Thread:Irishfeet123/@comment-24150802-20150404234242

Hi Irishfeet123.

There's a couple of points about images that you might not be aware of so I've outlined them below. There's more information about this at in the Images section of Guidance for Scribes or you can reply here if you have any questions!

We try pretty hard to not have duplicate copies of images on the wiki, because the more images we have, the harder it is to find an image when we needed one, and if there are multiple copies of the same image, then if that image ever needs to be changed, all copies have to be edited. When you want to use an image on a page, could you please check first to see if it already exists? The easiest way to do this is to think about which page it might be on, and then look there to see if it is actually there. For example, for the The Icy Arachnid quest scroll that you added to the Fall Festival page, if you look on the Icy Arachnid quest page, you'll see the original version of the image there. I think some of the other images you've uploaded recently would also already have been on the wiki.

When an image does need to be changed (e.g., if something has changed in HabitRPG and the image on the wiki is outdated), then it's much better to upload a new version of the existing image, instead of uploading a new image with a new file name. This keeps the wiki neat (no duplicate images) and lets us easily follow the history of the image, and means that we don't have to adjust all links to the image. You can find out how to modify an existing image at "Replacing versus Deleting" in the Images section of Guidance for Scribes.

Image file names are important too. They should be descriptive, rather than being screenshot names or similar. See "File Names" in the Guidance images section.

Most importantly of all, all images that are taken from HabitRPG in some way must have copyright information added to them. That's a legal requirement. See "Copyright" in the images section.

Would you like to go through all the images you've uploaded recently to see if they need to be fixed up in any way? Any that already exist elsewhere should be marked for deletion and the links to them should be changed to point to the original images. Any that are new should have the appropriate copyright message added. If you'd rather not do this, that's fine - I can make time to do it in the next couple of days.

Let me know if you have any questions! 