Guild Wars Wiki:Image use/Draft 20071210

This is a brief overview of how images should and shouldn't be used on the official Guild Wars Wiki.

General rules

 * Do not include material that is not licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
 * The copyright to images obtained from Guild Wars and Guild Wars related sources remain with ArenaNet or NCsoft and such content is not licensed under GFDL.
 * See Guild Wars Wiki:Copyrights for detailed information about licensing on the wiki.


 * All images used on the official Guild Wars Wiki must be reuploaded here. Do not hotlink to images on other websites (including the official site).
 * See Guild Wars Wiki:Formatting/Images for image formatting guidelines.
 * See Screenshot on how to take a screen capture.


 * Never use scanned images from magazine articles about Guild Wars or any image that another web page has been granted exclusive access to.
 * 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.

ArenaNet images

 * All official renders and images belong to ArenaNet and must have  in the image description.
 * All screenshots from in game also belong to ArenaNet and must have  in the image description instead.
 * Do not include personal user credit in these images. ArenaNet owned images with user copyright or credit included in them will be subject to deletion.

User space images

 * Must have  in the image description.
 * Must be prefixed by "User_" and your username (i.e. )
 * If the image is shared or able to be shared among multiple users, for example in a user box, it must be prefixed by "User_" (i.e. )
 * See Guild Wars Wiki:User page for rules governing images to be used in a user's user space.

Guild images

 * Must have  in the image description.
 * Must be prefixed by "Guild_" and your guild name (i.e. )
 * See Guild Wars Wiki:Guild pages for rules governing images to be used solely on guild pages.

Talk page images

 * Images used to accentuate a discussion should have the appropriate image template added to their description (it is not necessary to mark these as user images unless they are uploaded as user images).
 * Must be prefixed by "Talk_" (i.e. )
 * If the image is only linked to in the discussion you may want to add it to Guild Wars Wiki:Not orphaned to prevent its deletion for "unuse".

Image titles and file names

 * If you make an improved version of an image or you create a new image to replace a current one (i.e. one that is more appropriate) then you may upload the new image with the same filename as the current one. This allows people to easily compare the two images and avoids the need to delete images or change articles. This is not possible if you alter the filetype, i.e. you cannot easily overwrite a JPEG with a PNG image.
 * File names are case sensitive, "Ascalon.JPG" is considered different from "Ascalon.jpg". For uniformity, use lower case file name extensions.
 * Using underscores in image names is not necessary as MediaWiki automatically replaces spaces in file names with underscores, so  is the same as.

Deleting images
As only administrators can delete images, you have to request image deletion. To do this, add a deletion notice  to the image description page. After a short period an administrator will then delete the image.

If you disagree with an image being made a candidate for deletion post your reason on the talk page for the image.
 * See Guild Wars Wiki:Deletion policy for more details about our deletion.

Moving images
Currently there is no easy way to rename an image - they will not "move" to new titles in the ways that articles will. The currently accepted method to rename an image is to:
 * 1) Download the image to your hard disk
 * 2) Re-upload it again with a new file name
 * 3) Mark the old image page with a deletion tag noting that the image has been replaced by an exact duplicate of the file (for example,  ).

Content
The following are absolutely not permitted in any form:
 * Libel or defamation.
 * Do not include any material generally deemed offensive and insulting to others, including ArenaNet's competitors.
 * Material in breach of the Wiki's policies.

Images should only be those directly relating to the Guild Wars series of games. Minor use of images not directly related to Guild Wars is acceptable on user pages. See GWW:USER for the rules governing images on user pages.

Images that infringe copyright will be subject to speedy deletion.

Any uploading of pornographic material will result in long term or permanent bans. Uploading of other material not related to Guild Wars and attempting to pass this off as Guild Wars images may result in short term bans (e.g. uploading a picture of a car with the image name "Bog Skale.jpg").

Revision history of articles containing images
When viewing old versions of an article via its history, old revisions do not show the corresponding old versions of images that were in use in the revision. Unless the file names of the images have changed, it will always show the latest version of the image.