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English Wikipedia policy

This folio in a nutshell: Be very careful when uploading copyrighted images, fully depict images' origins and copyright details on their description pages, and try to brand images every bit useful and reusable as possible.

This page sets out the policies towards images—including format, content, and copyright issues—applicable on the English-language Wikipedia.

For information on media in full general (images, sound files, etc.), see Help:Creation and usage of media files. For data on uploading, run into Wikipedia:Uploading images, or go straight to Special:Upload. For other legal and copyright policies, run across Wikipedia:List of policies § Legal.

Identifying usable images

Copyright and licensing

WP:IUP#COPYRIGHT
WP:IUPC

Earlier you lot upload an prototype, make sure that the image falls in i of the four categories:

Ain work: You own all rights to the image, commonly pregnant that you lot created it entirely yourself. In case of a photo or screenshot, you must also own the copyright for all copyright-protected items (due east.g. statue or app) that announced in information technology (example, see beneath for details).
Freely licensed: Y'all can bear witness that the copyright holder has released the image under an adequate costless license (case, see below for details). Note that images that are licensed for use but on Wikipedia, or only for non-commercial or educational use, or under a license that doesn't allow for the creation of modified/derived works, are unsuitable. Important annotation: only considering you did not have to pay coin for the prototype does not hateful that it is "gratis content" or acceptable for use on Wikipedia. The vast bulk of images on the net are copyrighted and cannot be used here – even if at that place is not a copyright find, it is automatically copyrighted from the moment of creation. When in doubt, practice not upload copyrighted images.
Public domain: You lot can testify that the image is in the public domain, i.east. complimentary of all copyrights (example, see below for details).
Fair use/non-costless: You believe that the image meets the special conditions for non-free content, which exceptionally let the use of unlicensed textile, and you can provide an explicit not-free utilize rationale explaining why and how you lot intend to apply it (example, see below for details).

User-created images

Wikipedia encourages users to upload their own images. All user-created images must be licensed nether a complimentary license, such as a Artistic Eatables license, or released into the public domain, which removes all copyright and licensing restrictions. When licensing an image, it is common practice to multi-license under both GFDL and a Creative Commons license.

Photographs

Such images can include photographs which y'all yourself took. The legal rights for images generally lie with the photographer, not the subject. Just re-tracing a copyrighted image or diagram does not necessarily create a new copyright—copyright is generated only past instances of "inventiveness", and not by the amount of labor which went into the creation of the work.

Photographs of two-dimensional objects such as paintings in a museum often do non create a new copyright (encounter the section on the public domain below), as, within the United States, these are considered "slavish copies" without any creativity (see Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp.).

Photographs of three-dimensional objects near always generate a new copyright, though others may continue to concur copyright in items depicted in such photographs. Whether the photo carries the copyright of the object photographed depends on numerous factors. For three-dimensional fine art and architecture such as buildings in public spaces, each land has unique freedom of panorama allowances that consider if such photographs are treated as derivative works of the object and thus copyrighted; Commons:Freedom of panorama outlines these clauses per jurisdiction. The shape and design of utilitarian objects, such as cars, furniture, and tools, are generally considered uncopyrightable, allowing such photos to be put into the public domain or freely licensed; nonetheless this does not extend to decorative features such as artistic elements on the object'south surfaces like an artistic painting on a car'south hood. If you have questions in respect to this, please ask the regulars at Wikipedia talk:Copyrights.

Images with you lot, friends or family prominently featured in a way that distracts from the image topic are not recommended for the main namespace. These images are considered cocky-promotion and the Wikipedia community has repeatedly reached consensus to delete such images. Using such images on user pages is immune.

Some images may contain trademarked logos incidentally (or purposely if the paradigm is either freely licensed, covered under freedom of panorama, or being too uncomplicated to exist copyrightable). If this is the instance, please tag it with {{trademark}}. Copyrighted elements may likewise be present in de minimis in photographs, where the copyrighted element is visible but not the focus of the photograph. In such cases, de minimis copyrighted elements practice not affect the copyright of the photograph; such a photograph may still be licensed freely. For case, a photo of Times Square can exist considered free despite the numerous advertisement signs in sight, as these ads are considered to exist de minimis.

