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I'm noticing some of the more recent episodes have images from the BBC's Doctor Who site rather than screencaps or stills from the episodes themselves. Is there a preference? Or is it a case by case matter? Monkey with a Gun 06:15, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Screencaps or stills would be much better, the website images have texts in the image and that rather detracts from the image as well. Im against the website images and If we started using website images, we would also perhaps have to edit the 1963 - 1989 and 1996 infoboxes as well Bigshowbower 06:30, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

I asked a few weeks ago (see Forum:Wallpapers vs Screenshots for Infoboxes, which is more of a general question rather than specifics).

I prefer screenshots as a lot of the wallpapers are a bit engineered (and often abstract). It's better to have something from the episode rather than a photoshopped wallpaper mockup from it.

The wallpaper promo shots with the words on them I find a little tacky. --Tangerineduel 15:07, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

I agree 110% on the ones with text. And my preference is generally screencap as well, although sometimes the wallpaper can be very striking, and a poorly chosen screencap can be very dull; see Blink vs. Partners in Crime for an example of what I'm talking about.

Well, I recently figured out how to screencaps in VLC, so I'm on a bit of a screencap tear anyway. Woohoo! Monkey with a Gun 04:26, 25 August 2009 (UTC)