User talk:Cortion

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Hello
Nice find. I think it's a really good idea, so I'll try and get round to it at some point either today or tomorrow. Mini-mitch\talk 11:02, May 31, 2011 (UTC)

Images and gallery
Hey, as nice as you image uploads are, we tend to use the rectangular images rather than portraits as the latter are too tall. Additionally, in reference to your "Eye Patch Lady" gallery, please see Talk:Eye Patch Lady as it is being challenged. ThanksSkittles the hog-- Talk 11:14, May 31, 2011 (UTC)

When uploading an image, please select a licence from the drop down menu. For Doctor Who and Confidential, you should be selecting BBC screenshot. Not doing so is a breech of Tardis:Image use policy, so could you please go back to your images and add to them? ThanksSkittles the hog-- Talk 11:38, May 31, 2011 (UTC)

Just click edit on the images page and add Obviously it varies depending on what the image is but that covers all you uploads up to this point. Thanks for helping out.Skittles the hog-- Talk 11:43, May 31, 2011 (UTC)

English
British, as Who is a British show. If you speak another form of English, I would advise spell checking your work before posting, and make sure the spell check is set to English (UK). If your confident you know the differences, or if you are British, just go for it.Skittles the hog-- Talk 11:50, May 31, 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, I'm English.Skittles the hog-- Talk 11:52, May 31, 2011 (UTC)

Images again
Okay. Say it with me now "rectangular images and licences". Please don't forget.Skittles the hog-- Talk 12:11, May 31, 2011 (UTC)

Fair enough. If you going to replace and image simply go to its page, scroll down a bit and select "Upload a new version of this file". This replaces it without there being a spare image and you wont need to edit it in.Skittles the hog-- Talk 12:16, May 31, 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, wikia have major problems with their image servers. I contacted them about this a while ago but they've done nothing. Just upload it normally, WITH A LICENCE:)Skittles the hog-- Talk 12:32, May 31, 2011 (UTC)

LICENCES!!Skittles the hog-- Talk 17:09, May 31, 2011 (UTC)

I've already done it, I just wanted to remind you in a... helpful way. I see you've done it with some images, but not others. Anyway, thanks for improving so many of the images, most were a bit dodgy before.Skittles the hog-- Talk 17:12, May 31, 2011 (UTC)

Main page slider
What dom you mean by a main page slider, and can you give me some other wikis which currently use one? Thanks Mini-mitch\talk 17:24, June 2, 2011 (UTC)
 * It actually looks like a really good idea. At the moment, I think it could be used for the lastest television stories, etc. I'm totally behind the idea. What you should do now is raise it in the forums, and see what other Users think. Great idea! Mini-mitch\talk 17:51, June 2, 2011 (UTC)
 * As I have said, I do think it should be featured on the main page. However, you do need to raise it here, so you can see what other Users think and can even vastly improve the idea. Mini-mitch\talk 10:06, June 3, 2011 (UTC)

Images
It's a technical fault that I to am experiencing. I do not know the cause, nor if it is a widespread problem, but it will automatically rectify when the image stops screwing around. I notice above that you are interested in image sliders, I recall that this was attempted but the specifications of this wiki stopped it working correctly. Skittles the hog-- Talk 17:45, June 2, 2011 (UTC)

Main page
It's designed that way. Putting the slider on wont work anyway so don't try it as it will essentially be vandalism, albeit unintended. Skittles the hog-- Talk 11:40, June 3, 2011 (UTC)

.png
Hey, please remember only to upload .jpg files. .png's are a strain upon servers and slow down the loading of pages (or so I'm told). I'll convert the Doctors image for you, just a note for future use :) Thank you for updating the image and learning all these policies. See Tardis:Image use policy if you want to read more, it's quite a new thing this jpg preference so there are a lot of png files littered about. Skittles the hog-- Talk 17:52, June 3, 2011 (UTC)

Images in navboxes
Hey, thanks for trying to improve upon file:TenThinner.jpg. What you couldn't have realised was that that image was incredibly carefully cropped. It took hours to find the correct dimensions. In navboxes, it's not just a matter of getting an 80px image. You have to make sure it's not so long that it draws out the individual bits of information on the right-hand columns. TenThinner is crafted so as to eliminate vertical white space between the various sections of information. Your image added over 2 inches to the overall length of the Tennant navbox.

And it's not just a matter of lopping off the bottom and making the height match TenThinner.jpg. The other design ethic is that the faces can't bleed off the edge of the frame; otherwise they look huge. (Hair and hats are okay to bleed off one edge, but when you're cropping off sides of the actual fleshy part of the face, you're zoomed in way too close.)

That might sound like a weird restriction. But there's a good reason. When you open up all eleven navboxes, they all need to be relatively the same apparent focal distance from the viewer. That way, we avoid editorialising with our pictures. Using your image for Ten, it appeared as if we were emphasizing Ten — almost as if we were saying, "Ten is the Doctor; the rest are imposters."

If you'd like to try again — perhaps because you don't like the fact the current pic uses the tuxedo-clad Doctor instead of him in his more traditional suit — be my guest. I assume you still have the same base pic from which yours was cropped. I'd recommend that you pull back slightly on your crop, so that there are at least 10-20 pixels of background framing his face. Then cut it to the same length as the current TenThinner.jpg.

Then, please upload it as a new version of TenThinner.jpg. Don't upload it as a new file. We can then more easily flip back and forth between pics in the revision history.

Put a much simpler way, I've kinda done the hard work for you. We need a picture there that's exactly the dimensions of the current TenThinner.jpg. All you have to do is crop your picture to precisely that size.

Because your picture can't be salvaged for use on this page, I'm deleting it. But I do encourage you to change the pic on DWTV, as long as you follow the instructions above. 23:13:43 Fri 03 Jun 2011

Gallery
Sorry about you gallery getting deleted, I tried to save it. At least the section was salvaged. Skittles the hog-- Talk 18:38, June 5, 2011 (UTC)