User talk:ThatRandomGuy1/2024/February

AI upscaling images

Heads up that Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Images#Editing images is against using AI upscaling:

AI upscaling software should generally not be used to increase the resolution or quality of an old or low-resolution image. Original historical images should always be used in place of AI upscaled versions. If an AI-upscaled image is used in an article, this fact should be noted in its caption.

If all we've got is a low-res image of a politician like Tom Middlehurst, we should try to source (or wait for) a better photo rather than asking an AI what his teeth might look like, and presenting that output as if it was an actual photograph of him. Belbury (talk) 14:43, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

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(t · c) buidhe 02:39, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

A message from Ooligan

Please, provide the policy link to the requirement that British Politician pages only use "official portraits." You wrote "Reverted change to lead image. We use official portraits for UK politicians." [1] Thank you, Ooligan (talk) 16:28, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Hello. There is no official WP policy to use official portraits on UK politicians' articles, but it has been a long-held consensus since around 2010 for government ministers and 2017 for British politicians in general. Generally, we use the most recent official parliamentary or government/cabinet portrait of the politician for the lead image unless there isn't one already available on Commons. This can be seen on the articles of almost all serving MPs (feel free to go through the list here), MSs (list here), MSPs (list here) and cabinet ministers like Donelan (list here).

Exceptions are usually made when there is no official portrait available (as is the case here and here) or when the only official portraits available are of an inferior quality to other images (as seen here). As such, there is some discrepancy in historical articles due to the lack of freely licenced high quality official portraits (e.g. Neil Kinnock and David Steel have official portraits but John Major and Margaret Thatcher don't) but for modern articles this generally isn't an issue. ThatRandomGuy1 (talk) 17:26, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the details.

You stated, "There is no official WP policy to use official portraits on UK politicians' articles, but it has been a long-held consensus since around 2010 for government ministers and 2017 for British politicians in general."

Can you provide links to each of these two discussions ("government ministers" and "British politicians in general"), which established as you wrote, "a long-held consensus?" -- Ooligan (talk) 18:20, 26 February 2024 (UTC)