[Wikipedia-l] Require confirmed email address to upload images?

Wed Jun 28 23:09:46 UTC 2006

On 6/28/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at 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.