On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Tyler Romeo <tylerromeo(a)gmail.com> wrote: I am an admin, it took about five minutes to find the proper file name and undelete it again. HOWEVER - this was 16 months after it was deleted in the first place. The imperfect nature of people catching such changes in watchlists is the problem. This means that the delay until local restore can be arbitrarily long on non-super-popular pages. IF the Commons upload were to include the origin file / project and require the deleter at commons to notify en.wp admins to restore it there, that would solve the problem. Or, alternately, we could require that the image be added to all the constituent projects now using the file in article space upon commons deletion (undelete on the origin, add it to the projects for other ones that started using it). Put the onus on commons deleters to do that and make it a policy requirement that they did. I put wikien-l back in the cc list as these are non-technical proposals and would require ... I guess, commons process. I don't know what the commons list is, and am not on it to be able to post to it. -- -george william herbert george.herbert(a)gmail.com