User blog comment:Emitewiki2/A new project!/@comment-4866649-20150619022330/@comment-4628859-20150619132413

@Rsk-san: I see your point; however, the standardizing for pages is different for the standardizing for images.

First of all, pages are this wiki and other wikis main content, which makes sense we should make them easier to find. Images are instead a component of that article that exist solely for illustration, making them lesser in terms of focus.

Now as often one can easily find all images relating to a certain subject on its specific page, it makes all the more sense that a viewer would go to the page instead of typing in a file name. But then if the real reason for standardizing images is so that we, the users, could easily find images, then I find this more unnecessary.

If a user wants to find an existing photo, often they already know from what game it is and can find it via the game article or, if the photo is ill suited, take it from the game. In my experience, I've had no trouble adding specific photos to articles because I would add it to a page by the photo button. Also, since most images need only to be in one place, I don't think making images easier to find for those few that go on multiple articles.

Having said this, I am assuming most editors do not upload multiple files or in some way copy the urls from elsewhere before adding them to a page. Even if they did, I'm pretty sure they would already know what file was for what. But then if they do, I would believe this is a non-standard procedure, just the same as uploading a file and not adding it to the page.

Well, I'm pretty sure you, or someone else, is going to have a rebuttal for what I just said (^-^)