Thread:TDWT: Planes, Trains, and Hot Air Mobiles/@comment-24152851-20140802105124

Hi Ariel (I hope you don't mind if I call you that as well, it's such a nice name).

Anyway, I saw you got told off by Ryan. The rule against duplicate images can be annoying, I can't remember if I ever got in trouble for it, but I've seen it happen a few times before.

Best trick to stay in the all-clear is to search for the image you want first, rather than upload it. Search in all places: episode page, character page, interaction page, where you think the pic should be. If you really can't find it chances are it isn't there, feel free to upload it.

However "sometimes", they can be really niftily hidden (or whoever put it up there didn't make a good choice in where to place it). If this is the case and you do accidentally upload a duplicate, then that's alright. If you later find the image again just message Ryan or an admin and tell them "Found a duplicate image please delete this". Everyone makes mistakes, and that's fine, I've had to present Ryan and Mygeto with duplicate images a fair few times.

If you have a better quality image (a lot of the older images look atrocious), then you can replace the image rather than make a separate file. Click on the image and go to the separate page, then where the edit button is click the drop down menu and click "replace". OR the method I prefer, when uploading the image and being asked to name the file, copy over the file of the duplicate image (highlight, copy, paste), and it will also get replaced with the newer version.

Hope that helped, and don't get distressed if you make a stuff up early on around here. Phoenix has raged at me so many times for doing the wrong thing, it's not funny (or very funny depending on your perspective). He still sometimes will revert an improper trivia or interaction edit I make. 