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This page is a brief overview of the policies towards images — including format, content, and copyright issues — on the English-language edition of Sunshine Review. If you have specific questions, you should go to the most specific policy page related to your question, for a prompt and accurate response.

For information on uploading, see Sunshine Review:Upload images, or go directly to Special:Upload.

Requirements

Whenever you upload an image, you should meet the following minimal requirements.

• When in doubt, do not upload copyrighted images.</span></span>

• Always specify on the description page where the image came from (the source) and information on how this could be verified. Examples include scanning a paper copy, or a URL, or a name/alias and method of contact for the photographer. For screenshots this means what the image is a screenshot of (the more detail the better). Do not put credits in images themselves.

Rules of thumb

Below this brief checklist of image use rules is the detailed reasoning behind them.

1. Use the image description page to describe an image and its copyright status.
2. Use a clear, detailed title. Note that if any image with the same title has already been uploaded, it will be replaced with your new one.
3. Upload a high-resolution version of your image whenever possible (unless the image is being used under fair use and use the automatic thumbnailing option of the Sunshine Review image markup to scale down the image. MediaWiki accepts images up to 20 MB in size. Do not scale down the image yourself, as scaled-down images may be of limited use in the future.
4. Crop the image to highlight the relevant subject.
5. If you create an image that contains text, please upload also a version without any text. It will help Sunshine Reviewns translate your image into other languages.
6. Try not to use color alone to convey information, as it is inaccessible in many situations.
7. Use JPEG format for photographic images; SVG format for icons, logos, drawings, maps, flags, and such; PNG format for software screenshots and when only a raster image is available; GIF format for inline animations; and Ogg/Theora for video.
8. Add a good alternative text for images.
9. In general, there is no need to specify thumbnail size.
10. Do not place shocking or explicit pictures into an article unless they have been approved by a consensus of editors for that article.

Adding images

Before you upload an image, make sure that either:

• You own the rights to the image (usually meaning that you created the image yourself).
• You can prove that the copyright holder has licensed the image under an acceptable free license.
• You can prove that the image is in the public domain.

or

• You believe, and state, a fair use rationale for the specific use of the image that you intend.

Images which are listed as for non-commercial use only, by permission, or which restrict derivatives are unsuitable for Sunshine Review and will be deleted on sight.

This policy was taken and modified from Wikipedia.