Gallery talk:Fawful

Several sprites from Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story were removed by. added them back. I removed them. It appears an explanation is required as to why those sprites were deleted. It's simply because they are unnecessary. Sure, many users use them, but they are quite unnecessary for the conveyance of information, as stated by Baby Luigi in her edit summary. This is probably the only page they are on and they are really just Fawful/Dark Fawful in various poses. At least one was even fan-made, which is definitely not allowed! No, these images have to go. However, we can't delete them, not with so many users using them. But what if someone already has their limit of personal images is using one, but they have been using it the longest and thus, must adopt it? When these users added the excessive sprites to their pages, they didn't know that in a few years, they would all be deemed unnecessary. They didn't know they'd have to adopt one, so they did not prepare for it and likely used up their personal image count. What I'm saying is, would it be OK to remove the sprites from the gallery (and possibly remove the gallery, considering it was really just created to house all those sprites), but not tag them as personal images? Here's the images, just for reference so one can see why they are unnecessary.

21:50, 19 November 2016 (EST)
 * Why was the bug form image removed? It shows a different angle from the image currently in the article. 21:55, 25 August 2017 (EDT)
 * Those are different forms. The one here is the weakened state that appears right after Dark Fawful's defeat. The one on the article is his superpowered Dark Star Core form, Mario and Luigi's final boss. That one needs to stay.
 * 22:03, 25 August 2017 (EDT)
 * This is unneeded how, exactly? Official animations are always nice. 18:37, 26 August 2017 (CT)
 * MarioWiki is not an image gallery of every single animation in the game. Most of these sprites do little to illustrate Fawful's role in Mario & Luigi games, and many of them were added simply because of fan bias. If Fawful is allowed to have this many sprites in his gallery, then so does the more major characters like Mario, Luigi, Peach, etc. 20:10, 26 August 2017 (EDT)
 * And they certainly should. So how about instead of removing this type of image from the places that have them, we add more to the places that need them? 19:19, 26 August 2017 (CT)
 * Per Doc. So long as there isn't a gross amount of overlap, I don't see a reason to intentionally get rid of valid information. 20:21, 26 August 2017 (EDT)
 * Tell me, where can the use of "Fawful spinning in a circle" be used outside of this gallery? Or the one where he's glowing without any context whatsoever? Or the one where he's carrying Peach? Or the two near identical animated gifs. Or the one sprite where the background isn't removed properly? Or the Dark Fawful transformation one? Why does Fawful have a huge amount of sprites per game, but other characters aren't allowed to have this many sprites? Where's the valid information there? 20:27, 26 August 2017 (EDT)
 * I don't recall anyone saying that the other characters shouldn't have the same amount of sprites. Also, what's your criteria for "valid information"? 20:29, 26 August 2017 (EDT)
 * It doesn't need to be set in stone, it's pure common sense that you should upload only what's necessary to gallery pages without bloating these pages up, especially for characters who have made multiple appearances in many games. Also, I had removed Small Mario pictures because there was an excessive amount of screenshots that were completely redundant and convey the same information about the form, same applies here. My criteria for valid information is basically, it illustrates the character, it has some practical use when constructing galleries or templates, or they sprites are unique in style from each other to have different variations of them, and it demonstrates their personality. This is why I think keeping the Fawful laughing or applauding is fine, since it showcases his personality, but the rest should go. 20:33, 26 August 2017 (EDT)
 * I'm certain that there are many characters whose galleries would be blank by those (frankly really strict and rather arbitrary) standards. I don't think it's necessary to have every single frame of an animation as separate images, and I'm not saying that every single one of these images should be put back, but at the same time, if the images are different from those around them, I still don't see why they shouldn't be included. 20:42, 26 August 2017 (EDT)
 * I mostly took my standard from the screenshots guideline outlined here and my own judgement, because I think it's reasonable to have a limit on how much sprites a character should be allowed to have per game to not excessively bloat the gallery with too many sprites. Those limits aren't meant to be arbitrary nor are they hard-set in stone, but rather, a general guideline on how to keep the gallery page to a reasonable length and amount of sprites. I'd also argue that those Fawful sprites don't look distinctive to each other at all. Fawful carrying Peach is just a picture of Fawful carrying Peach, stripped out of all context whatsoever, same thing with Fawful about to shoot an energy ball. Some Fawful images, I think, could be returned like the ones I mentioned above but I think most of them don't serve a unique purpose at all and simply serve as gallery filler. 20:50, 26 August 2017 (EDT)
 * The spinning one and showboating ones also show his personality, due to demonstrating his flamboyance, IMO. 19:52, 26 August 2017 (CT)
 * I do like the showboating one, because it's far more apparent, but the spinning one is just Fawful spinning. That's all I see in that sprite. 20:53, 26 August 2017 (EDT)
 * As far as I'm aware, there isn't a limit to how many images can be included into a gallery. And the relevance of an image outside of a gallery doesn't need to be taken into account, and isn't taken into account for several images included solely in the multitude of galleries we have. 20:56, 26 August 2017 (EDT)