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

Fri Nov 17 14:12:52 UTC 2006

I believe that is not happening due to technical limitations. Currently we
just subst: current day/month/year. I would like that though.

It takes longer than 7 days because there are WAY too many of them to delete
and unlinking them is sometimes a serious pain (pd-soviet images are
particularly cluttering the backlog)

PS (unrelated): Magnus your tool has issues with .gif images I believe. I do
not know if you fixed this recently.
PS (unrelated): If your tool would detect "http" (possible source) and
treated such images differently it would be of great help since sometimes
people forget to remove the no source template. (sometimes it is a hunt to
find a url in a block of text on the tool)

On 11/15/06, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> When I just read about admins getting scolded for deleting an image
> that was long past its "due date", I thought about the nature of the
> templates and the message they convey.
>
> Currently, they say something like "this image needs more source info"
> etc., and give the date the template was added. If nothing changes,
> the image *may* be deleted after, what, a month? This would be the
> equivalent of "best before" - in reality, it might last a lot longer
> than that.
>
> What if the attitude of the templates were changed? "This image lacks
> this and that. It will be deleted on XXXX-YY-ZZ unless this
> information is provided." My tool [2] can be used to find images that
> have reached their final use-by date, and could be deleted with good
> reason.
>
> 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.
>
> Magnus
>
>
> [1] http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/bad_old_ones.php
> [2]
> http://www.newlaunches.com/archives/samsung_develops_machine_gun_sentry_robot_costs_200k.php
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