Thread:Hatebunny/@comment-220364-20131210114956/@comment-3361105-20131210155932

1. Yes. That is it in a nutshell. When I first took interest in the Image Template, I had several discussions with Billy about it, and one of the main things he (and several others) were annoyed about was seeing "dressed" cover images in the character, issue, and volume image categories. So, in every case of an image from a comic book except "dressed" covers (which includes both "Cover Art" and "Variant" ImageTypes), we use the issue field. For cover art and variant cover art, we use the source field. Since we invariably put cover images into cover galleries or on the issue pages themselves, they are not hard to find.

2. The only time I would suggest using a website as the "Source" field is when the image comes from an online source, like an artist's blog or something. Ideally (but unrealistically) everything we put up on this wiki is from a primary source.

As far as your concerns about categories: your energies, and the energies of so many other people, would be far more useful to this wiki in creating CONTENT than in creating categories. Categories are neither the foundation nor the framework upon which this wiki is based. Templates are the foundation and framework. Content and images are the interior decoration and furnishing. Categories, though, are like a storage facility out back with a million shelving units collecting dust, and it just keeps getting bigger. But the people living inside the house - the 100k or so unique users who READ rather than edit - don't care about anything except the furnishing and decorations. And I care about them.