[Commons-l] CommonsDelinker

Fri Nov 17 15:39:38 UTC 2006

"and unlinking them [deleted images] is sometimes a serious pain" [copied
from thread: Re: [Commons-l] Getting rid of "best before]

What is the status of the CommonsDelinker bot, why does it seem inactive?
Was there a decision to stop it?

Bence Damokos
huwiki

On 11/17/06, Cool Cat <wikipedia.kawaii.neko at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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<http://tools.wikimedia.de/%7Emagnus/bad_old_ones.php>
> > [2]
> > http://www.newlaunches.com/archives/samsung_develops_machine_gun_sentry_robot_costs_200k.php
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