[Commons-l] Deletion of still-used images

Thu Aug 10 01:59:39 UTC 2006

On 09/08/06, Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2006/8/9, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher at gmail.com>:
>
> > You know we are talking about thousands of images... right?
> >
> > Well you can start at [[Category:Against policy]] and from there it's
> > a long slog through [[Category:Unknown]] subcategories... all of them
> > more than 7 days old that is. Which is most of them. You can use
> > messages from [[User:Pfctdayelise/Translations]] in edit summaries if
> > you like.
>
> I know that, I am going through subcategories of [[Category:Unknown]]
> sometimes, and do some deletions here and there.
>
> What I was looking for was more a list of images that would already
> have been deleted, if it were not being used on projects.

Well, I strongly recommend using Magnus Manske's "Bad Old Ones" tool.
You can create an automatic link to it on a category page (such as
[[Category:Images with unknown source as of 11 June 2006]]) but
putting the template {{delete assist}}. (I don't recommend putting it
on larger categories because it takes quite a while to run.)

It reads CheckUsage and tells you if the image is being used or not.
So you can easily identify "quick" deletions (not in use) as well as
those that need de-linking.

Well, in theory it does. It seems a bit broken at the moment. :(
Hopefully Magnus will get it up and running again soon.

cheers,
Brianna