Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5558012-20180130174019/@comment-10637-20180212170937

Just a head's up to those who are looking to clean up their wikis: in some cases, you can still find a file description page and see what's linking to it so that you may appropriately remove the embed from an article. In other cases, it appears that there is no trace of the video ever appearing on the wiki.

Here's an example on Muppet Wiki: this old version of the Muppets Most Wanted article shows a number of dead video embeds. On almost all of them, the corresponding file description page contains no trace of its existence: no history, no uploader, no upload or deletion log, nothing.

I was able to find a couple on Special:WantedFiles, but only two were listed there compared to the number of dead embeds on the Muppets Most Wanted article. I have no idea how many more there are out there, but fortunately, this is a "feature" we at Muppet Wiki resisted from the beginning for this very reason, so I suspect we shouldn't have too many.

Due to Wikia's lack of communication on removing this piece of content for our wikis, it appears that the best we can do is look around our wikis and hope to happen upon them by chance. A difficult task when one considers the size of some wikis (Muppet Wiki has over 32,000 pages).