On 11/28/05, Mark Wagner <carnildo(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
If the administrator places a warning on the
uploader's talk page, in
addition to removing the image from articles where it's used, and
waits a week to give the uploader a chance to respond, it takes over
two minutes to delete an image. This represents the additional time
needed to check for responses on the user's talk page, check for
responses on the talk page of the admin informing the user, and check
for responses on the image description page and image talk page -- and
99% of the time, it's wasted effort, as the uploader has forgotten
about Wikipedia entirely. Total effort involved in cleaning up the
problem images: 1100 man-hours.
So if 25 people spend 1 hour a week it'll take...less than a year.
The problem with this would be?
Even if it's wasted effort 99% of the time (and I think this is a
gross exaggeration), what about at least notifying users who *are*
active, like, say, someone who currently serves on the board of the
foundation?
It's also easy to look at look at the person's list of contributions.
If he hasn't edited in over a year there's a high probability that he's
no longer around.
Ec