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Standard Size Pictures

What this wiki seems to be lacking is standard sizes for it's pictures. A good example of this is on the 'Recent Adventures...' section of the main page. Another good example is the Jack Harkness page. If you look down the page there are 9 pictures and they are all different sizes. If you set a standard size for character pictures and then another for screen shots I think this wiki would look a lot better and lot more consistent. --Rbfskywalker 11:33, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

The image sizing on the Jack Harkness page seems alright, the different images lend different things to the article, their sizing is partially determined by the layout of the article and the text around it.

Also I'm not sure a standardised sizing system would work as many screenshots are captured in 4:3 while others are 16:9, while further others are cropped images, all resulting a different shaped image.

As for the recent adventures section on the main page, it could be standardised, but again it is sometimes dependent on the source images and the detail within those source images to bring detail to the image. --Tangerineduel 13:26, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

I think all infoboxes should have a standard image size, at least for characters. For a start it would allow us to get decent full-body shots of the character. As for the within the ariticles, I think standardising would be limiting to the variety of images available. I think the recent adventures needs to be standardised to a degree. All television episodes should be the same (and mostly are), and other types just need to be as close as they can be. Taccer 07 15:30, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Generally speaking the standard size for infoboxes is 250px, though sometimes this can be smaller if (usually in the case of characters) there's a large or long image and a very small amount of text it can sometimes overwhelm the text. --Tangerineduel 16:24, 18 April 2009 (UTC)