Forum:Skill check icons?

Looking at the article We Will All Go Together, I noticed that someone used skill icons to list various skill checks that can occur during conversation with NPCs. I have a couple of questions/comments about this:
 * Is this a normal/standard/accepted practice on this wiki? I don't remember seeing it before, and I'm big on consistency.
 * Is there an alternate acceptable way to represent the numerical skill level required to access/pass the check besides the on-hover tooltip? I ask this mainly because the web browser integrated into the Steam client does not seem to show the tooltip when I hover over the image, preventing me from determining the value unless I hit the Edit button to see the article source. The tooltip does appear in Firefox, but alt+tabbing in Gamebryo games is just asking for a crash/freeze ;)
 * This doesn't seem like a very good idea to me in general, as it reduces the accessibility of the site for people who might be reading the content via unusual means (Steam browser, screen readers for the visually impaired, printed copies, etc.)

I'm inclined to bulldoze it, but I wanted to check with the community first - both in case this is a standard thing after all, and also in case there is a different standard way that I should be employing instead. Thanks! --(talk 06:20, 19 January 2012 (UTC)


 * To my knowledge, there isn't any agreed standard for skill checks, be it icons or otherwise. If we were to introduce a standard formatting, I'd prefer a text-based one (make them a different color or something) to an icon-based one since (in addition to what you mentioned) the Vault Boy icons, while nice when viewed at full size, are pretty much indistinguishable at the size we need to use in order to avoid disturbing the page layout (by throwing off the line height). -- Porter21 (talk) 11:43, 19 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I agree with your points, so I will be bulldozing the usage in the mentioned article and replacing it with something like "(Speech 60) Convince him to take a hike." --HunterZ_tiny.png(talk 16:17, 19 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Sounds all good to me. This forum is fulfilled. κηδεμόνας  [~μιλώ~]  20:02, 19 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Well, maybe it'd be a good idea to create some sort of template for this so we can 1) easier achieve a consistent formatting and 2) it can be changed easily in case we'd like to change it later on. -- Porter21 (talk) 21:18, 19 January 2012 (UTC)


 * That may indeed be helpful. I also noticed that The_Vault:Article layout guideline/Quest article seems to be a bit bare-bones. I really don't like some of the content and organization of the page I'm working on cleaning up, but I am worried that I will not be able to justify my changes if they are challenged/reverted for some reason. Fortunately the staff here seems to be okay with what I've done so far, so I have high hopes. --HunterZ_tiny.png(talk 21:51, 19 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Or not... Sorry Porter/Hunter *hands head in shame* κηδεμόνας  [~μιλώ~]  18:31, 20 January 2012 (UTC)


 * lol no worries, I wasn't bothered by the lock - or the unlock. --HunterZ_tiny.png(talk 19:17, 20 January 2012 (UTC)


 * I've created the template: statlink. -- Porter21 (talk) 20:11, 20 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I like that! I've updatedWe Will All Go Together to use it. --HunterZ_tiny.png(talk 22:35, 20 January 2012 (UTC)