[Commons-l] Deletion of still-used images

Tue Aug 8 06:01:35 UTC 2006

Brianna Laugher wrote:
> On 08/08/06, Artur Fijałkowski <wiki.warx at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I fully agree - every day I'm trying to see all newimages on
>> special:newimages and I try to delete all copyvio-looking images. I
>> know that it's a bit agressive, but I think, that blanking user's
>> upload is the best method of saying ''hi, something is wrong with your
>> images''.
> 
> Er, I hope you write them a note explaining what they're doing wrong?!
> Simply deleting someone's images tells them nothing about what
> mistakes they're making, and therefore does not help them to avoid
> making them in the future.
> 

Writing notes is hard when you have to do it hundreds of times; are
there any decent templates which explain these things for various cases?
If so, what are they and where are they listed?

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