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Your friendly administration has embarked on a spectacular new program to spiff up the image namespace and eliminate any images of questionable provenance. This is the Super-Terrific Wookiee-Tastic Image Sourcing Beautification Project!
What is this about?
Wookieepedia is a compendium of Star Wars canon. To that end, we have specific rules regarding the sourcing and usage of images. One of those rules says "An image will be speedy deleted as soon as an administrator finds it if ... No source for the image has been presented ... No licensing information for the image has been presented."
Yet for some strange reason we have a pile of images sitting around with no source, no license, or sometimes no info at all.
What can be done?
What can be done is to execute the rules that have been in place for years. Unsourced images will be deleted.
That sounds like a goo... wait, WHAT???
Yep. Deleted. Every single one of them. There is no requirement in the image use policy or the deletion policy that we provide any kind of grace period, so their existence has always been in jeopardy and their execution has finally been scheduled.
...unless of course someone were to properly source them.
So... you're not going to delete them all immediately?
No. We're going to give you two weeks.
On Friday September 26, every image without a properly filled description page, including a source and a license tag, will be deleted. They will be removed from every page in the main content namespace, and that will be that.
What about user images?
User images will only be deleted if they're in the main namespace in addition to a userpage. Do not take this as an invitation to break the user image policy or the user page policy, however, as the rules will be enforced just as strongly as usual (and probably more so).
What are the rules of this sourcing spree?
- Sources should be as specific as possible.
- License tags should be appropriate to the medium.
- Using the {{information}} template is highly recommended.
- Anyone who falsifies a source, intentionally or not, will be blocked from editing until at least the end of this project and possibly longer. If you don't know for certain where something comes from, don't guess. If you've been warned about false sources before, this could be your big chance to take a permanent no-expenses-paid vacation from Wookieepedia.
- Marking an image with unverifiable source info (such as a non-specific "starwars.com" source) doesn't count as sourcing and may be treated the same as falsifying a source. Doing this half-assed won't save your favorite unsourced images from deletion, and will in fact probably cause them to be deleted sooner.
Comments
Questions and comments go here. Whining goes here. -- Darth Culator (Talk) 17:23, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
- Any reason we're making the information template a recommendation instead of mandatory? jSarek 21:16, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
- Oddly enough, we've actually never made it mandatory in the image use policy. -- Darth Culator (Talk) 21:26, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
- I'll bet that's going to be a lot of pics getting deleted. (The uploader's fault. Correct?) --The Wolfe22 22:37, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
- We probably should make the use of that template mandatory, though. It just makes sense to have a set format. Should we do a CT thread? Doluk 22:50, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
- I think so. And while we're at it, a CT (perhaps the same CT) to clear out a lot of the excess verbage on the Special:Upload page. There's a lot there, most of it extraneous or outdated, enough so that no one reads ANY of it. jSarek 00:06, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
- Changes to the interface shouldn't require a CT. I've just eliminated much of the redundancy between MediaWiki:Uploadtext and Wookieepedia:Images. -- Darth Culator (Talk) 01:35, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
- I think so. And while we're at it, a CT (perhaps the same CT) to clear out a lot of the excess verbage on the Special:Upload page. There's a lot there, most of it extraneous or outdated, enough so that no one reads ANY of it. jSarek 00:06, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
- We probably should make the use of that template mandatory, though. It just makes sense to have a set format. Should we do a CT thread? Doluk 22:50, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
- I'll bet that's going to be a lot of pics getting deleted. (The uploader's fault. Correct?) --The Wolfe22 22:37, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
- Oddly enough, we've actually never made it mandatory in the image use policy. -- Darth Culator (Talk) 21:26, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
Thing that bothers me: what if the image comes from starwars.com, but does not exist there anymore due to their recent site purge update? In that case can I provide source as simply starwars.com, not the full link? Mauser 16:15, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
- You can use the internet archive. You won't be able to access Hyperspace stuff with it—which won't be an issue—but anything else should be okay. -- AdmirableAckbar (Talk) 16:27, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
Excellent. I just hope I'd seen this sooner :P . I tend to look at Recent changes more than the notice at the top of the page, heh heh. Drewton 
(Drewton's Holocron) 01:45, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
Unsourced Images
Is there any way to obtain a list of all of the unsourced images? If so, how? --67.242.64.116 19:30, 15 September 2008 (UTC)