User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Matrix Archives/@comment-25041817-20190321223249/@comment-1432718-20190626042922

First, some guidelines.

We have a bunch of image policies, some for uploading images, some for using images. I've collected all at Thread:148148 for ease of locating them.

A couple of things that I think aren't actually spelled out on any policy page: we already do expect images to be on alternate sides of articles (the zig-zag mentioned by User:BananaClownMan). We do not allow columns of images, meaning text with images on both sides.

The "one image at most per section" is a guideline, because we have tons of different type pages with different lengths. It's not feasible to come up with a concrete policy declaring how many images should be allowed on a page.

And User:BananaClownMan completely misses the point of the rule when he says Doctor pages (and other popular pages) should be the exception. These pages are the reason for the guideline: because otherwise we would have over a hundred articles on such pages. (I have recently cleaned up The Master for having 125+ images.)

It's easy for the average user/visitor to the site to not care how difficult it is for heavy-image pages to load, but it's something that has to be considered. It's better to have a few quality images than a bunch of images overloading the page.