Forum:SH Archive/Image Management: Unused images

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This is a subject I've been meaning to bring up here for some time: image management. We REALLY need to work on this. The two main things are Unused images and Uncategorized (untagged) images. For this thread: the unused. As you may know, I have speedy'd a TON of unused images over the last few months, but our section is still way out of control. Here’s a little sister-wiki comparison:


 * MuppetWiki (currently at 10,324 articles) has 1 unused image.
 * Memory Alpha (currently at 20,282 articles) has 18.
 * Wookieepedia (currently at 36,176 articles) has 1,421.

I have no problem with keeping a few extra images around for particular reasons, but this is ridiculous. We need to get this section down to a manageable level. I don't see why this category should stay any more populated than other maintenance categories. So, what needs to be done?
 * Use it or lose it, I say. We all need to go through these images and see if there is any use for them in any existing articles. If there's not, delete it.
 * Maybe there are images for subjects that don’t have articles. If so, added them to the Gallery of requested articles.
 * Any user images that you personally uploaded but are no longer using, please tag for speedy deletion. And in the future, if you remove a personal image from your userpage, speedy it right away.

Now, we could go through them all individually, but I’m thinking a radical new approach may be better: we tag them all CSD (or perhaps make a special new tag just for this) and generate a gallery. We keep them all for a week (as with IFD). People can put them in articles or do what they want with them. Whatever's left after a week’s time: delete.

How about it? -- Ozzel 22:14, 5 August 2006 (UTC)