Information:Images

For the Manual of Style relating to the use of images on BattleTechWiki, see BattleTechWiki:Manual of Style/Images.

Images are one of the many types of media used on BattleTechWiki and may be photos, drawings, logos, or graphs.

All pictures used must be legal in the United States, where Wikimedia's servers are located. Images are stored on the BattleTechWiki website or the Wikimedia Commons website. All free content is stored on "Commons" and images that have more onerous copyright restrictions]] are stored on BattleTechWiki, under a fair use rationale. Also, images that are used on the Main Page have a local version to prevent vandalism from appearing. Editors can also choose to have a local version stored on BattleTechWiki.

Images are classified as files and use the prefix of File: or the deprecated prefix of Image:. The File namespace is one of several namespaces used on BattleTechWiki.

Since BattleTechWiki is not censored, readers and editors may come across offensive images.

Policy and guidelines

• BattleTechWiki:Image use policy
• BattleTechWiki:Manual of Style/Images
• BattleTechWiki:Manual of Style/Accessibility#Images
• Guideline:File names – naming convention
• Information:Image dos and don'ts – information page summarizing this page

Tutorials and help

Image/picture tutorials

• BattleTechWiki:Wikimedia Commons – how to embed a Wikimedia Commons picture into an article, and how to move a picture from BattleTechWiki to Wikimedia Commons
• BattleTechWiki:Uploading images
• BattleTechWiki:Extended image syntax
• BattleTechWiki:File copyright tags

Help

• Help:File page
• Help:Pictures – detailed instructions for inserting images into articles
• Help:Options to hide an image
• Help:Gallery tag – adding a gallery
• Help:How to upload a photo

Maintenance

• BattleTechWiki:Proposed deletion
• BattleTechWiki:Requested pictures
• BattleTechWiki:Template index/File namespace