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Flag of Japan

Please stop the Thumbnail style update immediately. It is unable to deal with images, that consist predominantly of white space without an outer border, such as the Flag of Japan. --H-stt (talk) 15:01, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

Why? I don't see any problem with the file in your post. The thumbnail style update was long wanted and is great.

You don't see any problems? Well, imagine this image in an article under the new thumbnail style: On a white page, without a border and without a shaded frame. See the issue?

Either you say you want a frame, then take a version like "thumb", which has a frame or you say you want no frame like with "frameless", then take one without frame. I still don't see the problem. Or do you want a shadow around the image - also when it's not framed?

Image without frame:

I now had a look at a number of image-related use-cases and I think I can now guess, what you mean:

Do you want to have a clearer separation between an image and the surrounding text? Is that the problem? When I see , I must say that I find it rather confusing that the middle image (earth on the axis, with moon) is not separated from the text more clearly. Where does the article text end? Does that half sentence still belong to the article text or should it be part of the image? This separation was much more clear when there still were frames by default.

Is that what you mean? That the default style now does no longer have a frame?