On 12/11/11 19:31, William Allen Simpson wrote:
On 11/12/11 10:23 AM, Russell Nelson wrote:
There are a lot of problems with the activities of deletionists, starting with the assumption that somebody who contributes to W is an active W user, and is monitoring their contributions against the activities of deletionists. A lack of prompt response is taken as proof that their claim (no matter how wild) is true.
Only a not very descriptive message on the Talk page:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Sharon_Aguilar#File:Sharon_Agui...
We are open for proposals improving the message. :) I find it quite descriptive: There is a problem and it has been proposed to delete it. If you disagree go here. It's not specific to the exact reason for this file, but that message is translated to hundreds of languages, and there's no guarantee that the user would understand any particular one.
And that message isn't very helpful for a novice user, a busy musician who happens to be on the road at the moment (according to her twitter).
It's time to start requiring a working email address.
I asked Yann, "Did you use the email link on the User page?"
Apparently not. I checked, it's working. She responds, albeit with single line iPhone messages. She has no idea what to do, and no time to do anything about it.
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Twitter, G+, FB would be rather public. An SMS would be good. Facebook provides that.
When users get a message on their commons talk page, they will receive an email informing of that. That requires that they provided an email address on registration (it's optional) and verified it (really easy). Also, they shouldn't have the preference disabled (I think it has been on by default for new users since several years).
An email that pages have changed would be good. Wikia sends it weekly.
That would be email notification for all watchlist items. The load produced by enabling such option could be pondered. Note they can also subscribe to an RSS feed of their watchlist (this probably needs more publcity).