I faced an interesting issue where I took a fairly artistic photograph of a heritage monument & added it via my Wiki account to the monument's page. The photograph proliferated across dozens of clickbaity tourist sites & I received a speedy removal notice a year or so later, stating my photograph infringed copyright rules since it was probably taken from public sites. Oh the irony.
I am dumbfounded that no effort was made to check the provenance before it was marked for speedy deletion & the appeals process is fairly opaque. I am fairly certain several rich media items would be facing similar fate because rest of the internet finds copypasta easy enough, without writing any credits & Wikipedia believes the media was lifted & not being person's own work. The real loss is emotional to the people who contribute in good faith.
Now, it seems my photograph isn't mine & internet moderation has deemed its provenance belongs to some clickbait designer. I was fairly proud of the pretty rainy day pic adorning the article page for a couple of months. It hurts me whenever I think of it.
The monument is 'Agrasen ki Baoli', a step well system in New Delhi, India (and a tourist attraction). I had no mental bandwidth to fight this deletion, so let it slide.
- Speedy deletion here means that it would be deleted in < 1 week, assuming the user does not contest the deletion. I can't find if the deletion was contested.
- Pkbwcgs is on a semi-retirement/break, according to their talk page.
- The image was deleted by Fastily[4] on the same day.
Now that the image has been deleted, I think the option here is "Deletion Review". The purpose section is pretty informative (albeit dense): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review#Purp... . But the instructions section recommends first contacting "the closer" on their talk page, since that is usually faster. I'm not sure who the closer is exactly in your case, but Fastily looks to be quite active, and since they have admin privileges to delete a page likely has the privileges to undelete a page. Posting a message on their talk page might be your best bet!
I am dumbfounded that no effort was made to check the provenance before it was marked for speedy deletion & the appeals process is fairly opaque. I am fairly certain several rich media items would be facing similar fate because rest of the internet finds copypasta easy enough, without writing any credits & Wikipedia believes the media was lifted & not being person's own work. The real loss is emotional to the people who contribute in good faith.
Now, it seems my photograph isn't mine & internet moderation has deemed its provenance belongs to some clickbait designer. I was fairly proud of the pretty rainy day pic adorning the article page for a couple of months. It hurts me whenever I think of it.
The monument is 'Agrasen ki Baoli', a step well system in New Delhi, India (and a tourist attraction). I had no mental bandwidth to fight this deletion, so let it slide.
[1] Talk page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Souravmishra26#Spe...
[2] The image in question: https://ecdn.thelistacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/A...