Thread:Jester of chaos/@comment-37044330-20190918223710/@comment-14660436-20191031220136

So you want to address policy even though we don't have any written rule that says that "unneeded" images should be deleted? Fan-art, pornographic images, deliberately offensive images used to troll or spam pages and duplicate files are the only kinds of images that have any kind of validation for being deleted or if the uploader of a file requests their own image to be deleted. There is no point or rule for deleting files after a page is set to be deleted.

And "that user got the page deleted for plagiarism, that is the pain they must take for breaking the rule"? This certainly isn't "policy" either. This stance does not help the Wiki in any way. It just annoys the userbase and adds more needless hoops to jump through. If a user uploads a lot of their own images to a page which they plagiarized from, but genuinely desire to rewrite the article in their own words after the page in question gets deleted, then why would you want to add insult to injury by deleting all of those images when the user would have still liked to use them for the article? And it's not like they could "lose" those images either, because they can grab them from their own list of contributions. If I did all of this to punish a user, I wouldn't feel like I taught them a lesson. I'd feel like I just wasted their time and my own.

Wikis aren't democracies, but they definitely aren't meant to be dictatorial over small issues like this.