Question why with a number of Foundation people on this list havent these photos just been deleted as an "office action", I know its big stick action but at least it resolves the immediate issue that these should have been deleted.
This is a matter of institutional politics in Commons.
As you say, an office action would be an intervention of the Foundation on administrative turf, a recourse that the Foundation understandably wish to reserve for the most serious of events to avoid wearing its authority. Because of this, we have to rely on the administrative corps, which does not function as a coherant institution, but as the sum of contributions of the random administrators who decide to intervene on such or such event. This occasionally leaves a great deal of influence in the hands of people who lack the insight to see the finality of things rather than stop at matters of pure form, and occasionally of people who are too intellectually lazy to completely understand even the forms.
Our system works well for usual cases where simple matters can be railroaded through mediocre people. It has every chance of failing in exceptional circumstances, when some actual understanding is required. It is not that there is no intelligent person in Commons, but that intelligence can hardly be expressed in the collective voice that emerges through our system. -- Rama