On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 19:38:22 +0100, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Why is deletion of images permanent ? Is there a good reason it is so while articles may be restored ?
While images deletion is permanent, it really tips the balance in favor of deletionists, I do not think it is fair. If there is no possibility to retrieve a deleted pictures, deletion should possibly not be as easy than just clicking on delete.
Is there a solution other than retrieving lost images on our mirrors ?
If the image has been there long enough to get into the upload dumps you can retrive it there, e.g. all the images which have been deleted since 2005-02-03 but existed before that time are in the 20050203_upload.tar dump avalible at http://download.wikimedia.org/archives/en/
Anthere
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