On 9/22/05, Stan Shebs <shebs(a)apple.com> wrote:
I would appreciate it if you would take the trouble to
see whether
an image was uploaded in anticipation of article use. For instance,
I often upload postage stamp scans in batches, and it may be a period
of weeks before I write all the articles that will use the uploaded
scans. You're not doing anybody a service by deleting these beforehand,
nor are you incentivizing me to create the articles more quickly or
to write first and upload later - more likely I'll just stop writing.
The policy Jimbo set out allowed a seven day window for a use to be
found for a nonfree image. If you need an image held longer, I
suggest putting a comment on the image description page so that
patrollers know that is what's going on.
Kelly