Danbooru

Images on copyright and other tags' wiki

Posted under Bugs & Features

Hello,
I added a couple images on a variety of wiki pages to give the pages and their explanations more character (essentially, just for aesthetics) and I would like to hear the general opinion of this. Are you in favor of such wiki page styles or not?

For example:
- Manga copyright wiki pages would have the cover of the first volume under the first paragraph: https://danbooru.donmai.us/wiki_page_versions/563461
- Video games would have their cover on their wiki page: https://danbooru.donmai.us/wiki_page_versions/563462
- Actual images of flags on their wiki pages: https://danbooru.donmai.us/wiki_page_versions/563513

NOTE: I created this thread to be a heads-up for anyone else with similar ideas.
On Discord, majority of users agreed that having covers on wiki pages for solely aesthetic reasons would create unnecessary clutter (ex. the character list would be over 200px under it's original position, which would force users to scroll further causing inefficiency)

Never forget that everything comes back to tagging and understanding. You're writing a wiki for Danbooru, not for wikipedia, fandom, gamepress, or whatever else.

How does a set of cover art and box art help someone find the copyright, characters, etc? I don't think it's needed as an embed.

I don't understand the logic behind treating manga covers and video game covers differently in regards to position on the page.

In my opinion, the ideal representative art for a copyright wiki would be clean official art (that is, with minimal text, which would disqualify many manga covers) of a group shot of the most significant characters in their most common outfits and in the setting of their world. Each character would have most of their body visible (at least most of their upper body, but preferably their lower body as well). Characters would face the general direction of the viewer and be mainly static, or at least not too dynamic (think posing for a casting shot or running toward the viewer rather than an epic fight scene). Visibly showing aspects of their personalities would also be a nice bonus. Finally, if there is a point in which the characters are redesigned (such as a time skip), we could include another image with those redesigns if we don't have a separate copyright tag to cover it.

Following those guidelines would ensure we are communicating as much about the copyright as we can in a single image to someone who doesn't know anything about it.

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