On 7/27/07, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote: Just an example of long-term unreverted vandalism for your amusement:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Art_Tatum&diff=32294907&ol...
External links, language links, categories and a sound sample reference were deleted in December 2005 by an anon. The sound sample itself was permanently deleted a month later citing "orphaned fair use". The lost sections were progressively rebuilt by human effort over the 18 months following, except for the sound sample which remains lost.
-- Tim Starling
Tim, an ogg file named Image:Elegie (Art Tatum).ogg is on commons. Is it the same file?
To avoid the need to delete orphaned media, it would be handy to have a brief list of articles where a media has been used in the past - the last five articles would usually be enough to help work out why it has been orphaned.
On 7/27/07, Garion96 garion96@gmail.com wrote:
This kind of vandalism happens, for some reason, quite often. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alai/prevcat-Jan07b. Many of the articles which are/were in that list had the same kind of vandalism. External links, references, categories & interwiki links were removed.
I've just worked through 34 on that list, and only four were actually damaged. The majority of those entries appear to be due to maintenance tags and normal editing.
-- John