Legitimate Reasons for Deleting Images

[LonestarK]

I'd like to remind everyone of the following rule incase you missed it:

"Images should only be deleted if they are duplicates, don't match the game they are assigned to, or are of very poor quality."

I've now seen the following images get deleted and re-added multiple times:

Game: Gradius III for SNES

Image Type: Fanart - Box - Front (United States)                     Image Type: Fanart - Box - Back (United States)

These aren't duplicates, they match the game they are assigned to, and they are not very poor quality. 

Please stop deleting fanart simply because it does not suit your particular tastes.  It's a waste of moderators' time to keep seeing the same images put up for deletion and addition.

[C-Beats]

If you start seeing any obvious patterns like this while moderating the DB please reach out to support@unbrokensoftware.com so we can attempt to look into it. They can look up the accounts and reasons given for the changes and we can try to get it stabilized.

[Freestate]

9 hours ago, LonestarK said:

I'd like to remind everyone of the following rule incase you missed it:

"Images should only be deleted if they are duplicates, don't match the game they are assigned to, or are of very poor quality."

I've now seen the following images get deleted and re-added multiple times:

Game: Gradius III for SNES

Image Type: Fanart - Box - Front (United States)                     Image Type: Fanart - Box - Back (United States)

These aren't duplicates, they match the game they are assigned to, and they are not very poor quality. 

Please stop deleting fanart simply because it does not suit your particular tastes.  It's a waste of moderators' time to keep seeing the same images put up for deletion and addition.

The problem with this image is tagging it as regional, it does not meet the design of a SNES USA box, it could be aproved without region. Tags are for use it correctly not something arbitrary, and Fanart is no exception, it is too common for certain users to use regional tags not precisely to satisfy their own tastes, incorrectly using the world region to favor usa and europe, or without considering that world means the same in all regions, or using it for fanart, or cases like the one you describe. If it doesn't imitate the style and size of a usa box it should be uploaded as regionless. I don't know why so much insistence and argument with this box that has a very uneven design and the poster category has already been created for boxes with this size and proportions. Also the image contains a peyorative word against canadian people, cannucks, seem more like trolling than a real contribution. It was removed several times because the user who uploaded it insists on labeling it as something it is not.

The database has its limitations in terms of categories where media can be placed, and we do not have categories for all types of art. We always try to reconcile the desire of some users to upload their creations with the database being an orderly place and the categories being used correctly, but many users insist on uploading their creations anywhere and in any way, generating totally unpredictable downloads that then require a lot of manual screening work. This can be done by uploading fan media to categories not created for it, incorrectly regionalizing or multiplying the designs and the type of format of what they upload to infinity. No, it is not sustainable to accept everything uncritically if it does not meet minimum quality standards, both in form and in terms of respecting the labeling. If you look at other SNES entries, this is the general rule that has been applied, if its design is not congruent with the region it refers to, it is deleted or kept as regionless, in the same way that we avoid labeling as official what is not in the main categories.

Edited 30 minutes ago by Freestate
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