Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-61022-20130320221142/@comment-122657-20130402163627

We do need references.

References are the reason our site stands out from the rest. Our articles are based on comic FACT rather than fan FICTION. Without references, we are lost.

The art of adding references is completely unknown to new users. It's up to us as the resident administrators and long-time users to show them the way and the need.

Images are significantly more difficult because deleting an image doesn't remove all the links to that image, so you create holes in your body of work. Further still, sometimes images are referenced in the text itself, and even removing the links isn't sufficient to properly nuke an image. If any of you plan on removing un-sourced images, please do the work to completely remove it, don't just delete the image itself.

I prefer searching for the image's source myself. I get a LOT of satisfaction recognizing a character, and finding where the image came from, updating the image and template to reflect it when it's found. I recommend everyone do some of that work as well, it's very satisfying.