[WikiEN-l] Image deletion

Wed Apr 5 21:30:48 UTC 2006

David Alexander Russell wrote:
> 
> How about an obligation on *any* admin who speedies *any* image to first
> of all save that image on their hard drive, and store a local copy of it
> for at least a week/two weeks in case the speedy deletion turns out to
> have been incorrect?

Sounds reasonable, provided that the image 1) is more that a day old and 
2) is not a verbatim copy of an image available online on a site that is 
clearly not a Wikipedia mirror.  (Those two exceptions may be called the 
RC patrol exception and the "you know where to find it" exception.)

In fact, that's pretty much what I've been doing myself, not only for 
images I've personally deleted but also for images I've tagged for 
eventual deletion.

Of course, a comprehensive archive would make this less important.  In 
fact, we can probably make another exception for images tagged by 
OrphanBot, since apparently the bot already archives them.

-- 
Ilmari Karonen