Board Thread:New on My Singing Monsters Wiki/@comment-25404524-20170516102339/@comment-24577221-20170521021749

It appears that the reason Wikia chooses the wrong images is that it ignores images that appear too many times in the pages. Its counting includes images that are used in the various boxes and templates. Its algorithm is, essentially, to represent a page by using the first image it finds on that page that meets a variety of criteria including not appearing too many times.

A solution is to have two different images for each item: one for the infobox, and one for things like templates. Of course, these images can be used in other places as well. If we want to be absolutely sure that the "right" image is used in the links, we would probably want to use that image only for the infobox, right at the start of the page, and other versions of images elsewhere.

From time to time, people have suggested to Wikia staff that it would simplify things quite a lot if there was some way to explicitly tell Wikia which image was the right one to use for its automatic page links, rather than it having to do all of that scanning and tallying. So far, it hasn't been a priority for them.

I'm not sure if the tallying algorithm could be tricked by something like a redirect for an image. That is, for the infobox, create a "new" image that's just a redirect to the old one.