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Policy status and phases
Category Copyright Deletion – Speedy deletion Disallowed content – NDA Editing – Disruptive editing External links Fan fiction Images		Item articles Lore Naming Neutrality Personal articles Player character pages Projects Stubs Three revert rule User naming Vandalism Voting
See also: guidelines, administrators

This page is an official policy on Wowpedia. This policy has wide acceptance among editors and is considered a standard that all users should follow. Feel free to propose any changes to this policy, but please make sure that changes you make follow the official process and reflect consensus on the discussion page before you put them into practice. Any big changes need to be Adopted or Decreed to be enforced as policy. See Wowpedia:Policies for an overview of Wowpedia policies. See Category:Policies for a list of proposed and adopted policy articles. Shortcut: WP:IMP

Uploading images

• Always upload images for display to the site. That way we don't steal bandwidth from others, and it makes the image links more reliable.
• However, Wowpedia is not an image hosting service. Any images uploaded must be for use on Wowpedia. See Wowpedia:Bandwidth theft.
• Note that datamined pictures of unannounced content or exploited pictures of unfinished areas are not allowed.
• "Model viewer" images of content which is accessible in-game are okay, but high-quality in-game screenshots obtained from the live or test clients (without exploiting) are preferred. See WP:DNP.
• Make sure you're not duplicating images already on the site - the best way to tell is if your image shows up at Wowpedia:Duplicate images.

Icons

Nearly all game icons are already in Wowpedia! Don't upload new ones unless you're certain it's not already in here.

• See Wowpedia:WoW Icons for a listing of all icons already in Wowpedia.
• Use the PNG file format for icons. It allows the corners to be transparent, and doesn't mangle the colorspace like GIF does.
• Name icons in all lowercase and according to their in-game name. See Wowpedia:WoW Icons/Icon List.
• Categorize your uploaded icons in one or more sub categories of Category:WoW Icons

Link your source/copyright information

• When uploading, select the licensing tag that best-matches where you sourced your image from. Nearly all screenshots from WoW have a specific option (like NPC, zone, mount, etc...). Unlicensed images are subject to speedy deletion.
• Please add the source of an image in the summary section when uploading, or later on by visiting the image page and choosing 'edit this page'.
• Fan art images should always be marked as such, especially when used in an article, and they should not take precedence over official artwork.
• See also: Licensing options

Model viewer screenshots

While we do not refuse images from model viewers, such as WoW Model Viewer, we generally strongly discourage them in favor of in-game screenshots. The only exceptions to this are for very generic images, such as creature type profiles and armor sets - but only if the images are very high quality and follow the rest of the image guidelines. In borderline cases it is generally left to an admin to make the final decision.

• Please note if you do decide to upload images from the model viewers it is best to make the background transparent (PNG) and ensure the result is anti-aliased (one method is to take a large image and resize it down). Alternatively, please set the background color (before taking a screenshot) to the default Wowpedia background color, which is [Hue 0, Sat 0, Lum 12], [Red 32, Blue 32, Green 32] or [Hex #202020].

• Pictures of unannounced content (i.e. content not released by Blizzard) are again not allowed.

Naming

• Name your image so it's relevant for the content it's showing. (example: Garrosh Hellscream.jpg)
  • Try to use spaces or have the file name match its content. (example: Druid at Stormwind Park.jpg)
  • Avoid naming your logo (e.g., for guilds) something like "Wowpedia logo", "Logo for Wowpedia", etc. Remember that the file will be hosted on Wowpedia so to distinguish it from other files that might otherwise share that name you should reference it by your identity, not Wowpedia's.
• Do NOT upload images using WoW's default screenshot name. (example: WoWScrnShot 030508 223206.jpg)
  • Also, if you copy an image from a database site (such as Wowhead) do NOT upload those images using the number they give them. (example: 142683.jpg)
• Since Wowpedia is in English, use English for image names (except in the case of proper nouns).

Image abandonment

There may come a time when you no longer want an image that you have uploaded for your personal user page. If this happens, please do not just remove the image from your page to be forgotten about, help keep Wowpedia clean of these unused image by marking the ones you abandon with {{Speedydelete|Image abandoned|~~~~}}.

See also

• Image guidelines

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