Commons talk:Deletion policy

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I have made the following edit, because the text beforehand mentions “low-quality or redundant images”, and the paragraph gives a process for requesting deletion based on the previous paragraphs criteria. This is just a clarification to remove ambiguity. I’m putting this here on talk for transparency. - Chris.sherlock2 (talk) 07:52, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Commons:Deletion policy#Appeal is refreshingly short, but it's hard to understand. It starts:

To appeal debates of image not deleted, you might first want to discuss with the admin who closed the discussion. If you believe the deletion was done in error, appealing deleted images can be done at Commons:Undeletion requests.

I don't understand "appeal debates of image not deleted". Guess: "appeal against a conclusion to delete made in closing a deletion discussion".

"Appealing deleted images can be done" is comprehensible but awkward. Perhaps "you can appeal against it"?

(And how about the possibility of an appeal against a speedy deletion?)

And it goes on to say:

If the decision was correctly based on the current licensing and project scope pages, you should express your dissatisfaction on a respective page.

I'm rather lost here. Perhaps something like "If you now understand that the decision was correctly based on the current licensing and project scope pages but find some of the wording there obscure, then you can propose a reworded version at Commons talk:Licensing or Commons talk:Project scope or can ask others to rewrite it."

(Actually it looks as if the paragraph is intended to tell people where they should express their dissatisfaction not with the wording of policy but instead with policy itself; if indeed the latter, then this might be rephrased as "If you'd like to bang your head against a brick wall....") -- Hoary (talk) 01:09, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]