Board Thread:Administrator's Noticeboard/@comment-5078462-20140415130051/@comment-7697305-20140416211235

Yeah, I haven't really been around/checking things like Category:Candidates for deletion and Category:Candidates for speedy deletion over the past couple of months as much as I used to. Sorry about that.

The original reason why no admins have been deleting unused images en masse is in that there is a chance that there could be useful images (even those which were intended as "bragging") that just haven't been put on/were removed from pages for whatever reason...but it's starting to look unrealistic that we'd be able to make that distinction per image in a timely manner given the sheer volume of unused images on this wiki as of now.

With this in mind, there's no need to feel bad about marking images for deletion – we do have an image policy for a reason, after all, at least in theory... . I agree with the idea of posting a blog post about it, too – short of posting it on a high-traffic content page, that's probably the most viable method we have of spreading information on this site.