User:Hubertl/Sorry, I have no time to check your pictures

My dear friend, I am very sorry!

You are expecting from other colleages reviewing your great pictures, so they will be promoted as Quality Images. You wanted your pictures to be examinated with due diligence and in the best way possible. Because, Quality, Valued and Featured Pictures are a showcase not only for Wikimedia-Commons, even for your own personal work, reputation and success.

Reviewing means, that you ask anyone - you don´t know personally - to take a look to your very private work. That means also, that the reviewer has to download your picture (sometimes more than 20 MB), then open it in a special program, and then he has to check it as follows:

1. perspective distortion, the images must be aligned straight
2. check for over- and underexposed areas
3. check, if there are some dustspot left from the sensor
4. check for so called jpg-artefacts and posterized areas
5. Sometimes, you can see some vignettations.
6. Blurryness, sharpness, oversharpening, brightness...
7. Color abbreviations and overprocessed, unnatural colors (oversaturation)
8. White balance check.
9. Checking for possible lens flares
10. looking for disturbing elements, composition.
11. Check, if the picture have the minimum size and the photographer is a WikiCommoner.

This is the same check everyone has to do, when preselecting his own pictures for QI. Nothing more. And you know, this can be sometimes pretty time-consuming. And because of this, everyone is able to review pictures, otherwise he won´t be able to nominate by his own. Because this is part and precondition to meet the QI-Guidelines

But this is not all, there is a lot more to do:

• Checking, if the picture is properly categorized
• If the file has a proper, meaningful filename
• is there an good description of the subject (eventually in english too - but this is not mandatory!)
• If there are geo coordinates (useful, but not mandatory too!)

This all makes a normal image to a Quality Image!

But even this is not all which has to be done! If you give someone an advice for repairing, you have to follow the reactions. When you see then the  Done sign, you have to check, if it´s really done!

When I edit this list step by step for every picture I review, it takes me a lot of my very limited time. Time, I would like to spend for writing articles in Wikipedia. On the other hand you expect a good, neutral and diligance examination within a short time. Like all other candidates too.

But, if you expect from your colleagues that someone dedicate his time and you're not willing to make the same effort, then I can and will not review your pictures in the future anymore.

I think it´s a shame, but I prefer to review pictures of colleagues who make more than just QIC to get a promotion for their own pictures.

I really don´t expect that you rate my pictures on the contrary.

This would be very bad for the whole review process.

The more distributed participants are active in this evaluation, the neutral and independent the examination process will be.

I wish you great success with your images.

Greetings from Vienna, Hubertl