Board Thread:Administrator's Noticeboard/@comment-7697305-20130427224914/@comment-4674838-20130614030130

Hey, I just went through and deleted those spam pages.

Typically we delete duplicate or unused files just to tidy things up, so I've deleted those 2 duplicate videos with the -0 and -1 suffixes.

Just a bit of info about the process: before deleting duplicates, someone (typically the admin doing the deleting) needs to go to the File: page and check WhatLinksHere (in your toolbar, if you don't have it, it's under Customize -> Popular tools) and make sure the file isn't used on any content pages.

For example, you can see that in this edit I changed the file link from the duplicate to the original on the page where the duplicate was being used. After the duplicate file is no longer used, it is safe to delete it.

Btw, I think edits to existing threads do give notifications (so long as I'm still following the thread, which I am). But in this case, I've been so busy with work that I haven't really been online recently :P - sorry