GuildWiki talk:Image use policy

Draft
After having this link sit red for far too long, I've butchered Wikipedia's Image use policy into something that I think fits our site better. The rough draft is sitting in User:Rainith/Test, take a look. This is not GuildWiki policy. I'm not trying to pass it off as such. Post comments here, fix any spelling/grammer mistakes that I have almost certainly made. If you feel that I've left something out or that I'm plain wrong on this or that point, I'd prefer that you post here for the moment as opposed to editing my test page. Hopefully we can get something hammered out that most (if not all of us) can agree on. --Rainith 22:59, 16 May 2006 (CDT)


 * I wholeheartedly endorse moving your test page to Image use policy immediately. Any small bugs can be hammered out; all in all, that is the image use policy we've been suggesting/enforcing. &mdash;Tanaric 12:09, 18 May 2006 (CDT)


 * Done. I appreciate everyone who commented/fixed my errors.  :)  --Rainith 16:12, 18 May 2006 (CDT)


 * I like #9, annoying when there are vanity shots Skuld  16:25, 25 May 2006 (CDT)

From User talk:Rainith/Test
Ok I'm not sure how much I have to contribute to this, the legalities stuff I don't know much about but I wonder if it would be useful to include a longer section on image types because the image type is quite important. You know when to use each format. --Xasxas256 17:17, 17 May 2006 (CDT)

looks good, except...
the 16 megabyte thing. Image:SoraTHK.JPG is only 291K, but MediaWiki is already choking on it if I try accessing its description page (though directly inlining it works). I have to access it directly via. -PanSola, Table of The Lyssa Advocacy Front (sing) 00:09, 18 May 2006 (CDT)
 * That just says that you can upload files that big and the software will accept them, I state that files should be under 150K. --Rainith 00:12, 18 May 2006 (CDT)
 * BTW, if you want to delete that image (as it doesn't work), here is the link. --Rainith 00:15, 18 May 2006 (CDT)
 * Well it does "work":



I just can't access the image article (or try to scale it down) d-:. -PanSola, Table of The Lyssa Advocacy Front (sing) 00:44, 18 May 2006 (CDT)

Image upload abuse
While this probably isn't the best place to start this discussion, I can't think of a better one, so I'll just put it here... :) When I look at Special:Ipblocklist right now, I notice one thing: The lack of spam recently is a very nice thing, but we have a lot of bans for image upload abuse recently. I count five cases within six days. I'm not sure what to think of that. Should we do something to prevent larger scale abuse here? Is it possible to somehow restrict image upload further? Do we even care? :) --84-175 (talk) 08:39, 29 May 2006 (CDT)
 * I care, but I don't think there's anything we can do except mroe rigorously patrolling it. - 08:42, 29 May 2006 (CDT)

Shortcut?
Other entries in Category:Policy have shortcuts, and I feel this one will be called enough to justify one as well. So, what works best? GW:IUP, GW:PIC, GW:IMAGE, something else? I like GW:IMAGE myself, but it breaks from the pattern of a three character code. --- Barek (talk &bull; contribs) - 15:34, 12 June 2006 (CDT)


 * There is precedent for longer names. GW:CONTENT. –70.20&#x260e; 16:08, 12 June 2006 (CDT)


 * I like GW:IMAGE myself. GW:IUP sounds like a birth control device to me.  :P   --Rainith 16:09, 12 June 2006 (CDT)

"Do not use images taken from the Official site"
That policy is unnecessary. If you check the terms of use, we are free to use any image as long as we are "non-commercial" and we add the appropriate legal/copyright notes and disclaimers. The key section is this one: "We allow the non-commercial mirroring of our downloadable Content, such as images, videos, demos, etc., as long as the content is not altered in any way. [...] -- 14:38, 18 July 2006 (CDT)