On 11/28/05, Justin Cormack <justin(a)specialbusservice.com> wrote:
For a
while we had some bot assisted notification for some classes of
speedy delete; hopefully these will return soon if the bot bureaucracy
can be overcome (er, performance improves). This particular deletion
is not about this really, it is about communication of changing policies
to people.
Agreed, this is about politeness and respect for fellow community
members. There are two problems of rudeness here : users who, despite
the current active warnings, don't take time to tag their images
properly; and users who, in cleaning up the wiki, feel they have the
right - or that their time is so valuable that they need - to delete
the contributions of others without warning.
It's not just a matter of the time-investment of the admins exercising
the delete button. It's also a matter of the users who feel really
betrayed when they discover one day that a favorite image is gone
forever -- without even a backup.
Suggestions : 1) provide an undelete-image feature! 2) provide a
quarantine area where one can put dubious images "immediately" while
waiting for polite notice to run its course
Ant and others: If you have lost images to zealous copyright
enforcement, see also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lost_images
SJ