[WikiEN-l] Image deletion

[David Alexander Russell]

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How about an obligation on *any* admin who speedies *any* image to first
of all save that image on their hard drive, and store a local copy of it
for at least a week/two weeks in case the speedy deletion turns out to
have been incorrect?

Cynical

Ilmari Karonen wrote:
> Jimmy Wales wrote:
>> With images, though, there has grown this bizarre culture that we must
>> not delete anything until we have a consensus to do so.  This is partly
>> because images can't be easily restored, and there is some legitimacy to
>> that as a factor in how we do things, but I think it has gotten much
>> worse.  Wildly inappropriate images which do not even have a majority
>> support for keeping are kept in articles in a way that similarly
>> inappropriate text would be shot on sight.
> 
> I think this is in fact a (if not the) major cause of this controversy. 
>   I'm not at all surprised that many users are very nervous about image 
> deletion: we still remember when CSD I4 was added in September and as a 
> consequence people had to go to Answers.com and other mirrors to look 
> for copies of hastily deleted images.  I don't know if any free images 
> were actually permanently lost because of that, but it wouldn't surprise 
> me at all either.
> 
> I've occasionally thought of setting up a bot to download and archive 
> every file that is uploaded to Wikipedia.  I think just the knowledge 
> that permanent copies existed _somewhere_ would probably calm people 
> down a lot, even if the copies wouldn't be easily accessible.  I don't 
> think the bandwidth and storage costs would be prohibitive.  I'd have to 
> get someone's help to set up offsite backups, though.
> 

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