Diagrams and other images

User-made images can also include the recreation of graphs, charts, drawings, and maps directly from available data, every bit long equally the user-created format does not mimic the exact style of the original piece of work. Technical information is uncopyrightable, lacking creativity, just the presentation of information in a graph or nautical chart can be copyrighted, and so a user-fabricated version should exist sufficiently different in presentation from the original to remain complimentary. In such cases, it is required to include verification of the source(southward) of the original information when uploading such images. See, for example File:Painted Turtle Distribution alternating.svg, File:Conventional 18-wheeler truck diagram.svg.

Additionally, user-fabricated images may exist wholly original. In such cases, the prototype should be primarily serving an educational purpose, and non as a means of cocky-promotion of the user'due south creative skills. The bailiwick to be illustrated should be clearly identifiable in context, and should non be overly stylized. See for example File:Checker_shadow_illusion.svg.

When making user-made diagrams or similar images, try non to use color solitary to convey information, as it is inaccessible in many situations.

Free licenses

There are several licenses that run across the definition of "free" hither. Several Creative Commons (CC) license alternatives are available. Licenses which restrict the use of the media to non-turn a profit or educational purposes only (i.due east. non-commercial apply only), or which are given permission to appear but on Wikipedia, are not free enough for Wikipedia's usages or goals and will be deleted.^[1] In short, Wikipedia media (with the exception of "fair utilise" media—meet below) should be equally "complimentary" as Wikipedia's content—both to keep Wikipedia'south own legal condition secure and to permit as much re-employ of Wikipedia content as possible. For example, Wikipedia can accept images under CC-BY-SA (Attribution-Share Alike) equally a complimentary license, merely not CC-BY-SA-NC (Attribution-Share Alike-Not-Commercial). A list of possible licenses which are considered "gratis enough" for Wikipedia are listed at Wikipedia:Paradigm copyright tags.

A list of websites that offer free images can exist found at Wikipedia:Free epitome resources. If the place where you institute the image does not declare a pre-existing gratis license, nonetheless allows apply of its content under terms commonly instituted by them, it must explicitly declare that commercial use and modification is permitted. If it does non so declare, you must assume that yous may non use the image unless you obtain verification or permission from the copyright holder.

GNU Gratuitous Documentation License

The GNU Costless Documentation License (GFDL) is not permitted as the merely acceptable license where all of the following are true:

The content was licensed on or later on 1 August 2021. The licensing date is considered, non the creation or upload date.
The content is primarily a photograph, painting, drawing, sound or video.
The content is non a software logo, diagram or screenshot that is extracted from a GFDL software manual.

GFDL content may still be usable under the non-free content policy. If a work that is not a derivative work with a GFDL license is used under a non-gratis rationale information technology does not have to exist scaled down, simply other non-free limitations will still apply.

Public domain

Public domain images are not copyrighted, and copyright law does non restrict their use in any way. Wikipedia pages, including non-English language pages, are hosted on a server in the United states of america, so U.Southward. law governs whether a Wikipedia image is in the public domain.

Images may be placed into the public domain by their creators, or they may be public domain considering they are ineligible for copyright or because their copyright expired. In the U.S. as of January one, 2022, copyright has expired on whatsoever work published anywhere earlier Jan 1, 1927. Although U.S. copyrights have also expired for many works published since then, the rules for determining expiration are complex; run across When does copyright expire? for details.

In the U.S., reproductions of two-dimensional public domain artwork do not generate a new copyright; see Bridgeman v. Corel. Scans of images lone practise not generate new copyrights—they merely inherit the copyright status of the image they are reproducing. For instance, a straight-on photograph of the Mona Lisa is ineligible for copyright.

