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This thread deals with all issues concerning the icons used for namespaces and their buttons, including proposals for icons for new namespaces and bugs with existing icons.

When submitting an icon, the icon images should be exactly 16x16 png with a transparent background. A gif can also be used, but png is usually better. Also, the naming convention is important. It should be the namespace in lowercase.

I am compiling a list of namespaces that need icons, and icons for those name spaces. This would be preferred to be done quickly because I've convinced Eddie to hook them up when I get them complied. I will be editing the OP as we go.

NOTE: Use the link to the sandbox in the thread title to see what still needs to be decided on.

Subpages that still need icons:

  • Animation/
  • FanWorks/
  • Manhua/
  • Sandbox/
  • Timeline/

Subpages that already have icons hooked up (please note, this list has been collapsed into a note, so that the floating header post isn't huge)

Links to installation-ready icons here and forward.

pages that have icons 

edited 27th Oct '14 6:01:01 AM by SeptimusHeap

lu127 Paper Master from 異界 Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: Crazy Cat Lady
#251: Jul 22nd 2012 at 7:45:14 AM

Have we settled on something about anime and manga? And what about a Franchise icon?

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HotelCalifornia Since: Jan, 2011
#252: Jul 26th 2012 at 3:46:19 PM

[up]As I stated before, I would like to use Astro Boy or Yotsuba for manga while we can use a Hollywood star for Franchise.

edited 26th Jul '12 3:47:27 PM by HotelCalifornia

ShadowHog from Earth Since: May, 2009 Relationship Status: Healthy, deeply-felt respect for this here Shotgun
#253: Aug 7th 2012 at 10:11:12 AM

Just went through the entire topic to double-check what current status on just about everything is. From what I can tell, we've got:

Ignoring the And The Fandom Rejoiced thing from last page; really not sure we want a tab for that, lest we need tabs for every other trope so large they broke into subpages by medium.

edited 30th Sep '12 4:10:22 PM by ShadowHog

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Willbyr Hi (Y2K) Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
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#254: Aug 7th 2012 at 11:19:41 AM

AFAIK nothing's been 100% decided on for Anime or Manga...has it?

ShadowHog from Earth Since: May, 2009 Relationship Status: Healthy, deeply-felt respect for this here Shotgun
#255: Aug 7th 2012 at 11:28:07 AM

Manga, certainly not. Anime, AFAIK we were using the eye?

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BlueGuy (Ten years in the joint)
#256: Sep 1st 2012 at 6:33:01 PM

[up] Yeah, I'm in favor of the eye.

And what about the Fan Fic namespace? That's been empty for as long as I can remember...

Maybe a picture of Ebony Darkness etc etc? Or would it be too tiny/unrecognizable?

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ShadowHog from Earth Since: May, 2009 Relationship Status: Healthy, deeply-felt respect for this here Shotgun
#257: Sep 2nd 2012 at 8:07:02 AM

Or a picture of a literal fan, which would probably translate better to 16x16.

Moon
troacctid (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#260: Sep 5th 2012 at 10:39:00 PM

You don't need to bump a sticky.

Any chance we could ship the ones we have off to Eddie now, and do it in two installments instead of just one?

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#261: Sep 6th 2012 at 8:17:46 AM

Someone said that the image-hooking tech works best with all at once.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
BlueGuy (Ten years in the joint)
#262: Sep 6th 2012 at 2:29:11 PM

[up][up] Thanks for that.

And I'm definitely in favor of shipping the ones we have to Eddie.

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Antwan Ramblin' Mushroom from Washington Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: I LOVE THIS DOCTOR!
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#263: Sep 30th 2012 at 6:06:36 AM

I think some icons should be shared since there are some similarities with some namespaces. Anime and Manga should both have the eye for example, since both media are adapted from each other a lot. Let's Play and Video Game should share the controller because Let's Play is watching somebody play a video game, so it only makes sense that it should have the controller as well. Light Novel and Literature should have the same book icon; even though their styles are different, they're both still basically books that have an abundance of text and varying amounts of illustrations.

lu127 Paper Master from 異界 Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: Crazy Cat Lady
#264: Sep 30th 2012 at 7:17:55 AM

Anime and Manga should both have the eye for example, since both media are adapted from each other a lot.

That's actually a bad idea, since there are times manga and anime are split into different pages. Fullmetal Alchemist, for instance, has two separate pages, and having two images would make navigating much simpler.

