Battlestar Wiki talk:Think Tank/Promotional Images

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Here's my first cut. Feel free to the adjust resolution (I'm not sure if I was too conservative, or too liberal for that matter). Some of our coolest ones that we have are actually 800x500ish, so I don't think 1024 would be THAT bad. Also, as we achieve more of a consensus somebody might create a subpage of this with a draft policy. I wanted to see if there were any major shifts in the consensus regarding the guidelines before I started hammering one out. --Steelviper 07:32, 5 March 2007 (CST)

1024*768 was just a suggestion off the top of my head. Aren't the pictures widescreen? If yes, then the resolution would be slightly different. Or we could say "1024*768 or a similar widescreen (16:9 aspect ratio) resolution". But doesn't NBC only want 400*400 pics? We'd still be above that. But then, we aren't just a picture storage site, so it might be ok. --Serenity 09:05, 5 March 2007 (CST)

Most of the images are not in 16:9 format, and appear to have been taken by a camera. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 22:19, 5 March 2007 (CST)

Yeah, he promotional images are probably professionally taken and not stills from the video footage. --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 09:00, 9 March 2007 (CST)

More discussion?

Did we need more discussion on this issue before going ahead for a formal vote? -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Sanctuary Wiki — New} 09:07, 7 June 2007 (CDT)

We can vote on it, but the proposal appears to lack information on who is going to do the handiwork. --Spencerian 12:27, 7 June 2007 (CDT)

Right, we may want to get that ironed out before a formal vote. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Sanctuary Wiki — New} 20:54, 7 June 2007 (CDT)

While it sounds at first like an overwhelming task, but it'd be greatly simplified by a report of all images ordered by filesize. Work your way from the top until the filesizes are such that they couldn't support a "restricted" resolution, and you'd be done. Then you just have to keep an eye on the "latest images" to make sure nothing new comes up. Or if the report could be made permanent (special page, or whatever), then you could continue to use that to catch new offenders. --Steelviper 21:20, 7 June 2007 (CDT)

Notes on change

I've gone ahead and placed this proposal under "proposals without consensus", since there isn't really a course of action here. Also, since we weren't targeted by NBCU for the takedown, unlike DrewCypher, et al., something like this may not be necessary at all, and the current tagging and image usage procedures seem to be effective. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Sanctuary Wiki — New} 11:40, 4 September 2007 (CDT)