MediaWiki talk:Images

Trolls aside, this is presently the most linked page that doesn't exist. We really ought to brainstorm on what the image quality policy is going to be.

I think some good guidelines would be:

• Absolutely no photographs of television screens.
• Avoid website watermarks whenever possible.
• Television network watermarks are acceptable, but things like "NEXT ON CARTOON NETWORK!" certainly aren't.

What do you folks think? Good start?--Rosicrucian^Talk 00:01, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

I think Transformers Wiki:Images would a better name, including quality guidelines and other stuff, like a policy on officialness and it being found in Transformers media. —Interrobang 00:41, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

I had a thing I wrote when I was trying to get permission from Remy to use one of his pics. Not about image quality so much as image conduct- but the one proceeds naturally from the other in a sort of Confucian Ideal. Might be useful as a starting point. (This is conversational not formal.)

*rubs head, ruminating* Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki has a complicated, largely unwritten, code about the images it uses that's more often moralistic than legalistic. Hasbro stock photos are preferred, then images we take ourselves and release to the public domain, and failing that some external sources. There's more than 6000 images on the wiki. We try to avoid sources where toy images are a large portion of the site content (as in your case) because it's... not very fair. (This often means Seibertron's too-dark toy galleries, which are but a tiny puddle in their vast sea of content.)

-Derik 00:28, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Work in progress

Just started this page. Many sections are obviously still empty. I'll work on it some more in the evening, but if you want to add to it or correct any mistakes I may have made, feel free.--Rosicrucian^Talk 15:41, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Got to the empty sections sooner than I thought I would. Alright folks, is there anything I'm missing here? Will this page serve as a good set of guidelines?--Rosicrucian^Talk 19:15, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

The 'leaked information' statement sits very, very strangely in this paragraph. I assume it refers to leaked pictures-- but then it should really say so. Is there a page articulating our 'no leaked info' policy? Because there's a lot of confusion about that among newbies and I think it could stand being written down. (I'm not entirely convinced that listings showing up in computers constitutes 'leaked' information, and I'd like see a more thorough explanation why.) -On Vacation in Kona

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