[WikiEN-l] More fair use deletion wreckage

Fri Dec 2 09:20:23 UTC 2005

That's a problem similar to one I see with categories.
We need a way to record which articles an image has been on (not the
other way around) and we also need to see how a category changes.

Right now, we can only see it clearly if someone removes a cat if
we're looking at the article, while looking at the entire cat should
be sufficient.

Mgm

On 12/2/05, Stan Shebs <shebs at apple.com> wrote:
> I unexpectedly found myself in Anthere's position today - checked on
> my gallery of fair use postage stamp images today, and as expected,
> images for which I hadn't yet written the article had been deleted,
> but also some images long used in my article about Austrian stamps.
> Turns out that some anon had emptied out half the article, this went
> unnoticed for several weeks (it's on my watchlist, but must not have
> checked it that day), then while I was on vacation and not examining
> watchlist daily, the bot came along, marked the images as orphans,
> and a couple weeks later somebody else deleted. After *that* a nice
> anon quietly restored the article, leaving it unclear why the images
> were deleted in the first place.
>
> No moral to the story, except perhaps that figuring all this out (and
> re-uploading from my backup copies) is time that could have gone into
> content development. I suspect all this publicity is going to bring
> a new crop of vandals wanting to "prove" that WP is a failure, so
> even more time will go into defending rather than improving.
>
> Stan
>
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