Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-4053453-20131025033830/@comment-9605025-20140531165556

With images, the re-standardized naming just makes our job easier in the future. As far as I know, most other users upload their own pictures when they want to use them. Thus, it is likely to produce far less broken links than re-standardizing card names.

However, I was just refering to establishing a standard, not renaming old ones. As of yet, there is no set standard for image names.

I had a certain format that I used and Brock has his. I think Prescoper and the early admins also each had their own. Additionally, some images were uploaded by non-regular users so they follow no standard. Others just have the generic screenshot names like 9785.jpg and 10-35-2013-15-57.jpg.

Point being that there has yet to be an inter-user format for image names.

Images differ from card names because it doesn't matter as much. For pages, you have external pages that may link to them. Additionally, you have smart lists that depend on knowing the names exactly. As far as I know, the only use for card images is the cyberdex and the card information pages. When creating a page, you just enter the name of the image. So, it doesn't matter if the image name matches the page name or not as long as it is entered correctly.

I think the motivation for standardizing image names would be the same as for card pages. It makes it easier to find what you are looking for incase you want to re-use it in the future. Although we could consider renaming old images, a good place to start would be to finalize a standard for this moment onwards as we have for card pages.