[WikiEN-l] Deleting orphaned unfree images

[Stan Shebs]

William Pietri wrote:
> The 7 days here or 5 for proposed article deletion seems like a 
> reasonable balance between friendliness and tidiness, but I'd be a 
> little frustrated to find that something I was working on was gone 
> because I'd taken the weekend off.
>   
In fact I have a real-life example, where I was on vacation for a couple 
weeks, during which some vandal blanked half of a stamp-related article, 
which included the only refs to some fair-use scans I had made. Nobody 
but me watching the article apparently, so the vandalism went 
unreverted; then somebody came along and marked the now-unused images as 
orphans, them somebody else deleted, all before I got back. Apparently 
nobody thought it odd that a longtime WP admin would be uploading unused 
fair-use images! Fortunately I had local copies - stamp scanning and 
post-scan cleanup is sufficiently laborious that without the backups, I 
probably wouldn't have troubled to redo the work.

Stan