User talk:P.H. CP

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Images
Hi! Please make sure you read our image policies located at Thread:148148. Your image from The Web of Fear, while of good quality, is too large for our purposes. You can find our size guidelines at Tardis:Image use policy. Thanks! Shambala108 ☎  22:05, September 29, 2015 (UTC)


 * Normally I do give reasons for deleting images, and so do the other admins. However, your image wasn't a new image, but rather a new version of an existing image, and the reverting process for removing those doesn't allow for giving a reason. In cases like that (which are more rare than deletions of new images), you can always just ask the admin involved why the image was deleted.


 * I don't know much about other wikis, but we want to keep image size down to help people with slow internet connections or other reasons for difficulty in downloading large files. Shambala108 ☎  01:07, September 30, 2015 (UTC)

Title cards
Heya :) I see you've been busily uploading new title cards for old episodes. As far as I can tell, you've been replacing old, smaller images with ones that are bigger. For instance with your Turn Left card, you upped the file size to nearly 100k when the previous images was only about half that size (but actually a wider, larger image). So you've effectively increased the file size for no real reason.

Please stop doing this sorta thing.

The only reason you should ever replace a materially similar image on this wiki is when you are dramatically improving its quality and/or lowering its overall size. For instance, if the original were 100kb, and your replacement were 50kb, then, sure, upload away.

But in such a case, you should also just upload your new version at the same filename. Now we've got two images of the same thing -- and we really don't need to have two screenshots of the title card to Turn Left.

It's super important that we keep file sizes down on a page like Title cards/Doctor Who, which has hundreds of images on it. The overall size of this page (that is, the sum of the sizes of all the pics) has got to be restrained as much as possible -- not increased. 02:00: Thu 04 May 2017

Edit summaries
Hi, please note that it is very unhelpful to leave snarky messages in your edit summaries. If you see a problem with something (like, for example, oversize images uploaded as pngs), let an admin know. Edit summaries are not easily visible past a certain amount of time, so it's not very likely that even a helpful edit summary will be seen by an admin. (See Tardis:Edit summary for more.)

Also, please note that it is specifically stated in Tardis:Image use policy:
 * Please be aware that we have around 20,000 images on our site — more if one includes all that have been deleted but are still admin-accessible. While the administrative staff makes every effort to fairly and uniformly apply the rules herein, it's not humanly possible for any one admin to have seen all this site's images.


 * Some images which violate these rules are going to have slipped through the cracks.


 * Be aware, therefore, that it is not a positive defence to say something like, "That picture over there violated the same rule as mine, but you didn't delete it." The fact that another picture survives when yours was deleted means only that this is a big wiki and a few pictures have slipped our notice. It does not mean that we were wrong to have deleted your file.

Keep this in mind if you find images violating the same policies that yours might have been deleted for. Thanks, Shambala108 ☎  03:23, September 1, 2017 (UTC)

Image dimensions
Hi, please try to upload your images as close as possible to widescreen. Thanks, Shambala108 ☎  23:50, March 4, 2018 (UTC)


 * Well, DVD covers (and novel and magazine covers) fall under the "exceptions" mentioned at Tardis:Image use policy. I couldn't find a specific guideline, so what you're doing now is probably fine. Shambala108 ☎  01:46, March 5, 2018 (UTC)