WikipediaEditor Durin wrote:
On 7/12/07, Stan Shebs <stanshebs(a)earthlink.net>
wrote:
You could learn to pick your battles a little
better. When a militant
uses a bot to flag one of my old uploads for deletion in seven days,
because my fair use rationale isn't at least 3,000 words long and
written in grammatically elegant Latin or whatever the goalpost happens
to be that day, I lose interest in helping out. I've fixed up thousands
of fair-use images in the past, I don't need to be lectured about the
concept by some noob.
This is a good example of what I speak.
The bot (BetacommandBot) was approved for the actions it is taking. The
policy it is operating under stipulates that a fair use rationale must be
supplied for each use. BetacommandBot doesn't determine how good
a rationale is, it just looks for *any* rationale. A bot can not be described
as a "noob", nor can Betacommand himself be described as such. Yet,
in the above post we see him/the bot come under attack. This attack
serves no purpose.
You're the one asking for help, not the other way around. If you want
volunteers, it works a lot better to butter them up, listen patiently to
their grumbles, etc, than to disparage them.
Stan