Hi James,
A few thoughts on your thoughts!
I don’t know about you, but I only post to my member’s page the best of my images. The normal run of the mill ones, that still have value as you rightly point out, never make it there but they still go to the relevant section. I sometimes wonder if this showcasing the best can act as a disincentive to observers to submit observations to the sections. They may feel, given they are not regularly producing this level of quality, their normal observations are of no use.
It is important to remember that it is not just about putting images into a Section archive but being able to retrieve them in a sensible manner. This is presumably why there is a need for standard filenames. If a hotchpotch of names came down from the personal pages this retrieval process could be seriously compromised.
In a largely successful attempt to ‘lazify’ the use of standard filenames, I have taken the following approach. For each planet there is a Photoshop template with a generic filename specific to the requirements of that section. So, for example, the one for Mars is 2025-mm-dd-ttttUT-DRB. The image is pasted into the template which is then saved replacing mm, dd etc with the new values. The template also has ‘fill in the blanks’ text for additional information such as seeing and CM values. I find this reduces the effort considerably and minimises he risk of key information being forgotten. If you think these may be of any use to yourself, message me through the website with your email address and I will be happy to pass them over.
David.