On 28/09/2007, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
A reasonable image-pruning project, whose members vow to reduce excess images but leave the appropriate minimal appropriately balanced number required to inform and attract on the pages, and make sure that those images are tagged and rationale-ed appropriately, would be an excellent thing. Especially as a contrast to the rabid deletionists. Letting the naive image adders (or few cartoonish-encyclopedia-preferred nuts) duke it out with the rabid deletionists isn't working. I think those of us in the center have to be a bit more assertive.
I like to reduce resolution on excessively huge comic scans and screenshots (they should be no bigger than to provide a decent image in the article; 250-300px in most cases IMO), and will sometimes write rationales for album covers. (All it takes is a sentence or two in the text! And some album and book covers are really encyclopedic subjects, e.g. Peter Saville's work for Factory Records, or the post-1968 covers of Scientology books with covers straight out of the Xenu story. And that includes the volcano on 'Dianetics.') I figure that's reasonable work on both ends of that score.
- d.