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_Agu…
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.
Of course, it's only a musician who appears at major concert venues
around the world. Surely, she can afford to pay her publicist to
handle it (she has one). But do we expect all public figures to pay
experts to keep track of this?
Besides, do we really want some other person to pretend to be her?
(I've told her I won't. But I'll help her through the process --
when she has time. That probably won't be soon enough.)
Can you imagine what a member of Congress might think? I can....
or reign in deletionists.
On that day alone, Yann nominated 164 entries in ~2 hours (09:47 to
12:05). Every entry is supposed to have:
* any binding copyright law;
* the applicability of any relevant Commons policies, for example
[[Commons:Deletion policy]], [[Commons:Project scope]] or
[[Commons:Photographs of identifiable people]]; or
* any relevant facts such as date or place of publication, author,
date of author's death and so on.
Nada.
Béria Lima, the closer after 2 days, has been warned repeatedly to wait
the full 7 days, according to his Talk page.
We need technical measures to prevent this from happening, or at least
provide prompt warning that an administrator is running amok.
And we need to kick off any administrators who violate the rules!
Do we have a mechanism for this (I think we do but
haven't
tried it)? Or if not a working email address (I understand that would be
controversial in the large) then a notification system that works across
services. Like sending an SMS, or twitter, or g+ posting, or fb message.
Twitter, G+, FB would be rather public.
An SMS would be good. Facebook provides that.
An email that pages have changed would be good. Wikia sends it weekly.
But in the case of commons, I'm not sure that would be enough. After
all, such notification assumes that the uploader is a regular editor.
Something coming out of the blue, without links to any policy or any
explanation what-so-ever, isn't helpful.