@Juan.Dela.Cruz Can you describe, in detail, what you did to produce this image? As I understand, different pictures have been taken to create a composite, a process we identify as stitched. Relevant information would be season/episode information and time stamp if this is from an anime, as well as the specific source material, such as the DVD version, a specific web or TV rip, Blu-ray, and at what resolution. As a rule of thumb, if something makes a source distinct, it's important to include it. Further I'd like to know how you spliced the images together. All this is because as an archival site, the sources we use must be public, and any changes made must be replicable by anyone.

If you did not create this picture, then why didn't you provide a link in the source? Please sir, either post the exact page you got this from, or explain how you created this composite. Thanks.

chinatsu said:

@Juan.Dela.Cruz Can you describe, in detail, what you did to produce this image? As I understand, different pictures have been taken to create a composite, a process we identify as stitched. Relevant information would be season/episode information and time stamp if this is from an anime, as well as the specific source material, such as the DVD version, a specific web or TV rip, Blu-ray, and at what resolution. As a rule of thumb, if something makes a source distinct, it's important to include it. Further I'd like to know how you spliced the images together. All this is because as an archival site, the sources we use must be public, and any changes made must be replicable by anyone.

If you did not create this picture, then why didn't you provide a link in the source? Please sir, either post the exact page you got this from, or explain how you created this composite. Thanks.

@chinatsu Cropping one of the ends and tossing it into https://whatanime.ga/ says this is a screen-shot panonorama from "Yama no Susume" S03E10 at 00:05:34. I'll admit I haven't been active on the forums or with respect to policy making for a long time now, but this comment seems really pedantic and passive aggressive. Since when do we require a specific iteration of what version and what resolution the source is? You can tell from the image resolution the width is 1280, which implies it's a 720x resolution source, possibly a DVD or DVD rip.

Grilling and interrogating people doesn't seem to be the best way to get people to be good posters. It comes off as overly antagonistic.

@Shinjidude said:

@chinatsu Cropping one of the ends and tossing it into https://whatanime.ga/ says this is a screen-shot panonorama from "Yama no Susume" S03E10 at 00:05:34. I'll admit I haven't been active on the forums or with respect to policy making for a long time now, but this comment seems really pedantic and passive aggressive. Since when do we require a specific iteration of what version and what resolution the source is? You can tell from the image resolution the width is 1280, which implies it's a 720x resolution source, possibly a DVD or DVD rip.

Grilling and interrogating people doesn't seem to be the best way to get people to be good posters. It comes off as overly antagonistic.

I'll admit the comment is tinged in frustration, for I'm expecting that the user did not create this composite but rather pulled it from an image search or image board, which seems to be the pattern form their deleted uploads.

To answer your specific questions on what is required, to my knowledge there isn't any criteria, but the information that would aid in reproducing an image would be useful here, say in a comment explaining what was done. For example animators add additional details to the Blu-ray version of an anime that was originally broadcast on TV. In that case if the TV version and Blu-ray version are used to make a composite, then it would be relevant information as there may be many different sources for an anime available. I didn't list any specific things he has to include, but rather they are suggestions as to what may be relevant and are information I would provide, like the specific source and the episode/timestamp. Without that information, all one may have to go off of is the copyright name and the image.

In this case, you have located the anime through that site, however not every anime is going to be indexed or the site may not be available. It would still be pretty relevant information for an uploader to at least offer what episode something is from and what time. From my end, the way this post is as well as several of their other posts, it creates additional burdens on other users. And this post is provided with zero context. Even the fact it's a stitch was provided by another user; when dealing with third-party edits I believe it's vitally important to both maintain that source integrity and to specify what steps were done to make the edits—that doesn't involve an essay on the uploader's part, but perhaps just "I got it from episode 4, at 12:34. I spliced together cropped portions of the dvd/blu-ray version" or whatever it may be.

As to how you feel I've approached another user, that is fine, that's a criticism I'll accept. I may have presented all points I made in a different, unannoyed tone aimed more at friendly and helpful suggestion, in an as neutral and non-authoritative way, but I still believe that these are important points to be made.

As it stands I don't believe anyone has even seen the original material here. This is a visibly artifacted version that isn't the best quality we could have of this picture. If another user knew which specific source of the anime they is from, they could load that specific episode, and take a better screenshot, perhaps using a better software, and crop a superior version to what we have. Perhaps they'd find that a post has been scaled-down from it's original dimensions, or that the material was degraded in quality from re-encoding or being streamed online and they can get the original superior form to work from. I believe just approving any post that's a cropped screencap, without requiring a modicum of contextual information, makes the archive less rich and less quality. Again, in all likelihood this post was not created even by the user but rather a third-party, and if he at least provided the link for that, barring it being a reupload site but maybe from another community or forum, we could see what their process was in making the image. At this point, yes, this post probably has me looking like more of a pedant than you thought before, but these are points I feel must be made, that it's more than what meets the eye with the quality of the post, but that everything about where it's from is being completely ignored.

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