User talk:Laticss

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Re:Millhouses Engine Shed

Hi! Welcome to Wikipedia, and thanks for uploading the photos of Millhouses engine shed. However I agreed with the comment made by User:Captain scarlet when he pruned most of them out of the article that three photos in this article, at its current length, is really more than enough. When there are too many photos in an article the photos become the content rather than illustrations of the content. As such, it is very rare to find photo galleries within Wikipedia articles, and when you do they are usually small galleries within the context of a much longer article. I would like to invite you to consider adding the photos to the Wikimedia Commons—this is a sister project of Wikipedia, and it is intended as a repository of images and other media that are potentially useful to Wikimedia projects. Images at the Commons can be categorised, and it is not uncommon to include a link to a Commons category within Wikipedia articles (see for example the article on Millhouses).

With a small number of photos in an article, you asked me who chooses which photos to use. The answer is no one and everyone: there is no one that has executive editorial power at Wikipedia (except perhaps Jimbo Wales-the founder), which means that everyone has the power to make editorial decisions. This can be both a good and a bad thing, but as we have now got to over 1,500,000 articles (some of which in my opinion are pretty good) using this system, it seems to work OK. When you edit an article you will see the message "If you don't want your writing to be edited mercilessly or redistributed by others, do not submit it." This applies to photos as much as it does to text—meaning that if you think that you have a better photo to illustrate an article than one currently in the article it is not unreasonable for you to replace that photo with your own. However, you should be aware that the uploader of the original photo may disagree with you and change it back—then you need to try to work to find either consensus among other editors as to which is the better illustration or a compromise solution (note that the quality/aesthetics of the photo is less important than its function as an illustration of what is said in the text of the article). —JeremyA 23:54, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have to disagree with Captain Scarlet and his statement "(No offence but a mobile phone over flashed photo isn't of a better quality. edit your photo and darken it.)" as the photo of Millhouses engine shed which I submitted shows what the inside of the shed looks like. It is NOT a mobile phone shot and was shot with flash, then lightened so show more detail. I will not change it back now as obviously Captain Scarlet would just continue to swap it again so nothing would ever be achieved. I would hope other interested parties can compare the photos and suggest a compromise. —Laticss

Speedy deletion nomination of File:Millhouses.JPG

A tag has been placed on File:Millhouses.JPG requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the image is an unused redundant copy (all pixels the same or scaled down) of an image in the same file format, which is on Wikipedia (not on Commons), and all inward links have been updated.

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