[Commons-l] Getting rid of "best before"

Wed Nov 15 11:53:54 UTC 2006

"Magnus Manske" <magnusmanske at googlemail.com> wrote on Wednesday, November
15, 2006 10:05 AM:

> Theoretically, one could write a bot which could do the deletions, so
> no admins get scolded. The idea of a deletion-bot with admin rights (a
> virtual equivalent of [2];-) might sound scary, but setting it for "no
> edits for a month since addition of the template", combined with the
> image resurrection capability, should calm this.

I had the same idea yesterday :)

Combined with a SHORT and MULTILINGUAL message automatically posted ONCE on
the talk page of the user who uploaded it and maybe even combined with email
the user would be awesome. The message could say that the image was deleted
because ....  and that it could be restored if the uploader posts a message
at ...

That bot could deleted the nld-category of today - 10 or something and we
would have much less work.

If we'd even combine that bot with a delinker bot, it would be like a dream
came true.

Regards,

Flo