User blog:KerryKoopa26/Proposed image policy

I've been thinking: we've gotten too many junk images on this wiki. Many of them are useless. Still others are one-time-only comment showoff images.

So, I've been thinking. Whenever you want to show people some random image in a comment (e.g. an occurence of 413 in a TV show screenshot), please upload it to another site, and put the link in your comment. This will significantly reduce the amount of junk images we have.

I understand it's an extra click for viewers, but it's for the greater good. Also, the previous comment images will be just fine, not deleted.

As for Deepizzaguy and Phantomjerad who upload images as sort of a "signature" in their comments, they can continue to do so. I can handle categorizing images from just two users. But for other users, if you upload anything not related to WordGirl, it will be removed. Once this policy has taken effect of course.

I also want people to give a descriptive name for each file. All other wikis enforce this, we should too. If you name your picture "Screen Shot 2013-09-20 at 10.23.54 PM" or something, it will either be renamed or deleted.