Topic on User talk:New XanderMartin98

The file Meow Showing Off His Brain (Complete).png which you uploaded earlier today is too big for the wiki effectively use.

This is the second time you have uploaded a massively-oversized image. On our guideline page Uploading and Adding an Image to a Page, we recommend resizing images to 300-450 pixels wide before uploading -- there is no rational reason to upload an image larger than a few hundred kilobytes (or at most a megabyte). Please don't do this any more -- all it does is waste wiki resources for no real benefit.

Please replace this image with something more reasonably sized. If you can't or don't do this by the end of the weekend, we will have to delete the image. (Note also that it is a "fair use" image but is too large to be used anywhere, so it will be deleted for failing to meet the requirements of Fair Use as well.)

-- Looney Toons, admin

CC: @Labster, @GethN7, @Robkelk, @QuestionableSanity, @Derivative, @SelfCloak

Adding to what Looney Toons said above: Any image that breaks the wiki's thumbnail algorithm is definitely too big. If you don't see a thumbnail of the image during the upload process, your image is too large to be used on the wiki.

I have on occasion uploaded images that are 1024x768 pixels - the size of a 1990s/2000s display - but I have ensured that the files are less than 300kb in size before doing so.

Really big images have their place... but that place is DeviantArt, not a wiki.

-- robkelk, admin

Does it being replaced by its (Shrunk) version count?

Even if it does, I'll try to crop the image so that only the most important part of it is shown.

Also, why am I not able to delete my own images here?

Replacing the image with a smaller copy counts, yes. You can overwrite the current image.

And deleting pages and files is restricted to admins only here. we've had trouble with vandals doing wholesale deletion of pages in the past.

There's "overized" as in too big for the wiki to actually use, and then there's "oversize" as in "larger than it needs to be to display on a page". I've replaced your latest oversized image (File:Courage inside Kitty's brain.jpg) with one more suited to use on the wiki.