Talk:Mother Goose and Grimm

Picture format
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Heya Danny! I saw that you gallery-ized the Mother Goose and Grimm comics. I was thinking that it'd be better if we could actually see the comics without having to click on them. I can't think of any other pics on the Wiki that necessitate an extra action to view them. I kinda liked them bigger anyway.

Also, I'm currently going through all of the old MG&G comics looking for the other Muppet references that someone mentioned on the article before it was edited. I'm about halfway through the archives, so hopefully I'll have some good stuff pretty soon! -- Joe (talk ) 02:56, 1 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm glad you're finding new ones -- I think it's awesome that we have all those strips, in color and with dates and everything. The page is really cool now.


 * I know what you mean about being able to see the comics without an extra click -- but technically, to fit in with the other pages, Mother Goose & Grimm should have one representative sample strip, and that's it. (That's how the Muppets comic strip page works.)


 * We came up with the gallery format for pages where we wanted to have a whole collection of images, but didn't have enough text to support them all. There's tons of gallery pages now, including Grover Books, the Statue of Liberty, the Moon, Michael K. Frith Sketches, Sesame Street Magazine.


 * So I wasn't dissing the Mother Goose & Grimm collection by putting it in the gallery format. I love that page, and I want to see the other strips you find. Is that cool? -- Danny (talk ) 03:08, 1 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I see where you're coming from, but I feel that it's not necessary to shrink the comic strip pictures down so small. When they're that size, you can hardly even tell what they are, which isn't the case with anything else that has been put in a gallery.  Even the Muppet comic strip page doesn't use a gallery, it links to a ToughPigs site.


 * I'm all for transferring pics to galleries (I've done a few mysely), but the Grimm pics are barely recognizable this way. -- Joe (talk ) 03:43, 1 August 2006 (UTC)


 * While I have no strong preference for presentation, I don't see that the Grimm pics are any less recognizable than DC Comics. That is, they are equally unrecognizable, but for myself, I wouldn't necessarily expect them to be instantly viewable in that way. The notes on Michael K. Frith Sketches likewise can only be viewed at a larger size. The advantage to that is, in fact, that the source image for a gallery page can be as large as desired, so text need not be obscured to shrink it to 300px. Andrew Leal (talk ) 04:08, 1 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Addendum: Simply adding caption descriptions to the gallery may well solve the "unrecognizable" problem. Andrew Leal (talk ) 04:13, 1 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I see your point. But in the Frith sketches, the pictures (which are clearly visible in gallery form) are the highlight, rather than the text.  I'd vote for an enlargement of the DC Comics pictures too, seeing as they are practically unidentifyable in their current form.


 * Would a possible solution be to create a second gallery template where the pictures can be doubled in size? I guess I'm just a little confused as to why there "has" to be a gallery on a page where the only information in the article is the pictures. -- Joe  (talk ) 15:04, 1 August 2006 (UTC)