I admit I hadn't thought about the mass edit that would have to take place after a template change. That pretty much puts a dampener on things, but on the other hand there will and must be template changes in the future. Otherwise the wiki would be at a standstill.
I don't think a template is such a strict affair. The way I've seen it done on Fanlore is that people fill stuff in a leave stuff blank as they wish - and in some instances the templates don't really reflect what you want to say, so they aren't a tight fit. So, if we had a space for images, I don't see anyone forcing you to use it. I still think it would be helpful to have it - the info in the template gives you the most important information about a term at a glance and in many cases an image (screenshot, cover, artwork) is part of the package. The fact that zines especially come with a lot of covers, isn't much of a problem IMO. I pulled a random book from Wikipedia (turned out to be Anita Blake, because that's what I've been rereading recently) and it has a cover in the template and then has a gallery of covers for different editions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilty_Pleasures_(novel)
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I don't think a template is such a strict affair. The way I've seen it done on Fanlore is that people fill stuff in a leave stuff blank as they wish - and in some instances the templates don't really reflect what you want to say, so they aren't a tight fit. So, if we had a space for images, I don't see anyone forcing you to use it. I still think it would be helpful to have it - the info in the template gives you the most important information about a term at a glance and in many cases an image (screenshot, cover, artwork) is part of the package. The fact that zines especially come with a lot of covers, isn't much of a problem IMO. I pulled a random book from Wikipedia (turned out to be Anita Blake, because that's what I've been rereading recently) and it has a cover in the template and then has a gallery of covers for different editions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilty_Pleasures_(novel)
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