Works must usually entail a minimum amount of creativity to be copyrightable. Those that neglect to meet this threshold of originality and are therefore not copyrightable, fall instead into the public domain. For example, images that consist only of simple typeface are generally public domain (though they may yet be trademarked). Editors must be aware of the origin country of the image, as the threshold of originality may vary significantly among jurisdictions. The U.S. has a high threshold, whereas the U.k. has a lower one, post-obit a "sweat of the brow" standard. In such cases, an image that is copyrighted in its home country, simply ineligible for copyright in the U.S. may be uploaded locally on the English language Wikipedia as a public domain paradigm using a tag such every bit {{PD-USonly}}. This will aid to prevent copying to Eatables, where media must exist free both in the source state and the U.South.

If you strongly suspect an paradigm is a copyright infringement, you should list it for deletion; come across Deleting images below. For instance, an image with no copyright condition on its file page and published elsewhere with a copyright notice should be listed for deletion.

Off-white-utilise/Not-gratuitous images

Some usage of copyrighted materials without permission of the copyright holder can authorize as fair use in the U.s. (but non in nigh other jurisdictions). Still, since Wikipedia aims to exist a complimentary-content encyclopedia, not every image that qualifies as fair-utilise may be appropriate. Every bit required by the Wikimedia Foundation to meet the goals of a complimentary content work, the English Wikipedia has adopted a purposely-stricter standard for off-white-employ of copyrighted images and other works, chosen the non-free content criteria. In general, if the image cannot be reused (including with redistribution and modification rights) by any entity, including commercial users, then the prototype must be considered not-free.

Use of copyrighted material nether an invalid claim of a non-free rationale constitutes copyright infringement and is illegal. Media which are mistagged as non-free or are a flagrant copyright violation can be removed on sight. Editors who observe correctable errors in non-free tags or rationales are urged to fix them, if able. Voluntarily fixing such problems is helpful to Wikipedia, though many errors may be impossible to ready, such every bit the original source or copyright owner. A user may be banned for repeatedly uploading material which is neither free nor follows the required for non-free images.

Watermarks, credits, titles, and distortions

WP:WATERMARK

Gratis images should not be watermarked, distorted, have any credits or titles in the image itself or anything else that would hamper their free use, unless, of form, the image is intended to demonstrate watermarking, baloney, titles, etc. and is used in the related article. Exceptions may exist made for historic images when the credit or title forms an integral part of the composition. Historical images in the public domain sometimes are out of focus, display dye dropouts, dust or scratches or bear witness of the press process used. All photo credits should be in a summary on the image clarification page. Images with watermarks may exist tagged {{imagewatermark}}.

Privacy rights

When taking pictures of identifiable people, the subject's consent is not usually needed for straightforward photographs taken in a public place, only is often needed for photographs taken in a private place. This blazon of consent is sometimes called a model release, and it is unrelated to the photographer's copyright.

Because of the expectation of privacy, the consent of the subject should usually exist sought before uploading whatever photo featuring an identifiable individual that has been taken in a private place, whether or non the subject is named. Fifty-fifty in countries that have no police force on privacy, there is a moral obligation on united states non to upload photographs which infringe the subject's reasonable expectation of privacy. If you upload a cocky-portrait, your consent is presumed.

Behave in heed that EXIF metadata in uploaded images – such as time data and the make, model, and location of the device capturing the image – is publicly visible.

Be enlightened that merely because a freely licensed image may be available at Commons, it may still be inappropriate to use on the English language Wikipedia due to our policy on living persons. Commons is a shared media repository for Wikimedia Foundation projects, each of which may have its own content policies, and many of which differ significantly from those of the English Wikipedia.

What are public and private places?

For the purposes of this policy, a private place is a place where people take a reasonable expectation of privacy, while a public identify is a identify where people have no such expectation.

