Talk:Vancouver southern suburbs
Latest comment: 8 years ago by Ypsilon in topic Pagebanner
Pagebanner
editYpsi, I appreciate all the pagebanners you've been adding lately, but I'm afraid there's a huge problem with this one. Look at the sign on the building at right, labelled GULF OF GEORGIA CANNERY. For me, the visible seam of the panorama roundly disqualifies the image for use in such a prominent way. -- AndreCarrotflower (talk) 21:38, 19 November 2016 (UTC)
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- This one I actually didn't create. It's from Richmond (British Columbia) and was created by User:Shaundd. ϒpsilon (talk) 21:41, 19 November 2016 (UTC)
- So noted. I went ahead and removed the same banner from Richmond (British Columbia). Normally I'd be of the opinion that a bad banner is better than none (or the default one). But panoramas with visible seams are, for me, the visual equivalent of nails on a chalkboard. -- AndreCarrotflower (talk) 00:05, 20 November 2016 (UTC)
- I have to say I’m frustrated by Andre’s reverting of the Richmond (British Columbia) banner. The seam isn't blatantly obvious to me (I’ve looked at that banner several times and never noticed the seam until until Andre pointed it out). And otherwise, it’s a good quality image of a prime tourist attraction, sharp at full resolution (something a fair number of our banners can’t claim) and, IMO, nice to look at. Meanwhile, there are recent banners where the subject is out of focus (Simcoe County) or the underlying image is smaller than 2100 px, and it’s pretty obvious at first glance (Annapolis Valley and Minas Basin). Low-res images like that are the proverbial “nails on the chalkboard” to me, but I haven’t reverted them because I really appreciate the effort User:Ypsilon is doing and I’m not sure the banners are worse than the default banner (and apologies Ypsi, I’m not meaning to pick on you, I do really appreciate the work you're doing on banners). This reversion strays awfully close to elevating a pet peeve to a site rule. Anyway, I’ll take a crack at fixing the seam. It’s not my image originally but I might be able to fix it up. -Shaundd (talk) 04:32, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
- A month ago I counted how many region articles we have without banners, there were about 1500 of them. I'm aiming for adding banners to everyone of them (about half is done now), some do unfortunately not have that good banner material to use but I try to make the best of what there is anyway (albeit I apparently have a lower standard). Anyway if you or anyone else finds some banners they don't like, I don't really have a problem if they get reverted. ϒpsilon (talk) 13:44, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
- I have to say I’m frustrated by Andre’s reverting of the Richmond (British Columbia) banner. The seam isn't blatantly obvious to me (I’ve looked at that banner several times and never noticed the seam until until Andre pointed it out). And otherwise, it’s a good quality image of a prime tourist attraction, sharp at full resolution (something a fair number of our banners can’t claim) and, IMO, nice to look at. Meanwhile, there are recent banners where the subject is out of focus (Simcoe County) or the underlying image is smaller than 2100 px, and it’s pretty obvious at first glance (Annapolis Valley and Minas Basin). Low-res images like that are the proverbial “nails on the chalkboard” to me, but I haven’t reverted them because I really appreciate the effort User:Ypsilon is doing and I’m not sure the banners are worse than the default banner (and apologies Ypsi, I’m not meaning to pick on you, I do really appreciate the work you're doing on banners). This reversion strays awfully close to elevating a pet peeve to a site rule. Anyway, I’ll take a crack at fixing the seam. It’s not my image originally but I might be able to fix it up. -Shaundd (talk) 04:32, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
- So noted. I went ahead and removed the same banner from Richmond (British Columbia). Normally I'd be of the opinion that a bad banner is better than none (or the default one). But panoramas with visible seams are, for me, the visual equivalent of nails on a chalkboard. -- AndreCarrotflower (talk) 00:05, 20 November 2016 (UTC)