Thomas Dalton wrote:
Hi, Thomas. You seem both very determined to win this argument, and very reluctant to explain why it matters so much.
Could you tell me more about what's motivating you here?
I think reducing the time before unused unfree images can be deleted would improve Wikipedia. What else would my motivation be?
I was thinking your motivation was to reduce some real-world harm. E.g., images sitting for a week causes difficulty X to person Y. I gather you're saying it's a more abstract thing, an aesthetic preference?
The reason I'm pursuing this is that I think it's easy for experts to forget how opaque and frustrating Wikipedia can seem to non-experts. The real-world harm that I'm eager to prevent is frustrating average and newbie editors, for whom getting something undeleted is not the relatively minor thing it is for one of us.
William