Board Thread:Site Discussions/@comment-4220590-20160821201552

Hello everyone. Ultrasonic9000 here with some new suggestions to make. This time around, I want to suggest (and change if it can be considered this) some rules here on SNN regarding creating gallery subarticles for normal articles. For those who do not know what this means, I mean revising when we are allowed to create gallery article (for example creating an article "Solaris/Gallery" holding the images for "Solaris").

This train of thought started when the admirable user DeCool99 brought up that our rules regarding images was... lackluster to put it nicely. It made me rethink the number of informal rules we had, and the one that sprang to mind was how an article's "Gallery section could first be given gallery sub-article when its "Gallery" section had sixteen or more images. Then, after taking a long look at how many SNN articles had several filling images, but not enough to be given their own gallery sub-article, I have come to believe that this requirement is set too high. Further brainstorming has made me decide that we should make the requirement for gallery subarticles public, but also lower the number of images required for such articles so they will be easier to make.

In regards to how low the lowered image requirement should be set... well, I think it should have none. A gallery subarticles should be allowed to be created with any number of images. It may sound a little disorganized and lucid, but having looked over many articles that use the "Template:Tab" (especially on the TV episode article) as I have, there is a demanding sense about adding gallery subsection to such template to complete it. Combined with the filler material an article gains from a Gallery, it seems like the best way to preserve material and make better room. Also, by setting any limit for a "Gallery" section size for a gallery subarticle, it would just be procrastinating in the end, as any Gallery section can eventually fulfill whatever requirement in time, but would otherwise be left to take up room until then (which could seriously take years). Besides, even if the Gallery subarticles would only end up with one image, would that be so wrong? I have seen big-time wikis like Marvel and DC having made image categories with only one image. Does SNN even have a reason for not allowing free creation of gallery subarticles?

This is just the thoughts I have gone through, and I would like to hear your opinions on the matter. Maybe it will lead to something or not. Like always, the outcome lies in the number of supporters. 