From DoomWiki.org Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be recorded in this page's edit history. Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! == Reasons to nominate an image for deletion == Hi Quasar. Wow, did I hit my head on something and start to disagree with everything that everyone posts? :P Regarding [[File talk:Wiki-wordmark.png#Deletion?|this]]: # ''the amount of benefit to the server from deleting files is minimal'' — Um, no one ever thinks about server load unless you or Manc mentions it. :> I think the power users trust you to flag problems, and have other things on their minds anyway. # ''Deleting things just for the sake of deleting them has very little benefit.'' — What? It discourages people from using us as free hosting, and reduces clutter for the next person doing maintenance (who we want to be nice to, because they don't grow on trees). Orphaned non-free media absolutely needs to be deleted; I suppose I've made rare exceptions where the intended use is [[:File:Strife MAP11 map.png|incredibly obvious]]. The MediaWiki developers have talked about "purging" deleted files on Wikipedia to improve performance, although they've never done so (except by accident during hardware upgrades), and indeed people have argued that deletions over a certain age be auto-purged so that even admins don't have perpetual access to the copyrighted content. # ''the wikia version of this image currently has very high SEO'' — Newbie question perhaps: doesn't this contradict what we've done elsewhere, e.g. reorganizing Entryway, to improve our rankings by *differing* from Wikia? [[User:Ryan W|Ryan W]] 16:26, 15 March 2014 (UTC) : I probably gave the impression that I necessarily assume you're thinking the things I said, but I just wanted to explain some reasons that deletion isn't necessarily as large a benefit as it might seem while discussing that particular resource which, while certainly not vital, could be satisfactorily repurposed. As far as the "free hosting" point I have to agree, we don't want a sea of irrelevant things sticking around that have no use. Let's just make sure there's not a good use before we get rid of them. :) If server disk space were a concern (currently is not AFAIK) or we had a serious copyright issue, I'd consider purging deleted material in those cases. Right now we really don't have cause to think about it. For the wikia image, my reasoning there is that wikia's copy is showing up and ours currently is not. If we can bump theirs down and possibly even replace it, then that's good for us. I dunno if it will work or not. ;) --[[User:Quasar|Quasar]] 18:03, 15 March 2014 (UTC) :: Um... no, I didn't get that impression. You have a right to your opinion (as would anyone else joining the deletion thread) that those points apply to that image. I disagree, but I also didn't want to sidetrack the thread with what I said above, which is really not about that image but about how we tend to assess our whole stock of uploads to date. If this post makes no sense then please ignore it; we've probably no chance of convincing each other anyways. :> [[User:Ryan W|Ryan W]] 15:05, 21 March 2014 (UTC) Summary: All contributions to DoomWiki.org are considered to be released under the CC BY-SA 4.0 International (see Doom Wiki:Copyrights for details). By contributing, you agree to be bound by the Terms of Use. Your changes will be visible immediately. Please enter a summary of your changes above. Do not submit copyrighted images or text without permission! This includes text taken from in-game codices or logbooks, or from official instruction manuals, strategy guides, and other such books. This project is not affiliated with id Software, Raven Software, ZeniMax Media, Bethesda SoftWorks, or any other commercial software developer or publisher. Use of trademarked logos and other protected intellectual property is solely for the purpose of analysis and critical commentary on the identified products and associated fan community activity, and does not imply any endorsement by any of these organizations or their employees, past or present. Upload images to the wiki. Don't forget to categorize pages! For testing, please use a sandbox. View this template Cancel | Editing help (opens in new window)