Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Picture of the day photo credits

Advertising the discussion
I put some pointers at the following locations:
 * Talk:Main Page
 * Village pump (policy)
 * Village pump (proposals)
 * Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day

Given the length of time that this RFC will take, it might be prudent to re-post some of these advertisements in the future, though I'll leave that to others to decide. --MZMcBride (talk) 02:35, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

? where do these credits appear? I can't see any from the Main Page. Rd232 talk 09:38, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
 * 'Artist: David Roberts & Louis Hahge; Restoration: Lise Broer'? 'Photo credit: Noodle snacks & 'Photo credit: Muhammad Mahdi Karim' (both a few days ago)? Nil Einne (talk) 12:03, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
 * OK, I saw the first one on the front page today and that seemed reasonable, describing the subject (who created the painting). Do other photo credits describe the photo then? That wasn't clear to me. Rd232 talk 14:33, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I think if there's a notable subject or creator, it usually goes in the accompanying blurb. This RFC is discussing the photo credits, though, not the text blurbs. --MZMcBride (talk) 19:12, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I also added an entry to cent and made a Signpost suggestion. --MZMcBride (talk) 19:12, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
 * You could also consider MediaWiki talk:Watchlist-details in the future. I don't know if this is big enough to post there (I don't use my watchlist so rarely ever see it so have only ever seen one or two examples from there) but from the sound of it it's possibe it may be okay for a short time if there isn't enough feedback Nil Einne (talk) 16:16, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

Past discussions
If there are more examples of past discussions it might be prudent to add them because it currently says 'past discussions have quickly become muddied, in no short part due to the insertion of a lot of graphics that distract from the point at hand', but only one of those examples had any graphics. For the one that did, it was after 1.5 days which may not seem long (but isn't that short for talk main page) and about 25% of the discussion appears to have been from before the images were added Nil Einne (talk) 12:08, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
 * If you know of others, please feel free to add them. I did some basic searches yesterday and these were the three I was able to find. There are likely more. --MZMcBride (talk) 16:30, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Well it's a moot point now that the wording has been modified. I should clarify I'm not opposed to asking people not to post images if you feel it's necessary but given the evidence at hand, I don't think we should suggest they've been a substanial problem in previous discussions. Nil Einne (talk) 15:39, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

Bullets
Moved from the subject page. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk)

Could editors please use colons rather than asterisks to indent their comments unless they are genuinely bullet pointing something? The endorsements should be bullet pointed, of course, but not much else, IMO. Asterisked comments cannot be outdented (either by starting afresh without them or by using od) without causing the following asterisked comments to break and thus produce a row of unsightly bullets. Thanks --Jubilee♫ clipman  08:55, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Use colons to outdent asterisks - documentation, example. Papa Lima Whiskey  (talk) 09:25, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Tried all sorts! Could you refactor my post starting "Actually, Dschwen..." (or perhaps some of those surrounding it?) so we don't end up with all the bullets? I can't seem to avoid a row of bullets either there or in later posts what ever I try  --Jubilee♫ clipman  16:39, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Work from a different stem, and you'll be fine in future. Papa Lima Whiskey  (talk) 00:26, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
 * {Bows}. Thanks for the help and good advice  --Jubilee♫ clipman  01:22, 28 April 2010 (UTC)