Existing Policy: Warriors Wiki:Book covers
Reasons: I feel that this policy is a little out of date and not easy to use and am proposing a reform as seen below.
Project Books, Book Covers Policy Reform[]
To Include:[]
- Naming Conventions
- Front Covers
- Back Covers
- Foreign Covers
- Small Versions
- Series Tags
- Language Tags
- Cover Sizes
- Small and Large
Naming Conventions[]
There should be a universal set of guidelines for naming book covers.
- Standard North-American format: SeriesTag-#.extention
- Alternative language/version format: SeriesTag-#-LanguageTag.extention
- Small Image Format: as above but include ‘SM-‘ before the rest of the name
- Back Cover format: as above but include ‘BK-‘ before the rest of the name.
- Box Sets format: as above but include 'BS-' before the rest of the name.
Series Tags[]
To be used where the name says 'SeriesTag'
- Original Series:OS
- The New Prophecy: NP
- Power of Three: PO3
- Omen of the Stars: OTS
- Field Guide: FG
- Super Edition: SE
- Lost Warrior: LW
- Tigerstar and Sasha: TS
- Ravenpaw's Path: RP
- The Rise of Scourge: TROS
Language/Version Tags[]
To be used where the name says 'LanguageTag'
- Chinese: CN
- German: DE
- Finnish: FI
- French: FR
- Greek: GR
- Hungarian: HU
- Japanese: JA
- Korean: KO
- Lithuanian: LT
- Netherlands: NL
- Polish: PL
- Romanian: RO
- Russian: RU
- Turkish: TR
- United Kingdom: UK
- United Kingdom, version two: UK2
If the North-American paperback version differs from the hardback version then 'PB' should be used here. The audio versions of these should use the tag 'Audio' The inside covers of some verions - if different from the dustcover - should use the tag 'Inside'
Box Sets[]
Where the name says '-#-', this should be filled in with the numbers of the books in the set. (ie. 1-6 or 1-3)
Cover Sizes and File Types[]
Large Covers[]
These are intended for use on the main book article or in the gallery.
- Size: as close as is possible to 324px high by 223px wide.
- File type preferred: .jpg is the preferred extension for better quality.
Small Covers[]
These are intended for use on the WWiki Main Page and in feature articles.
- Size: as close as is possible to 151px high by 100px wide.
- File type preferred: .png is the preferred extension for these.
That's it from me. There are a few changes when you compare this with the existing policy such as the actual tags used and the file extentions preferred, but there is nothing too big. I just think this will help get these images organised. Comments etc below then s'il vous plait =) I don't know how long this discussion will be up for, I'm assuming around a week to ten days but those decisions are out of my hands. -- Sandystar 13:19, July 17, 2010 (UTC)
Hi Sandy. What I don't quite like is that you use different length strings as "series tags"; some have 2 characters, some 3, some 4 (and even in the Language tags). This will create a problem in case we make some templates, bots or whatever that works with the images, like creating a table or gallery of them (e.g. like the charart template for chararts). Of course, I do not propose or foresee creating templates or whatever at this point, this is only one of those ideas of mine, you know... I'm sorry. Helixtalk 17:08, July 17, 2010 (UTC)
It's always good to have foresight - nothing wrong with that. Nice work, Sand. I don't really see anything that needs sorting out. As we discussed on the IRC, the box set naming convention might need to be altered slightly, but that's the only thing I see. --Bramble 18:27, July 17, 2010 (UTC)
Thanks. :) Another thing that occurred to me, not related to these, but not completely off topic as it might be included in the policy: mentioning how to categorize the cover images (if it is desired). I see that most are in "Book Covers" or "Foreign Covers", but not all, and some in the wrong ones. Just thought to mention. :) And yes, nice work with the guidelines. Helixtalk 19:19, July 17, 2010 (UTC)
- Helix: I'm not sure how to shorten some of them; perhaps you have an idea or two on how to get all the tags the same length?
- Bramble: I changed the box sets as we discussed. It was just me a being me.
- Helix:Categories, well, all should be in 'Books Covers' and foreign editions in 'Foreign Covers'. I'll take a look at it, but I'm not sure it needs to be a policy? -- Sandystar 14:21, July 18, 2010 (UTC)
- Yeah, I just mentioned it as I saw that most were not categorized, but you're right, we don't necessarily need a "rule". About the strings, I remembered that length does not count if the possible values are known. So disregard both messages. Sorry, it seems I was quite tired when I wrote them. :) Helixtalk 18:31, July 18, 2010 (UTC)
I don't like to push things but there have been no other suggestions for nearly a month. Is there anything else anyone has to add to this, or anything that needs changing? --SandyTalk 10:51, August 14, 2010 (UTC)
I think it looks fine. WhiteStorm is back! 22:56, August 19, 2010 (UTC)