Battlestar Wiki talk:Island of Misfit Images

• The sole misfit image from "Galactica Areas", for Aft Damage Control, has found a home. --Spencerian 16:06, 17 January 2006 (EST)

Thanks! I guess I'll keep looking for pics to post on here and hope more people do the same. Feel free to add/remove anything from the island. I intended it as a working space (but didn't feel it merited a whole project). --Steelviper 16:08, 17 January 2006 (EST)

Project?

I actually think a project might be in order. This would only be a portion of its mission, but it would take over the Images section of Standards and Conventions (since that's not really where that shouold live, ultimately), and it would cross-coordinate with Characters. I'd want to call it something like Aft Image Control or Auxilliary Image Control... Or, failing those series-references, the Ministry of Images. However, I suppose I'll leave it to someone else to create if they see fit. I'd then move this to be a sub-page of that project (to avoid accidentally slamming dail-up users who visit the main project page, too). --Day 23:28, 17 January 2006 (EST)

Thanks for the formatting/html. That really makes it a lot more legible when viewing (and not just editing). I'll propose a project on Standards and Conventions and see if there is consensus that it deserves a project page (perhaps a place that could coordinate the image requests, character image requests, image standards, image deletion suggestions, and misfit images). Maybe an Image Control Station like in the CIC? Though if this becomes a project/subproject I'd probably rip the content out of here and onto a project page so people wouldn't be afraid to dig in and make comments/edit/add pics. --Steelviper 09:00, 18 January 2006 (EST)

Cool, to be terse. --Day 15:17, 18 January 2006 (EST)

Printed Media Copyrights

I deleted a scan of the Viper Mark II found in The Official Companion book. While stills of broadcast media is, in effect, an authorized reproduction in terms of fair use (since the derivative is not really a genuine motion picture element of the original work), we can never use scans of printed media since it's essentially a pirate of the original work, which is also a still image. It would be as if we moved an iTunes download of an episode to here; it doesn't change the aspect, or flavor of the original work and so is an illegal copy. Lord knows I, too, considered a scan of this for here, but knew this was not a good idea. We can transpose the technobabble details of the guns and other features from here to the wiki, however. --Spencerian 13:58, 16 February 2006 (EST)

Indeed. IANAL, but I believe that a screencap is fundamentally different in nature from the production from which it was taken (no movement, no sound), and it's fairly clear that nobody would use the few screen caps we have on the various articles in lieu of watching the show. However, there's a good case to be made that reproducing still images from a book creates a concrete disincentive to actually buy it. --Peter Farago 19:49, 16 February 2006 (EST)

Low Adoption Rates

Due to a dropoff in adoption rates, and the increasing backlog of misfits, a number of the older misfits that have not yet found a home may soon be taking that long walk off a short pier. So, if there's anything on this page that you care to keep, please find a place for it and remove it from this page, or at least move it to the "adopted" section indicating you have some idea where it may eventually end up. Otherwise the some of the older misfits that are not linked elsewhere will be deleted. --Steelviper 08:50, 29 March 2006 (CST)