On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Chad <innocentkiller(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Carcharoth
<carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
I noticed that a picture in an article was no
longer displaying when
it had been displaying before:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menin_Gate
The file is:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Menin_Gate.jpg
But in the article it had been entered as "File:Menin_Gate.jpeg".
It would seem the Commons image has been deleted:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Menin_Gate.jpeg&act…
Oh. Thanks for working that out. I did check the deletion logs at
Commons, but for the .jpg file. Doh!
I'm not an admin, so I don't know if it was a
duplicate of
[[commons:File:Menin Gate.jpg]] or not, but it was deleted
for lacking copyright info according to the log.
From memory, it was a different file. From the log, it
lacked
permission, as explained by this tag:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:No_permission_since
Lacking permission appears to mean that old pictures that were
uploaded with not enough information to verify that the uploader
genuinely had permission are gradually being shuffled out. Rising
standards on Commons and a large backlog of old pictures that didn't
get the paperwork filled in correctly.
The uploaders are being notified, of course:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ray_Yallop#Images
...but many of them are either infrequent visitors to Commons, or are
long gone (some of the pictures being tagged are years old).
Going through the history of [[w:Menin Gate]], it
looks like
it has always referred to the now-deleted image, not the
other one.
That would make sense.
Presumably the
software treated jpg and jpeg the same, and this
changed recently.
Nope. Never has. I think there might have been a bug asking for
it, but it certainly doesn't do that as of right now.
Thanks. It's not critical because there are other pics of the Menin
Gate. I was surprised that:
(a) Commons delinker hasn't yet worked out how to remove images from
tables, or at least report that deleted images in tables need
attention;
and:
(b) That "what links here" for that file doesn't take me to a notice
left on the talk page of the person who uploaded that picture:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/File:Menin_Gate.jpeg
So I need to find a Commons admin to find out who uploaded that picture.
Carcharoth
