On 30/06/06, Ilmari Karonen nospam@vyznev.net wrote:
I'm not actually even convinced the list is useful at all. The only reason I wrote that patch, besides the fact that it has been repeatedly requested on-wiki, was in an attempt to make the list at least somewhat more useful given that it does exist.
Well, en.wp insists on having explicit and confronting images for certain topics, so...
At the Commons we occasionally get irate requests to delete certain images because they've been used in vandalism attacks. We are somewhat hesitant to delete them, assuming they're licensed correctly, for the likely backlash of "censorship!". So once we found out about the existence of this, we have been advising wikis to use the Bad image list. But we still delete some images when they seem particularly superfluous and particularly confronting.
And by "we" I mean like, me and two other guys who follow these deletion requests on Commons.
I'm not a big advocate for the list, but this is my interaction with it.
Brianna en.wp,commons:User:pfctdayelise