Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1613840-20130227182256/@comment-3030984-20130227202841

Anything that is used on a page or template should be safe. The odd images may be deleted due to caches being stubborn, but it can always be claimed back. I'm sure Staff have covered most known special cases.

Image spam has been known to be an issue here for a long time. There are unused images dating back to the early WikiCities days. I'll be glad when this is done, and hopefully we (admins) will be able to keep image spam low going forward - reluctance in the past being due to the mass number of spam images already present.

While I agree that images won't be used right away, I'm sure a few hours/days is enough time for usage.

Community Central is not an image repository: Fact. While images for userpages are allowed, the wiki does not facilitate hosting of content such as fanart.