2008/8/8 szwedzki suidisz@gmail.com:
Such files are very delicate in terms of building a (preferably positive!) image of the project, i think.
Well yes the file was being used by en and they were rather upset to find it had been hastily removed.
If a user (Richiex, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Richiex) converts Commons into a self-pseudo-pornographic picture gallery with own private parts, this calls for immediate reaction.
He's been uploading that stuff since August 2005 I think the immediate bit could be tricky.
Additionally, files that have their equivalents of a better quality ought to be removed in my opinion.
We generally don't take this approach.
If my statement is called vandalism... Multichill wrote in my talk: "Dear Szwedzki, please see the deletion guidelines. You deleted several pictures which are in use at wikipedia articles so clearly in Commons:Scope.". Oh yeah: "Private image collections and the like are generally not wanted. Wikimedia Commons is not a web host for e.g. private party photos, self-created artwork without educational purpose and such. There are plenty of other projects in the Internet you can use for such a purpose, like Flickr and others."
None of the the images in question have any problem with those requirements.