On 29/06/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 6/28/06, Brianna Laugher
<brianna.laugher(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Now what would be REALLY good to slow down
problem
uploaders would be if we could block users from uploading, only ( see
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4995 , my baby!). Seems
like it could be really handy on en.wp too. Because copyvio image
users do not also tend to be copyvio text users, that's my
observation.
Um. You can block users from uploading. It's called the block button.
If someone is too incompetent or too malicious to discontinue
uploading inappropriate material after they have been asked to stop
then they have no business editing what so ever...
A full block is in many situations too heavy handed. What is the
problem? They upload images with insufficient source. What do we want
them to do? Add source information to their existing uploads. How do
we currently solve this? We block them from editing altogether.
Uh....oops.
The easiest way to educate them is on-wiki. When they can only edit
their talk page, it makes it a tiny bit hard.
what makes you so
sure they aren't busily adding copyvio articles?
It's not always easy
to spot.
Nothing makes me so sure, it's just my gut feeling based on
observation. Newbie editors who are keen and add good,
obviously-non-copyvio text frequently get tripped up when they try to
augment their articles with images. Maybe some en.wp image patrollers
will contradict me, fine.
Brianna