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 I hugely support everything being suggested in this thread. The wiki has a few outdated rules and regulations, and I think - like with the new tabbed galleries on various pages - overhauling the current guidelines would help freshen up the wiki.
-My biggest bugbears as a reader of the wiki have been the insanely cropped close-up widescreen images, and the notion that every subject has to be facing left. I would say the "facing inwards/left" thing should still be a guideline but if there's a better image where the subject is facing a different direction, then that should be allowed and not instantly dismissed. An example of where these new changes would help is on [[Talk:Ian Chesterton#Infobox image|Ian Chesterton's page]]. There's an ongoing discussion about the best image to use, but curent guidelines are far too restrictive and result in us using (imo) a terrible image for him. If we could make it so images on't have to be cropped and zoomed into a face, and if there's at least an option to allow use of an image where the subject faces any direction, suddenly so many more image options become available for suggestion.
+My biggest bugbears as a reader of the wiki have been the insanely cropped close-up widescreen images, and the notion that every subject has to be facing left. I would say the "facing inwards/left" thing should still be a guideline but if there's a better image where the subject is facing a different direction, then that should be allowed and not instantly dismissed. An example of where these new changes would help is on [[Ian Chesterton]]'s page. There's [[Talk:Ian Chesterton#Infobox image|an ongoing discussion]] about the best image to use, but current guidelines are far too restrictive and result in us using (imo) a terrible image for him. If we could make it so images don't have to be cropped and zoomed into a face, and if there's at least an option to allow use of an image where the subject faces any direction, suddenly so many more image options become available for suggestion.
 I also agree that out of universe pages should be handled differently, on a case by case basis.
 All in all, I fully support everything in the OP. Just wanted to put forward a couple of thoughts on particular parts of it. [[User:FractalDoctor|Fractal Doctor]] [[User talk:FractalDoctor|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 11:33, 22 February 2023 (UTC)