When I joined wikipedia 5 years ago we had something called ASSUME GOOD FAITH. That meant that you didn't nominate stuff for deletion first. You ASKED someone first! I have been on the projects for well over 5 years now, I have written over 1000 articles. People could ask first. How is the project hurt if someone waits a day instead of within an hour nominating something for deletion without asking first.
The problem is all these selfmade programs with which the admins do their adminning. They just press a button and everything is done. No brains are used anymore. You could have a monkey be an admin on wikipedia and no-one would notice the difference.
Wikipedia used to be a human project once. It is now ruled by robots and automated responses. Which means that people have forgotten that if you see an experienced user ERR on the wrong you ask him first and not immediately put something up for deletion. Another wikipedian, Jojan asked me politely first so I did what he asked. Ciell put up for deletion first and only after I got angry she asked ... wrong order!
Waerth
And no I will not add the license myself, I am waiting for Ciell to do it.
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Waerth waerth@asianet.co.th wrote:
Today 5 of the 19 pictures were put up for deletion ... and why .... because I forgot to say they were CC-BY-SA like the other 14 .... anyone with a bunch of brains would have asked me at my Talk page to add the license or would have done it themselves as they could safely assume that I would give them the same license as the other pictures .....
I see you got a message in your talk page, I'm pretty sure the deletion process would have stopped immediately after you put the license you forgot. By not putting the license tag themselves they're protecting your author's rights, as they can't be sure you really wanted to license the photos as cc-by-sa. God knows, maybe you would have written a pissed off email saying that "the damn civil servants" license your images without asking you...
But no the damn civil servants put them up for deletion.
Like I guess they would have done with anyone's images, including another fellow admin
This is really hurting especially since I have done so much for the Dutch wikipedia and because for the first 6 pictures I was in a situation of violence. I regret deeply that I have donated these pictures to the wikimedia foundation and I hope that they will be deleted. As Soon As Possible.
You know what? Tagging the other 5 images would have taken much less time than writing this email, and you would have pissed off fewer people.
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