Is the AI upscaling of a blurry or historical portrait considered to be unremarkable (serving to improve the presentation without materially altering the content) or something to avoid or flag (where a reader needs to know about them to properly interpret the image)?
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As the technology becomes cheaper, I've been seeing an increasing amount of this on Commons, where a user thinks that running a low res portrait through a free upscaler like MyHeritage to add some convincing but semi-imaginary detail to the eyes, nose and mouth is a helpful thing to do. I don't know if we're yet at the tipping point where this needs an explicit clarification in Wikipedia's MOS.
The example that led me here was the Raj Kapoor article, where the low res 1959 film still File:Raj Kapoor in Anari.jpg is being replaced with an AI's upscaled interpretation File:Raj Kapoor in Anari enhanced.jpg. Belbury (talk) 10:06, 9 May 2023 (UTC)
Are there any objections to updating Wiki: Manual of Style/Images#Editing images to explicitly say that AI upscaled images "should not usually" be used on Wikipedia, in the same phrasing as for colorisation? The guideline currently cautions against colorisation on the grounds that it is WP:OR, but AI upscaling is as much if not more of a problem.
(I've just found a new behaviour on Commons where a user takes a freely licenced but low resolution celebrity photo, crops it to a close-up portrait and asks an AI to have a guess at what that person might look like at a higher resolution, to use in a Wikipedia infobox.) --Belbury (talk) 09:43, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
Trying for a wording on this, does AI upscaling software should generally not be used to increase the resolution or quality of an old or low-resolution image. Original historical images should always be used in place of AI upscaled versions. If an AI-upscaled image is used in an article, this fact should be noted in its caption.
seem reasonable, as a paragraph after the one on colorisation? --Belbury (talk) 09:07, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
Lately I've seen a lot of disruptive drive-by edits to articles with long-standing image layouts, based on this or that reading of image placement guidelines. But what appears to be happening is that some editors assume that what they see, for example specific instances of WP:image sandwiching and white space, is what everyone else sees, even though this is not always the case. Could we have some guideline that says that before changing the current/long standing image layout of an article, an editor who wants to do this should propose it on the talk page so that the main editors of said articles and others can evaluate the proposed changes to see if they are even a problem for anyone else? This seems to have particularly become an issue after the new extremely narrow text layout has become standard (which I have personally disabled because it looks awful to me). FunkMonk (talk) 17:45, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
Does anyone know why, for me at least, the thumbnails at Dundas station (Toronto) are rendering at 170px and not 300px when both |upright
and |thumb
are set? Isn't the default for |upright
= 1? —Joeyconnick (talk) 05:29, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
|upright=
was used because it had this particular result). I know I only use it when the image is vertically too large, and using it produces an image of reasonable height in relation to the rest of the images on the page usually without further adjustment. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 18:45, 19 August 2023 (UTC)|upright
changed isn't something that we can do here, it would require a change to the MediaWiki software, and would affect all wikis using that software - almost a thousand WMF wikis, and then there are all the non-WMF wikis as well. You could try filing a ticket at phab: and see what they say. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:26, 13 June 2023 (UTC) I want to discuss the style of content that readers don't see: the syntax or coding style.
The 'Syntax' section gives this as an example:
[[File:Siberian Husky pho.jpg|thumb|alt=A white dog in a harness playfully nuzzles a young boy |A [[Siberian Husky]] used as a pack animal]]
I would say that this is easier to read:
[[File: Siberian Husky pho.jpg | thumb | alt = A white dog in a harness playfully nuzzles a young boy | A [[Siberian Husky]] used as a pack animal]]
For the same reason that
A Siberian Husky used as a pack animal
is easier to read than
ASiberianHuskyusedasapackanimal
additionally,
[[File:Siberian Husky pho.jpg |thumb |alt = A white dog in a harness playfully nuzzles a young boy |A [[Siberian Husky]] used as a pack animal]]
is more difficult to read than the aforementioned, for the same reason that
lA lSiberian lHusky lused las la lpack lanimal
is more difficult to read than the aforementioned.
I often see people following the example on this page and eschewing any space that is not between two words. Not only that, but many editors see spaces used in code and remove them. I'm not sure what is being improved. Do they quickly read the content, decide it doesn't need to be read again, and want it to take up less space?
To be sure, some parts of computer code do not need spaces between them (series of rote tags that everyone ignores anyways). But some code can slightly differ from use to use, and it needs to be easy to read.
It isn't just image tags with this problem, to be sure. But this page must be fairly popular and get a lot of different viewers, so I figured I'd bring it up here. Wizmut (talk) 12:45, 1 July 2023 (UTC)
{{Cite book| title =Yadda Yadda| last =Foo| first =Bar| date =2023| ...}}
— SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 14:12, 19 August 2023 (UTC)[[File: Name | thumb | alt = Whatever | More Whatever]]
is not it. The prevalent styles are [[File:Name|thumb|alt=Whatever|More Whatever]]
and [[File:Name |thumb |alt=Whatever |More Whatever]]
, to mirror typical formatting of templates. And "File: Name" is just weird. No one does that, any more than they refer to "Wiki: Administrator's noticeboard" or "MOS: IMAGES". — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 14:12, 19 August 2023 (UTC)We really ought to add guidance that you shouldn't stack images.
