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CommonsDelinker deleted image without replacing or providing new location
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Author: bugzillaspam

Description:
See https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:410px-Sun_halo_optical_phenomenon.jpg

Delinker log: https://tools.wmflabs.org/delinker/index.php?image=410px-Sun_halo_optical_phenomenon.jpg

This REMOVED the image tag from my user page on Wikipedia, and left no indication which I could find of where the image now lives, if anywhere. I do not appreciate bots removing content from my User page.

EXPECTED BEHAVIOR:

  • CommonsDelinker replaces media links with links to the new canonical version.
  • CommonsDelinker providers users with some way to find the new canonical media version.

EXPECTED GRACEFUL DEGRADATION:

  • CommonsDelinker, if deleting media links, warns users when media is deleted from their personal User page.

ACTUAL BEHAVIOR:

  • CommonsDelinker deletes media links from User pages with no warning.

Version: unspecified
Severity: normal

Details

Reference
bz62596

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 3:04 AM
bzimport set Reference to bz62596.
bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

No need to notify Users about removal of deleted links (delinking).

bugzillaspam wrote:

Your bot removed *an entire image tag* from *my User page.*

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Neurophyre&diff=360733829&oldid=270548683

This is overkill and antisocial behavior on the part of your bot. Even leaving a broken Image tag, which was quite clearly intentionally placed in the wikitext by a human being, is better than automatically deleting it with zero notice to anyone.

Leaving a message on the User talk page when messing with a User page is a common courtesy if your bot is going to fundamentally alter the actual content on the page.