Examples of individual places

Within any private residence
Inside whatsoever restroom, dressing room, locker room
Any medical facility
A private area (hotel room, tent) within an otherwise public identify (hotel, campground)
In the parts of a building not freely attainable to the general public (eastward.g. a individual role)

Examples of public places

On a street or sidewalk
Outdoors in an easily visible role of private property
In parks and recreation areas open to the public
At an event where people are openly taking pictures
Inside buildings in areas freely attainable to the public (e.g. a anteroom or vestibule)

Legal problems

There are a variety of non-copyright laws which may affect the photographer, the uploader and/or the Wikimedia Foundation, including defamation, personality rights, trademark and privacy rights. Because of this, certain uses of such images may still exist prohibited without the agreement of the depicted person, or the holder of other non-copyright related rights.

Defamation may ascend not just from the content of the image itself but likewise from its description and title when uploaded. An image of an identified unknown private may be unexceptional on its own, but with the title "A drug-dealer" there may exist potential defamation issues in at least some countries.

Another cistron to consider is the established reliability and by respect for copyright of the source of publication of a photo. Some tabloid newspapers and magazines have had legal issues with respect of original copyright for sake of getting their stories out, and images from such sources may be problematic to use on Wikipedia for both legal and moral reasons.

There are a limited number of types of images that are illegal as they are not considered protected spoken communication within the United States' First Amendment, such as child pornography. These images are unacceptable under the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use, and may never be uploaded to any Wikimedia server. Users who attempt to upload such images volition likely exist banned from use of any Wikimedia Foundation server.

Moral issues

Non all legally obtained photographs of individuals are acceptable. The post-obit types of epitome are normally considered unacceptable:

Those that unfairly demean or ridicule the subject
Those that are unfairly obtained
Those that unreasonably intrude into the subject'southward private or family life

These are categories which are matters of common decency rather than law. They find a reflection in the wording of the Universal Proclamation of Human Rights, Article 12: "No one shall be subjected to capricious interference with his privacy, family, habitation or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation".

The extent to which a particular photo is "unfair" or "intrusive" volition depend on the nature of the shot, whether information technology was taken in a public or private identify, the title/description, and on the blazon of subject (eastward.one thousand. a glory, a not-famous person, etc.). This is all a matter of degree. A secretly taken shot of a glory caught in an embarrassing position in a public place may well be acceptable to the community; a like shot of an anonymous fellow member of the public may or may not be adequate, depending on what is shown and how it is presented.

Examples

Unremarkably do not require consent of the subject

A street performer during a operation
An anonymous person in a public identify, especially as part of a larger oversupply
Partygoers at a large private party where photography is expected
A basketball player competing in a match open up to the public

Normally do require consent

An identifiable child, titled "An obese daughter" (potentially derogatory or demeaning)
Partygoers at a private party where photography is not permitted or is not expected (unreasonable intrusion without consent)
Nudes, underwear or swimsuit shots, unless obviously taken in a public place (unreasonable intrusion without consent)
Long-lens images, taken from afar, of an individual in a private place (unreasonable intrusion)

Alternatives

If an image requires consent, but consent cannot be obtained, there are several options. For example, identifying features tin be blurred, pixelated, or obscured and then that the person is no longer identifiable. Likewise, the picture may be re-taken at a different angle, perhaps so that the field of study's face is not visible.

Uploading images

Privacy disclosure statement: for image file formats JPG and PNG all EXIF metadata in the uploaded paradigm is publicly visible on all Wikipedia and associated websites. This includes your location, the engagement and time the paradigm was recorded and the make and model of your camera or smartphone.

Format

WP:IUP#FORMAT

Generally:

Drawings, icons, logos, maps, flags and other such images are preferably uploaded in SVG format equally vector images. Images with large, unproblematic, and continuous blocks of color which are not available as SVG should exist in PNG format.
Software screenshots should be in PNG format.
Photos and scanned images should be in JPEG format, though a PNG may exist useful as well, specially for software screenshots when only a raster epitome is available (JPEGs are a lossy image format, and PNGs let further editing without degrading the image).
TV- and movie screenshots should exist in JPEG format.
Inline animations should exist in blithe GIF format.
Video should be in Ogg/Theora or WebM format.

