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I would suggest to use "hull classification" prefixes always except for the US Navy ships (and perhaps JMSDF) where they would be redundant - regardless of wether it's a single ship or whole class, esp. that not all ships have/had pennant numbers.

To give an example: in Polish folder there is patrol boat Batory - it's file name is KP-1 as at one point it was named like this, and I wanted to keep sequence with other KP-... boats, but easily I could name it simply Batory instead, and - at least theoretically - there could be another file named Batory, but showing a passenger liner. If "hull classification"/"type" prefixes were to be used always, it would be no such problem (one would be PB Batory and other MS Batory). And in the case from my example, where KP-... files had PB prefix removed, it creates situation where "patrol boats" are (unnecessarily, IMHO) in two separate places in one folder.

I was under the impression that the mainsite was confusing was because we changed the system around after nation-specific folders were added and the older drawings never got their filenames changed. In this respect, changing the system again would just add to the confusion.

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"If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done." ~Ludwig Wittgenstein

It could not add to the confusion if the older files were renamed (but for this volunteers would be needed).

About 109 on disk. If I finished converting all of the GIFs to PNGs and optimized the PNGs I could probably get it down a bit.
I will take your thoughts under consideration, but I offer no promises.
The renaming has been in flux for a long time, Golly didn't do a lot because his connection to the server was SLOW (It would take him a couple of hours to download everything, while it only takes me about 30 minutes [the connection overhead eats a lot more than you would think]). The goal has been to update the files, but it takes time, and as eswube said, the old files need to be fixed also.

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There is a pertinant point here, while it might make sense to us that D88 Glasgow is HMS Glasgow of the Type 42 Class of DDGs an outsider just randomly looking at the archive site might not know the original pennant number and might find it harder to locate the drawing. Of course when they open the image its clear what ship it is from the credits. All ships have numbers, but as Kim points out they aren't always painted on and aren't always well known. It's a two-tier system, but given the sheer size of the database now I don't think wholesale changes are feasible without excessive work and the system we currently have works anyway.

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Actually the work on setting straight the filenames is already to start via PMs (there are four volunteers, me being one of them, and under TimothyC's guidance we're starting to divide the work among ourselves).

If You see it a valid point, maybe it would be good to discuss it among the administration, before there isn't too much actual work with filename update/correction done yet (that would have to be potentially redone again)?

Thanks all for volunteering to undertake this thankless task.

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just in case I need to state the obvious ones, Let me handle the russian and finnish folders, unless you feel 200 % certainity what you are about to do.
beyond that, good luck and good nerves, you gonna need them

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I see that some recent uploads to the database have non standard filenames. This is particularly annoying after all the hours a few of us volunteers put in a couple of years back. Two questions...

1. What is the best way to change the file names in the database to standard agreed on in this thread?

2. What's the best way to ensure that only drawings with standardised file names are uploaded in the future?

As before, I'm happy to volunteer my time to correct the file names.

Out of sheer curiosity: when I get my ass around to actually submit my DofEs for upload (to replace [possibly!] the old, outdated drawings in the Archive), how would it look like accordingto the proposed naming practice?

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