On 12 December 2014 at 11:29, Strainu <strainu10(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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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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