By and large speaking, yous should not contribute images consisting solely of formatted or unformatted text, tables, or mathematical formulas. In most cases these can instead exist typed directly into an article in wiki markup (possibly using MediaWiki'south special syntax for tables, math). This volition make the information easier to edit, as well as brand information technology accessible to users of screen readers and text-based browsers.

In general, if you have a proficient image that is in the wrong format, convert it to the correct format before uploading. Nevertheless, if y'all find a map, flag, etc. in JPEG format, but convert it to PNG if this reduces the file size. For further communication on converting JPEG to PNG, run into Wikipedia:How to reduce colors for saving a JPEG every bit PNG.

Most of the maps on the CIA Earth Factbook website were coded as JPEG, but are now coded as GIF. To update these photos, download the GIF picture show from the CIA Factbook, resave it in PNG format, and upload it to Wikipedia.

Try to avoid editing JPEGs too frequently—each edit creates more loss of quality. If yous can detect an original of a photo in xvi-bit or 24-bit PNG or TIFF, edit that, and save equally JPEG before yous upload. A express variety of edits (crops, rotation, flips) tin be performed losslessly using jpegcrop (Windows) or jpegtran (other); effort to employ this where possible.

JPEG files should non use arithmetic coding due to limited browser support. Please prefer Huffman coding for JPEG files instead.

Avoid images that mix photographic and iconic content. Though CSS makes it easy to use a PNG overlay on meridian of a JPEG image, the Wikipedia software does not permit such a technique. Thus, both parts must be in the same file, and either the quality of one role will suffer, or the file size will exist unnecessarily large.

SVG support is implemented equally of September 2005 (see meta:SVG image back up). The SVG is non directly given to the browser; instead, the SVG file is dynamically rendered as a PNG at a given size, and that PNG is given to the browser.

Images containing text

If you create an image that contains text, please too upload a version without any text. Information technology volition help Wikipedians translate your image into other languages.

SVG images can contain text in multiple languages in a single file (using a switch element). Run into Eatables:Assist:Translation tutorial § SVG files.

Cropping

Within reason, crop an paradigm to remove irrelevant areas. Just practise not "throw away data"; for example, if a photograph shows George Washington and Abraham Lincoln together at a birthday party, and the article you lot're working on requires only Lincoln, consider uploading both the original image and the crop of Lincoln. As well, if an image has captions equally an inherent part of the artwork (as with book illustrations, early cartoons, many lithographs, etc.), don't crop them, or upload the original uncropped version as well.

Animated images

WP:IUP#ANIM

It may be preferable to catechumen a long or color-rich blitheness to Ogg/Theora format instead of GIF. Ogg does not allow an animation to play automatically on folio loading, but it tin contain audio and has mostly better resolution.

Inline animations should be used sparingly; a static image with a link to the animation is preferred unless the animation has a very small file size. Keep in mind the issues with impress compatibility mentioned elsewhere on this page.

Uploaded image size

WP:FILESIZE

Wikipedia and its sis projects are repositories of noesis, and so images should exist uploaded at high resolution whether or non this seems "necessary" for the use immediately contemplated‍—‌"saving server infinite" is not a valid consideration in general, though there is a i,000MB (1GB) limit. Exception: If the paradigm is copyrighted and used under fair utilise, the uploaded image must be as depression-resolution equally possible consistent with its off-white-use rationale, to preclude use of Wikipedia's re-create as a substitute for the original work.

The servers automatically handle the scaling of images (whatever their original size) to the sizes called for in particular manufactures, and then it is neither necessary nor desirable to upload carve up reduced-size or reduced-quality "thumbnail" versions, although compressing PNGs may be useful.

Image titles and file names

WP:IUP#NAME

Descriptive file names are also useful. A map of Africa could exist called "Africa.png", but quite likely more maps of Africa will be useful in Wikipedia, so it is skillful to be more specific in a meaningful style, due east.g. "Africa political map Jan. 2012.png", or "Africa political map with ruby borders.png". Check whether there are already maps of Africa in Wikipedia. And then determine whether your map should replace 1 (in each article that uses it) or be additional. In the first case requite information technology exactly the same name, otherwise a suitable other name. Avoid special characters in filenames or excessively long filenames, though, equally that might make it hard for some users to download the files onto their machines. Every letter of a file name – including the extension – is case sensitive: "Africa.png" is considered distinct from "Africa.PNG". For uniformity, lower case file proper noun extensions are recommended.

