Recently, there was a short discussion about using a representative image on pages documenting more than a single enemy, such as Lanino and Elnina, Sweet Cap’n Cakes, the fake Mikes, Royal Guards, etc. There are two approaches here that make sense:
- The enemy sprites are shown separately in each infobox gallery tab, or
- The enemy sprites are combined into a single image.
Arguments for approach 1 are:
- the images are originally like that in the game
- there is no editor modification needed
- someone looking for separate sprites can just pick them
- there is less gallery clutter than including combined image + separate images
Arguments for approach 2 are:
- the user should see the most representative image first, an image encapsulating the topic
- the representative image is also shown in Google search, on-wiki search, etc. and it could look weird if only Lanino is shown for Lanino and Elnina
- there is less gallery clutter than including the separate images
There are variants for each approach, and we could decide whether to include only the group sprite, or also the individual sprites, we could decide to show multiple images side by side in the gallery (probably), we could have different criteria of what a representative image is, etc.
What do you think? Which approach do you find better, under which circumstances? We don’t have any standard for this, so ideally by the end of discussion we would know what to write in a future revision of the standard.