Forum:Non-JP Pictures

In the early days of this wiki, people uploaded ANY dino picture they could think of. As a result, the Diplodocus article looked like a Walking with Dinosaurs fan article. However, this is a Jurassic Park wiki. Our content should repressent Jurassic Park media.



Therefore, I think we should handle the rule that non-JP pictures are not allowed unless....

There are cases in which we could/should allow non-JP pictures. I have got the right to decide by myself what those cases are. We have to discuss it as a community. BastionMonk (talk) 10:10, May 8, 2014 (UTC)

Blogs, Forum and profiles
In blog or forum posts you can post whatever you like, as long as it follows Wikia guidelines. This means no pornography, illegal material, etc.

On your userpage you can put whatever pictures you like, again as long as they follow Wikia guidelines.

Subject short on pictures
Some characters and dinosaurs have no nice pictures in JP media. Examples are Richard Levine, Proceratosaurus, Segisaurus, the Isla Nublar Aviary etc.

I think that we could/should allow fanart in such cases. Do you agree? BastionMonk (talk) 10:10, May 8, 2014 (UTC)

Portrayal
Some dinosaurs looked very different in real-life than they do in JP material. Examples I can think of are Megaraptor, Dilophosaurus and Velociraptor. This difference should be discussed in a Portrayal section.

I think that these section could contain non-JP pictures that show what the animal actually looked like.

However, you really should check if such a picture is really necessary. For example, I don't think the Dilophosaurus article needs non-JP pictures. BastionMonk (talk) 10:10, May 8, 2014 (UTC)

Furthermore, you should check if there really are no JP pictures that could be used. For example, if you want to show what raptors looked like with feathers, you could use raptor pictures from Jurassic Park: Dangerous Games II. BastionMonk (talk) 10:10, May 8, 2014 (UTC)