Thread:Veenster7/@comment-5558012-20170306031244

Figured I'd just move to your wall.

In terms of articles, that rule works. Taken to the wiki as a whole, less so. As I stated on the other thread, wiki's are not file hosting sites so unused images are always unacceptable (by the way, there are over 500 unused images on the wiki - be careful with this report because images used through CSS/JS/Theme designer(/badges?) will show as unused when actually used + 39 unused videos). Irrelevant images just don't show well on the wiki because they're not relevant to what the reader may want to see (like looking through the wiki's image gallery). Additionally, they further complicate wiki maintenance (by being in the way, redlinks, etc). Images are easily the hardest part of a wiki to maintain (some wikis just don't care about doing the work) and the wiki has more than 8,000 images. Images in article comments add to the burden (article comments are another beast to tame and should really be related to the article anyway). A thread prematurely dismissed Discussions, a replacement feature for the Forum, but one of the planned features was to support images that could be added to conversations without being added to the wiki (solving some image issues).

Sorry I was rambling there a little bit. On Munkapedia I just limit where irrelevant images can be used (irrelevant, unused images are always deleted) as the number added is very low (I keep them all in a category and make clear uploading them isn't encouraged). On a more active wiki, a limit could be a good consideration if uploads are high (could be on how many a user can upload altogether, for a blog/userpage, etc).

On another note, I was looking at recent images and noticed a couple duplicates and one triplet. The Loud House Encyclopedia:Duplicate image search is also one of my go-to scripts. 