Thread:Scarfacial/@comment-24108228-20150615222447/@comment-4842859-20150616014828

It's largely due to the resolution issue. Jpeg files were never intended to be used for graphics, their encoding produces a very lossy image. When taking pictures with a camera, the jpeg format works well enough for a good picture. However, when it comes to solid colors for things like graphics it's a sub-par format and winds up having a lot of unwanted artifacts in the image.

Additionally, it becomes more of an issue with consistency across the wiki. As it stands right now, all images on the infobox in articles is automatically generated with the name "Article_name.png". If we allowed other images, it would prove to be inconsistent and we would wind up with another issue of having 2+ copies of what basically come down to being the same image.