7daysahead

Why am I inactive?

I find Wikipedia fundamentally hostile to editors. Wikipedia wants to stay neutral. It achieves this by reverting edits from any outgroup and threatening bans at the drop of a hat. Wikipedia shows no interest in new users: it has no published path to interact with the community, no systems of mentorship, no culture of choosing a named reviewer so they can invest in you, so you can receive feedback from one name rather than ten names.

Wikipedia is 84% male, or it was four years ago -- the Wikipedia:Wikipedians#Demographics page has no more recent citations and I deduce it has no interest in doing ongoing automated tracking of its contributors e.g. by allowing editors to state a gender and nationality with the intent that these would provide a breakdown of 30DAU. The page on Wikipedia:Systemic_bias suggests actions targeted at the individual, rather than at the poisonous culture.

I have donated my time to Wikipedia in the past, but never money. I have never been able to stomach supporting it as an organization. 7daysahead (talk) 13:49, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

Replaceable fair use File:Susan messing headshot.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Susan messing headshot.jpg. I noticed that this file is being used under a claim of fair use. However, I think that the way it is being used fails the first non-free content criterion. This criterion states that files used under claims of fair use may have no free equivalent; in other words, if the file could be adequately covered by a freely-licensed file or by text alone, then it may not be used on Wikipedia. If you believe this file is not replaceable, please:

1. Go to the file description page and add the text {{di-replaceable fair use disputed|<your reason>}} below the original replaceable fair use template, replacing <your reason> with a short explanation of why the file is not replaceable.
2. On the file discussion page, write a full explanation of why you believe the file is not replaceable.

Alternatively, you can also choose to replace this non-free media item by finding freely licensed media of the same subject, requesting that the copyright holder release this (or similar) media under a free license, or by creating new media yourself (for example, by taking your own photograph of the subject).

If you have uploaded other non-free media, consider checking that you have specified how these media fully satisfy our non-free content criteria. You can find a list of description pages you have edited by clicking on this link. Note that even if you follow steps 1 and 2 above, non-free media which could be replaced by freely licensed alternatives will be deleted 2 days after this notification (7 days if uploaded before 13 July 2006), per the non-free content policy. If you have any questions, please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. -- Marchjuly (talk) 04:00, 14 July 2017 (UTC)

I took that photo and followed the Wikipedia guide on how to release the image into the public domain. Please undo your deletion of valid content. 7daysahead (talk) 13:26, 29 October 2017 (UTC)