File talk:Vulcan desert night wide.jpg

I have reverted this image several times for housekeeping purposes to limit the size of the file and image. There is absolutely no reason why this image needs to exeed 800px, nor should anyone need to download an image exceeding 800px to see nothing of consequence. --Alan del Beccio 17:56, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
 * It's 71 more than 800, big deal... Especially since the softare resizes it to 800px by itself for the preview page and to smaller sizes when it is used. The only time the poor user would have to load the whole thing is when they specifically ask to load the whole thing, in which case it should be as large and detailed as possible. There is also the reason of not resizing it again so that it doesnt get put thru yet another lossy compression. When the DVD comes out I hope to make very large, very detailed versions of these wide shots. Like the current ones, they will be resized in the software and only when the user specifically asks to "download a high resoultion version of this image" will they download the whole thing. On the contrary, there is "absolutely no reason" to manually "limit the size of the file and image." -Bp 00:59, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
 * ...and your precious 71 pixels isnt worth the use of 25 additional kilobytes, when we are trying to keep our images as small as possible, file-size wise. --Alan del Beccio 21:09, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
 * This conversation will take 25kb. That is not an important enough amount of space to "save". Wikia servers have several hundred gigabytes (probably thousands). if they have 100GB (likely far more), 25kb is 0.00000025%. The point is that space is plentiful enough that file-size does not have to be considered. The only real rules for dimensions should be based on sample resolution and quality. For instance it is unnecessary to enlarge a small portion of a screen cap because the wiki software can do it. Enlarging a small source image does not add any quality. Shrinking an image does lose quality especially when using a lossy compression like jpg. That is why the wiki software produces PNGs from source images; to minimize the loss of quality. This image is the same resolution as the capture resolution and should be preserved with all the detail possible, even though the capture quality is low. --Bp 22:14, 19 June 2006 (UTC)