Talk:Branding

Would it possible to attach all previous logos, icons, fonts etc. to this page, or, at least, hyperlink on this page to repositories of all previous resource materials (with associated dates of having been in use, and record of first introduction/reveal) in this regard? Would it be possible to have this page be the dated, historical record of Oolite branding development and progression?

Example: Oolite (progress) LiveJournal Userpic 2004apr07tue - ??? (proof of start-date)

My concern is that even on the initial 2006-01-03T18:26:46 post of the Oolite wikipage, the original, blue logo (in use at the time of the initial posting of that page) has now been replaced by the new, red logo.

Let not our origins be forgotten, as happens to the location of Old Earth in GalCop Space! ...nor as happened during the Great Deletion.

Thanks for your consideration of this request.

--User2357 (talk) 11:08, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

Thy eminence,

Phkb uploaded the new logo with the name of the old.

But. If you look at the pages with the files on them (if that is the correct description) you will see that the original is still there, somehow: File:Oolite-logo3.png & File:Oolite-logo2.png.

Despite my supposed wizardly capabilities, I know not how to emblazon Seventh's original logo on another page here.

I beg, sir, to remain yours etc.,

Cholmondeley 21:46, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

Woo-hoo! Yee-Haw! Yippee-hi-ho-kah-yay! :D I thought those files had been lost. Thank you, Commander Cholmondeley. I'm no wiki-wizard either, but I'll have a go at it.

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If I understand correctly, could the new, red-logo filenames perhaps be renamed differently, so that they do not clash with the original, blue-logo filenames, and, thus, hopefully, restore the blue logos on historical pages where they belong, and add the red ones to new pages? ...or am I not grasping the full complexity of the situation?

Commander Cholmondeley, on the Branding wikipage, you refer to File:Oosat 1.png, File:Oosat 2.png, and http://s248731467.onlinehome.us/ ... I agree that Oosat 2.png seems to be logoless, but it also seems to me to be unclear whether the Oosat site/pages were ever supposed to have any official Oolite logos in the first place that might require preservation. Oosat 1.png has an Elite Wiki logo in the bottom, left-hand corner, but I don't think that's what we're looking for...?

Also, on the Dizzy's Oolite Installers download page, that logo seems somewhat less "official", and might merely have been one that Dizzy designed for their own, personal purposes on their own, personal website; not necessarily to represent the Oolite comOonity as a whole. It does not seem as if it was ever a logo to be considered for display on any official Oolite website.

What I have in mind, is the preservation of the original logo(s) that Aegidian designed, and used on his websites/pages, and which might be more-closely compared to the Elite insignia designed by Philip Castle ([1]). The new, red logo seems to follow this tradition rather nicely, and, since the commOonity was consulted on the Oolite bulletin boards, and the red logo was incorporated on the official Oolite.space website, I would think that few would argue against the red logo's right to preservation.

Attempting to preserve a file for every single Oolite logo out there, might not be practical and exhaustible/exhaustive; there will always be another one that we haven't included yet, and that is simply just more frustration than I am willing to sign up for. ...But official logos from original media... now those I'm willing to hunt down to the ends of the Earth. (...says I, not knowing what I'm getting myself into...)

I'll have to speak to my landlord regarding letting you be mine. He's not big on pets. Perhaps I can persuade him to let you stay in the basement. etc. ;p (How am I ever to top such wonderfully-flowery language?)

--User2357 (talk) 13:09, 7 January 2024 (UTC)