Board Thread:Ask the Staff/@comment-7369594-20180905201509/@comment-1265032-20180905202054

The other bureaucrat in question, I'll repost my PoV on it.

Wikis primarily serve an encyclopedic purpose. This means an article will have text that details the page subject. Images are then used to supplement the text, ergo if you have a paragraph about Character Y going through pivotal character development (like, Y meets X), you'd want a picture of Y meeting X for the first time. For say, games, galleries can be useful on level or location pages to display pictures with unique content of that area that do not fit elsewhere within the article (don't want to use too many pics with too little text).

On character pages, specifically stuff like /Gallery, they are often misused to dump miscellaneous images or just pics of the character, that only serve as a sort of "funny picture catalogue" for eight year olds and detract from the actual purpose, showing unique images with encyclopedic value.

https://crashbandicoot.wikia.com/wiki/Crash_Bandicoot_(character)/Gallery How to not use galleries, there's some interesting content here, sure, but how will anyone find it among the hundreds of other near-identical and/or worthless pictures?

https://oggyandthecockroaches.wikia.com/wiki/Oggy/Gallery This just looks eerily similar, it's a near-endless dump of often identical or just random out-of-context junk

https://steven-universe.wikia.com/wiki/Sardonyx/Gallery Random page I found for example of this wiki.

(p.s. I didn't otherwise look around a lot, but the wiki looks pretty decent).