User blog comment:Sannse/Before You Adopt/@comment-25980608-20150515012651/@comment-8-20150515040141

I think you are talking about when an article is blanked, AwesomeOrange89. Anyone can repair that with the manual rollback method above. But if the article has been deleted fully then it takes an admin to restore it (or staff, VSTF, etc. of course).

And yes, images can be restored by admins in the same way as articles.