User:H Fern/Spotlights

Spotlight on: Images
Guys and Gals, we really need to start taking screenies (screen shots) of everything ingame. When it comes to menus, the more pictures the better. Take for example Clan Emblem Changes. There are literally hundreds of combinations of pictures you can choose from to make your clan emblem. If someone were to screenie each page of emblems, someone (I if no one else) could compile them into a master list. Or the gender change menu. Or any little glitch, bug, gun, or hack ingame. THE MORE IMAGES, THE BETTER. I remember when I was a noob, and I went to get a Clan Emblem Change, I thought I could upload my own image to use as an emblem, and it would be filtered by GM s for obscene “objects”. To my surprise I had to choose from preset pictures. Now, what if someone could just see all the possible pictures on the Wiki? That would make a lot of player’s lives easier, if not than just more knowledgeable. ''That is what wikis are about; making people more knowledgeable on a subject. Words are what we use to teach; and a picture is worth a thousand words. ''

Also on the subject of pictures; Naming them. There are too many pictures with willie-nillie names. Pictures should be named in the following way:
 * 1) Personal pictures should have a name starting with your Username, then you can name at will.
 * 2) Example: H Fern bosscrown.png
 * 3) Flat Gun images, like on The Arsenal, should be title the gun’s full name without capitalization, spaces, or dashes.
 * 4) Example: MTAR-21 becomes mtar21.png. The  L96A1 Black Magnum becomes l96a1blackmagnum.png
 * 5) Ingame First Person Gun View Images (what is looks like when you’re holding it) should be named as #2, but with “_first” added on the end.
 * 6) Example:  M14 Classic  becomes m14classic first.png
 * 7) Menus are just given their official name, but fill in the description box!
 * 8) Example: A picture of the login screen becomes loginscreen.png 
 * 9) Glitches are given a descriptive name ending with “glitch”. Again, fill in the description box!
 * 10) Example: A Pic of using a knife on a rock glitch becomes rock-knifeglitch.png

Note: All names of players (including your own) should be changed into GM’s names (-Hime-, Maverick, StoneGold, ect.) or simply blanked out unless they are a personal image (if it’s a personal image, add "” ). If names are not changed and don’t have the  tag, they will be changed by another wikian. When uploading images that have names in them and that aren’t personal images, they should have a a “  ” tag added in their description boxes. This will prompt editors to change them first. This message consists of 498 words, or roughly, 2,407 characters, is at a 6.7 grade reading level, and has an average of 15.4 words per sentence.  00:25, July 9, 2010 (UTC)