User blog comment:Emitewiki2/A new project!/@comment-1455034-20150620164712/@comment-4628859-20150620215801

@Emite - The question is: Will new users or any users look up images often enough to warrant standardizing image formats?

I have never done so nor do I think most people would. Also, I believe that most of the time if one is to upload an image for an existing or and article in the process of being created, chances are the images they will use are not on the wiki already. Because of this, I don't believe standardizing image names will benefit in helping find possibly existing images if it is reasonable to assume that they don't exist.

Now I can see how standardizing images would help find images to go in another place; however, this would assume that the user has previously seen that image and would logically find it by going to where they have seen it. Chances are if they have seen an image, it is embedded in an article with the file name being undisplayed and, in the event that a user does click on an image to view it fullscreen, the file name is unnoticed. Now if the file name is unnoticed, what would be the point of standardizing file names if the user can't remember them?

Sure, with a standard file name the user can easily find the images by searching; however, where the game comes from and the articles name play keep parts in its file name. If the user knows these already, they would go to the article, but if they don't, they cannot find the image.

If this discussion goes on long enough, I think I will consider writing another blog post summarizing the key points of opposition and agreement.