Pierre Abbat wrote:
You deleted bobine120.jpg with the comment "wierd diagram in french, unused". It is used in the French Wikipedia at http://fr.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi?Le_Choix_De_La_Pellicule_En_Argentique . Please undelete it. In the future, if an old orphan image is not blatantly junk but you think it should be deleted, mark it as a delenda and let someone else check. Also, when you delete something that has been nominated for deletion by someone else, please note that fact.
oh F###. I just ASKED if the images on the english database were used in other wikipedias so that I could know if it was safe to delete them and I was told that no they're not - they have their own storage space.
I give up. I don't know how to undelete it - I don't think you CAN. But I won't be removing anything else so I won't screw up again.
It seems to me that the 'orpan' list as it stands is useless because it doesn't track references to the image by direct url in the english wikipedia, and it doesn't track ANY reference to the image in any other wikipedia either... there should be something to tell you if it's linked to from outside to at least give you an idea that you need to look.
Either all the wikpedias are unified, or they're not. It's too confusing as it stands.