David Alexander Russell wrote:
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?
Sounds reasonable, provided that the image 1) is more that a day old and 2) is not a verbatim copy of an image available online on a site that is clearly not a Wikipedia mirror. (Those two exceptions may be called the RC patrol exception and the "you know where to find it" exception.)
In fact, that's pretty much what I've been doing myself, not only for images I've personally deleted but also for images I've tagged for eventual deletion.
Of course, a comprehensive archive would make this less important. In fact, we can probably make another exception for images tagged by OrphanBot, since apparently the bot already archives them.