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...
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.