Forum:Picture Cleanup Complete

Hi all,

This is a follow up to the picture cleanup forum post that I created back in August. I wanted to let you all know that I'm finally through! I'd say that I have less than a hundred pictures to still go through (most need pages created first). But otherwise, I've managed to shrink the amount of photos here on the wiki from 7,442 to 7,028.

Thanks to everybody who tagged photos for deletion, re-uploaded higher quality photos (while replacing old ones) and also marked blank pages that need photos in the future. I will continue to monitor and delete any photos that need it as I do on a regular basis, and I will do another 100% clean up next year.

Major things I got rid of:
 * All screenshots left over that were in Japanese. Most of these were uploaded as teasers before a game's English release (most were from Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns). This seemed like a dated process, since the game has long since been released to an English speaking audience. I've done this in the past with A New Beginning as well.
 * Any photos that were being used on user pages of those who have been inactive for a long period of time. If by any slim chance these people were ever to return here to the wiki, it's very easy to restore images. In my experience of deleting photos for the last few years, however, I've never had a single inactive user return. I figured that this was a safe thing to go ahead and do.
 * Sprites should all now be universal. We had a ton of duplicate sprites. In the case of Island Happiness and Sunshine Islands, for example, the characters didn't always share the same sprite set. But logically they should because the characters have identical appearances in both games.
 * There should be ONE universal photo used for each character appearance. I deleted any duplicates of the same character photos that I could find. Each picture on a disambiguation page should be the same as the photos that appear for each individual game appearance.

I'm currently working on | Articles for Deletion, as a few of you were kind enough to flag pages, categories and videos that need my attention while also flagging photos that needed deleting. If you see any more duplicated images, images of poor quality or images that need to be deleted, please feel free to keep marking them for deletion. Or, simply remove them and if they are not used anywhere else, they will be automatically flagged for me to delete through the admin dashboard.

Thanks to everybody for their hard work. If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. Or, feel free to leave something at the bottom of this thread.

Thanks,

niX