Terrific article! To illustrate Moonriddengirl's point about the situation when she first became an admin, in early 2008 there was a three-month-long backlog at WP:CP. The instructions for CSD of copyright problems versus 'suspected copyright problems' versus plain old 'copyright problems' were muddy, contradictory and confusing. One of the bots that should have been reporting at one place was reporting at the other, and the workload was so huge that I just didn't have the time or strength to figure out how to get that fixed. I cleared two months of that backlog alone. It was so lonely that I could leave a daily log page of problems open in my browser without any edit conflicts when I saved the page more than 24 hours later. A couple of other admins, including Jeepday, came along to help eventually but it was very stressful and demoralizing to feel that, despite all our crowing about free content, nobody cared very much about copyright problems. Eventually I burned out and stepped away. Moonriddengirl has done a fabulous, stupendous, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious job in organizing and sticking with the copyright cleanup. I'm not over there to help you again yet, babe, but I will be soon, and I urge my fellow admins and every editor to come pitch in. Thanks again for a great piece. :-) - KrakatoaKatie05:16, 7 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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