Category talk:Unattributed images

Disappointed
After the creation of the image source templates, I seem to be the only person making a real attempt at applying them to every image. At the time of this post this category had 403 images in it. That is rather sad. We need more people to help with find the sources of the images and in applying the templates.--Matt 04:54, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Isn't that a point of pride? I mean your efforts are noteworthy. If you want some help, tell me what to copy/paste or do.Axiomist 05:43, 11 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Although I'm not belittling you efforts here, this was not how I'd foreseen using this category. I'd used it as a "last resort", i.e if I'd searched everywhere for the source and couldn't find it. I'm concerned that by just dumping everything here, there'll be no possible incentive in the future for anyone to try and attribute a source to anything here. But that's probably just me being idealistic; I realise that a lot of those who uploaded images here are no longer active, so we'll likely never know where they got stuff from. Hey, I uploaded over 1000 images and I don't know where I got most of them from! All I'm saying is that I know there was some stuff that got dumped in here which I was able to quite easily identify, and if I hadn't caught it then it may have just got lost among the vastness of this category! So while in no way is this a request/instruction to stop, I just wanted you to be aware of the possible implications and extra work which may be involved in the future (and people say I'm a pessimist! ;) (P.S. by my rough calculations, we're about 10% of the way through categorizing the images...) --Adam 06:33, 11 May 2008 (UTC)


 * The intention of moving them here is so that their sources can be found at a later date. It is far easier to do that through this category than through random image. And I knew the source on about a fifth the images I came across. Having the images in this category is better than no category. We need more people to place templates on images. At the same time others will try to find the sources of those images in this category. That is the fastest way to finish this. The pride comes in when we are done. If that ever happens.--Matt 23:40, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

But did you actually know the source or did you just think "I've seen that sprite on site x, so it must have been taken from there"? Many sprites and certain screenshots could really be on several sites, so... just making sure you are attributing UNIQUE images. --Ando (T) 02:12, 12 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Not yet. So far, it was images with Source=[SiteURL SiteName] instead of the template, since those are new. Many of these images should be source by the contributer. The process would be like this: This image on Site A is exactly like the one I contributed. So is the one on Site B. Now I can't remember exactly where I found it but which site is the more likly one for me to have taken it from? This is a lot better than someone else saying that an image is from somewhere just because it's the same. Now this next idea may seem a little dumb, but it would solve our problem. Find an identical image on one of the sites that form the ZeldaWiki collaboration, upload it as a new version to the old file, and then place the FoundImageZW template. Then it will be true, without requiring us to hunt all over the internet. Simple, but effective. This method entails far less work than the alternative.--Matt 04:02, 12 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I guess this will work out fine. What I was getting at (which I somehow forgot to mention) is that the list of images yet to be done is here: Special:Uncategorizedimages. Since images (other than featured) were never categorized until we had these templates, this view basically contains every image which hasn't had templates added. I mention this because, if your current method is to click random image lots of times, I'm sure this will be faster! (perhaps coupled with this?) Like I said before, not trying to discourage you, just to show that there are alternatives ;) --Adam 05:23, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

We may have to use Special:Uncategorizedimages at some point. But right now it isn't nessisary. I'm getting an uncategorized image almost every time I click random image anyway. Yes, I know that will eventually change. But by then the list of uncategorized images won't be so massive.--Matt 05:32, 12 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Right now I'm stuck with IE. I can't get anything else to work. I'm not really that motivated to change that.--Matt 05:34, 12 May 2008 (UTC)