Thread:Arcaedia/@comment-4140166-20150112224658/@comment-26955746-20150124102918

And equally, I've seen wiki's that include just as many if not more images than this one. (Half-Life, Dishonored, and Bioshock wiki's for example). I personally prefer image-rich wiki's over ones which (in my opinion) arbitrarily restrict the number of images in articles. Images do nothing but enhance the wiki in my view. On a related note, I would actually like to see more articles (particularly long ones) include integrated images the whole way through, and then have any additional images in the gallery.

There is one other thing that I'd like to point out, and I think its actually quite important. Before I started editing on this wiki, there were already numerous articles which had the number of images in their galleries that you seem to consider excessive (e.g. JC Denton, Hong Kong, Mechanical augmentation, Nanotechnological augmentation, Sarif Industries (before I removed images from the gallery at a later date), Belltower Associates). This seems to suggest that previous editors were happy with this number of pictures in articles. If anything, I was carrying on what was already the standard on this wiki. EDIT: Having just checked the Image policy on the Mass Effect wiki, the following was said about galleries: "Unlike other wikis, do note that galleries are only used sparingly and on a case by case basis.." This is not the norm for most wiki's as the Mass Effect wiki has itself acknowledged. I don't agree with this condition and apparently neither do the numerous other wiki's that include galleries. I feel like using this wiki as an example of how "other games'" wiki's treat images is not representative at all. Why should we follow their standard and not just follow on from what past editors on this wiki have done?

I don't know what you had in mind vote-wise but I think the pole on the homepage will be an ineffective way of resolving this. I'd prefer if people had to comment on a blog post that described the issue rather than having to try to compress it into a sentence or two for the sake of the poll. Obviously that has the disadvantage of requiring people to put more effort into having to read the post and then comment on it, which won't be very many considering the traffic this wiki gets. I think we should contact some people like Dorgles and Nathan who have been online recently aswell to get their view on it.