[[File:1]]
[[File:2]]
[[etc...]]
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit...
This displays on mobile as a centered continuous stack of images, and not a neatly cascading set of images beside the text. I've seen articles where on mobile, you had to scroll through like five screens of images to get to the text. This is covered a bit in Help:Pictures, but not in the MOS and not specific to mobile. GMGtalk 11:19, 29 July 2023 (UTC)
[[File:...|thumb|]]
markup would waste a lot of space). — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 18:41, 19 August 2023 (UTC)In Fleetwood Park Racetrack, I've got two maps showing the same area in 1885 and today. Is there some way to build a composite image which lets you drag a slider to expose one or the other, in the style of https://web-toolbox.dev/en/tools/image-compare-slider? RoySmith (talk) 16:25, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
We have a problem, highlighted at Talk:Ulster Scots people#Why the flags? (now an RfC at Talk:Ulster Scots people#RfC on inclusion of ancestral national flags), in which people do not understand that the majority of the material at MOS:FLAGS pertains to use of flag images at all; in the few places it is limited to flag icons in particular, it says so explicitly. We need to do a WP:SUMMARYSTYLE section at MOS:IMAGES that encapsulates the general guidance about flag images here. Maybe even move most of it here and retarget MOS:FLAGS to this section, and have MOS:FLAGICONS go to the section at MOS:ICONS and reduce that material there to just the icon-specific concerns (use in infoboxes, tables, etc.). PS: I think I may even be to blame at least in part for this confusion; I think I had a lot to do with consolidation of the flag-related material in one place, back when MOS:ICONS was in its infancy (and when most of the concerns originally raised were about icons, so it seemed to make sense at the time). — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 20:58, 1 September 2023 (UTC); rev'd. 06:37, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
At Talk:Anna Krauss we have a dispute over inclusion of this image of the biography’s subject. Per WP:OM, WP:NOTCENSORED and, of course, this page, I believe that the encyclopedic value of the image, which has no suitable substitutes, outweighs its potential for shock and offense. I would appreciate input from editors there, as it is just my opinion against that of Scope creep at this point. I have left a similar note at Wiki talk:Offensive material. — HTGS (talk) 02:04, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
I added an image to the "History" section of an article, but it appears in the next section. How do I get the image to appear in the correct section? Thank you, Cunard (talk) 11:47, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
{{Infobox restaurant}}
immediately followed by a {{Infobox Chinese}}
, and these are both floated boxes. Images are also floated boxes; and the top edges of all floated boxes must occur in sequence down the page. So because the image is after the {{Infobox Chinese}}
, the top edge of the image cannot be any higher than that of the second infobox. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 20:09, 8 October 2023 (UTC) {{Infobox Chinese}}
can be emedded with {{Infobox restaurant}}
, which lacks a "module" parameter like Template:Infobox person has. Cunard (talk) 23:07, 8 October 2023 (UTC) Please change
to
from View source:
Thanks. 173.67.42.107 (talk) 12:47, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
The redirect Mos:LEADIMAGE has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wiki: Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 October 11 § Mos:LEADIMAGE until a consensus is reached. Utopes (talk / cont) 23:45, 11 October 2023 (UTC)
I'm in the process of prepping a few hundred 1980s U.S. government photos for upload to Commons for use in biographies, mostly as infobox photos. While most of the photos are black and white, about 15% of the subjects have both a single color portrait and a set of black and white portraits to choose from. With a few exceptions, the subjects with a color portrait have a visibly higher-quality black and white alternative (file size doesn't necessarily mean much, but fwiw, the color portraits are mostly in the 25-40kb range, as opposed to 50-100kb for the black and white portraits). Is there some sort of guideline to follow on choosing one over the other, or is this simply a judgment call? Bios almost never need two portraits from the same portrait session, so is having a higher-quality image worth the cost of not having a color image of the individual on their page? Star Garnet (talk) 18:12, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
I'm writing this on mobile so any oddities can be brought down to that While in a discussion over on the Discord, MOS:SANDWICH got brought up, and when I took another look I noticed that it doesnt really state why sandwiching should be avoided other than it being "distasteful" which is something that is subjective and a thought not everyone shares. Is there a specific reason why sandwiching should be avoided? ― Blaze WolfTalkblaze__wolf 11:58, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
The average monitor size on desktops has gotten larger– maybe, but I'm not alone in regularly viewing Wikipedia articles on tablets not using the mobile site, when sandwiching is a real problem. The screen size on laptops has not increased. My solution for small articles is to use "
center
" to place images centrally. Peter coxhead (talk) 11:17, 10 November 2023 (UTC) A recent edit changed
Wiki is not censored: its mission is to present information, including information which some may find offensive. However, a potentially offensive image—one that would be considered vulgar or obscene by typical Wikipedia readers—should be included only if it is treated in an encyclopedic manner, i.e. only if its omission would cause the article to be less informative, relevant, or accurate, and no equally suitable alternative is available.
