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This page is considered an official policy on the Young Justice Wiki. It has wide acceptance among editors and is considered a standard that everyone should follow. Except for minor edits, please make use of the talk page to propose changes to this policy.

Policies

General Rules[]

File extensions[]

There are several file extensions that can be uploaded to Young Justice Wiki, with the most common being .PNG, due to its lossless data compression.

Animated .GIFs are disallowed due to their lack of purpose and distractive quality. If a still image is insufficient to illustrate the text it accompanies, then one should consider rewriting the text to better convey the intended message.

Copyrights[]

Every non-free image is used on Young Justice Wiki under the auspices of the Fair use doctrine of the United States Fair use law. This means that they are used for informational/educational purposes, meant to identify the subject of an article and to illustrate something directly relevant to the text in its immediate vicinity.

Usage[]

Given the nature of copyrighted images, Young Justice Wiki tries to use them sparingly, and whenever possible on more than one single article, instead of using different pictures to illustrate the same subject.

The use of too many images on the same article should also be avoided. Apart from the general consensus that it causes aesthetic problems, this practice also directly challenges the policy that we use images sparingly.

Users may not upload images to use only on their user space or for blog purposes.

Sourcing[]

All images must have clear source info as to where the image is from. For this, they need to have an {{filebox}} filled out.

Types of Images[]

  1. Images, with few exceptions (voice actors, production crew), should come from Young Justice episodes, movies or comics.

Formats and Cropping[]

  1. Non-free images must remain unaltered. Changing colors, adding watermarks, text, or making montages that corrupt the copyright owners' original work is considered to be an infringement.
  2. Enhancing the colors levels, shading, brightness, contrast, and/or alpha of non-free images should only be done so as to improve their overall quality.
  3. Screenshots should preferably be submitted in their original ratio (4:3 or 16:9), unless they could benefit from cropping.
    • If an image contains empty space or elements other than the subject being depicted, the image should be cropped to isolate the subject with respect given to the guidelines concerning closeups.
  4. Full pages from a comic, or a series of panels, should not be uploaded, unless they illustrate a key moment of a character. In all other cases, the events should be summarized.

Quality[]

  1. The image should be of the highest quality available. HD screen-captures are preferred, with other formats being secondary. In the case of duplicate images, the highest quality image is kept.
    • Compression artifacts or aliasing problems are not a reason to substitute a DVD capture with a different shot, but they are grounds to replace it with the same shot without such flaws.
  2. The image should be an accurate, dignifying representation of the character.
  3. The infobox image should depict the character's most recognizable likeness, unless consensus dictates otherwise. Characters that underwent significant physical changes across seasons can feature multiple profile images via image galleries.
    • Changing an infobox image must be done through the Profile image change page. This, however, does not apply when replacing a file with a higher quality version. (See below)
  4. The character in the infobox should be standing still, which includes all kind of absence of movement (characters should not be talking).
  5. If an article contains three images or more (including the infobox), an image from the character's torso is sufficient for the infobox. At least one of the images in the article should depict the character's full body, or the images as a group should show enough angles to give a full impression of the character. An article with two or fewer images should have a full body shot, or as close to one as possible, in the infobox. Extreme facial closeups should be avoided.

Replacement[]

Replacing (overwriting an image) can take place when the original file is of low resolution/quality. In this case, the original picture must be replaced by the exact same version (with better quality).

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