On 9/22/05, Stan Shebs shebs@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