Forum:Another image related issue

I'm going to go back to regulating the images in histories sections a little earlier then I planned... Last night I was starring at Kuma's page and thinking "Thats bad..." this morning however I saw Nami's page and realised this is a little more common then I expected.

Problems encountered on Nami's page that are being reflected in the rest of the wikia;


 * Images used for deecoration. i'll give a example; Nami in the bath scene.  Yeah, I know there are some pervs who like this kind of thing on the wikia and I know our rules do give leyway for such things, but I think most capable people can work out what somee taking a bath is like.  This wasn't the best thing Nami did in the recent chapter and another image would have done better.  But this has become quite common, to use an image for decoration and I saw someone asking for more images to be added to Lola's page for this very reason this week.  That is disappointing, both there wasn't any images to be begin with and the request to be added for pure decorational reasons rather then seeing the request to support.


 * Image overload returns. Example from Nami's page, we don't need two images for the Miss Doublefinger Vs Nami fight... Thats too much. Also editors should not rush to add a image from every chapter, or as they've been doing recently, as soon as the character appears in a front page story or a image per paragraph. Thats better off in the "appearances" section if it just show what they look like now. This pretty much seems to be a lot of Kuma's page problems.  Likewise, when a new arc begins, editors shouldn't look for the first image to snap next to a paragraph.  :-/


 * Lack of regulation. I've see people requesting better quality images and request for better ones while I wasn't a regular, but this also involves removal of uneeded images... You know don't be afriad to remove images if it gets too much guys.  I will note Nami's page got progressively WORST the further it went down for images.  Even now if you read the ealry sections of the page, you see a good image to text ratio.

Now Image Guidelines doesn't cover instructions on when to post this kind of images or how to regulate a page. I don't think we need to update them, but I'd like a few people to express their thoughts on the matter. Essentially we may be considering just updating to state what a good "Image Vs Text" ratio is or something. I don't know. Unless someone sits there and prevents image overload occuring, when whoever is regulating images goes away for long periods of time, this is the consquences of their absence. If anyothing, I'd simply like to update to give more grounds and confience for my fellow editors to remove a image when images get out of hand, because last time this issue came up I recall someone mentioning they were afriad to do this.

However, if we can avoid any serious updating of IG this time, I'll be glad as it feels too much like nit picking and not enough like allowance for a little freedom for the wikia needs. I myself love we can add images on a page as it makes the page easier to read. But even though isn't wikipedia I do agree with the fact that the more images you have on a page the more issues you have explaining the use of so much copyrighted material. One-Winged Hawk 09:34, January 26, 2012 (UTC)