Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-5706853-20140220175354/@comment-1038387-20140220190834

I share your frustration. Wikia's been making it too easy to add images. The only way used to be with Special:Upload, and we have a large text there explaining how everything works (we're pretty elaborate, with multiple licneses, sources, artist credits and subject tags). Now, you can add a picture in the right column, or even in the editor, and you miss the help text.

In order to promote proper usage of the correct licensing, you could write up a standard message, and send everyone who does it wrong a message. A quick how-to on naming standards and licensing helps clear up a lot. Also offer to answer any questions they have about it.

Don't make it too standard, though - if it's got a box around it, lots of different colors, or a stop sign, people might think "stupid automatic message" and not read it. You might bold some key points, but don't make it a big slab of text.

However, if they ignore this message more than once (three or so times), without replying to your messages, don't hesitate to block them, if only for a day. Not following policy has consequences.