User talk:LetsGoMets11

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Please stop commenting out image placeholders. —Wknight94 (talk) 03:27, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

I've blocked you temporarily but I will unblock if you will discuss why you're removing the image placeholders. —Wknight94 (talk) 03:33, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

This is a new approach to solicit pictures. There are quite a few other articles with this placeholder. See here. —Wknight94 (talk) 03:39, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Yea with half the people on that list as Mets players, there is no point of having these on the pages, it's not brain surgery on how to put a picture on a players page. The fact that not one other team has any of these stupid blank images on their players pages, makes this stupid. If all 30 teams had this on all the players, then it would be acceptable but until then they should be removed from the players pages. It seems to me wikipedia is getting closer and closer to garbage status with specific indviduals like whoever put up these blank images who think they are the Gods of wikipedia and can do whatever they want to groups of pagesLetsGoMets11 03:43, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Well you should discuss this instead of removing the images with no explanation. Provide an edit summary at least please. —Wknight94 (talk) 03:50, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

FYI, I've posted a comment/question at Wikipedia talk:Fair use#No free image available. —Wknight94 (talk) 13:27, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

The St. Louis Cardinals now have them as well.Geni 14:40, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] free image request

You might want to go for 150 px rather than 90 in order to make text more visible.Genisock2 15:23, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

FYI, I've posted a comment/question at Wikipedia talk:Fair use#No free image available. —Wknight94 (talk) 13:26, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

I see no point of these on the pages, they are big, look like a dead link, why are we putting them up on any pages. They are 1000% unncessary, it does not take brain surgery to add a picture to a players page. LetsGoMets11 14:47, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

The point of the image is to encourage readers/editors to add free pictures, should they have them. The how-to is merely a bonus for anyone that doesn't know the specifics of the procedure. SERSeanCrane 14:49, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

There was some testing done a while back that suggested that many people find the image upload system hard to use.Geni 15:09, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Why are you making it your personal vendetta on putting these up, they should talked about before going up, there is NO policy that these should be on players pages, and as I said before it makes the pages uglier, looks like dead links and adding a picture is not brain surgery to add, all of these should be removed. LetsGoMets11 14:53, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Personal vendetta? Are you kidding me?

Look, as far as policy goes, while there may not be a policy FOR the images, there certainly isn't any policy AGAINST them. See Wikipedia:Finding_images_tutorial#Ask_other_Wikipedians if you don't believe me.

Second-ivly, ugly is rather objective and I really don't see your point in this regard.

(You wouldn't say this image looks ugly, would ya?) Image:Bostick.jpg

Finally, technical things like wikipedia may feel like brain surgery to some. You shouldn't assume that everyone would easily figure it out on their own. It certainly doesn't hurt to add such a mini-tutorial. SERSeanCrane 15:10, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

My Point is this, these things should be talked about in discussion before you decide just to add hideous looking dead link photos to pages. I don't see your point in that picture, and how did that go into the fray, but in my opinion it looks like a random guy that no one would have any clue who it is. I don't even know who it is. But the point is to discuss these things before you do massive edits. 15:22, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Fair enough. Note that this has been discussed at length because Wikipedia:Finding_images_tutorial#Ask_other_Wikipedians recommends such images. So far you're the only editor who has had a problem with these images. I don't what to tell you except to find some support and centralize the discussion so that it can be decided, once and for all. SERSeanCrane 15:33, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

it was talked about in various places (heh we had to get clearence from the devs before going ahead) still feel free to start a conversation at Wikipedia:Village pump.Geni 15:37, 3 March 2007 (UTC)