Thread:JoePlay/@comment-30384903-20150518221517/@comment-30384903-20150528015652

Hi Joe! (Sorry for the late reply)

Thanks for taking the time to update the navigation and logo for that wiki!

The reason for the delayed respond is also because I want to ask about some other questions and wanted to thoroughly looked through what's been laid out on Help pages to avoid asking stuff that had already been addressed. I don't think I've found what I was looking for... so here I am!!
 * 1) Is there some sort of Wikia official bot that will specifically take care of deleting duplicate or almost-but-not-exact images on wikis? I mean, I immediately thought about bots and I looked it up; I thought the sentence "Bots are most often used in short runs to make repetitive edits to many pages" kind of qualifies. If there is this hypothetical bot, where can I request for help of using it?
 * 2) If there is no bot that functions as what is described above, is there a Wikia official position, like a Wikia-wide moderator, to manually handle this? If so, where is the place to send in requests?
 * 3) If there is no such Wikia position as what is described above, and a wiki currently has no active admin, therefore having no one to change user rights, is there a page on Community Central to request a change of user rights on certain wikis? I'm not looking for becoming an administrator and/or bureaucrat, nor do I want to be in charge of the direction of an entire wiki (yes, I do know how to file for adoption but that's not what I'm looking for). On Help:User rights the moderator section, it only talks about chat moderator and for message wall or forum, but I've also seen on some wikis there's "Image Moderator"; is this a position open for requests?
 * 4) I have read what's on Community Central:Community Development Team/Requests as it was the next thing I thought of after reading about bots; unfortunately, I'm not an admin, nor are the admins on the wikis I felt needing the image helps active. Is there a similar page for requests regarding to wikis in this situation?

In case specifics are needed... I'm asking all this stuff because of those two wikis: The first one has 4,000+ images while the second one has 500+. On the Oz Wiki, I know for certain I've seen some of the images being uploaded more than four times. There's also complication like sometimes it's a scan or a photo of an image so that they aren't the exact duplicate but you can still tell they are supposed to be the same image, just of different qualities. Those won't show up when using the special page searching for duplicate, but there's still the ones that will show up using this method. I thought about asking for VSTF, but I don't think those duplicate images are necessarily uploaded with spam intensions, just that those two wikis probably don't have a good catalog system for people to check what images have already been added short of going through the whole thing. Really hope there's a way to deal with this situation, because I think those two are great wikis with good materials, just that right now the amount of duplicate images is kind of spoiling them. (for me at least)
 * http://oz.wikia.com/
 * http://thecasterchronicles.wikia.com/

If nothing can be done, I still thank you for reading this!!