User blog comment:Yyp/New Wikia Skin:What we can expect?/@comment-44061-20100923224300/@comment-1429792-20100923224936

Names of uploaders on pictures in the articles is a horrid idea. I don't want to see the name of the person who uploaded it written all over the article itself. Wikia articles are supposed to be a collaboration of many users edits, so why do the image uploaders get their name plastered all over the article (especially when they might only have uploaded the picture and did not add it to the article). Many brand new pages have all their pictures added by the same person when the article is created, making it look really silly. What about users with really long names or names that can cause confusion in the article (Renji Abarai uploaded many pictures on Renji's character article (or more confusing, Naruto added this image to Ichigo's page)? The same goes for their avatars (not that those avatars can be seen clearly they are so small). Also, our welcome message contains a picture, which naturally enough was uploaded by a user, whose name is now to be found on oh so many user's talk pages! How is that a good thing? Plus it is wasting space at a time when Wikia are also forcing a fixed width and huge sidebar. Too much space wasted. This (image attribution) is a bad idea and I think it should either be scrapped or make it so that individual wikis can disable it if it their community does not want it.

The above is adapted for part of a post I left Wikia about my impressions of the New Look