You may use the same name in the case of a different image that replaces the old one, and also if you lot make an improved version of the aforementioned image – peradventure a scanned image that you scanned again with a improve quality scanner, or you used a better fashion of reducing the original in scale – then upload it with the same title every bit the old one. This allows people to easily compare the two images, and avoids the need to delete images or alter articles. Still, this is non possible if the format is inverse, since then at least the extension part of the name has to be changed.

Required information

WP:IUP#RI

An Paradigm copyright tag
Description: The subject of the epitome. This should explicate what the picture is of (ideally linking the article(s) it would be used on), and other identifying data that is not covered by the bullets below. For example, a picture of a person taken at a public event volition often identify that event and the date of the event. (This is different from the paradigm's caption or alt-text, and might exist more descriptive than these.)
Origin (source): The copyright holder of the image or URL of the web page the epitome came from

For an image from the net the URL of an HTML page containing the paradigm is preferable to the URL for just the image itself.
For an image from a book this is ideally page number and total bibliographic information (author, title, ISBN number, page number(s), date of copyright, publisher information, etc.).
For a self-created image, state "Own work" (in addition to an advisable copyright tag, such as {{self}} or {{PD-self}}).

Writer: The original creator of the prototype (peculiarly if different from the copyright holder).
Permission: Who or what constabulary or policy gives permission to postal service on Wikipedia with the selected image copyright tag
Date the image was created, if bachelor; a full date, if available, is better than simply the year
Location at which the image was created, if applicable and available. This can be as specific every bit a GPS-derived longitude and latitude.
Other versions of this file on Wikipedia e.one thousand. cropped or uncropped, retouched or unretouched.
Rationale for use (only required for not-gratis images). A separate non-free rationale is required for each utilise of the image on the English language Wikipedia. Details of what is required for the not-free rationale is described in more depth on the non-gratis content page.

Calculation images to manufactures

Image content and option

WP:IMGCONTENT

The purpose of an image is to increase readers' understanding of the article's subject matter, unremarkably by directly depicting people, things, activities, and concepts described in the article. The relevant aspect of the image should be clear and central. Guidance for selecting images when multiple potential images are bachelor can exist plant at Wikipedia:Transmission of Style/Images, keeping in listen that Wikipedia desires freely licensed images over non-complimentary ones when they otherwise serve the same educational purpose.

Wikipedia is not censored, and explicit or even shocking pictures may serve an encyclopedic purpose, just editors should take care not to utilise such images simply to bring attending to an article.

Placement

See Wikipedia:Extended image syntax for recommendations on the best markup to use. Images should be placed in articles following Wikipedia:Manual of Fashion/Images. For ideas and examples of how to place images, see Help:Pictures.

Image galleries

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WP:GALLERY

In articles that have several images, they are typically placed individually near the relevant text (run into MOS:IMAGELOCATION). Wikipedia is not an image repository. A gallery is not a tool to shoehorn images into an article, and a gallery consisting of an indiscriminate drove of images of the article subject should generally either be improved in accordance with the beneath paragraphs or moved to Wikimedia Commons.

Generally, a gallery or cluster of images should not exist added so long every bit in that location is space for images to be effectively presented adjacent to text. A gallery section may be appropriate in some Wikipedia articles if a collection of images can illustrate aspects of a subject that cannot exist easily or adequately described past text or individual images. Just as nosotros seek to ensure that the prose of an article is clear, precise and engaging, galleries should be similarly well-crafted. Gallery images must collectively add to the reader's understanding of the subject without causing unbalance to an article or section within an article while avoiding similar or repetitive images, unless a point of contrast or comparison is existence made.

