Board Thread:Policies/@comment-1038387-20180506105530/@comment-18172179-20180506182525

Wait, are you suggesting we should use the Marvel Wiki Naming System? Are you out of your mind? What is the council of elder admins going to think about this blasphemy?
 * Get rid of the numbering system, instead use a more descriptive title. Better for SEO, bad for the look of source.

If they only knew that I have already been uploading files without following the ancient rites, I'd be stripped of my powers!!

Trimming. May be necessary, to avoid repetition of captions. Captions and numbers sounds redundant to me.
 * Keeping the numbers, but use captions (~140 characters), if space allows with source.

Now, this one I like. But it still needs a bit of polishing. Character galleries should feature only notable images of the subject, whether it's for historical value, or story significance. As you pointed out, this could be done by adding headers/sections to the galleries, but we should restrict this to a number of sections allowed. Like, standard sections would be "Character"; "Secret Identity"; "Covers" & "Notable Storylines/Moments".
 * Limiting. There's no optimal length for galleries, but I doubt we'd still have people's attention after 200 images. Or even 100. Or 50. Or 10. There is no optimal length, but I reckon somewhere between 4 and 50? This doesn't necessarily involve trimming, because....
 * Subcategorization. 800 images of Batman spanning 30 years is something we should be able to split up, with section headers that tick SEO marks. Batman in the 80s. Batman in No Man's Land. Batman in Infinite Crisis. Batman and Robin. Downside is this leaves an inconsistent mess across different galleries.

'Character' only for prominent images of the hero/villain/character within a range of 20-50 pics.

Same for 'Secret Identity', only that range could be 10-20.

'Covers' for all textless covers featuring the characters, no range limit.

'Notable Storylines/Moments' should have gallery captions to be specific about the source of the image with a range of 5 images limit per event/storyline.

Now, all that would mean trimming those pointless images like the one you linked of Batman. Instead of plain deleting them, why not include a gallery section in the comic they come from? I know it would be redundant with the "Issue Images/Category", but I'd rather do that instead of deleting all of those that don't meet the criteria. That's the lazy way of doing things.

For modern characters sounds fine. BUT You'd cripple the chances of galleries for old/obscure characters. There's a reason James Corrigan (New Earth)/Gallery doesn't have that many images.
 * Limit it to textless covers and full pages only (where possible)

This doesn't fix the issue.
 * Switching to new galleries. Hey, I said I was spitballing, don't kill me ;P

I believe our system is not compatible with tabbers. Until I see otherwise; I say nay.
 * Image tabbers. Much like we already have on cover galleries. Images with every different code name plus civvies. Though on some people like Hal Jordan that's going to be a large tabber. And these look TERRIBLE on mobile. Galleries are better than Tabbers.

I don't like this idea.
 * Have a small gallery or slideshow in the article, above the history. I'm not sure how this will look with both the main image and if there's a video on top. Content would be pushed way down, especially since covers tend to be portrait. With TV and movie screenshots could work, but that's not our primary source of images.

Now you're talking like the true DC Wiki admin that you know you are.
 * Not do anything. Everything is perfect. I know this because it's true and we always did it this way and I dismiss all these fancy numbers and SEO bs because they don't say what I want them to say.
 * Alternatively, come up with decent ideas and then... not do anything, because we've got to change 10.000 pages and we're not smart enough to bot it.

All of Byfield's ideas are sound. MektonZ's proposal of having a unified gallery system for characters doesn't sound practical for editors or readers.