Wookieepedia:Trash compactor/Wookieepedia:Images and media for deletion

IFD, or "that obsolete system that was used tonight for the first time in a year and a half"


Honestly, I don't even know why this system still exists. The Ifd tag is universally treated exactly the same as a Delete tag, and nobody ever bothers to list images on the project page. We just tag the image (usually as obsolete), and an admin comes by and deletes it. I was reminded of the project page's existence tonight when actually bothered to list an image on there, which I just deleted outright. This is the first time since November 2012&mdash;repeat, two thousand twelve&mdash;that the page has been edited. I think it's safe to say that this is no longer an officially-used process and that therefore it is not necessary to go through the formality of a CT discussion to deactivate it since it is already essentially dead. I'd be willing to get that quite a few "newer" users don't even know this page exists.

Therefore I propose to get rid of the system. In the extremely rare case that the deletion of an file is disputed, simple disagreements can be worked out on the file's talk page, and more involved discussion deserves full community consideration here in the trash compactor where it will be seen by the whole community, not just a subset of users that have the project page on their watchlist and/or happen to see it on recent changes. Given those conditions, the project page is fully obsolete. Since it has useful edit history of old discussions that people may wish to review in the future, I will propose redirecting it to Trash compactor instead of outright deletion, so as to preserve the edit history.

The template, unlike the project page, is actively used, but in modern usage it serves the exact same purpose as Delete and can be replaced with Delete with no loss of useful information. Furthermore, it only serves to split the list of pages awaiting deletion between two separate categories for no real reason, making it slightly more difficult for admins to review the CSD categories. Besides, files are automatically separated from non-files on the category listings anyway, so there is no benefit to segregating them in a separate category. Furthermore, no policy mentions the template or gives any instructions for its usage; it is referenced only by the project page.

So there's your reasons for deletion. Since the template and project page have different reasons, they are listed separately. Good night. undefined

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