MarioWiki talk:Image use policy

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  • Images should be optimized and not exceed 5 megabytes in file size.
  • Images' dimensions should be in the original size and never exceed 5000 pixels in width or height.
  • Images cannot exceed an area of 12.5 million pixels or about 3500x3500 for a square image.

This rule should be changed because original, official artwork, namely, scenic artwork from recent games, such as this, this, this, this, this, this, this, and this must be resized according to that policy.

But I'm not sure why this rule is here. Is it for fair use or is it to prevent the wiki from carrying the burden of a large image? Icon showing how many lives Mario has left. From Super Mario 64 DS. It's me, Mario! (Talk / Stalk) 14:23, 23 February 2014 (EST)

Maybe you can take this to the forums in the General Discussion topic? BabyLuigiFire.png Ray Trace(T|C) 16:06, 23 February 2014 (EST)
I think it would be very large. This wiki should only summarize the games, artworks are just an addition. PidgiWiki is an example of wikis that can contain any size of artworks.--
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15:43, 24 February 2014 (EST)
The rule is suspended until further notice. We might get serious on restrictions, but not necessarily those restrictions, and we don't want to have to resize everything twice. --Steve (talk) Get Firefox 16:21, 24 February 2014 (EST)
Ok, thanks, Steve! Icon showing how many lives Mario has left. From Super Mario 64 DS. It's me, Mario! (Talk / Stalk) 19:28, 24 February 2014 (EST)

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I think this project page can be better organized with the use of MediaWiki headers instead of four bullet points with sub-bulletpoints. Like so:

Format

Screenshots

Naming

{{aboutfile}}

Something to this effect. --Wildgoosespeeder (talk) (Stats - Contribs) 05:02, 8 February 2016 (EST)

This would make the page neater, it's fine by me. --TucayoSig.png The 'Shroom 22:08, 8 February 2016 (EST)
I think it's unnecessary. There's only four points, so it's pretty straightforward to find what you're looking for, and the screenshots and aboutfile points really don't seem substantial enough for full sections. The fact that the whole page is currently a (relatively) compact list is also a good thing, since people tend to not want to read long, multi-faceted policy pages. - Walkazo 23:42, 8 February 2016 (EST)