[WikiEN-l] Re: yet another image lost for posterity

Thu Dec 1 09:17:02 UTC 2005

Anthony DiPierro wrote:

>On 11/28/05, Mark Wagner <carnildo at 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