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The image at the top of this sidebar is currently File:Rainbow Gathering Bosnia 2007.JPG, a large rectangular image captioned "Gathering of the Rainbow Family".

On articles like New Age Orientalism, Mayanism and Quantum mysticism that open with this template, this looks like a kind of infobox image, as if the Rainbow Family are being presented as an example of the article subject, when they're actually only indirectly connected.

I think some neutral image like File:Sanddunes Sunrise-cropped.png, which requires no caption and wouldn't be misleading on any of the articles that use this template, is more appropriate here. It's what other sidebars generally do. Belbury (talk) 15:39, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As the interested editor who disagreed with my edit, what do you think, @Skyerise? Belbury (talk) 14:56, 14 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry the Sunrise image is just too generic and new agey in the negative sense. I am open to another proposal. Skyerise (talk) 15:23, 14 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Got it. I thought it was okay as a neutral representation of the idea of a new age dawning, but if you think it's carrying other connotations that's fair enough. I drew a blank on anything beyond that rather literal interpretation of a new age dawning, I'm afraid I'm not that familiar with the movement. If you have anything in mind I'd be happy to mock it up and/or edit it to a banner size, if a suitable image doesn't yet exist for it.

If no generic image is possible, the template would seem fine without one. It does seem misleading to put a particular group photo as the main image on several schools of thought that they don't follow. Belbury (talk) 15:42, 14 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Per my previous comment I have now removed the image. I'm also open to another proposal. Belbury (talk) 16:33, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

And I have restored it. When two editors disagree, the template remains unchanged until the editor who want to change it can show a consensus for that change. See WP:BRD. Skyerise (talk) 19:29, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate your feedback that you think the sunrise image is inappropriate and haven't attempted to restore that.

You haven't given a response on whether it's misleading to the reader to have articles like Mayanism and quantum mysticism illustrated with a sidebar showing a captioned photo of the Rainbow Family, a group who (if I understand correctly) do not follow either of those beliefs. The reader has no way of knowing whether they're looking at a generic sidebar image or one that's been specifically chosen, infobox-style, to illustrate Mayanism or quantum mysticism.

What do you think about that? Belbury (talk) 10:45, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]