Category talk:Images

Maybe it's just me, but the image categories seem... well, not entirely satisfactory. The biggest issue is that most images don't even seem to be categorised at all, and while I could have a go at remedying that, it's more efficient to make sure the categories are tidy first, otherwise we may end up editing image categorisations twice. I'd suggest that we divide images into two "orthogonal" subcategory sets: by subject, e.g. Locations, Characters etc, and by story. Where the two "axes" cross essentially defines further subcategory "folders", so to speak, that would contain the more specific sub-subcategories. This would create a space laid out something like this (although obviously with more subcategories):

It may be that we can merge categories for things like locations if there aren't many images for most of them, e.g. all of the kids' and trolls' planets could probably share an image category, and The Moon was just a location I picked at random from PS that, on inspection, seems to only have one image, which hardly warrants a dedicated category. The above table is just a general framework idea, not something I'm necessarily suggesting be the actual structure.

We could also have art style subcategories, like Hero Mode and stuff, and... okay, this may be getting a bit complicated, so I'll give an example. The image on the right is currently only in "Category:Images of John Egbert" (→"Category:Images of Characters"→"Category:Images"). Under my proposed structure, it would be in "Category:John Egbert images", which would be a subcategory of both "Category:Homestuck images" and "Category:Character images", which would both be in "Category:Images", but otherwise independent of one another. In addition, this image would also be in a new "Category:Hero Mode images".

Maybe I'm making it more complicated than it needs to be... but as I said to start with, maybe it's just me, and if the consensus is that the categories are fine as they are, I'll probably just get on with categorising a few images. Oh, that said, we really could do with renaming a lot of images, as we have some seriously useless filenames scattered about. I mean, who knows what File:03874.gif is a picture of without clicking the link? Equally useless but with the added problem of being intimidatingly long are filenames like File:Tumblr_ltm9zhHylW1qkafxs.png. I believe that renaming images is a moderator/sysop tool, though, so I can't do anything about it myself.

Thoughts, anyone?