Board Thread:Wiki/@comment-5774380-20151006125532

About the images of the infoboxes

I've been thinking about this for a while and since and I started to discuss the matter I think it's time to bring the issue to the community.

Currently in the infoboxes we use images that show primarily the faces of the characters and omit the rest, and I think it would be nice to use full body pictures instead. The advantages would be, mainly, that we could give the reader a complete picture of the appearance of the character rather than just a part, and we can get rid of all those "character design for the anime" that barely fit in the sections of "Appearance". They also look way more illustrative in my opinion. Other manga wikis like the Dragon Ball Wiki and the One Piece Wiki use full body pictures in their articles and I certainly like how they look.

However, EternalLocket thinks that our case is different, because, contrary to those wikis where all characters use different attires, in our wiki the majority of the cast are soldiers that wear the same uniform, so it would be redundant. Also, she dislikes how the full body pictures would stretch the infoboxes.

That may be right, but I think it's not just a question of the attires. I'm a person that gives much importance to the body language, so a full body view says enough to me about someone, and those sketches for the anime are perfect examples. If you look at the pictures of Sasha, Connie and Historia (Krista), even though they are using the same attire, their body language is totally different and it says a lot about their personalities. I think if we could find images like those for all characters, it would greatly help to reflect their identities.

About the stretching of the infoboxes, that really is not a problem for me. I don't think that a large infobox looks bad; actually, its size is irrelevant to me; and our infoboxes are even small in comparison to the average size across the Wikia network. That being said, I don't even think that the full body pictures would stretch the infoboxes so much. I made some copies of the articles of Eren, Annie and Historia with full body pictures and the size doesn't seem to change much (the images can be replaced and I think one of Eren's is fanart, but they are just for testing purposes). In those pages I used pictures of up to 600px so that can be a good size limit in case that somebody worries about it.

At the end this is a matter of personal preference. Personally, I simply like to see full body pictures, and the size of the infobox is not very relevant to me. Some people may think the opposite and prefer pictures of only the faces with small infoboxes. What is your opinion? 