[WikiEN-l] Jpg versus jpeg file extensions

Carcharoth carcharothwp at googlemail.com
Fri Jul 9 16:55:39 UTC 2010


On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Chad <innocentkiller at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> I noticed that a picture in an article was no longer displaying when
>> it had been displaying before:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menin_Gate
>>
>> The file is:
>>
>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Menin_Gate.jpg
>>
>> But in the article it had been entered as "File:Menin_Gate.jpeg".
>
> It would seem the Commons image has been deleted:
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Menin_Gate.jpeg&action=history

Oh. Thanks for working that out. I did check the deletion logs at
Commons, but for the .jpg file. Doh!

> I'm not an admin, so I don't know if it was a duplicate of
> [[commons:File:Menin Gate.jpg]] or not, but it was deleted
> for lacking copyright info according to the log.



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