User talk:Semanticdrifter

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I'm not sure how it was thought that dumping 23 images onto an article, with no apparent intention of incorporating them properly, wouldn't been seen as anything but a marketing ploy. They just hang there at the end of the article, under a non-descript heading, and with no indication of relevance or importance. This is an encyclopaedia: images should enhance the article, by helping to illustrate points or otherwise illuminate a particular concept. A random gallery of promotional screenshots does none of this. Maybe approaching us and saying "Hey, we've been given some really cool shots of the new game. Would you like to use them in your article?" might have gotten a better reaction than a new user arriving and failing to follow the policies of this wiki? Please try and be more thoughtful about this next time. Even if we had said "No", or "Maybe one or two that are particularly relevant and would help illustrate specific points", that would have been a lot better for you and for us. -- Michael Warren | Talk 12:24, March 3, 2013 (UTC)
 * Those are all great points; we understand and will make sure this doesn't happen this way again. --semanticdrifter (help forum | blog) 00:10, March 4, 2013 (UTC)


 * To followup, I've spoken with both Semanticdrifter and Raylan13 about what has happened this time around and how the approach can be improved for the future. I believe that we've come up with a satisfactory plan, especially as MA is a bit different from most of the rest of the wikis out there.
 * In short, we'll take this one as a learning experience, go through those 23 images, keep the ones we want to keep to improve the article, rename them as required, and move forward from there. -- sulfur (talk) 00:24, March 4, 2013 (UTC)