Board Thread:Community Announcements and Events/@comment-4544033-20150131025434/@comment-4984687-20150131160705

SuperSajuuk wrote:

Caractacus IV wrote: My question is why focus only on getting images for ESO when the other games have pages with no images. Arena, Daggerfall and Morrowind are like shells, like someone wanted them to be pages, but left them completely incomplete. ESO is the most recent game. It's better if we focus on trying to improve ESO first, especially as it will become more affordable for everyone to contribute (the lack of contributors here for it is due to the subscription based model, we should see a contributor increase when it become B2P in March).

We really can't get many contributors for Arena/Daggerfall though, they are extremely old games that very few can play, so leaving that to just be an on-going project is better than trying to tie any users into contributing to them. Morrowind is an easily obtainable game and can be cleaned up with not too many issues.

I think we'd have more images here for these games if the requirements for "they must be 600x1000" weren't enforced. To me, I don't care what resolution an image is uploaded at: as long as I can actually "see" it in good quality, resolution is meaningless. A 1280x720 image might look smaller, but it's an image that is in good quality. The entire point of the image dimension policies is so that the photos can easily fit into the template, making it easier for users to see. Atvelonis uploaded a couple of images a couple of days ago that didn't fit the policy. I notified him and his newer ones fit the policies, they're also easier to see considering the better resolution and fit better in the template.

It's not hard to get an image in 600x1000. Unless it's not possible for the NPC, there's the exception. The image policies are only there for the better of the wiki. A low quality image which doesn't fit the guidelines shows sloppyness and wouldn't benefit the wiki in the same way as one which fits the guidelines. And sure, the guidelines are in an odd place right now but there's no reason to defy the image policies. No one is in a hurry to crop a photo at a different size.