[WikiEN-l] Re: yet another image lost for posterity

[geni]

On 11/29/05, Arwel Parry <arwel at cartref.demon.co.uk> wrote:
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>
> In message
> <31073ef90511281617x7d096a26m53c249a3f1d17e3a at mail.gmail.com>, Mark
> Wagner <carnildo-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> writes
> >Assuming Wikipedia is running along smoothly, an administrator can
> >delete one image every twenty seconds, if they don't notify the user
> >first or remove the image from pages where it's used, and if they do
> >only the quickest check to see if the image is tagged correctly.
> >Deleting all these images would take 185 man-hours of effort.
> >
> >If the administrator removes the image from articles where it's used
> >before deleting it, it takes about 40 seconds to delete an image.
> >This increases the effort needed to 370 man-hours.
>
> Just a minute - are you honestly advocating that images should be
> routinely deleted without removing links from articles which use them?
> Because in that case I STRONGLY object to this attitude. For some time
> I've been coming across articles on my watchlist which suddenly have red
> image links in prominent places: apart from looking damned ugly, it's
> highly give a highly unprofessional impression of Wikipedia. It should
> be OBLIGATORY in my opinion for the people deleting images to FIRST
> remove the links to them, and hang the extra work involved!


{{sofixit}}

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geni