User talk:CzechOut

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Idris.jpg
The reason you gave for deleting File:Idris.jpg was "Unjustifiably long vs. width: no excuse for a non-widescreen image of a BBC Wales featured character." However, there is only the one very brief scene while the character is still Idris, before she's killed off, and at no point is there what you'd call a "widescreen" shot of the character; for that whole scene she's always either surrounded by the other characters, who should of course be cropped out for an image illustrating Idris, or is distant from the camera and unusably small on-screen. The shot I used was what I feel is the best possible one out of the episode to illustrate her, but to fit your criteria one would have to crop out vertical bits of her to make it "widescreen" and we'd end up with even less of a usable image, beginning at her eyebrows and stopping at her chin or something.

Additionally, why would you delete an image which fits all the criteria at Tardis:Image use policy simply because you think we could do better, instead of actually doing better? Is it not best in any case to have an image there, in hopes of replacing it later when a better source becomes available? &mdash; Rob T Firefly - &#916;&#8711; - 20:19, November 10, 2011 (UTC)


 * I do see where you're coming from on this, but I still feel that even when the clothes are the same, the character that is actually being portrayed is important. You wouldn't use file:Alligence.jpg atop the Fourth Doctor page because it's not an image of the Fourth Doctor, it's an image of Meglos, and the distinction is very important to the story in which it appears.  It's the same type of argument as the one concerning publicity and promo shots; you yourself have indicated the importance of distinguishing pictures of the characters from pictures of the actors in their costumes out-of-context.  I put it to you that it's just as important to distinguish the image of one character from the image of another even when they're played by the same actor in the same costume.  That's why we can't swap photos on Eleventh Doctor and Eleventh Doctor (Ganger) even though they might look the same to someone unfamiliar with the story, and why we can't crop out a screenshot of the Sixth Doctor which only shows his face and illustrate Maxil with it.  When an actor is playing a dual role it makes a difference which role they are playing.  Their facial expressions, posture, surroundings, and everything are all just as much a part of the performance as their clothes and hairstyle, and it's all relevant in a shot of the character.  So, that one scene is the only time we have an in-Universe image of Suranne as Idris rather than Suranne as the TARDIS, and it's worth having a shot from it as the primary photo for Idris. &mdash; Rob T Firefly - &#916;&#8711; - 21:19, November 10, 2011 (UTC)

Riftan 5
I earlier today attempted to restore the page Riftan 5, except that it now gives an error message. I'm not familiar with fixing this sort of thing, so I thought maybe you could help with it. Doug86 talk to me 01:08, November 11, 2011 (UTC)