Sunday, 7 October 2007, Florian Straub wrote:
"Alex Nordstrom" <lx(a)se.linux.org>
wrote on Saturday, October 06,
2007 7:53
PM:
Saturday, 6 October 2007, Platonides wrote:
You only need to tell them: You have a new
message at your
[[commons:User Talk:Foo|commons talk page]] ~~~~
That's not what the template says. The template actively
discourages leaving messages on the talk page on which it appears.
It's the choice of the ones who read it. It's just a way to make
sure, we can keep good images with missing information.
"Please leave me deletion notifications on my talk page *there*, not
here" means "do not leave messages here." Whether or not to comply with
the rather unreasonable demands should be up to the reader, but that
tends not to be the expectations of those who make them, in my
experience.
The idea of the template was to notify the uploader by
a
CommonsTicker. This will be implemented when Duesentrieb is done with
his exams. As long as it shows a way to contact users and as long as
its useful we should keep it.
Well, if it were done by a bot, it wouldn't need to contain any
human-readable demands and it wouldn't inconvenience others for the
convenience of the requester, so I'd be more willing to accept that.
But until then, I think promoting e-mail notifications would be a
better option.
Not all Wikipedians are all about media files. Some
occasionally
write tiny texts, the so called encyclopedia articles ....
That's rather off-topic, and the sarcasm is uncalled for. I don't need
to be lectured about article-writing.
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Alex Nordstrom
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