[Commons-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Commons deletion issue

[David Gerard]

On 30/04/07, Daniel Kinzler <daniel at brightbyte.de> wrote:

> > I don't know if anyone has any suggestions to deal with this kind of
> > problem, or even if it has already been recognised as an issue.  The
> > non-technical answer is, of course, to copy the commons images to the local
> > wiki, but that kind of defeats the point of commons, doesn't it?

> It's commons policy not to delete images as long as the images are used
> anywhere, if the deletion is not urgent (copyvios and policy-vios can be deleted
> right away). Some people don't seem to get that into their head, though.


If it's not right there on the image page, they won't see it.

What needs to be done for it to show up right there on the image page?


- d.