Forum:Image organisation project

As mentioned elsewhere, the wiki currently has 1,800+ images and counting. I think it's safe to say that 99+% of these are not currently organised by category in some way. It is a big project, but I think it can be done. In the process, fair use tags and rationales can also be added. Below are my ideas for this project:

Organise by source

There are 4 primary image sources:


 * Anime
 * Manga
 * Video games
 * Merchandise

Of these 4 anime and manga form the bulk of the images. There are only a few video game images at present and these are already organised in Video game images. The only merchandise images at the moment are the covers for the albums, DVDs, and video games. Merchandise is still a new area that can be expanded on given all the products that were made.

All images will be under the root category Images.

Anime As I see it, there are a few types of anime images:


 * Title cards/intertitles
 * Screenshots of all manner of things

My idea for the title cards is to organise these by source: TV anime, movies, OVA. The anime title cards can be organised by season, thus:


 * Season 1 title cards and so on, for each season
 * OVA title cards

Since there are only 3 movies they can go into a parent Title card category.

The screenshots if desired, could all be under Anime images, or as with the title cards, separated by source, with the ones from the TV anime further broken down into seasons as well, thus:


 * Season 1 images
 * Movie images
 * OVA images

However if it might be easier to put all TV anime screenshots into Anime images. Since there are 7 seasons it might be harder to distinguish what happened where in what season so instead of going specific here it might be easier to go broad.

Manga Manga images can basically be divided into comic panels (individual or a sequence), whole pages (if applicable), or chapter title pages. The chapter title pages can be categorised under Chapter title pages. These could even be subcategorised into specific volumes, but the thing here is that there are 38 Japanese tankobon vs. 36 English manga, so it might be easier not to go this specific. The comic panels and other pages could go into Manga images.

Organise by subject

I got the idea from this fro the Character Images category. The idea here is to add a further category in addition to the source and type based on what is depicted. It does not matter what the source is. For in-universe topics these could be:


 * Characters
 * Items
 * Locations
 * Techniques

What I am not sure about here though is what would constitute a Character image. Is it just something that is good for the infobox as it shows them by themselves, or it shows any number of haracter (but not executing or getting hit by a technique)?

For real world topics these would be of seiyus, VAs, performers, and staff.

Unused images Several images were uploaded that are not currently being used. They will get pulled up by Special:UnusedFiles but there currently are about 500 or less. Some of these it looks like will be used eventually, but the articles have not been created yet. These could be kept, but duplicates could be tagged for deletion.

Please share your thoughts and ideas on how else you think the images could be organised. BrokenSphere (Talk) 05:08, December 22, 2011 (UTC)


 * Seems pretty solid. With regard to the character images, it would probably be best to leave it as just images used for infoboxes since it could cause edit wars or alike if the category was increased to include a wider scope of images. For the manga images, if it was chosen to do categorisation by specific volumes, it would be more feasible if the original 38 volume format was used since this is referred to more often. I do have a slight question about where Laserdisc artwork (example) would fit in. Obviously it be most suited for anime images, but would it stop there, or would the laserdisc artwork have it's own sub-category entirely? --Trivi-AM (talk) 15:45, December 23, 2011 (UTC)


 * I had actually gone ahead and went a little wide with the Character images category by putting all the ones I had recategorised so far into it to include those used for infoboxes and the rest. I could pull the non-infoboxes out, or set up a specific category for the infobox images (there are not that many ATM), something like Character infobox images.  This is similar to what is going at the One Piece Wiki with regards to how they organise their character images.
 * As for images sourced from LDs, and I know that there are a lot, we could use something like Laserdisc images, which would refer to the source, and be under Anime images, since these were used for all the anime forms and are good source for colour images. I am not sure how feasible it is to create articles for specific LDs because the content of these was so narrow (e.g. 1 OVA on 1 LD), vs. mentioning that the OVA or episodes or movie was released on x date in x format in the article itself.  I think there are some exceptions for this but that would require some digging.  If there is a need to upload LD covers then there can be a separate category for that.   BrokenSphere  (Talk) 17:08, December 23, 2011 (UTC)