Thread:Barnswallow/@comment-27000840-20161024094458/@comment-25205196-20161024134626

You're most welcome!

To clarify, the size of your pics when you upload them does not matter although 200px wide minimum is nice (but not always possible). Keeping them as big as you can is actually better as users can click or tap on the pic to see the full/bigger version. What's more interesting is that when you have a set of pictures you want to display you may try to have all them square, at the same size so it looks nicer. However this requires manipulating the pictures to cut them, possibly resizing them using a transparent background, etc. and we don't expect editors to be able or even have the time to do this. Having pictures when there were none is 100% awesome. :)

We tend to display the main picture (the one in the introductory part of the article) at 200px and pictures in the article at 150px but that's not a rule set in stone. It can depend on how big or small the object or character or whatever you want to illustrate is in the picture so some may be displayed at a bigger size. The idea, though, is to keep some consistency in the article (so the text is aligned) and across the wiki.

Let's demonstrate what thumb does with a picture of a pig.

This is thumb without any other info:

This is thumb with a set size of 200px:

This is the same one without thumb:

See the differences? Thumb has some styling you have to counteract (such as right alignment) so adding it or leaving it in is kinda counterproductive.

I'm glad you're enjoying using the source editor. There's a bit of a learning curve but you can do many more things. In case you didn't know you're free to create pages in your 'domain' if you want to experiment and test things out. It is customary to call it your 'sandbox' but you can call it whatever you want and are free to make subpages as well:

User:Bilalasad/Sandbox

User:Bilalasad/Sandbox/Testing Thing A