User:MECU/OrphanImages

The first drop that occurred in February 2007 was due to User:BJBot marking orphaned fair use images that were then deleted after 7 days. It removed approximately 20,000 images and marked many more that were either restored into articles after having been removed for various reasons (vandalism, for example) or corrected their status to declare they aren't really orphans. For example, some images are used as a link to the image for various reasons, and while the MediaWiki software believes they are orphans, they are not.

The BetacommandBot's addition of {{subst:orfud}} and {{subst:frn}} to image description pages caused the second drop of about 15,000 images in May 2007.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Unusedimages&limit=500&offset=100000