Forum:Image naming from the Image Policy

The Image Policy currently has rather lengthy guidelines on choosing a name for the image being uploaded, based on whether the card has been released in the TCG. However, surely it would be simpler to just ask people to mirror the spelling used by the card's article? For reference, the TCG/OCG section of the current guideline reads:

CardName is the official English Card Name of the card (if it exists in the English TCG) OR, the commonly-accepted English translation of the card's name from Japanese (if it does NOT exist in the English TCG). If you're dealing with Japanese OCG-only cards, a good source of accepted English name translations are the numerous Yu-Gi-Oh! video games. If at all possible, try to get the name from the NEWEST of these (i.e., try WC6 first, then NTR, then WC5, and so on). (emphasis in original)

A suggested version would read approximately as follows:

CardName should reflect the name of the card's article. (examples may or may not follow)

This change would also be applicable to the Anime/Manga section. Thoughts?

On a related note, the guideline currently has no instructions specifically for card images from video games, even though there are a large number of such images currently on the wiki. What is the preferred naming method for such images? 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{? · Talk⇒Dinoguy1000} 22:17, April 20, 2010 (UTC)

Just realized, there are also no guidelines for Bandai/DDM/etc. images. 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{? · Talk⇒Dinoguy1000} 22:18, April 20, 2010 (UTC)

You're only asking if we should rephrase the image policy page, rather than change the policy itself?

Yeah, instructing someone to figure out what card name to use is redundant when its already been done for the card's article.

Video game images are CardNameVG-ID-LN.file extension.

• CardName is the card's English name that we're using or name from the English language version of the video game, if it's different.
• VG is as is.
• ID is an abbreviation of the video game. Usually taken from the set id for its promotional cards. e.g. FMR for Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories. If it doesn't have promotional cards, just use the games initials.
• LN the language. Same as with other images.
• -2, -3 etc. can be stuck on at the end for cards with multiple artworks in the same game.

I have no objection to adding Bandai, DDM etc. If anyone needs to know they're as follows:

• Bandai is CardNameBAN#-LN-R. BAN# is BAN1 for a regular card and BAN2 for a "shield". (Could cause conflict if Konami ever release OCG sets with BAN1 and BAN2 as their ids.)
• DDM is CardNameSet-DDM-LN for a card. CardName-DDM-FIGURE for a figure.
• Capsule Monsters Game is the same as DDM, but with a CM instead of a DDM.

-- Deltaneos (talk) 11:55, April 21, 2010 (UTC)

Correct, I'm only asking about rewording and clarifying the current policy. You're fine with my explicitly requested change, then, right? I may end up completely rewriting it so that stuff is better segmented and explained, but if I do, I'll post the new version and ask opinions before replacing the current version. For the most part, this is a result of me working on {{TCG-OCG card image}}, a template for tagging card images that should help people figure out what the image's name *should* be (unfortunately, I'm not aware of any way to incorporate it into the upload form so that the image name is auto-generated...). --Dinoguy1000 (talk • contribs) as 67.58.229.153 19:01, April 21, 2010 (UTC)