Guild Wars Wiki talk:Use informative pictures

Take, for instance, the Realm_of_Torment page. [], the previous main image for the article, is a nice picture but it conveys no information about the Realm of Torment area. In fact, I don't even know where that image is from -- the Realm of Torment itself isn't an explorable area and the image previously shown on the Realm of Torment isn't displayed when loading any of the Realm of Torment areas. The image is neither informative nor really topical as it's never displayed during the normal course of in game events. The main picture for an article should be informative -- in the case of an area, it should be some sort of actual map of the area. Banaticus 15:18, 8 April 2007 (EDT)
 * This should be put under the image use guideline, and also, shouldn't be a proposed policy, but a proposed formatting guideline. - B e X o R  15:19, 8 April 2007 (EDT)
 * Also, the Realm of Torment is a region, not a location. - B e X o R  15:20, 8 April 2007 (EDT)
 * "the Realm of Torment itself isn't an explorable area" I know -- this would apply to all "areas", i.e. non-item, non-NPC, non-build, etc., pages.   Thanks, I'll look into the formatting guidelines after I get back tonight. Banaticus 15:41, 8 April 2007 (EDT)
 * The previous picture seems to have been taken from the guildwars.com Nightfall gallery, which is fine, it's an acceptable source for images.
 * The general idea (or tradition, I should say) is to have a scenic picture of the area as the top image, and have whatever other images (maps included) in the lower part of the infobox, (see Drazach Thicket for an example or most other location pages). Which picture should be used as the main one is up for discussion (which should probably happen at Formatting/Locations). I personally would prefer if the non-map image was used as the main one because many locations such as towns and outposts won't even have a map at all, they will only have the scenic picture. For this reason it makes sense to me to have that picture at the top, for consistency.
 * "Use informative pictures" doesn't need to be a policy on its own, I think. Maybe just mention it in the GWW:IMAGE talk page as a possible change, see if anyone disagrees; if all's good, then we can go ahead and plug it in that policy. --Dirigible 20:50, 8 April 2007 (EDT)
 * Moving discussion over to Guild Wars Wiki:Formatting/Locations Banaticus 21:58, 8 April 2007 (EDT)