Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion

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Images and media for deletion (IfD) is for listing images which are duplicates or otherwise unneeded.

For speedy deletion candidates, use {{db|reason}}. See WP:CSD#Images/Media for the criteria for speedy deletion. These are: duplicates, thumbnails, broken images, non-commercial, permission, no source, and unknown copyright images.
For copyright infringements, use Wikipedia:Copyright problems.
For other licensing issues, use Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images.
For images duplicated at the Commons use the {{NowCommons|Image:newname.ext}} tag instead of listing here, unless there's some reason the version here actually needs to be deleted.
For recovering deleted images — deleted images cannot be undeleted by admins; they are lost from the local server. If an image of yours, or one you linked to, has been deleted, you can list it on Wikipedia:Lost images and try to recover it from mirrors or forks.

Images that have been listed for more than 5 days are eligible for deletion if either a consensus to do so has been reached or no objections to deletion have been raised.

Purge server cache for today's IFD page — Purge server cache for all subpages

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1 Instructions
- 1.1 Listing images and media for deletion
- 1.2 Instructions for administrators
2 Old discussions
3 Footer

Instructions

Listing images and media for deletion

To list an image:

Add {{ifd}} to the image page.
Inform the uploader by adding a message to their talk page. You can use {{subst:idw|Image:Image name.ext}} (replace "Image name.ext" with the name of the image or media).
Follow this edit link and list the image at the bottom of that page. If it has been replaced by another image, also list that image, in the format "[[:Image:Foo.jpg]] - obsoleted by [[:Image:Bar.jpg]]".

State the reasons why the image should be deleted. Some people use the following abbreviations:

AB (absentee uploader) - The uploader has not contributed to Wikipedia in a long time, and is probably unavailable to answer questions.
CV (copyright violation) - The image might be used in violation of copyright.
NS (no source) - The image does not contain source or licensing info.
OB (obsolete) - The image has been replaced by a better version.
OR (orphan) - The image is not used on any pages in Wikipedia.
UE (unencyclopedic) - The image doesn't seem likely to be useful in an encyclopedia.

If you remove an image from an article, you should list the article from which you removed it, so there can be effective community review of whether the image should be deleted. This is necessary because image pages do not remember the articles the images used to be used on.