Articles consisting entirely or primarily of galleries are discouraged, equally the Commons is intended for such collections of images. One rule of pollex to consider: if, due to its content, such a gallery would only lend itself to a title along the lines of "Gallery" or "Images of [insert article title]", as opposed to a more than descriptive title, the gallery should either be revamped or moved to the Eatables. However, a few Wikipedia gallery-just manufactures, including Gallery of sovereign-state flags, Gallery of passport stamps by country or territory, Gallery of named graphs, and Gallery of curves, accept been upheld at AfD. Links to Commons categories (or even Commons galleries) can exist added to the Wikipedia article using the {{Commons category}}, {{Eatables}}, or {{Commons-inline}} templates.

Images should be captioned to explain their relevance to the article bailiwick and to the theme of the gallery, and the gallery itself should exist appropriately titled (unless its theme is articulate from context). Meet Women's suffrage in New Zealand for an example of an informative and well-crafted gallery. Exist aware different screen size and browsers may affect accessibility for some readers even with a well-crafted gallery.

Using blithe GIFs to display multiple photos is discouraged. The method is not suitable for printing and too is non user-friendly (users cannot save individual images and have to wait earlier being able to view images while other images cycle round).

Off-white-use images should well-nigh never be included equally part of a general paradigm gallery, because their "fair use" condition depends on their proper utilize in the context of an article (equally role of analysis or criticism). Encounter Wikipedia:Off-white utilise for details. An example of an exception might exist a gallery of comparable screenshots from a video game as it appears on two different platforms, provided that the differences are relevant (eastward.g., if the article discusses a controversy in the gaming press about the matter).

Some subjects hands lend themselves to prototype-heavy manufactures for which image galleries are suitable, such as plants (e.g., Lily), fashion (east.g., Wedding dress), and the visual arts (e.1000., Oil painting). Others exercise not. There is consensus not to apply a gallery of group members as the lead image for articles virtually big groups of people such equally ethnicities.

The default size of a gallery should be understood as simply the size that images are presented at if nothing else is specified, not as the preferred size of the images. Disagreements about gallery image sizes should be settled like whatsoever other editing dispute, past discussion on the article talk folio.

Collages and montages

WP:MONTAGE

Collages and montages are single images that illustrate multiple closely related concepts, where overlapping or like careful placement of component images is necessary to illustrate a point in an encyclopedic style. (See File:Phoebian Explorers 2 PIA06118.jpg for an example montage.) The components of a collage or montage, likewise as the collage or montage itself, must be properly licensed; and (every bit with galleries) fair-use components are rarely advisable, as each non-free image used in the creation of the montage contributes towards consideration of minimal use of not-gratuitous images. If a gallery would serve as well equally a collage or montage, the gallery should exist preferred, equally galleries are easier to maintain and accommodate ameliorate to user preferences.

Image queuing

WP:IQUEUE

If an article seems to have too many images for its present text, consider moving some of them temporarily to the talk page, peradventure using the <gallery>. All the same, fair-utilise images should not be moved to talk pages, for two reasons:

fair-use images can only be used in articles (not east.1000. talk pages or user pages), as specified in the epitome's fair-use rationale; and
fair-use images become subject to deletion if not actually used in an article‍—‌see Wikipedia:Fair use § Policy and Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion § Images/Media.

Displayed image size

WP:THUMBSIZE
WP:IMGSIZE
WP:IMAGESIZE

Images adjacent to text should mostly carry a caption and utilise the "thumb" (thumbnail) selection, which displays the image at a width determined as follows:

A1. For a user not logged in, the width‍—‌before whatever scaling due to upright (come across B beneath)‍—‌is currently defaulted to 220px (pixels).
A2. For a logged-in user, the width‍—‌before any scaling due to upright‍—‌is as prepare in that user'due south user preferences (and this setting is 220px, unless the user has changed information technology).
B. If the upright parameter is present, and so the initial width determined by A1 or A2 is multiplied by the upright scaling factor. This allows commodity editors to conform the user's "base" prototype-size preference, according to the characteristics of a particular paradigm. For example:
- |thumb|upright=one.4 might exist used for an image with fine item, and then that it volition be rendered "xl% larger than the user generally specified".
- |thumb|upright=0.75 might exist used for an image with little detail, which can be adequately displayed "25% smaller than the user generally specified".

