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I actually prefer the new images for being higher quality. Fred's new image was essentially the same, just with a different background and bigger/not artifacted.
Keet cleanupImage Pickin' isn't technically mandatory, just highly recommended, and policy doesn't require us to change them back to crappy images just because they're not exactly the same as the originals.
Keet cleanupPolicy does require that all changes be discussed on IP though.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallPolicy says changes to images picked on IP must be discussed on IP. I don't see the usual commented out image pickin' note on the linked page.
Quality upgrades don't require Image Pickin', and the old images were so JPEG'd that changing them back just because they weren't exactly the same sounds like nitpicking to me.
Edited by rjd1922 Keet cleanup^^ That's weird; in practice, it seems to apply to any image, not just IP-ones.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallWarJay and rjd are both correct. If there is a pic, especially if it was selected by an IP thread, IP is required to make a change unless you're doing a quality upgrade with no or minimal changes to the content of the old pic. In that case, you just need to note that that's what you're doing in the edit reason. There's a bit of a gap in language between that Administrivia page and the guidelines in the IP discussion thread.
I guess the question is, in this case, how close to the old pics in terms of what's actually in them are the new pics? I'm just now seeing this and likely won't have time to do comparisons until the evening.
Edited by WillbyrOld
◊ and new
◊ Larry the Lobster image, old
◊ and new
◊ Bubble Bass image. I already reverted Fred's image back to the higher-quality new one since it's the same pose, just a different background.

Troper Grojfan has unilaterally changed the images on Characters.Sponge Bob Square Pants Recurring Characters without going on the Image Pickin' threads for a discussion first. I already PMed them about it earlier today and they agreed to stop (only adding new images for characters who don't have them), but now I would like someone to revert the new images back into the old ones please? I tried doing it myself, but the original image URLs were lost in their other slew of edits, making them confusing to find.
Courtesy link here: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Characters.SpongebobSquarepantsRecurringCharacters
Edited by DivineFlame100