Karen,
Regardless of the issue of images being used in other wikis and of having an indication of where to look at (seems to be a very important issue no ?), maybe it would be wise not to delete any images with a title in an obvious foreign language. Especially if this language is used in one of the international wiki. I understand it's really tough if it's in javanese language though.
But in this case, I must say I'm puzzled : you recognised a french title, with a french diagram, so probably it's related to french wiki. You assume it's unused. Why not ask to french wiki or on the international list ? Just in case, for safety, even if somebody told you maybe our image space was not common ?
As somebody stated it, if our stuff is in common, the link must be seen, otherwise just pretend it's not there, until we are able to check ourselves. If really the image is bothering you (if you fear it's copyrighted for example), I highly recommand you ask on the international list or directly on the specific wiki (you can write to us in english :-)). Please.
By the way, I take the opportunity to indicate something that is getting a problem to my point of view. Do you guys are not troubled by the increasing numbers of messages that gets everyday ? I was away for a week, when I came back, I had over 250 messages in the mail box. I guess that these last few days, the number of messages is over 40 per day. I'll be away most of august, I'm afraid I'll have to disconnect from the list otherwise it will overflow. Say...arenot they some issues that might be treated on another list ? I appreciated the effort that were made to direct people to the cvs bugbase for bug report...
Maybe I am only bothered because I can't read as quickly as you do...but do not expect non-english to necessarily see a message that might concern them (such as an image deletion issue...)
cheers
anthere
and btw2 : I like the new en.wiki software and interface (though I definitly had to give up using Netscape, it overlaps text, logo and tool bar real bad ;-)). Welcome Opera !
--- Karen AKA Kajikit kaji@labyrinth.net.au wrote:
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.
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