Notes:

|thumb (with upright completely absent) multiplies the width by i.0 (i.due east. changes nix)
|thumb|upright (with upright present, but no multiplier given) multiplies the width by 0.75 by default
|upright=scaling_factor can exist used not just for thumbnails but for certain other images that serve much the same function equally thumbnails but practise non need frames effectually them or captions beneath them. In these cases add |frameless.

Run across the Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Images § Size for farther guidance on expanded or reduced image sizes. Except with very good reason, do not utilize px (e.thou. |pollex|300px), which forces a fixed paradigm width measured in pixels, disregarding the user's prototype size preference setting. In nigh cases upright=scaling_factor should be used, thereby respecting the user's base preference (which may accept been selected for that user's detail devices). If px is used, the resulting image should usually exist no more than 500 pixels tall and no more than 400 pixels wide, for comfortable display on the smallest devices "in common use" (though this may withal cause viewing difficulties on some unusual displays). To convert a px value to scaling_factor , carve up it by 220 and circular the issue as desired. For instance, |150px is roughly equivalent to |upright=0.7 (150 / 220 ≃ 0.6818).

Infobox and lead images

The lead image in an infobox should non impinge on the default size of the infobox. Therefore, it should be no wider than upright=1.35 (equivalent to 300px at the default preference selection of "220px"). Images in infoboxes are generated by many different means. The most common method used to implement upright is Module:InfoboxImage (run into documentation in that location). Alternatively, infoboxes can use standard image syntax in the form of:

[[File:Westminstpalace.jpg|frameless|heart|upright=scaling_factor]]

Stand-lone lead images (not in an infobox) should also exist no wider than upright=i.35.

Deleting images

Consider contacting the user who uploaded the prototype, telling them of your concerns. You may be able to resolve the issue at this point.
Add a deletion notice to the epitome description page
- If it is an obvious copyright violation: use the {{db-f9}} or {{db-filecopyvio}} tag
- If it falls under certain of the other conditions listed under WP:CSD#Files: utilise {{subst:nsd}} for files that lack a description of its origin, {{subst:nld}} for files that lack licensing information, {{subst:nsdnld}} for files that lack both of these, {{subst:npd}} for files that have a licensing statement but no testify that it actually applies
- If information technology is tagged as not-complimentary only obviously fails the non-free content policy in certain ways: use {{subst:orfud}} if it isn't used in any article, {{subst:rfud}} if it is replaceable with a free file, {{subst:nrd}} if it lacks a non-free content rationale, {{subst:dfu}} if the rationale is in some other fashion obviously bereft, {{subst:prod}} if at that place are whatsoever other concerns
In all these cases, the file volition be deleted by an administrator afterward a waiting period of a few days or a week.
If the file is tagged as freely licensed but yous take reasons to suspect this tagging is false: listing the file nether files for discussion, by adding the {{ffd}} template on the file and and then calculation a list to the Wikipedia:Files for word pages following the instructions in the tag.
Aforementioned if you think it should be deleted for some other reason: list the file under files for discussion, by adding the {{ffd}} template on the file then adding a listing to the Wikipedia:Files for discussion pages following the instructions in the tag. This process may be used for images that are depression quality, obsolete, unencyclopedic, likely to remain unused, or whose use nether the non-complimentary content rules is disputed.
In each case, give proper notification to the uploader, following the instructions in the deletion tag.

To actually delete an image after following the above process, you must be an administrator. To do and then, go to the epitome clarification page and click the (del) or Delete this page links. Administrators can likewise restore deleted images.

References

^ "[WikiEN-50] Non-commercial only and By Permission Simply Images to exist deleted". wikipedia.org.

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Image_use_policy