Wikipedia talk:Gallery pages

message: While closing out the log for , I tried to make sense of the discussion at Wikipedia talk:What Wikipedia is not/galleries. It seems clear to me that current consensus does permit some image galleries; this does appear to be contradicted by WP:NOT. It's going to take a little more work to amend this longstanding policy. 
As usual when I write policy, I have striven for a neutral statement of the current consensus plus some commonsense technical restrictions. As always, I release the proposal to the community in hopes it will be edited heavily and discussed (civilly!) at length. 
I suggest that the sooner this proposal is elevated to guideline status, the sooner it will become feasible to amend WP:NOT. With this in mind, have fun, play nice, and edit this page. John Reid 05:43, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  New 

message: *I basically concur with the proposal as stated. Good work here. Badbilltucker 19:20, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Reactions

message: The standing rule has been that commons is for galleries, and wikipedia is to use images to support the text, rather than for their own sake, it seems like.  What reason is there for ever not putting a gallery onto commons instead of wikipedia?  If it's fair use images, they shouldn't be in a gallery anyway. Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 00:06, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Commons 

message: I see much discussion on talk but no edits to the proposal. I don't like this at all. I wrote a starting point for work, not a finished product to be talked over, accepted or rejected. Ladies and gentlemen, you are rushing to dessert before touching your meat, let alone your vegetables. Edit this page. John Reid 02:56, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ha! Okay. How? Ace Class Shadow; My talk. 03:35, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You asked for it -- I just edited the user page section. (By the way, is it "user page" or "userpage"?  Wikipedia:User page spells it both ways at various points in the guideline.) --A. B. 04:44, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: PS I hope you like the picture ...  --A. B. 18:21, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit this page 

message: As I said in my first response above, I think the page basically reflects existing community consensus, and I don't have any really reasonable objections to make to it. I do however have a question. I have recently begun galleries for three projects with which I am involved: WikiProject Germany, WikiProject Cats, and WikiProject Dogs. I am already having personal qualms about how big these galleries should be, given the almost infinite number of images which are available to each of them. I would love to see some indication on the attached page as to what should be the maximum size of such a gallery, or some guidelines as to how many arguably "redundant" images should be included (here talking about number of images of a specific breed, location, etc.), because I'm still too new here to really trust my own judgement on this issue. Thanks for any responses. Badbilltucker 14:54, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gallery size 

message: Is it possible to create a gallery with external files? For example, to make a gallery with internal files, you go:

image:whateverthenameis.jpg|Caption goes here

So is it possible to do something similar to that except with image URLs from an external site like Photobucket? Kulaguy 09:22, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Afraid not. It would be unacceptable anyway - any images could be posted, regardless of copyright. Richard001 07:28, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Question