Thread:ARTaylor/@comment-47881-20120902172219/@comment-47881-20120904130733

There seems to be a problem to solution gap here. If the issue is the quality of the images and captions then that's what should be worked on, as opposed to being purged. Some screenshots are dark by default but they can be tweaked and improved. See this image and an improved version I uploaded later. And by the way, I was not supporting the 175px image size at all. I'm supporting 200/250px with captions, because without, they become bigger.

As for the captions, I never liked using them to make jokes. I don't think it's "our thing". I always try to make them the most informative as possible, and when that's not the case, I simply put in a short description of the scene/context. That's basically how images are captioned on encyclopedias. It doesn't automatically make them redundant. See Azula on Avatar Wiki. I wrote most of those captions and they exemplify how I think captions should be used. Without the first one, for example, a reader would have to read the entire section to find out why she is putting on a innocent look, whereas this way the caption may very well entice the reader to venture further. Note that those images are 200px. Can't you tell what's going on without enlarging it?

We could also improve the quality of images by moving on to PNG files. It's a practice we've adopted on the Avatar Wiki and YJ Wiki. PNG files have lossless data compression, resulting in a better resolution, free of compression artifacts when shrunk.