Forum:How long do images hang around for?

Does anyone know how long after deleting an image it becomes impossible to restore/undelete? Thanks-- Category:Acer4666 09:54, April 26, 2012 (UTC)
 * Never. The server will retain a copy of the image for archive purposes.— subtank  ( 7alk ) 10:09, April 26, 2012 (UTC)
 * Ah, thought so. For some reason you can now no longer undelete from the file page, which is what was making me think deleted images had been cleared-- Category:Acer4666 10:13, April 26, 2012 (UTC)
 * That is not true. To test:
 * Go to Special:Log/delete (On a wiki which has had images deleted years ago and where you have admin rights)
 * Click "earliest", and scroll down to find the earliest image you can, and try to undelete it
 * Here's an image I just undeleted: http://saintsrow.wikia.com/wiki/File:782646-untitled_large.jpg - the image is gone.
 * (I waited several days to see if anything changed, but it is still a broken image, so I've deleted it again. --user452 00:30, May 29, 2012 (UTC))
 * I've run into this problem several times, all with images which were deleted over a year ago. Deleted images are simply not kept "forever", but i do not know how long they are kept. --user452  03:50, May 19, 2012 (UTC)
 * The earliest deleted image I can view properly is Feb 2010, so it looks like deleted images are kept for at least 2 years. --user452 03:55, May 19, 2012 (UTC)


 * Clearly a Special:Contact question. Any answer from someone not Wikia staff is merely gueswork. -- Fandyllic (talk &middot; contr) 31 May 2012 12:56 PM Pacific
 * Thanks, but I didn't ask a question. It is a solid fact that no deleted images from before Feb 2010 are currently accessible.  --user452  03:21, June 1, 2012 (UTC)


 * I recently contacted Wikia about the horribly poor image quality of thumbnailed JPG images. And they replied that they won't increase the quality of the resized JPG's because they have problems of space, so they probably delete old images from the deleted archive to alleviate that problem. --Category:Ciencia Al Poder (talk) -WikiDex 09:34, June 1, 2012 (UTC)