The bot alters a page and alerts people about it on the watchlist. By just deleting the file it can take weeks before somebody even notice that there is something wrong.
Besides that we have maybe 10 project that allow fair-use.... Why do we need to break links at 600+ wiki's for 10 wiki's with a different policy? On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Martijn Hoekstra <[email protected] > wrote: > On Aug 5, 2013 10:10 AM, "Huib Laurens" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Not delink it when its in use on other projects will leave a lot of > broken > > links on projects. I can't believe that would be something what we want? > > > > Why not? It immediately alerts whoever looks at it that there is something > wrong with the image (which there is). Sure, it doesn't look pretty, but > you can't have your cake and eat it too. Unless we would want to fork > development and presentation on our projects, but that's a whole different > discussion. > > > > > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Martijn Hoekstra < > [email protected] > > > wrote: > > > > > On Aug 5, 2013 9:58 AM, "George Herbert" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:54 AM, David Gerard <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > On 5 August 2013 08:43, Tyler Romeo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Huib Laurens < > [email protected]> > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > >> Suggestion 3: Restore the file on en.wiki if it gets deleted on > > > > > Commons... > > > > > >> No coding needed at all. > > > > > > > > > > > This right here. It should be trivial to just have an admin > restore > > > the > > > > > > deleted file. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Or, indeed, for the delinker bot to mark it for restoration. > > > > > > > > > > > > > ...if the same filename was used in Commons as in the source wiki. > That > > > > does not solve the "now used on other wikis" problem, however, for > those > > > > other wikis. > > > > > > > > That is quite possibly a least-effort trajectory however... > > > > > > > > > > Maybe don't delink it in the first place when it is in use on any > projects > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > -george william herbert > > > > [email protected] > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Met vriendelijke groet, > > > > Huib Laurens > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- Met vriendelijke groet, Huib Laurens _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
