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:Have a look around this wiki, most thumbnails have a story link and there are no real design problems. I think it makes it look better. Your the one exaggerating with these complaints.--[[User:Skittles the hog|Skittles the hog]] 17:29, December 12, 2010 (UTC) | :Have a look around this wiki, most thumbnails have a story link and there are no real design problems. I think it makes it look better. Your the one exaggerating with these complaints.--[[User:Skittles the hog|Skittles the hog]] 17:29, December 12, 2010 (UTC) | ||
::Forget about looking "around the wiki". Look around professional sites. You will see, great consistency in design theory. Cap blocks are ''not meant'' to have anything close to the height of the pic itself. Here are examples from today: | |||
::*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11970634 Why do trains have a winter timetable?] from BBC | |||
::*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11975470 UN climate change talks in Cancun agree a deal] from BBC | |||
::*[http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/13/business/13credit.html?_r=1&ref=business Risky Borrowers Find Credit Available Again, at a Price] from ''The New York Times'' | |||
::* [http://www.smh.com.au/national/keli-lanes-problem-child-20101213-18vhu.html Keli Lane's 'problem' child] from ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' | |||
::Or just pick up any newspaper or magazine. The 1:1 relationship of cap bock to pic block just '''doesn't happen''' in the world of professional design. (Or even amateur design, judging by school newspapers and annuals, and even church newsletters and the like.) | |||
::What I notice on our site is only that people ''have started'' to "bulk up" cap blocks more consistently in the last few months. But in the 3+ years I've edited here, no one has ever said to me, "You must put the story link in the caption." Clearly, '''[[User:Skittles the hog|Skittles the hog]] started this campaign''' by beginning this thread. And obviously it's fine to want to change things; I want to change a lot of things here. But don't try to play this issue as if this was the previous rule and I'm standing outside that "rule" throwing stones at it. This is an active topic, and as far as I can see, no actual consensus has been reached. It is not yet a part of the Manual of Style to do what you're ''suggesting'' we should do. | |||
::See, what you describe as "complaints", I see as me reminding this thread of standard practice throughout the publishing world. It's so standard, in fact, that when you start newsletter templates in Microsoft Word, the sugested caption blocks follow this sizing theory. And layout templates have been doing it since at least Adobe Pagemaker 1.0. | |||
::I have no doubt you're being sincere when you say thumbnails "make it look better". Your particular eye might well think that. But I'm not exaggerating when I say, "It is against standard design theory to have captions which meet or exceed the dimensions of the photographs they caption." '''Requring''' story citation will create such monstrous cap blocks, as I've demonstrated, above. '''[[User:CzechOut|<span style="background:blue;color:white">Czech</span><span style="background:red;color:white">Out</span>]]''' [[User talk:CzechOut|☎]] | [[Special:Contributions/CzechOut|<font size="+1">✍</font>]] 17:35, December 13, 2010 (UTC) | |||
