User:Lesoria/Sandbox/Image Categories

This proposal isn't ready yet. I have learned from past mistakes, and that will be addressed in the full proposal.

Preface: Earlier I was checking to find the name of an enemy, and see which sprites for it are already uploaded. I only knew of the enemy as "that one-eyed, bomb-throwing monster near the pyramid in ALttP". I checked the ALttP enemies category and checked names I didn't know, until I found its name is Hinox.

Imagine someone trying to find information on a monster, but not knowing its name, only what game it's in. if these was a category for sprites of monsters from this game, they could check there. Clicking on the image would bring up the image's page, and the image's page has links to pages using it, which should include that monster's page.

Of course, there are no Hinox sprites uploaded, so it wouldn't have helped me. But that's beside the point!

davogones said, "I think having the images in categories is a good thing. The only thing I want to know is how to customize the image display in the category list, because its overflowing the content area."

I plan to look into how to do this before finalizing my proposal.

Arturo said, "... if they were to be in categories, they should be in different ones: i.e. The Aveil image of shouldn't be in Category: Majora's Mask Characters but, for example in Category: Majora's Mask Sprites"

Especially with the way the existing categories are done, sorting them this way is definitely a must. Therefore, following Arturo's advice, and keeping in mind the category conventions already in place, here is a list of possible categories to use:

• Zelda Creature Artworks
• Zelda Creature Sprites
• Zelda Creature Screenshots
• GAME TITLE Artworks
• GAME TITLE Sprites
• GAME TITLE Screenshots
• GAME TITLE Creature Artworks
• GAME TITLE Creature Sprites
• GAME TITLE Creature Screenshots

Then "Creature" can be replaced by:

• Characters
• Historical
• Places
• Dungeons
• Items
• Magic
• Masks
• Rings
• Songs
• Techniques

...as applicable.

There's no way to "List all images not in a category" that I know of, so it would be a lot of hard work categorizing all of the images!

One option is to have a page with a list of ALL the images. Then, anyone can categorize images, and remove them from the list as they add categories. (Also, any newly added images should be categorized right away.) Once the list is empty, we'd know all the images have been categorized.

Again, this proposal is NOT complete yet. Please comment on any parts which you think should be different or can be improved upon, etc.

--Lesoria 17:58, 10 February 2006 (EST)