Board Thread:Administrative Messages/@comment-3495717-20160530211912

Though this has been a problem for quite a while, it has become more apparent with recent forum threads, so I finally decided to make a notice regarding it. Basically, users have been uploading images for personal use (userpage, Message Wall) and forum/blog use with random and/or easily overwritten filenames, which isn't great considering these images won't be used on actual mainspace articles. I keep suggesting that users should append or prepend their username to images they don't plan to use on articles, but it seems people aren't listening.

So basically you've got two choices:
 * 1) Do what I've been telling you to do and add your username to the filenames of images you upload if they're for personal use
 * 2) Upload them to imgur; you can paste the image URL and it'll automatically embed the image

Otherwise they'll get deleted.

On a side note, orphaned images (images that aren't used anywhere on the wiki) will be deleted after 24 hours; don't use this wiki as an image host. 