Ok, i’ve been patrolling and adding images, and I see the template “nointroimg” in the introduction. What is it? Is that a note telling us not to put an image there? Are we allowed to remove it, or is that an NAB and Admin job? Just curious me, I guess I’ll slink back into my little hole…
Any contributor can add this template. It removes the article from the intro image picker app queue I believe.
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Yes - any article that has the {{nointroimg}} template in the introduction just omits it from the queue of articles that would end up in the imageadder tool. It’s used when an article is suited better without an intro image.
Therefore, don’t remove this template when you see it.
You are only partly right, for the wrong reasons. It is added in one of two situations: Either 1) {{nointroimg}} has been added by a bot because wikiHow’s internal metrics have shown that a certain article does better without an intro image, or less likely (perhaps hypothetically) 2) an editor has added it to the article. IMO, you should
feel free to remove it if you have a very good reason to think that it is wrong. But you should be prepared to defend that decision ( hey, you guys should use edit summaries more often
) and to assume that there is a good reason for it being there in the first place.
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And should prepared to give a talk page head’s up message to the person whom originally has placed the template, so that they don’t have to find out later, whether it’s days, etc and see the reason only being in the edit summary.
