[WikiEN-l] Image deletion (was: External links to image boards with images of a child engaged in sexually explicit acts.)

Wed Apr 5 22:41:31 UTC 2006

On 4/5/06, Ilmari Karonen <nospam at vyznev.net> wrote:
> Jimmy Wales wrote:
> >
> > With images, though, there has grown this bizarre culture that we must
> > not delete anything until we have a consensus to do so.  This is partly
> > because images can't be easily restored, and there is some legitimacy to
> > that as a factor in how we do things, but I think it has gotten much
> > worse.  Wildly inappropriate images which do not even have a majority
> > support for keeping are kept in articles in a way that similarly
> > inappropriate text would be shot on sight.
>
> I think this is in fact a (if not the) major cause of this controversy.
>   I'm not at all surprised that many users are very nervous about image
> deletion: we still remember when CSD I4 was added in September and as a
> consequence people had to go to Answers.com and other mirrors to look
> for copies of hastily deleted images.  I don't know if any free images
> were actually permanently lost because of that, but it wouldn't surprise
> me at all either.

If I read Jimbo correctly, he's just saying that while the debate is
happening, the image should not be linked to from any articles. Not
necessarily that the image should be "permanently" deleted. I'm basing
this on "...are kept in articles..."

Steve