Help:Categorizing artwork
All artwork posted on PathfinderWiki should be categorized. The following categorizations should apply to most images.
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Categorizing media file pages
The {{File}} template automatically categorizes artwork appropriately based on the information you provide. Use the {{File}} template in the Summary section of a media page. For example, File:Valeros.jpg includes the {{File}} template with relevant information and keywords, all of which apply appropriate categories. See the template's documentation for details.
The following guidelines discuss this further and also include help about how to manually add additional categories that the template does not support.
Artist
If the artist of the given image is known, add their name to the artist = parameter without any square brackets. Thus, the image File:Yithdul.jpg, created by artist Ben Wootten, is in Category:Artwork by Ben Wootten. If the artist is unknown, just leave the artist = parameter blank (do not delete it) and the artwork will automatically be placed in Category:Artwork by unknown artists. See the template's documentation for more details, including how to handle multiple artists.
Source
Most of the images on the wiki come from official promotional sources, such as the Paizo Blog, and thus have a corresponding printed source. Thus, the image File:Yakmar.jpg, printed in Crucible of Chaos, belongs to Category:Artwork from Crucible of Chaos. For artwork used in multiple sourcebooks, categorize the artwork for each source by manually adding the appropriate Category:Artwork from Sourcebook. If the image is fan art or created specifically for the wiki, include it in Category:Unpublished artwork.
Year
Similar to the source categorization, the year categorization applies to the date of first printed publication. Thus, File:Merlokrep.jpg, which first appeared in 2007's Crown of the Kobold King, belongs in Category:2007 artwork. If art is reused, categorize it only by the date of first publication.
Subject
In many cases, several images exist for a given subject. For example, File:Sarenrae holy symbol.jpg and File:Sarenrae portrait.jpg both relate to the deity Sarenrae, so they both belong to Category:Images of Sarenrae. Additionally, some images belong in multiple subject categories. Thus, File:Sarenrae holy symbol.jpg belongs in both Category:Images of religious symbols and Category:Images of Sarenrae.
You can use more general categories, such as ancestry and class for NPCs and creature type. When in doubt, use the broadest possible categorization and someone else can categorize it more specifically if necessary.
When there is more than one artwork for an NPC, for instance, in the case of the iconics, descriptive categories, such as Category:Images of humans, can quickly become cluttered. To avoid this, it is preferable to have just one image of that person to represent them in parent categories—their primary artwork—with the rest of their images categorized only in that person's individual category. Thus, Category:Images of Valeros is vast but Category:Images of iconics, Category:Images of fighters, Category:Images of humans, and Category:Images of Chelaxians only have one image of Valeros. Additionally, they also all include Category:Images of Valeros as a subcategory for people wanting more Valeros.
To effect this, fully categorize the primary artwork of an NPC, say Bob, into all his appropriate categories using the keyword = parameter: ancestry, class, etc. starting with keyword1 = Bob. Then, add all those categories to Category:Images of Bob. Thereafter, any new art should be placed into Category:Images of Bob using keyword1 = Bob and none of the others. It is perfectly fine to add any categories for novel elements in the artwork, such as something carried by the individual rarely seen in other portraits.
If a new fact about an NPC is discovered later, for instance, that Bob is a Taldan, be sure to add that new category, to the primary artwork (using keywordn = Taldans) and to Category:Images of Bob (using Category:Images of Taldans).
Categorizing artwork categories
- Further information: Help:Creating category pages
Unsure about categories?
If you have written an article and are unsure about which categories to apply, or simply want your categories double checked, then please feel free to add this text at the bottom of your article in this format:
[[Category:Please check categories]]
This will flag to others that the article's categories need checking or adding. We hope that, soon thereafter, another wiki member will be along to help.