jkelly@fas.harvard.edu wrote:
William,
Quoting William Pietri william@scissor.com:
The 7 days here or 5 for proposed article deletion seems like a reasonable balance between friendliness and tidiness, but I'd be a little frustrated to find that something I was working on was gone because I'd taken the weekend off.
You're clear that we're discussing uploads of unusable unfreely licensed media here, right? Nobody's suggesting that the free content work of Wikipedia contributors be deleted more quickly.
Yep. I'm imagining a case where I put in a fair-use image. Somebody happens to delete that reference, making the image an orphan. 24 hours later, it's gone. I come back in a couple of days and I'm sad that I have to re-upload or talk somebody into undeleting it.
I know for serious contributors, 24 hours seems like a long time, but when I get busy in real life, I feel like coming back every few days to run through my watchlist is a fair effort. I'm imagining others feel the same. Perhaps I'm wrong.
William