On: Flickr Accidentally Deletes a User's 4,000 Photos ...

[pavel_lishin]

"Someone" would, yes - we're not all as smart and paranoid as you.

Anyway, the artist has originals backed up, but the article points out that all of the links to those images, and embeds, are now broken.

[valyagolev → pavel_lishin]

that's a good example of URL being an important part of the data and not just a piece of metadata

If URL is constructed from the data somehow (auto-slug from the title, hash or something), such restoration becomes way simpler