File talk:Cassie.JPG

ATTENTION FELLOW ADMINS!

I just wanted to ask if anyone knew of a good way to avoid this annoyance. I really think we should find a way to advise people to not upload pictures and give them vague names, such as this one Image:Cassie.JPG, and others: Image:Bree.jpg, Image:Breee.JPG, Image:Daniel.PNG, Image:Daniel.jpeg, Image:Daniel.jpg, Image:Daniel2x.jpg, Image:Dbeast.jpg, Image:Danielbeest.JPG, Image:Gemma.JPG, Image:Gemma.jpg, Image:Gemma2.jpg? Not to mention such gems as Image:000 0292.jpg, Image:0097.jpg, Image:0099.jpg, Image:0706061651a.jpg, Image:10-12-06 2131.jpg, Image:109.jpg, Image:110.jpg, Image:12-01Reveresed.jpg, Image:12-01UnReversed.jpg, Image:12111494.jpg, Image:126.jpg, Image:126b.jpg, Image:202634.jpg, Image:223728-edited.jpg. I'd defy just about anyone to tell me what those are without clicking on them to see. Names of files should be descriptive, and I'm wondering if there is a way to let users know before they take a still of Jonas from video 0153 showing him vaulting over a fence with an AK-47 into a pit of rattlesnakes while OpAphid looks on laughing and calling it by the oh-so-descriptive name of "Image:Jonas.gif". --Brucker 14:24, 8 February 2007 (CST)

I've noticed that too, but I don't know how you can control how files are named. I can only think to perhaps put a note on the upload page to ask that people include the name of the subject of the picture (Jonas, Owen, bald deacon, wilted rose, box with symbol, etc) and the title of the video. That would at least help. Then Jonas.gif might be called Image:Jonas rattlesnakes Ambush The Order. Another thing we could do, though it wouldn't be fun, is to rename them ourselves and change their links in articles (phooey!). OwenIsCool 18:51, 9 February 2007 (CST)

JayHenry did something to alter the upload page, so hopefully it will be better from now on. --Brucker 19:06, 9 February 2007 (CST)