There is a current proposal on meta to grant commons admins the ability to view deleted image/image talk pages on all projects. (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metapub#Global_deleted_image_review)

This proposal is important because there are hundreds of thousands of images on commons which began their Wiki-life on other projects and were later transferred to commons with incomplete or inaccurate history information and were then deleted. There are also instances of images on commons being falsely claimed as sourced from another wiki. Without the ability to completely review these images they may be handled incorrectly. Today commons admins are forced to coordinate with other projects via IRC, email, etc, to evaluate these cases ... most of whom turn out just fine. This converts a couple of seconds clicking into minutes of nagging and conversation. In practice most commons admins just don't bother with it and the images remain unchecked.

Your input is requested at the poll: It wouldn't be right to push through a wide impacting proposal on meta without input from the projects at large. (The Village pumps, noticeboard, etc for all the major projects are being pinged about this proposal, please pardon the spam.. :) )

Thanks.