Thread:The S/@comment-995426-20171204101225/@comment-995426-20171205012246

I suppose some OCD may be involved. I'm as sensitive to presentation as I am knowledgeable of utility. For instance, when I see a credits list that isn't headered and bulletized, I make sure there's a  == Credits ==  header and then I make sure So when I see an article at a glance, and the top image is a relatively detailed comic cover that appears really tiny, there's that brief momentary sensory distress and disorientation. I'm used to smaller images if they're in a gallery of thumbnails, or if it's just one character appearing in a character portrait thumbnail.
 * Credits: are
 * Bulleted: like this

But honestly, earlier, after this discussion already started and you said 250px was actually policy, I recently edited a comic issue that I'd edited previously (which already had a 400px top image), and so I decided to reduce it to 250px and preview it before saving, and it felt like this, and I actually coughed looking at it. So I left the 400px unaltered and walked away feeling relieved for having done so. It may be policy and may be what you want, but at this stage of veteran Turtlepedia editing, I'm not sure I can actually bring myself to shrink existing 400px comic covers already embedded at that size&mdash;not without a momentary jolt of presentational OCD and distress. So, if you still insist...for the sake of my own sanity, I'll probably leave that detail to someone else.

All that hypersensitive attention to certain details (text formatting, "is that comfortable to read?", etc.) helps me polish articles as an editor. But I guess it also leaves me vulnerable to those kinds of stylistic cringe moments that, if allowed to accumulate, contribute to my wikistress. Remember how obsessive compulsive I got with category clutter? It took forever for me to just...let that go. And of course, when I'm the one who sets the stylistic conventions, I tend to polish pages again and again until I'm satisfied, to the point where one potential editor, Angel Bridge, actually told me she was afraid of editing articles there because she didn't think she could ever hope to maintain the same level of tidiness and orderliness I created there...which was never remotely even my intent, since obviously a wiki is still a potential collaborative effort of anyone who can help. And if they inadvertently leave a trail of crumbs, it can still be swept up after they leave.