Forum:Image names

Do we have a policy on the names of images? If we don't I think we seriously need one, especially now all our images are being put into categories. It will seriously help with image searching and when someone wants to add an image to an article.

Take File:Autons2.jpg - that comes up very easily in any search for an Auton image. However File:St--3a61autonhandweapon.jpg can be more difficult to took up and what can be even more difficult is when an image file's name is just complete gibberish - file:FE8T74GN349.jpg.

We should have a policy that states the file name should be what the image shows. Looking back to my earlier examples, File:Autons2.jpg, is fine. However, on the other hand File:St--3a61autonhandweapon.jpg needs to be renamed something along the lines of Autonhandgun - the name clearly shows what the image is about. file:FE8T74GN349.jpg should be simply renamed Auton3, so it comes up much easier in searches.

All images should so what is included (in this case, Autons), then what is the main aspect of the picture (if needed (picture 2 is a prime example of this (handgun))) and lastly the number of the file uploaded. I.e if this was the first Auton image upload it would be Auton1, then Auton 2 ot Autonhandgun1. etc.

Lastly, there should be no files upload just plainly as Auton or Dalek - file names like this should be locked or just plainly used as the main article image. This is stop Users uploading and replacing images which take up valuable file names, when the file names can be put onto a much better image, such as one for the infobox. MM/ Want to talk? 16:23, February 12, 2012 (UTC)


 * We have T:IUP NAMES, so yes, strings of gibberish are already disallowed. No idea about generic naming of things like Dalek.jpg though. -- Tybort (talk page) 16:30, February 12, 2012 (UTC)