Board Thread:Wiki/@comment-5774380-20160621181042

I've discussed this issue with some individual users whenever I've seen it, but since it keeps happening, I thought it would be better to address it to all users on the forum.

Before renaming or deleting an image, check which pages are using it so you don't create pages with broken file links in the process. This is possible from the same page of the image; for example, if you click here, you'll see that below the File Information and Licensing, there's a section called "Appears on these pages", and also a little below there's another link that reads "See full list >" that shows all the pages currently using said image. Leaving a redirect when renaming images doesn't help because images don't work through redirects, so you actually should unmark the option about leaving it when renaming the picture.

There's also a template called Random Episode which displays a different episode on the homepage every time a user reloads the page. This template uses the images of the infoboxes for episode pages, so if you rename any of them, you should replace them in there as well. This template is the only one that doesn't appear in the list of pages using the pictures due to its particular nature.

I bring up this issue because I noticed that someone deleted the original picture used in Ymir's infobox, which was also the one used for the list of characters on the homepage, and as a result we ended up with a broken file link on our very front page (I just replaced it with the new picture). We also had some cases a while ago with other pictures that were either moved or renamed the same way without first checking which pages were using them, and other users removed them from the pages as they couldn't trace back the original files. I hope this message helps prevent this issue from happening again. 