On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Huib Laurens <sterkebak(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The bot alters a page and alerts people about it on
the watchlist. By just
deleting the file it can take weeks before somebody even notice that there
is something wrong.
How about the best of both worlds, the bot makes a null edit to alert
people who have the article watchlisted, and the link stays broken to alert
everybody else.
Besides that we have maybe 10 project that allow
fair-use.... Why do we
need to break links at 600+ wiki's for 10 wiki's with a different policy?
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Martijn Hoekstra <
martijnhoekstra(a)gmail.com
wrote:
On Aug 5, 2013 10:10 AM, "Huib Laurens"
<sterkebak(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Not delink it when its in use on other projects will leave a lot of
broken
> links on projects. I can't believe that would be something what we
want?
Why not? It immediately alerts whoever looks at it that there is
something
wrong with the image (which there is). Sure, it
doesn't look pretty, but
you can't have your cake and eat it too. Unless we would want to fork
development and presentation on our projects, but that's a whole
different
> discussion.
>
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Martijn Hoekstra <
> martijnhoekstra(a)gmail.com
> >
wrote:
> >
> > > On Aug 5, 2013 9:58 AM, "George Herbert"
<george.herbert(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:54 AM, David Gerard
<dgerard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On 5 August 2013 08:43, Tyler Romeo
<tylerromeo(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> > > > > > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Huib Laurens <
> sterkebak(a)gmail.com>
> > > >
wrote:
> > >
> >
> > > > > >> Suggestion 3: Restore the file on en.wiki if it gets
deleted
on
> >
> Commons...
> > > >> No coding needed at all.
> > >
> > > > This right here. It should be trivial to just have an admin
restore
> the
> > > > deleted file.
> > >
> > >
> > > Or, indeed, for the delinker bot to mark it for restoration.
> > >
> >
> > ...if the same filename was used in Commons as in the source wiki.
That
> > does not solve the "now used on
other wikis" problem, however, for
those
> > other wikis.
> >
> > That is quite possibly a least-effort trajectory however...
> >
>
> Maybe don't delink it in the first place when it is in use on any
projects
>
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