User:Locke Cole/Rethinking WP:IMAGERES

WP:IMAGERES currently lists the standard resolution for images as "about" 100,000 total pixels (as determined by multiplying the horizontal and vertical pixel dimensions of an image). There is some leeway for edge cases, but I feel this guidance is dated in 2021.

Resolutions history
The current guidance was hammered out in the mid-2000's. In that era, computer screen resolutions were typically 1024&times;768 or less commonly you had 720p or 1080p displays. For portable devices, screens were typically very low resolution, it wasn't until the first Retina display Apple devices (and competing devices) came on the scene in the early 2010's that higher handheld screen resolutions would become a standardized reality. Throughout the remainder of the 2010's we would see handheld and laptop resolutions advance to QHD and even 4K resolutions. Higher end desktop displays can hit 5K or 6K resolutions.

Proposal
The simplest proposal would be this:

(Alternatively, ⅕ (one fifth) the native resolution would also be an improvement)

The "native resolution" would be context dependent. For movies for example, still frames would be based on the size of the available source material. If a still was only available in 1080p resolution that would work out to 480&times;270 (or 129,600 pixels, or 0.13 megapixels). For stills available in 4K/2160p, that would increase the allowed resolution to 960&times;540 (or 518,400 pixels, or 0.5 megapixels). For stills only available in resolutions lower than 1080p, the 0.1 megapixel/100K pixels would kick in and act as the "floor".

For film posters that are typically available in very high resolutions this would also be an improvement. For album covers the situation would likely remain the same since most available covers are typically still 500&times;500 or 1000&times;1000 unless the label makes a higher resolution version publicly available.

Specific Proposals
For movie posters (or any fair-use item that has human-readable text; for film posters it would be the cast billing block, for album covers it would be the artist name(s) if they're printed in anything beyond a logo, etc) I'd raise the maximum allowed resolution to provide for text that is legible/readable (no movie posters where you can't read the billing block because it's turned into a mushed row of lines that are blurred beyond comprehension).