William Pietri wrote:
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.
In fact I have a real-life example, where I was on vacation for a couple weeks, during which some vandal blanked half of a stamp-related article, which included the only refs to some fair-use scans I had made. Nobody but me watching the article apparently, so the vandalism went unreverted; then somebody came along and marked the now-unused images as orphans, them somebody else deleted, all before I got back. Apparently nobody thought it odd that a longtime WP admin would be uploading unused fair-use images! Fortunately I had local copies - stamp scanning and post-scan cleanup is sufficiently laborious that without the backups, I probably wouldn't have troubled to redo the work.
Stan