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
Onto Referenced by…/? I liked the reversed megaphone, but I think it should be a different color.
Never trust anyone who uses "degenerate" as an insult.That's a good idea.
While we're on the subject, does anyone have a problem with the suggested sandbox icon? I'm still not sure we should have an icon, but if we do, that one works.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.Re: Referenced By — I had kind of been hoping someone could think of something completely different, but I suppose a distinct colour would at least help it be more recognizably different from Shout Out.
Re: Sandbox — Well, I don't know if it does need an icon, but if we do assign one to it, I don't think we'll find a better one.
Here's a question, and possibly a way to get a bunch of these out of the way. Right now, we only have two more items with multiple suggestions shown in the sandbox. (I suppose Referenced By will soon have more then one suggestion as well, as soon as someone makes differently colored versions.) But there are five with only one concrete suggestion. (Audio Play, Creator, Fan Works, Sandbox, and Useful Notes.)
For those five, should we put out a final call to see if anyone has any objections and/or alternate suggestions? And then, if after, say, a week or so, any of them do not have objections or other suggestions, we could just call those ones and get them out of the way.
Then we'll only have left is Animation and Tropers (both of which need suggestions still), Web Original and Website (both of which have sufficient suggestions to be able to run crowners), Referenced By, and then whatever the heck is going on with Manhwa/Manhua. That's starting to look surmountable.
What's that I see off in the distance? Could it be light at the end of the tunnel?
edited 1st Feb '14 5:35:59 AM by Yotsuyasan
Boy Scouts ½: the most gratuitous self insert fic, ever! Read, if you dare!Conversely, I still support giving Sandbox/ an icon. For one thing, people need to become more aware of that namespace. Right now, many people making new tropes/work pages use the workspaces as kinda sandboxes.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanI think I prefer the other one.
Should we do a simple up/down crowner on whether Sandbox/ needs an icon, or do the mods just want to make a ruling?
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.I can barely see what it is.
Also, a further argument in favour of a sandbox icon: It's still one click away. We keep plenty of stuff one click away - including (most pertinently, since we're taking about "wiki for readers vs. the upkeep parts of it") the edit page, the forums, sandbox pages.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanEDIT: NVM, we didn't have enough pictures.
But since we're waiting for whatever, why don't we do Web Original or Website?
And if we do Web Original I must insist that the Slenderman pictures used in the ARG vote be used here.
edited 9th Feb '14 3:04:57 PM by Mullon
Never trust anyone who uses "degenerate" as an insult.So, um... been a week since the last post... Anything special going on? Shall we do a crowner for Web Original or Website? Shall we do a mass crowner for all the left overs with only one suggestion? What's the general feeling on things?
Boy Scouts ½: the most gratuitous self insert fic, ever! Read, if you dare!Sorry, I've been remiss. I've hooked a crowner for Web Original/ and I'll change the thread title in a sec.
If you really want them, you could always add them to the Crowner.
Boy Scouts ½: the most gratuitous self insert fic, ever! Read, if you dare!


I upvoted the "part open magazine" for being the most visible.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman