Forum:Images, signatures and redirects

Thanks to the wonders of MediaWiki 1.14.0, you can now turn images into links (but I also have to wonder why this feature wasn't created before. This can be done via the  field.

For emample,  produces the following:



As a result, changing images into redirects isn't required anymore. In addition, images that are redirects are sometimes difficult to edit. In addition, changing an image into a redirect makes it impossible for an image to link to two or more different places, since a redirect only links to one page. The  method to linking allows for users to link to multiple page with only a single image.

As a result, I suggest that we stop allowing  from being used in the image namespace unless the redirect resulted from a image move (MediaWiki 1.14 also allows us to finally rename images with ease). This also applies to signature images.

The vote will end on May 12, 2009.

Support

 * 1) As proposer. --Michaeldsuarez (Talk) (Deeds) 17:30, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Support

 * 1) It isn't that large of a task. --Michaeldsuarez (Talk) (Deeds) 17:30, 28 April 2009 (UTC)