2014-12-11 20:14 GMT+02:00 Fæ faewik@gmail.com:
Making defamatory comments about Commons volunteers on this list is not terribly productive, nor a very nice thing to do when anyone is free to express their point of view in the deletion request so that a closing admin can consider all rationales put forward, or raise it on the user's talk page.
Solving individual problems will not solve the real, underlying problem: Commons has become an independent project with a obvious copyright paranoia that cares less about the people actually using their product (Wiki* projects and 3rd party reusers) and more about their own interpretations of the rules.
This goes beyond copyright: how can one, in good faith, encourage non-English speaking contributors to go to a project that is not truly multi-lingual? How can I explain to occasional users why some of their pictures were deleted, while others were kept, even though they pictured the same subject, the main difference being the person that closed the discussion?
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