On 6/28/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
However, I like numbers... they can mislead but they can also be food for thought. Keep in mind we don't current recommend that anyone use the email this user to contact inactive uploaders simply because few of the images which are eligible for deletion have a confirmed user.
There were 57,472 images uploaded to enwiki in march. *21,000 come from uploaders with confirmed emails. *36,472 come from uploaders without confirmed emails
There were 30,981 total images deleted on enwiki in march. *5,149 were uploaded by users who had confirmed emails. *25,832 were uploaded by users who did not have confirmed emails.
I think the policy makes sense based both on my experience and based on the numbers.
So about 40% of useful contributions come from users without confirmed emails, and we would be throwing them away ?
The numbers prove clearly that the proposed policy is really stupid.