Forum:Logos vs. icons

The Sims Wiki has two image categories that seem almost synonymous with each other: Category:Logos and Category:Icons.

The license adder gadget adds images to "Logos" if the "A game logo or icon" option is selected, and the same goes for MediaWiki:Licenses, which is displayed on the upload form. This may explain why "Logos" has 377 members (as of this writing), rather than a measly 38 for "Icons".

I feel that these two categories should be merged into one, since they both seem to mean the same thing. There are images in "Icons" that fit better in "Logos", and "Logos" that fit better in "Icons". Merging "Icons" into "Logos" is my proposal, since there are fewer items in "Icons", which means fewer bot edits, and since "Logos" is already used by the upload form and the license adder tool, it'll be easier that way. Besides, the image guidelines even explicitly states that "Logos" is also used for in-game icons.

Or, we could get things straight and define what constitutes a logo and what constitutes an icon, and keep both categories.

Thoughts? --I am  k6ka  Talk to me!   See what I have done  21:55, September 26, 2015 (UTC)

Discussion
I think merging both categories might be a simpler way than having to go through definition of "logo" and "icon" and then separate them. In that case, I'd support merging because we might not need a complicated process of separation. I want to point out that we have Category:In-game icons too, which I made to categorize icons extracted from the game (with no borders).  Nikel  Talk  –  Vote!  06:22, September 27, 2015 (UTC)
 * I disagree with merging together. While logos and icons may overlap in some ways, I do not think the two are synonymous. What we should do is further refine what constitutes a logo versus an icon, and then categorize around that definition. In my mind, I would think that we would define "logo" as something pertaining to an entity, like images for one of the Sims games, a website, or something of that nature. An icon would be (usually) an in-game image that is used in the interface. This is complicated by the fact that a game may have multiple logos. For instance, you could say that both of these images are logos for The Sims 2: The Sims 2 Logo.png The Sims 2 Icon.png
 * The first image is labeled as the TS2 logo, whereas the second image is marked as the TS2 icon. In this case, the TS2 icon actually is an icon - it's the icon that will appear on a desktop when TS2 is installed. I think a good rule of thumb (though possibly overly broad) is to consider a logo as an image that often has text on it, whereas an icon usually will just be a picture without text. Icons generally tend to run smaller than logos, as well.
 * Looking at the logo and icon categories, it appears there is some mis-categorization if we follow the criteria I've laid out. There are a number of images listed as logos that would be more appropriately categorized as icons, and a few logos incorrectly listed as icons as well. I think the issue stems from the automatic categorization tool, which lists images that are identified as icons or logos into the logo category by default.
 * Tl;dr: Overall, I think the best solution is to keep separate categories, add an option to auto-categorize as an icon or as a logo separately, and re-categorize images that fall into the wrong group. I don't support merging. -  LostInRiverview talk • blog  •  contribs 15:51, September 27, 2015 (UTC)


 * Closed with no consensus - Users should feel free to proceed as they feel is appropriate, up to or until this matter is discussed and decided by the community, or else determined naturally over time. --  LiR talk • blog  •  contribs 14:53, March 11, 2016 (UTC)