Making defamatory comments about Commons volunteers on this list is not terribly productive, nor a very nice thing to do when anyone is free to express their point of view in the deletion request so that a closing admin can consider all rationales put forward, or raise it on the user's talk page.
I commented in two chocolate 'packaging' related deletion requests today, before this thread started, my opinion being to keep. Why don't you join me in keeping these images in time for Christmas by making positive comments and interpreting Commons policies in a non-hostile environment? * http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Belgian_pralines_boxes.jpg * http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Files_in_Category:Tim_Tam Alternatively, you can work to improve policies and guidelines on commons. One key benefit is that if photographs you uploaded were deleted under old policies but could be kept under new policies, they can all be considered for undeletion. I suggest a good starting point is better guidelines to interpret what "significant doubt" means in <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Project_scope/Precautionary_principle> P.S. Stephen, you are young and handsome, in fact rather dishy to my ageing eyes. Good for you. Keep in mind that your fellow volunteers might not have been born so lucky, and that being young and pretty all too soon passes into memory, sigh. P.P.S. It might be politic for WMF employees to avoid using their staff accounts to join in with whatever the latest witch-hunt happens to be. I find it disturbing to see official accounts being used to inflame arguments, when in other circumstances the same accounts are used to give "official" positions that affect the whole Wikimedia community. Fae _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
