Anthere wrote: Because it's more complicated to store them in a restricted-access deletion queue, and no such queue has been implemented yet. Article undeletion was a much higher priority, and also essentially easier to do (as it doesn't require moving and hiding actual files, merely shuffling data between tables). Therefore it was implemented much earlier. We have complete backups of the image upload directories, and can restore files from backup if they are not available elsewhere. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)