Image Cleanup Initiative?

Something I notice on almost any Wiki page is very sloppy images. Not the quality, we have moderation for that, but other things.

• Duplicate images
• No captions
• Not organised in to appropriate galleries
• Bad default images

Do other people consider this a problem? What can be done about it? Even something as simple as going through your favourite pages and cleaning them up might be a start.

Whenever I come across a page with duplicate images or images that don't belong to said page I delete them.....no captions isn't a big deal IMO.....and sometimes its hard to find a good default image, especially for concepts, but I change them if they're exceptionally bad.

the Phantasmagoria 2 page is a good example of this, someone just uploaded a capture of a play through.

@Dagbiker: That guy should be wiki banned.

@Dagbiker: That guy should be wiki banned.

@The_Laughing_Man said:

@Guided_By_Tigers said:

@Dagbiker: That guy should be wiki banned.

http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/chocolatecoffin/ It is that dude. ANd hes done it with alot of images.

If I recall correctly, @MattBodega started out the same way. And he turned out okay, I guess.

@The_Laughing_Man said:

@Guided_By_Tigers said:

@Dagbiker: That guy should be wiki banned.

http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/chocolatecoffin/ It is that dude. ANd hes done it with alot of images.

If I recall correctly, @MattBodega started out the same way. And he turned out okay, I guess.

What's funny is that the staff occasionally tend to contribute towards the duplicate image problem. I've often spotted them dumping a lot of images--usually when a new set has been publicly released by the developer/publisher--even when that same image set has already been posted by a user.

Any time I come across duplicate or way too similar images I delete them. I also tend to come across watermarked images, which I also delete.

@Dagbiker said:

the Phantasmagoria 2 page is a good example of this, someone just uploaded a capture of a play through.

Somebody did something similar to a few of my phoenix wright pages, by uploading every single frame of animation for a sprite.

@AlisterCat said:

@Dagbiker said:

the Phantasmagoria 2 page is a good example of this, someone just uploaded a capture of a play through.

Somebody did something similar to a few of my phoenix wright pages, by uploading every single frame of animation for a sprite.

The guy who did it has uploaded a lot of other images for other parts of the Wiki, most of them are fine, although just being googled. But It looks like he also did it with Halo 3:ODST. He added the Phoenix Write pictures around the end of last year, and hasn't done anything like it since.

@AlisterCat said:

• Bad default images

I'm using Chrome and I've never been able to change the default image of a page even though I should have enough mod points to do so. Is there some sort of dark ritual that must be invoked?