Forum:Naming standards

Because this is a "personal" wiki, I think we need some image-naming standards in place. This was also once a problem on the RuneScape wiki. Someone would name a file something like "me" or "my character" and it would often be uploaded over by someone else who used the same file name. Also, naming standards would prevent confusion, knowing which images are really in use (or will be soon) and which are Mainspace articles. So, I propose this:


 * Images of someone's character must have their full RuneScape or Wikia username in the file name
 * Images that a clan is using specifically on their page must have the full clan name in the file name
 * Mainspace (or RuneScape Clans) namespace images do not have any requirements, but should have descriptive file names nonetheless

I think that this will really help us sort our images out. In addition, I also think that making categories for each clan and putting all images and pages will be of great benefit. This way, each clan can keep track of all their pages and images, and finding any vandalism will be much easier (and so will knowing if someone uploads over their images). It provides easy access for clan members to view all their clan's pages at once, and it will seriously help with keeping all subpages together, because often they are not linked to on the clan's main page, thus making our orphaned pages list go down. Because images cannot (currently) be moved using the move feature, all images that are renamed, if this passes, will need to be saved to someone's computer, deleted, reuploaded with the correct file name with character or clan name in it, then the articles that linked to the old one must be edited to include the new name. That's the kind of mundane stuff I did all the time on the RS wiki, so I am completely volunteering to do the brunt of the work, provided this passes. How does everyone feel about creating this policy (no punishment if someone forgets to follow it though)? Christine 14:04, 20 May 2009 (UTC)