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green;"><tbody><tr><td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Exquisite-opera.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Exquisite-opera.png/75px-Exquisite-opera.png" decoding="async" width="75" height="75" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Exquisite-opera.png/113px-Exquisite-opera.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Exquisite-opera.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128"/></a></span></td><td><b>This page is an <a href="/wiki/Wikiquote:Policies_and_guidelines" title="Wikiquote:Policies and guidelines">official policy</a> on Wikiquote.</b><br/>It has wide acceptance among editors and is considered a standard that all users should follow. <br/>Please do not make significant changes to this page without prior discussion.</td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable" style="margin: 0 0 0 1em; border: 1px solid navy;" align="right" width="175px"> <tbody><tr> <th><big>Wikiquote Policies and Guidelines</big> </th></tr> <tr> <th>Content </th></tr> <tr> <td> <ul><li><small><a href="/wiki/Wikiquote:Wikiquote" title="Wikiquote:Wikiquote">Wikiquote</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/Wikiquote:General_disclaimer" title="Wikiquote:General disclaimer">General disclaimer</a></small></li> <li><small><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Image use policy</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/Wikiquote:Neutral_point_of_view" title="Wikiquote:Neutral point of view">Neutral point of view</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/Wikiquote:Quotes_by_living_persons" title="Wikiquote:Quotes by living persons">Quotes by living persons</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/Wikiquote:What_Wikiquote_is_not" title="Wikiquote:What Wikiquote is not">Wikiquote is not...</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/Wikiquote:Sourced_and_Unsourced_sections" title="Wikiquote:Sourced and Unsourced sections">Sourcing categories</a> (guideline)</small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/Wikiquote:Fictional_characters" title="Wikiquote:Fictional characters">Fictional characters</a> (guideline)</small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/Wikiquote:Quotability" title="Wikiquote:Quotability">Quotability</a> (guideline)</small></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <th>Conduct </th></tr> <tr> <td> <ul><li><small><a href="/wiki/Wikiquote:Assume_good_faith" title="Wikiquote:Assume good faith">Assume good faith</a> (guideline)</small></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <th>Operation </th></tr> <tr> <td> <ul><li><small><a href="/wiki/Wikiquote:Blocking_policy" title="Wikiquote:Blocking policy">Blocking policy</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/Wikiquote:Bots" title="Wikiquote:Bots">Bots</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/Wikiquote:Deletion_policy" title="Wikiquote:Deletion policy">Deletion policy</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/Wikiquote:GNU_FDL" title="Wikiquote:GNU FDL">GNU FDL</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/Wikiquote:Policies_and_guidelines" title="Wikiquote:Policies and guidelines">Policies and Guidelines</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/Wikiquote:Proposed_deletion" title="Wikiquote:Proposed deletion">Proposed deletion</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/Wikiquote:Speedy_deletions" title="Wikiquote:Speedy deletions">Speedy deletions</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/Wikiquote:Username_policy" title="Wikiquote:Username policy">Username policy</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/Wikiquote:Babel" title="Wikiquote:Babel">Babel</a> (guideline)</small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/Wikiquote:Stub" title="Wikiquote:Stub">Stub</a> (guideline)</small></li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The aim of <a href="/wiki/Wikiquote:Wikiquote" title="Wikiquote:Wikiquote">Wikiquote</a> is to collect and present quotations. The presentation is supplemented with images from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons" class="extiw" title="w:Wikimedia Commons">Wikimedia Commons</a> that illustrate the subject of the article or the quotations therein. Image use is governed by Wikiquote's general content policies, and should always be directly relevant to subject of the article or the quotations. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc"/> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Accord_with_other_major_policies" data-mw-thread-id="h-Accord_with_other_major_policies"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Accord_with_other_major_policies"></span>Accord with other major policies<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Accord_with_other_major_policies"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikiquote:Image_use_policy&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Accord with other major policies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Image use on Wikiquote must accord with <a href="/wiki/Category:Wikiquote_official_policy" title="Category:Wikiquote official policy">other major policies on this project</a>, including: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikiquote:Neutral_point_of_view" title="Wikiquote:Neutral point of view">Wikiquote:Neutral point of view</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikiquote:What_Wikiquote_is_not" title="Wikiquote:What Wikiquote is not">Wikiquote:What Wikiquote is not</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikiquote:Policies_and_guidelines" title="Wikiquote:Policies and guidelines">Wikiquote:Policies and guidelines</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Illustrating_topics" data-mw-thread-id="h-Illustrating_topics"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Illustrating_topics"></span>Illustrating topics<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Illustrating_topics"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikiquote:Image_use_policy&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Illustrating topics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ol><li>Pages on particular authors should include at least one image of that author, if a free image is available.</li> <li>Pages on a tangible, concrete subject such as <a href="/wiki/Gold" title="Gold">gold</a>, <a href="/wiki/Horses" title="Horses">horses</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Blacksmiths" class="mw-redirect" title="Blacksmiths">blacksmiths</a>, should include at least one image of that thing.</li> <li>Pages on abstract concepts for which there are images or symbols closely associated with that concept such as <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">Love</a>, <a href="/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism">Judaism</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Law" title="Law">Law</a>, should include at least one such closely associated image or symbol.</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Relevance" data-mw-thread-id="h-Relevance"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Relevance"></span>Relevance<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Relevance"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikiquote:Image_use_policy&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Relevance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ol><li>Images should directly support or embody the theme of the provided quotes.