User talk:Secret Service

No PNG's, JPG's only

Please do not upload your screenshots as PNG's since PNG's take a long time to load. JPG's only, please. Also, try to keep the entire widescreen image if possible. Thanks. --Ben41 19:06, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Sure thing. I can make a quick conversion from PNG to JPG. And I can fix the image back to it's original widescreen shot. --David

Sorry but did you catch this?

Category:Documentary

Warning: Documentaries are NOT automatically approved for inclusion into IMFDB. Most of the remaining documentaries have been 'grandfathered in', i.e. they were created before IMFDB ruled against including documentaries. Even those which are grandfathered in must be of exceptional quality and completeness to stay. The ones given a waiver have a limited amount of time to improve, or they are removed. As of now, there is a blanket moratorium on all 'new' documentary pages. If you have a page you wish to create, please run it by the Mods first to see if it warrants a waiver from the ban.

MoviePropMaster2008 20:28, 1 April 2011 (CDT)

Run it by the Mods means....Run it by the MODERATORS. The list is as follows:

   Alienqueen11 ‎(Administrator since 27 June 2007)
   Ben41 ‎(Administrator since 21 August 2009)
   Bunni ‎(Administrator since 9 June 2007)
   Excalibur01 ‎(Administrator since 22 June 2008)
   Gunmaster45 ‎(Administrator since 17 May 2008)
   Jcordell ‎(Administrator since 27 November 2008)
   MT2008 ‎(Administrator since 17 April 2008)
   MoviePropMaster2008 ‎(Administrator since 25 May 2008)
   Orca1 9904 ‎(Administrator since 2 July 2007)
   Phoenixent ‎(Administrator since 24 January 2009)
   Predator20 ‎(Administrator since 25 March 2009)
   Speakeasy804 ‎(Administrator since 23 July 2008)

In the past we've had pages which stretched the purpose and goal of IMFDB. Documentaries are for the most part showing LIVE events. Shows like COPS or DEA are just reality shows that follow real life Law enforcement. Most of us react with a big 'So what?" The problem is that IMFDB is not here to document what appears in REAL LIFE. It started to chronicle what guns were used in what movies. That is something which most of the firearms websites or literature don't even bother with nor do they know a thing about. The movie industry is like an alien planet to most firearms authors. But back to the problems with 'documentaries'. Most of them are about Newsworthy events, either NOW or in the PAST. What is the problem? We don't track REAL LIFE. If the US Marines start fielding a new weapon, we're not going to start chronicling EVERY news show that has a pic of it. IMFDB won't care unless it appears in an original entertainment media like a movie, TV show, anime or VG. We even had people try to make pages for NBC Nightly News, Dateline, etc, which were just news shows which were showing real journalistic footage of Taliban fighters (for the AK entries). That's not the point of IMFDB and when members start STRETCHING the definition of documentaries to such length, it makes an avalanche of impossible to maintain pages. Though some documentaries DO show re-enactments of historical or current events, the extent of abuse and members pushing the boundaries of what is acceptable is just not worth the hassle. That is my opinion. Feel free to solicit viewpoints from others. Thanks. MoviePropMaster2008 00:30, 4 May 2011 (CDT)