Sunday, 7 October 2007, Andrew Gray wrote:
On 07/10/2007, Alex Nordstrom lx@se.linux.org wrote:
It's not quite that arbitrary. You can't really equate the effort of checking for and complying with such demands every time you need to leave someone a message with the effort of ticking a checkbox.
...a checkbox many people don't know is there.
Agreed. We need to make people more aware of this option. Seeing as missing out on Commons messages seems to be a frequent concern, perhaps we should put it in welcome templates or even mention it somewhere in the signup process.
I have a note on my Commons talkpage (with its two whole messages in a year and a half) saying "you'll probably get a quicker response via [enwp talkpage]". It's there because when I set up a Commons account I didn't know about email notifications for page edits (indeed, they may not have been enabled) and, let's face it, I would never have heard about them without the fact that I happened to subscribe to commons-l one day.
Yeah, I don't have a problem with that. The wording is courteous rather than dismissive, and if it's been there for a year and a half, Enotif would not have been enabled when you added it.
My putting a note up isn't a "demand" to be complied with - and I don't think anyone else in my situation really thinks of it as one.
Well... you'd be surprised. Some people get quite upset if you don't bend over backwards to inform them that they forgot to add the legal information they were told to add when uploading. I've seen some pretty hostile reactions to Commons user talk pages being used to discuss Commons matters, even after the user was informed about Enotif.