Forum:SH:Wanted files

Since the mass image deletion, some very widely used images have been deleted, leaving scores upon scores of redlinks scattered all over the wiki.

For now, let's focus on the smileys. The saber smileys are very common in signatures, and now heaps of talk pages and forums are filled with ugly redlinks. In addition, the "lol" template file has left many redlinks.

We have two options: Get rid of every single redlink (there are thousands of them), or restore the images and source them. In the case of the smileys, we know for sure that Aiddat created them personally. It is also likely that the "lol" smiley is a public-domain image, though we'd have to confirm that first. In addition, there are a lot of animated signatures, created by Darth Aeonz, which leave a lot of redlinks on talk pages dating back to 2007 and 2006. Since the smileys and signatures were uploaded originally to Star Wars Fanon, a Wikia wiki, it can be assumed that, according to the copyright disclaimer on the bottom of the editing page, they were intended to be released to the public domain. Therefore, we know how to source these wanted files.

Should we restore these files and source them? It would certainly be much easier than eliminating all the redlinks. --C3PO the Dragon Slayer 6,000,000 forms of communication 01:25, 3 August 2009 (UTC)