User talk:Arrimas Arrington

Hi folks. I'm Arrimas Arrington. Nice to meet you! --Arrimas Arrington (talk) 23:49, 7 July 2015 (CEST)

Picture uploads

The user, BolsterGay‎, you asked to upload pictures hasn't been active in over a year. I can't exactly see what you want uploaded so I don't know if your pictures are proper (Please see the manual of style), but you can upload pictures yourself with the upload page since you have an account. The upload page is listed on the sidebar near the bottom and also appears when you click a picture redlink, or at the top of a page (drop files here) when you try to edit. Chekhov MacGuffin ^talk 19:06, 4 August 2015 (CEST)

Re: Special Volume Request

When I have time I'll try to scan my manga volumes for pictures of characters. All previous special volume pictures were uploaded by somebody else and are not from my personal collection of scanned images. I do not share my e-mail address. --Skyechan (talk) 00:04, 11 August 2015 (CEST)

What is your email address?

My new email address is [redacted by Chek to prevent screen-scraper-spam] --Arrimas Arrington (talk) 03:12, 11 August 2015 (CEST)

I'm sorry but I am more comfortable communicating with you using the talk page here. You can also use the forum PM system or even the DCTP PM system if you like. I am guessing you are contacting me because you would like me to upload pictures for you. I strongly encourage you have a look at the guidelines on picture uploads and try uploading a few yourself for starters.

You should also stop asking other users to upload pictures for you. Scanning, cleaning, cropping, and formatting pictures from manga volumes is fairly time intensive. Asking someone to upload several cases worth of suspects, side characters, and crime scenes is not a trivial request. Detective Conan Special is even more bothersome than usual because they are rarer, there are almost no good quality scans online to use as a shortcut image source, and they are low priority because not many people care about Conan Special compared to the regular Detective Conan manga and anime episodes.

Just so it is clear, I think it is fine to ask others to do something for you when the task is a manageable size or you aren't sure how to do it yourself. It is also okay to make a general post requesting attention for a particular topic in case there are editors looking for a new project. It seems too forceful when someone who hasn't tried doing it themselves starts to individually recruit editors for their big project. Wiki editing is a hobby which is purely volunteer and often thankless, so it is important that editors be able to choose their own interests and pace. When people beg, it makes editing more like being managed at work than a hobby. I hope you understand my reluctance to help you on your project when I have my own backlog of incomplete pages I need to cover. Chekhov MacGuffin ^talk 05:14, 11 August 2015 (CEST)