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

[Andrew Gray]

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.
>
> Note that commons admins often rely on my CheckUsage tool to check where an
> image is used. Due to the way to database is fed from the parser, this might
> miss some uses, though. Specifically, it may miss any ''conditional'' use of an
> image, i.e. used directly or indirectly inside a {{#if}} or {{#switch}} clause.

It strikes me that the problem is - does the toolserver, and by
extension the CheckUsage tool, encompass mediawiki.org? I have a
sneaking suspicion it doesn't...

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk