'packaging' related deletion requests today, before this thread started, my opinion being to keep. Why don't you join me in keeping these images in time for Christmas by making positive comments and interpreting Commons policies in a non-hostile environment?
Commons IS a hostile environment for non-permanent residents. I've given up on commenting in deletion request, finding it's much less time-consuming to just copy the picture back to Wikipedia and figure it out over there.
Strainu
On the language point, please do have a go at making comments in DRs or on noticeboards in your first language. Commons *is* an international and multilingual project, so we encourage non-English contributions.[1] Just expect others to be using Google translate to understand the point, so write in a plain way. ;-)
Some of the structure of Commons is frustrating, often because of the clumsy workflow for file uploading, moving, deleting. I hope to see many improvements over the next two years. As there are only around 150 active admins on Commons (a tenth of the English Wikipedia's), it is worth asking one for help, the response you get will tend to be personal and common sense rather than bureaucracy or wikilawyering.
I'm sorry if you had a bad experience in the past. If you are familiar with IRC, it sometimes helps to discuss an issue in real time on the Commons channel before responding to issues on-wiki.[2]
Links: 1. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Language_policy 2. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Internet_Relay_Chat
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