Guild Wars Wiki talk:Not orphaned

Request review of last four images. :) - BeX 03:35, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Request explanation of why this page exists. A simple use-case will suffice. :) —Tanaric 22:48, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Use-case: See the 'link to the image' on this page and notice that that image shows in this article. I chose not show the entire picture there, but the consequence is that it shows up on the Special:Orphaned-page. Not too sure this is the best solution for that specific problem, but it shows how images can be 'not orphaned', but still in use. --  (CoRrRan / talk) 23:02, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Good enough for me, thanks for indulging my curiosity. —Tanaric 01:13, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Basically myself, and some others, perform cleanup by tagging orphaned images on the special list for deletion, as they are no longer needed, or redundant due to replacement of a different naming scheme. By putting the false positive images here, they won't crop every time we check the list. --Lemming 01:18, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

This Page or Category

Request for comments of what you think is better: This page, or using a template ({{not orphaned}}) on the image pages, which adds them to a category and prevents them from showing up on the special page? poke | talk 08:35, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

The latter. This page comes across as an obviously clumsy workaround of mediawiki shortcomings; a template would be much preferred.

And with a template, you could make it a selectable option on the upload screen. -Auron 08:38, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Hmm, maybe we should not tell the users how to prevent an image from being detected by our orphaned image-searchers :D poke | talk 08:42, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Implemented the template and added the category. What do you think? :) poke | talk 09:08, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

This looks good too. Let's go with the category, it seems to be cleaner anyway. --Antioch 06:21, 21 December 2008 (UTC)