Forum:New Policies Discussion

Okay, recently I've decided to re-format the policy page, by making it easier to navigate, being more in-detail in certain portions, and just improving it over all. Though as I am reformatting I also plan to add a few new policies, and before I added them, I wanted to discuss a few of them to see what our community thinks about them. If you agree with a policy type -reason for support, and -reason for opposition.

Please note that, "I don't like this policy," is not a proper reason to oppose and if you don't give a proper reason, your vote will be deleted. In addition, if you don't give a reason at all your vote will be deleted. The voting will be open for a week and I’ll do my best to contact a good many active users for their votes. If within a week there are no votes, the policies will still be added and enforced.

Fair use rationale and Licensing

 * I was planning to make it a policy to add the fair use rationale and licensing info to any images that where going to be used in the articles or any bonus galleries. Fan art, and other images that are meant for use on User Pages are exempt to this.


 * Now I now you guys may not like this idea, but it's extremely important. There have been many times that i've been strolling through the articles or the bonus gallery and i've seen an image that i found interesting, but there was no way for me to know where it came from.  It takes no more than 20 seconds maximum to add the fair use rationale and licensing to an image.  All you are doing is essentially telling where it's from, and typing the license template.  I've even made it where the Fair use rationale template is automatically in the upload summary so no one has to go find and copy and paste the template whenever they upload a picture. Here's an example of the fair use rationale and licensing

Votes
- I am the nominator for this policy.

Deleting unused images

 * I was planning to make a policy where all images must be used within two days of them being uploaded.


 * This is because it takes up unnecessary room, and when users are searching through images for good images they get a bunch of low quality and unused photos instead of the ones they want.

Votes
- I am the nominator for this policy.

All Images must have good file names

 * All images must have a good file name that properly depicts what is happening in an image.


 * If a user is searching for an image if it has a bad file name like File:Screenshot54.jpg, then it can’t be found when it is searched for. In addition if a user is trying to make sure they aren’t uploading a duplicate file, how can they perform a duplicate file search if the image has a file name that can’t be found?

Votes
- I am the nominator for this policy.

Reuploads

 * Do not overwrite an image by uploading one with the same filename. Upload all images under a new filename. This is because the new image may have a different fair use rationale that may be needed, the image may link to multiple pages and the image may not need to be changed on all pages, and because most images need some sort of discussion before they are arbitrarily changed. The only time when it is acceptable to replace an image with a new one is if you are uploading an identical image or the exact same image, but it’s of higher quality.


 * Now, even though this one is on the voting forum, this one is not up for discussion because it’s just a common sense type policy that I’m now putting into words.

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