On 11/28/05, Justin Cormack justin@specialbusservice.com wrote:
For a while we had some bot assisted notification for some classes of speedy delete; hopefully these will return soon if the bot bureaucracy can be overcome (er, performance improves). This particular deletion is not about this really, it is about communication of changing policies to people.
Agreed, this is about politeness and respect for fellow community members. There are two problems of rudeness here : users who, despite the current active warnings, don't take time to tag their images properly; and users who, in cleaning up the wiki, feel they have the right - or that their time is so valuable that they need - to delete the contributions of others without warning.
It's not just a matter of the time-investment of the admins exercising the delete button. It's also a matter of the users who feel really betrayed when they discover one day that a favorite image is gone forever -- without even a backup.
Suggestions : 1) provide an undelete-image feature! 2) provide a quarantine area where one can put dubious images "immediately" while waiting for polite notice to run its course
Ant and others: If you have lost images to zealous copyright enforcement, see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lost_images
SJ