Forum:Image problem

hi

See:
 * http://callofduty.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:Banning_pony_images_from_being_uploaded_to_the_wiki
 * http://callofduty.wikia.com/wiki/Forum%3APersonal_Images
 * http://callofduty.wikia.com/wiki/Forum%3AEliminating_the_upload_of_Pimp_My_Gun_Images.
 * http://callofduty.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:Unbanning_PMG_images

So, after a recent argument in chat over the upload of Pimp My Gun images and pony images - an agreement was reached that both are not useful - which is why the problem is that we only banned one of them. And after that, we started focusing on renaming images in order to keep other images. Why would we do that?


 * As an encyclopedia, the images are far from useful. They do nothing but make our files an absolute mess, they're completely random, and they do absolutely nothing for the encyclopedia - and are unnecessary.
 * As a community site, the images can easily be uploaded somewhere else, such as an actual image database. We are not entitled to host these images and there is no reason they should be uploaded here for personal use.

So, it's fairly obvious that we have some sort of issue here with these images. Which is why we can either do two of these options:


 * 1) Unban PMG images from being uploaded to the wiki
 * As we banned them awhile ago due to them being useless and being an issue to rename, we left countless other categories of personal images that are also useless - and we've started image renaming projects that help us deal with this sort of thing. We're pretty much going against our own reason for removing them by still allowing all other personal images.
 * 1) '''Completely disallow all personal images from being uploaded to the wiki.
 * Notice "uploaded to the wiki". This won't be entirely removing them and disallowing them from the wiki, as a lot of people have made the assumption in previous forums involving this topic (see a few of the links above). The point is: we're an encyclopedia, there is absolutely no reason these images should still be uploaded here if they aren't going to benefit the wiki as an encyclopedia but will only be used for personal reasons. As for the argument "we have unlimited storage space", there is absolutely no reason we should keep these images purely because they have some use. This is exactly the same reason we removed COD:G - because there are some articles that are not beneficial to the wiki and are pretty much just extra stuff.

tldr That we've had this issue for a long time, and in the past we've failed to reach an actual solution. So I figure we should use either of the options above in order to finally solve it. -- 03:47, June 29, 2012 (UTC)