to now read "vulgar, horrifying, or obscence". I'm skeptical that there is a consensus for this, primilarily because with the rise of "trigger warning culture", anything that might offend or shock anyone for any reason could be PoV-pushingly mischaracterized as "horrifying" and be subject to editwarring to remove it, even if it would not be of concern to most readers. Medical articles in particular are already subject to frequent attempts to censor images from them of injury types and disease results, and I can certainly see such a broad concept as "horrifying" also being abused to censor material on sexuality; religious ideas like depictions of Hell; historical material on wars and weapons, medieval torture, etc; blood sports; the entire subject area of the horror genre; among others. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 02:33, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
There is an ongoing RfC that may be of interest to editors here regarding the removal of image collages from individual year articles at Wiki talk:WikiProject Years § RfC: Removal of image collages. voorts (talk/contributions) 00:26, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
Your input would be appreciated at Talk:Morristown, Tennessee#Photo of a tombstone, where there is a content dispute regarding a photo of a tombstone. Magnolia677 (talk) 23:37, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
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Requesting that the link to Special:PermanentLink/460749801 in Wiki: Manual of Style/Images#Images for the lead be changed to Special:PermanentLink/1192743397 (or any such recent version). The currently linked version has a redirect template redlink and what is now a navbox at the top of the article, making it less obvious which image is being referenced. hinnk (talk) 02:52, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
I know I've seen discussions on the theme "No, we don't want your artistic vision in WP-biographies", but is there something written on that in a guideline somewhere? Should something be mentioned at Wiki: Manual_of_Style/Images#Making_images_yourself? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 09:44, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
But yes, this should be addressed more clearly somewhere. What the policy ssys in short is that it's fine to add one's own charts and diagrams, including maps (and of course one's own photos are permissible). But it doesn't very directly address other user-generated graphics. All it says is "Additionally, user-made images may be wholly original. In such cases, the image should be primarily serving an educational purpose, and not as a means of self-promotion of the user's artistic skills. The subject to be illustrated should be clearly identifiable in context, and should not be overly stylized." The example provided is actually another diagram. It doesn't get at things like artistic portraits, still lifes, landscapes, animal depictions, and so on, but it probably should. There's a bit of a wrinkle when it comes to things that are not possible to photograph, such as interstellar phenomena or mythical creatures.
The overal question may have particular pertinence these days and into the future, since AI image generators can be used to cobble together "new" portraits based on pre-existing portrait data, and this would be WP:OR and then some, well beyond what WP:IUPC was intended to permit. Just yesterday (not on WP or on Commons) I saw a huge series of fanciful AI portraits of Mädchen Amick (zero of which would be appropriate here), and that was just one example in a long stream of such AI-enabled fan "art" I've run into on social media; the prevalance of it is increasing rapidly.
I think this question is worth raising, with regard to portraits, landscapes, and other non-diagrammatic art (human- or AI-generated), at WT:IMAGEPOL. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 11:59, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
Would there be a problem if, out of lack of an available picture, but as in a photography of a person, to use a drawing of this person in the image section? Kayy kay (talk) 04:02, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
Whatever the original reasons there were for the image width parameter to be called "upright", it's a poor name for that feature (either nonsensical or counterintuitive) and likely yet another small issue in WP:RETENTION, WP:NEWBIES &c. — AjaxSmack 15:24, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
|image_upright=
in taxoboxes.) Peter coxhead (talk) 16:54, 20 January 2024 (UTC) |upright=n
feature isn't like a template parameter where we would discuss and then just amend the template code. It's part of the MediaWiki software, and hence is not just outside the scope of this page, it's also not something that English Wikipedia can decide without involving all the other wikis that use MediaWiki (more than a thousand different websites). You need to file s change request at phab:, but be warned, they may throw it out as being years too late. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 23:22, 20 January 2024 (UTC) The following is copied from my inquiry at WT:NFC/Archive 74:
I'd like to propose a new addition to WP:NFC#UUI: "An album/single cover art to illustrate an album/song, if the label on a physically-released disc is ineligible for copyright." This is because I have noticed over the past few years that single cover art in the infoboxes for many song articles is being replaced with a copyright-ineligible label. Examples include "Incense and Peppermints", "Lean on Me" and "There's a Place." JohnCWiesenthal (talk) 23:27, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
Non-free content is used only where no free equivalent is available, or could be created, that would serve the same encyclopedic purpose.
the same encyclopedic purposeas the main use of official picture sleeves (identification in infoboxes without critical commentary). If an article were to include critical commentary on a single cover itself (and not the song), that would be a different case. JohnCWiesenthal (talk) 06:54, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi. I don't know where to place the "Mezzelune with seafood and pesto" image; according to the Manual of Style's rules, which is the most suitable place? JacktheBrown (talk) 18:49, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
FAC discussion which could be relevant to editors here[1], and perhaps the MOS for images should have a note on how to deal with palaeoart once consensus emerges. FunkMonk (talk) 13:45, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
Would anyone like to comment about the appropriateness of images in navboxes at Wiki talk:Categories, lists, and navigation templates#Images in navboxes (again)? --woodensuperman 07:43, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
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