[WikiEN-l] Fair use issues; we need serious help

Mark Wagner carnildo at gmail.com
Fri Jul 13 01:31:08 UTC 2007


On 7/12/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm currently going after fair abuse images with an axe. However, I am
> seeking a script or similar to help clean up the red links left behind
> in articles. I do the deletions themselves by hand in Firefox (because
> secondly, bot deletions are considered bad, but firstly, I can go a
> lot faster than most bots are allowed to), but it is considered bad to
> leave red image links behind in the articles. Does anyone have
> anything suitable to hand for the second part?

I"m working on a bot to deal with this.  It looks like the file links
for deleted images are reliable enough now to remove images after
deletion.

-- 
Mark
[[User:Carnildo]]



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