User talk:Berthold Werner

~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 12:30, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

Image options
Thanks for your attention to some of the pages here. I have noticed you have primarily altered the images of a few pages in your edits thus far, usually to link to higher resolution images. Sometimes this is appropriate, but sometimes there are significant disadvantages in some of the higher resolution images.

To go with the quote on the page for the Pyramid Texts " Opened are the double doors of the horizon; unlocked are its bolts..."



Though the image you preferred was higher resolution and had the advantage of a well posed and interesting human figure in it, it was darker in display, and did not match as well with many of the other brighter images on the page, and the one I had used also had the relatively minor but significant advantage of having an interesting cleft in the shadow by sunlight shining between the two sides of the gateway prominences. I have just reverted this one to the brighter image.

There are a few other cases where the alternatives you have preferred are in some ways more subtly different, and I have less strong a preference either way, and have not yet altered these which follow, and might not do so, on some of them, but in example:



Both of the above images seem to be similar enough that either of them could be used, and I have no objections to the higher resolutions being preferred, though I believe it is slightly less bright, well defined and impressive on the page. Yet in the following case:



These two images are very similar but I believe that the lower resolution version without the frame displays somewhat better on the page, though both are rather small at normal display sizes. If you wish to make the higher resolution image more available or accessible to those who might for any reason seek it out, I believe that, at least in this case, a link on the lower resolution's description page at the Wikimedia Commons with a thumbnail of the the higher resolution one would be a better alternative.

As I stated, some of these disputes are relatively minor, and I certainly can accept your alternatives, though I do believe some are slightly less well matched to the pages and the general limitations on image displays which are usually appropriate to most of the pages. Thanks again for your attention and involvement, and I do believe that your efforts to draw attention to higher resolution alternatives are generally worthy ones. Blessings ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 12:30, 25 March 2015 (UTC) + tweaks