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ShadowHog from Earth Since: May, 2009 Relationship Status: Healthy, deeply-felt respect for this here Shotgun
#265: Sep 30th 2012 at 11:10:28 AM

So a few suggestions.

I'm a little confused at Comic Book. The OP says it has an icon. Do you see the icon here? I don't, unless we're repurposing Fetish Fuel's Catwoman icon (which I doubt). Doesn't exactly help that two of the biggest names in comics, Batman and Superman, seem to redirect to "Franchise" articles and don't even have Comic Book articles anymore (Spider-Man, meanwhile, does). That's probably more of an issue for Special Efforts or something, though; point is, those two are what I'm suggesting for an icon: Batman ([1]), Superman ([2] or [3]). It's in here.

Podcasts seem to use the RSS logo, so while the RSS logo is technically broader than just podcasts, it would probably get the point across. Alternatively, an iPod.

Blog could probably just use LiveJournal's icon. It's admittedly not the forefront blog site anymore (that's probably Tumblr - or Twitter, insofar as that counts), but it was, and the image kind of works outside of that context.

I'm at a loss for Let's Play. The only thing I can think of is the Retsupurae logo (e.g.), but Retsupurae is about lampooning god-awful L Ps instead of celebrating good ones (for instance, the kanji there means "failure"), so I can't seriously suggest that unless there's literally nothing better. Play button, perhaps?

Wiki said The Other Wiki's logo was suggested, but never actually submitted. Here's a few of those to possibly go with ([4], [5], [6]).

Did somebody already suggest a computer for Website? There's no end of icons for that. Although a lot of these come from some icon sites which ask that we use this for non-commercial usage - dunno if that's an issue or not. This would probably overlap with Web Original, I dunno.

Fan Fic: couldn't find a motor fan that looked good at 16x16, but a cursory GIS came up with this folding fan.

Newspaper Comic: Reuse Snoopy from Comic Strip. Aren't these the same thing, really?

I'll toss hiragana "a" into the possibilities for Manga, although I'm pretty sure it already had been. Still, if we went for that, we'd be free to use the eye for Anime. It's the difference between a mostly written/print medium and a mostly audio-visual medium, basically.

I haven't the foggiest idea for Magazine. GIS at 16x16 returns nothing particularly useful, except maybe Time Magazine's website's favicon.ico - it's not very good, though. Similarly at a loss for Franchise - but that one's even worse, since it's more all-encompassing and abstract than a magazine would be.

And that's all I've got right now.

edited 30th Sep '12 4:18:10 PM by ShadowHog

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Telcontar In uffish thought from England Since: Feb, 2012
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#267: Sep 30th 2012 at 2:20:40 PM

I can see the comic book icon in my watchlist.

ShadowHog from Earth Since: May, 2009 Relationship Status: Healthy, deeply-felt respect for this here Shotgun
#268: Sep 30th 2012 at 4:09:05 PM

Point taken. I'll update my running total up there.

Hmm, I don't recognize half of what's in that image...

edited 30th Sep '12 4:10:00 PM by ShadowHog

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Willbyr Hi (Y2K) Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
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#269: Sep 30th 2012 at 8:47:35 PM

I have no idea what the anarchy symbol and yuck face are supposed to be associated with.

ShadowHog from Earth Since: May, 2009 Relationship Status: Healthy, deeply-felt respect for this here Shotgun
#270: Sep 30th 2012 at 9:03:53 PM

I'm assuming the tiny L is supposed to be Laconic?

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lu127 Paper Master from 異界 Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: Crazy Cat Lady
#271: Sep 30th 2012 at 10:37:01 PM

[up] Yep.

The yuck face is for So Bad, It's Horrible. No idea about the anarchy symbol.

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videogmer314 from that one place Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
#272: Sep 30th 2012 at 10:57:51 PM

If the cupcake is for Sugar Wiki, then what's the rainbow for?

Telcontar In uffish thought from England Since: Feb, 2012
Discar Since: Jun, 2009
#274: Oct 16th 2012 at 2:53:22 PM

Bumping this because, with the recent crackdown on Main/ redirects, new pages are going to become annoying to navigate if they don't have their own icons.

Is there a list of all the suggestions compiled somewhere, and we can start voting on them or whatever?

edited 16th Oct '12 2:53:49 PM by Discar

Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#275: Oct 16th 2012 at 2:55:11 PM

There is a list in the OP.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

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