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
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pages that have icons
edited 27th Oct '14 6:01:01 AM by SeptimusHeap
Nice, Willbyr. That's pretty much exactly what I had in mind!
Rethkir, I shan't get into weather or not the Western Animation tab should include text... but as for the matter of it containing a shortened text, if it just said, "Animation" (as was one of your suggestions) then it may cause confusion with the separate Animation namespace.
Not that I suspect there is any overlap between the two... but I would still avoid it for the same reason that I would hope to have all of the icons we eventually decide upon be visually distinct from one another. (I really must think of some additional suggestions for "Referenced By" one of these days...)
Boy Scouts ½: the most gratuitous self insert fic, ever! Read, if you dare!This post
has two Manhwa/Manhua suggestions, although as-is they are letters, not icons.
Also, I like the crank for Administrivia/.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanI made a crowner
for Administrivia, with all the sandbox suggestions plus the lampshade (which I then added to the sandbox page) and a choice for "no icon".
I've also hollered at the mods for it to be hooked to the thread.
edited 6th Jan '14 7:46:00 PM by BlueGuy
Pinball cleanup threadIt's the super-namespace for all things animated that don't fall under WesternAnimation/ or Anime/.
Eastern Animation has no icon because it's not an official namespace last I checked.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanI think a bit of film with a little stick figure on it would be good for Animation/.
Pinball cleanup threadBut what's under the /Animation namespace that's not already covered by /Anime, /Western Animation, and /Eastern Animation?
Never trust anyone who uses "degenerate" as an insult.
EasternEuropean/ isn't an official namespace. Animation covers anything Anime/ and WesternAnimation doesn't. For example, Burka Avenger, which is a Pakistani cartoon, is namespaced under Animation. The namespace also covers Asian Animation(all Asian countries except Japan), Eastern European Animation, Hanguk Manhwa Aenimeisyeon (Korean cartoons), and any cartoon that's not from the Western Hemisphere.
You can also go check out this thread
, where the Animation/ namespace was discussed and agreed upon.
Dunno, I guess for now no one (myself included) can think of anything good for it... I must admit, I have been pondering that this thread has been quite, lately...
If we cannot think of anything for the moment for animation, shall we move onto something else and come back to it?
Looks like the very next thing (alphabetically) still up for discussion would be Audio Play, which currently has only one suggestion, but one I would whole heartedly support! (Seeing as I suggested it and all, ha ha... Thanks to Willbyr for visualizing it, however.)
Boy Scouts ½: the most gratuitous self insert fic, ever! Read, if you dare!Could someone please explain the deal with the Comic Book icon being the lightning bolt from this?
◊ How exactly did we get that, and why is it in that format? It doesn't exactly strike me as the best image, thought I don't know of any better ones.
I'll admit I was curious about that, as well, but I figured we're having enough trouble getting through all of the new ones, I didn't want to open up the can of worms that would be questioning already established icons.
While the "Closed Magazine" one is, all other considerations aside, probably the nicest looking one... I can't get over that it (to me, at least) looks more like a nice deck of cards then it does a nice magazine...
(I've seen the same image in a larger scale, and it is clear it is a magazine, but I guess at that scale it looks more like the front cover is just an Ace on top of a deck.)
So, while I kind of don't like how either of the other two look, I suppose I'd have to (and in fact have) put my vote behind the "Part-Open Magazine," as the less bad of the two that at least look to me like magazines.
Boy Scouts ½: the most gratuitous self insert fic, ever! Read, if you dare!The closed one looks a lot better than the other two (and I made the tiny one, an act that I am now sort of regretting).
edited 25th Jan '14 9:38:28 AM by BlueGuy
Pinball cleanup threadI'm hoping that once all the icons are up, that Correction Bait + Let's See YOU Do Better! will inspire (an) artist(s) to make better ones, maybe even an entire matching set. Meanwhile, "Keep Until Better Image Suggested" for anything that works.
edited 25th Jan '14 9:45:20 AM by justanid

I like the Audio Play suggestion.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman