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== New editor familiarisation ideas for professionals ==

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I think there is a problem with the way that we drive professional photographers off the project. While I don't disagree with the flaming torch-bearing crowds who do so, I think sometimes they really get caught up and carried away. Jealousy mixed with 'self esteem' seems the main problem, when people think themselves brilliant sitting on the couch playing X-Box all day and using the project to prove how great they are, when they see someone with an obvious talent it drives them to the [http://www.tamrin.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=psychology&action=print&thread=813 logic lock] "They can't be better than me at something, because I'm the best at everything perfect in fact, must be their fault I feel this confusion, better to eliminate their existence". It leads to such nasty denial-based arguments.

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The thing is, there are so many *nice* professional photographers out there who get the shaft when they come here. I'd go to great lengths to entertain such interesting well travelled people in real life, and I want to explain honestly how badly screwed their going to get on commons. Perhaps we can organise like a questionnaire to help them identify if they will attract the unwanted attention of the euphoric enthusiastic lynch mobs they just wouldn't find anywhere else, with questions like..

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Assess your risk: the higher you score the more at-risk from witch-hunts your professional reputation will be on commons.

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You like to photograph:

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* your genitalia + 1 point

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* someone else's genitalia + 2 point

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* both + 3 points

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* none of the above +10 points

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your last trip involved:

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* the kitchen + 1 point

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* the bathroom + 1 point

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* the whole day or more + 5 points

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* a passport +10 points

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and then recommendations for people according to how they score from say ten questions...

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10 points - no problems

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11-40 points - pretend you are just here to drop off the pics and are too busy to do anything else. Banner on your talkpage "I'm never here, go away, don't bother leaving messages"

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41-70 points - if you insist on uploading a large number of high quality images to commons, don't incur the wrath of the rabble. Pretend to be stealing someone elses work at first, upload them as copyvio's until you get seriously chastised then pretend to have contacted the author and send your own OTRS ticket so you can continue to upload your own work as if you were just copying someone elses.

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70-100 points - Just use flickr, someone will steal your work and upload it here, that's the best you can hope for. Don't use commons, you'll be happier, they'll be happier, everyone will be happy.

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I do see more and more professionals with brilliant work getting badly treated, so I figure this is a good idea. [[User:Penyulap|'''Penyulap''']][[User talk:Penyulap| ☏]] 04:12, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

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