CommonsDelinker - Commons-l

17 Nov 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 &lt;wikipedia.kawaii.neko(a)gmail.com&gt; 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 &lt;magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com&gt; 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.wikimedi…
 [2]

http://www.newlaunches.com/archives/samsung_develops_machine_gun_sentry_rob…
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