User talk:Keaghanandthegamers

Weapon demonstration animations
Hello! You recently uploaded a large number of weapon animation GIFs to the wiki. Thank you for that commitment! Weapon demonstration animations are fairly useful for weapons with unique and special properties which might be harder to articulate through text and do merit a moving image to support the explanation. However, this is not true for the majority of weapons. Most use a standard attack, like a swing for swords or a shot of a bullet for guns. As this is basic behavior, it can be described sufficiently with text and does not require a GIF for readers to comprehend the concept. The GIF effectively becomes an unnecessary element of the page. As such, it causes, most importantly, distraction from static content, a heavy increase in page loading time, and increased clutter on the page. These issues deteriorate the user's reading experience, which is nothing anybody on a wiki could ever want to strive for.

You uploaded demonstration animations of the following items:

Out of these, taking into consideration what I mentioned above, the ones which do serve a practical purpose in describing the item's behavior are Snowball Cannon, Clockwork Assault Rifle, Harpoon, Sand Gun, Flare Gun, and Confetti Gun. All of the others depict standard behaviors which can be explained well enough through text.

I incline towards removing those GIFs from the articles, but of course I would like to hear your (and anybody else's!) thoughts on the affair before doing so.

Please note that most of the rest of the GIFs, the ones which do benefit their respective article, should be redone. While they are already of a higher quality than some other uploads (notably the clean arena and the standard, distraction-free character – well done!), the frame rate is lacking. Moreover, the cursor should not be visible (as it is not an important part of the demonstration) and, most importantly, the GIF needs to be shortened. I recommend you to read through the GIF making help page (which was updated very recently, admittedly, so there will most likely be content you have not read yet) for some tips on improving brevity and focus.

All that being said, I once again thank you very much for your commitment to contributing to the Terraria Wiki!

--Rye Greenwood (talk) 21:50, 27 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Besides the gifs for the 'unusual' weapons mentioned I think some of the other gifs are also useful. The Love Potion, Stink Potion, and Slime Gun gifs show the buff effect (all three would benefit from being redone though). The Companion Cube gif shows the stab effect, which I personally think is interesting/funny to see in action. The Megashark gif might be useful simply because the Megashark is a sort of iconic Terraria weapon (there's already a gif for the Minishark). The Meatball gif appears to be the best example of how an thrown flail works yet, meaning it can be useful on the Flail page. Just my two cents. NoseOfCthulhu (talk) 00:10, 28 July 2019 (UTC)