Agimat made 191 wiki edits, all pics of himself

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Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Would very much appreciate feedback if anyone has any.

In general, images of items should not be uploaded to item pages. The primary exception to this are epic weapons or other "special" items with completely unique graphics. Instead, images of items should be uploaded to their corresponding fashion category or categories.

Why not include an image of what the item looks like? Why are "special" items excluded? If we don't want item graphics uploaded to the item page, why not include links to the corresponding Fashionquest page?

Example: I want to know what a "rusty short sword" looks like equipped. I would likely go to the "rusty short sword" page. Hm, no image. Now I have to look through the clunky FashionQuest guide to figure out where it's located. Why not just allow it to be added to the item page?

[Triode]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Done: https://wiki.project1999.com/P99_Everquest:Image_Policy

Would very much appreciate feedback if anyone has any.

First off - a big belated thanks for all the work you do on the wiki Loramin. I'm mostly a lurker on these forums, but I use the wiki all the time and probably would never have become a p99 regular without having it as a constant resource.

With respect to pics on individual item pages, I share Jibartik's feeling that they would be extremely helpful. When looking stuff up, I suspect a lot of us simply type into google: "p99 [item name]" and link straight to that page when trying to quickly decide whether to buy something. Having an image right there waiting for me would be a huge value add as a long time casual. I have spent more time than I care to admit fishing around on google images and Zam trying to figure out what something is going to look like only to guess wrong. Otherwise, I think the Policy is sound. Thanks.

[loramin]

And by the way people PLEASE don't do this. All it does is make a giant waste of time of me as I have to go back and revert all the images (I now have to wade through every one in http://wiki.project1999.com/index.ph...at&namespace=6 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]).

Literally all you will accomplish is wasting a ton of both your and my time: don't do it! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[monkeydoc]

This is like the kid reminding the teacher about homework. Dude tries to add a bunch of FQ pics (which the wiki is sorely lacking), and you get him suspended.

[loramin]

Originally Posted by monkeydoc [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This is like the kid reminding the teacher about homework. Dude tries to add a bunch of FQ pics (which the wiki is sorely lacking), and you get him suspended.

If all he did was add a bunch of pictures he would not have been suspended. He was suspended (temporarily) because he took perfectly good fashion quest pics, with nothing wrong, and deleted them.

That's very detrimental to the wiki: as I said, the ability to get "bragging rights" is what motivates some people to take the time to post pics. If someone wipes out previous contributors efforts, that discourages everyone from contributing.

[loramin]

Triple post time: I just want to emphasize that while the practice of deleting good pics to post your own is frowned on, I very much agree with the spirit of what monnkeydoc said.

User Agimat uploaded a great number of new and unique images to the wiki, which desperately needs FashionQuest screenshots. This is awesome, and I am grateful to him for doing it.

I suspended him simply to clarify this one practice, which was a very small part of his overall image uploads ... but I'm not trying to tar and feather him! Once things are clarified I fully expect this great individual will have their editing rights restored and they'll continue making great contributions (which, again, most of their uploads were).

[Jimjam]

30 day wiki ban for Azure Guard inc!

[gutterbrain]

Originally Posted by Jimjam [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

30 day wiki ban for Azure Guard inc!

[loramin]

Actually that URL was kind of dated (they thought they needed to namespace everything in the wiki's early days). I moved the page to just: https://wiki.project1999.com/Image_Policy

[Jibartik]

man thanks for all this hard work Agimat good job! we need these updates to our wiki.

I hope that this post makes OP real mad cus Agimat is an awesome player who has helped us all by doing this great community work.