Image Standards

[Vikograd]

I just noticed some articles, well just the Queen Fighter 2000 article, have had their images removed for being screenshots of footage found online rather than being exported directly from an emulator. Is this something that's really valued or is this more of a pet peeve of some users?

I for one have always taken screenshots from around the web because it's quick and easy, and really adds to a wiki page. In my opinion it's better to have images that are pretty good, unless you're specifially searching for artefacts, than none at all.

So what's the general consensus on this? If there is none feel free to leave your two cents too.

[APM]

Hello, content moderator who made the edits you're referring to here. It is quite literally stated in the wiki's rules that if the option is available, then native-resolution emulator screenshots of games are preferred: https://bootleggames.fandom.com/wiki/BootlegGames_Wiki:Uploading_files/Images.

While it hasn't been explicitly laid out on the wiki, it's probably intuitive that if a game can be reasonably emulated and its page on the wiki has native-resolution emulator screenshots already, then that should be the case for future screenshots of the game uploaded to the wiki for consistency's sake (KingPepe on the BGC Discord quite literally shared similar sentiments on the matter very recently). Queen Fighter 2000 fits this exact criteria, and the person who last added more images to the wiki article on it was already known to have used the less-than-ideal method of taking a full screen capture of their emulator (presumably at a full screen resolution itself) and cropping them, which did end up with at least one bad screenshot uploaded to another page. The QF2000 screenshots had a similar resolution to the ones known to have been cropped from screen grabs, and to err on the side of caution I removed them in case they had issues I couldn't easily spot. Otherwise, if a particular game or a variant of it hasn't been dumped/can't be emulated, then screenshots of any kind can be uploaded to the wiki, although if higher quality equivalents are found, then those should be uploaded on the wiki in place of the old images.

[Vikograd]

Oh, well... Thanks for the info though