User talk:Macdon

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Macdon!

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 07:24, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

Uploading redundant images

I see that you are in the habit of taking multiple images of the same subject, apparently in an effort to take the best possible image of a subject. Most people will do this. I also notice that you leave it to Wikipedia editors to cull through your near-identical images uploaded to Commons and put the redundant images into the deletion queue, a labor-intensive process. Volunteer time is not unlimited, and Wikipedia finds itself with fewer and fewer editors as the years go by.

Would you do Wikimedia Commons a huge favor, and cull your own images prior to uploading? Even if you have a diagnosed case of OCD, I assure you that the multiple photos you have uploaded are, for Wikipedia's purposes, identical. No harm will come from exercising your own judicious discretion in selecting the best image among a large number of essentially identical images. If you are still hesitant, I suggest a roll of some dice or blindly tossing a dart as your decisional algorithm. Thank you.--Quisqualis (talk) 17:27, 12 February 2021 (UTC)