I know that's what they're SUPPOSE to do - but I've heard tales of other issues as well. It hasn't been my personal experience that the Commons Admins do a lot of overzealous deletions - but if it helps to prevent even one overzealous deletion - yay. :)
I tend to agree it "shouldn't" be necessary - but given people's concerns about the importance of the files - figure it's at least worth a try. :) Plus I find MaxSem's addition to be rather amusing.
On Jan 4, 2012, at 11:46 AM, Platonides wrote:
On 04/01/12 11:49, Max Semenik wrote:
On 04.01.2012, 7:21 Gregory wrote:
To try and help with categorizing images used specifically for documentation (and which are specifically for extensions) - and to help explain their importance to admins before they delete - I've created a couple of headers:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:MediaWiki_extension_file
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:MediaWiki_documentation_file
Counterparts on MW.org:
I've made a small clarification[1] to the template, though in my experience even promise of "do it and be desysopped" doesn't prevent crazy Commons admins from deleting stuff without discussion.
Those statements of "refrain from deleting it unless absolutely necessary" are useless. If they have the copyright correctly set, they wouldn't be deleted. And if they are copyvios, they would be nonetheless. It's fine to put a template explaining what is it used for, but that text makes the sysop looks a bit dumb.
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