Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-4028641-20170429113135/@comment-188432-20170429190638

There's no rules conflict. Your premise proceeds from the false assumption that they can't all be obeyed, or that they all need to be obeyed.

You can in fact keep PNGs to an under 100kb size. I do it all the time elsewhere on the Fandom network. For instance, every PNG you'll find on http://harrypotter.wikia.com/contest is compressed within an inch of its life -- well below the Tardis standard. And I'm constantly having to compress 1.5mb+ PNG backgrounds to below 300k so that they can be used in ThemeDesigner. Taking a, say, 500kb pic to <100kb is a positive breeze. I have often pushed 600px, 500kb PNGs to below 100kb with the touch of a button.

All you need is a good compression tool.

Though Fandom itself has no recommendation for such a tool, I personally point you in the direction of http://tinypng.com. It's a great, free service that allows you compress PNG files quickly and easily. If on occasion you do a compression and it doesn't quite get you as low as you want, you can even "compress the compression" until you get to an acceptable file size.

Additionally, the minimum width rules don't typically apply to PNGs. PNG is an invalid format for most pictures that would be used in articles. Instead, PNGs are most often used for site maintenance icons that would typically render at much smaller widths, often below 100px. So whatever you're talking about in terms of a 252px transparent PNG is almost certainly an edge case that wouldn't affect the general policy. If you'd pop the image onto my talk page, I can take a look at it and offer specific advice on that particular case.

Thanks for asking the question!