</li> <li>The connection between the images used and the subject matter of the page as a whole, and individual quotes on it, should be obvious and specific. The relevance should not be so ambiguous or abstract that it could refer to anything or nothing.</li> <li>Images are used to illustrate the subject of a page or a quote, not to express an opinion, interpretation, or commentary by, e.g., introducing metaphors, analogies, comparisons, or relationships that are not explicit in the captioning quotation, or by highlighting arbitrary, literal meanings of words used in a figurative sense.</li> <li>Images that could connote a specific cultural meaning that differs from that of either the page or the specified quote should not be used.</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Dispute_resolution" data-mw-thread-id="h-Dispute_resolution"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Dispute_resolution"></span>Dispute resolution<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Dispute_resolution"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikiquote:Image_use_policy&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Dispute resolution"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>An image that is not a literal representation of the subject of the page may be removed by any editor who believes it to be inappropriate. Thereafter, it should not be re-added without first obtaining consensus on the article talk page. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Image_placement" data-mw-thread-id="h-Image_placement"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Image_placement"></span>Image placement<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Image_placement"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikiquote:Image_use_policy&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Image placement"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r2776253"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WQ:LESSIMAGES"></span><span id="WQ:MOBILEFRIENDLY"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain plainlist noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortcut" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiquote:LESSIMAGES&redirect=no">WQ:LESSIMAGES</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiquote:MOBILEFRIENDLY&redirect=no">WQ:MOBILEFRIENDLY</a></span></li></ul></div> <p>Multiple images should not be placed at the top in the lead section of an article. While these cascade down the right side of an article when viewing on desktop, images are displayed centered and full-width on mobile devices, and appear in the same order that the appear in the wiki markup. Therefore, if 10 images are placed at the top of the article, a mobile viewer must scroll through a stack of ten images before arriving at the first text in the body of the page, making navigation difficult.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Instead, the lead of an article should contain only one or very few images if multiple images are necessary, and further images should be dispersed throughout the remainder of the body. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Image_resources" data-mw-thread-id="h-Image_resources"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Image_resources"></span>Image resources<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Image_resources"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikiquote:Image_use_policy&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Image resources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ol><li>All editors can utilize images from <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/" class="extiw" title="commons:">Wikimedia Commons</a>, which contains millions of multimedia files, and also are encouraged to upload images or media files there that are released under compatible free licenses , or in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/public_domain" class="extiw" title="w:public domain">public domain</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Wikiquote does not host images itself, and so <a href="/wiki/Special:Upload" title="Special:Upload">uploads are disabled on Wikiquote</a>. Because of this, and because the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use" class="extiw" title="w:Fair use">fair use</a> of non-free media <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Fair_use" class="extiw" title="c:Commons:Fair use">is prohibited on Commons</a>, it is also prohibited on Wikiquote.</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Similar_policies_at_sister_projects" data-mw-thread-id="h-Similar_policies_at_sister_projects"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Similar_policies_at_sister_projects"></span>Similar policies at sister projects<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Similar_policies_at_sister_projects"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikiquote:Image_use_policy&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Similar policies at sister projects"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Image_use_policy" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Wikipedia:Image use policy">English Wikipedia policy</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Notes" data-mw-thread-id="h-Notes"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Notes"></span>Notes<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Notes"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikiquote:Image_use_policy&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="references-small" style=""> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">When constructing articles, you should remain mindful that on this and may sister projects, half or more page views may be from those using mobile devices.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">For further information on what images are appropriate for upload to Commons, see guidance at <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing" class="extiw" title="c:Commons:Licensing">c:Commons:Licensing</a>.</span> </li> </ol></div></div>    </div><noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1&useformat=desktop" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; position: absolute;"></noscript> <div class="printfooter" data-nosnippet="">Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiquote:Image_use_policy&oldid=3595578">https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiquote:Image_use_policy&oldid=3595578</a>"</div></div> <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" data-mw="interface"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="/wiki/Special:Categories" title="Special:Categories">Category</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Wikiquote_official_policy" title="Category:Wikiquote official policy">Wikiquote official policy</a></li></ul></div></div> </div> </main> </div> <div class="mw-footer-container"> <footer id="footer" class="mw-footer" > <ul id="footer-info"> <li id="footer-info-lastmod"> This page was last edited on 10 October 2024, at 20:27.</li> <li id="footer-info-copyright">Text is available under the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="//creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License</a>; additional terms may apply. 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