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//User created page with UploadWizard// How I have come to loathe this upload comment.. When a file has been deleted, it tells us essentially nothing. The message might as well not be there. It was uploaded with UploadWizard, so what? For all I care you used a broomstick to upload it. Useful information would be: the source, the author and the license (in that order) or just like Special:Upload, a truncated version of the wikitext. The latter is not always sufficient (especially when the description is too long), but beats "User created page with UploadWizard" by a long shot. This information is needed to determine if a new upload is a re-upload, re-users may need it to verify license information and to verify if any deletion was justified. Suggestions: - Change UploadWizard comment for {{own}} to "Uploaded own work by $author licensed $license with UploadWizard" - Change UploadWizard comment for other works to: "Uploaded a work by $author from $source licensed $license with UploadWizard" - Empty/truncate the description when using Special:Upload so increase the odds of the author/source being included Also consider the comment for Cross-Wiki uploads: //Cross-wiki upload from fr.wikipedia.org// A similar change will be needed here in the future, because the status quo of only uploading "own work" cannot go on. (as it stands, the upload comment might as well read "Uploading copyvio from $wiki"..) This will be a different task/project, but perhaps requires consideration when implementing more informative upload comments for UploadWizard.

//User created page with UploadWizard// How I have come to loathe this upload comment.. When a file has been deleted, it tells us essentially nothing. The message might as well not be there. It was uploaded with UploadWizard, so what? For all I care you used a broomstick to upload it. Useful information would be: the source, the author and the license (in that order) or just like Special:Upload, a truncated version of the wikitext. The latter is not always sufficient (especially when the description is too long), but beats "User created page with UploadWizard" by a long shot. This information is needed to determine if a new upload is a re-upload, re-users may need it to verify license information and to verify if any deletion was justified. Suggestions: - Change UploadWizard comment for {{own}} to "Uploaded own work by $author licensed $license with UploadWizard" - Change UploadWizard comment for other works to: "Uploaded a work by $author from $source licensed $license with UploadWizard" - Empty/truncate the description when using Special:Upload to increase the odds of the author/source being included Also consider the comment for Cross-Wiki uploads: //Cross-wiki upload from fr.wikipedia.org// A similar change will be needed here in the future, because the status quo of only uploading "own work" cannot go on. (as it stands, the upload comment might as well read "Uploading copyvio from $wiki"..) This will be a different task/project, but perhaps requires consideration when implementing more informative upload comments for UploadWizard.

//User created page with UploadWizard// How I have come to loathe this upload comment.. When a file has been deleted, it tells us essentially nothing. The message might as well not be there. It was uploaded with UploadWizard, so what? For all I care you used a broomstick to upload it. Useful information would be: the source, the author and the license (in that order) or just like Special:Upload, a truncated version of the wikitext. The latter is not always sufficient (especially when the description is too long), but beats "User created page with UploadWizard" by a long shot. This information is needed to determine if a new upload is a re-upload, re-users may need it to verify license information and to verify if any deletion was justified. Suggestions: - Change UploadWizard comment for {{own}} to "Uploaded own work by $author licensed $license with UploadWizard" - Change UploadWizard comment for other works to: "Uploaded a work by $author from $source licensed $license with UploadWizard" - Empty/truncate the description when using Special:Upload soto increase the odds of the author/source being included Also consider the comment for Cross-Wiki uploads: //Cross-wiki upload from fr.wikipedia.org// A similar change will be needed here in the future, because the status quo of only uploading "own work" cannot go on. (as it stands, the upload comment might as well read "Uploading copyvio from $wiki"..) This will be a different task/project, but perhaps requires consideration when implementing more informative upload comments for UploadWizard.