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[edit] Wikipedia:Guide_to_layout#Images
[edit] Images
- See also: Wikipedia:Images and Wikipedia:Picture tutorial
You should always be watchful not to overwhelm an article with images by adding more just because you can. If better or more appropriate images already exist, they should probably be left in place.
Images should ideally be spread evenly within the article, and relevant to the sections they are located in. All images should also have an explicative caption. An image should not overwhelm the screen; 300px may be considered a limit, as this is approximately half Wikipedia's text space's width on a 800x600 screen. It is a good idea to try and maintain visual coherence by aligning the width of images and templates on a given page.
Some users prefer images to be all located on the right side of the screen (aligned with boxes), while others prefer them to be evenly alternated between left and right. Both options are valid, although in both cases care must be taken for the images not to clash with nearby contents.
In general, it is considered poor layout practice to place images at the same height on both the left and right side of the screen. Not only does this unnecessarily squeeze text, but this might also cause images to overlap text due to interferences. It is usually not a good idea to place an image intended to illustrate a given section above the header for that section. Placing an image to the left of a header, a list, or the Table of Contents is also frowned upon.
When placing images, be careful not to stack too many of them within the lead, or within a single section to avoid bunching up several section edit links in some browsers. Generally, if there are so many images in a section that they strip down into the next section at 1024x768 screen resolution, that probably means either that the section is too short, or that there are too many images.
If an article has many images, so many, in fact, that they lengthen the page beyond the length of the text itself (this also applies if a template like {{taxobox}} or {{Judaism}} is already stretching the page.), you can try to use a gallery, but the ideal solution might be to create a page or category combining all of them at Wikimedia Commons and use a relevant template ({{commons}}, {{commonscat}}, {{commons-inline}} or {{commonscat-inline}}) and link to it instead, so that further images are readily found and available when the article is expanded.
[edit] Wikipedia:Images
[edit] Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Images
[edit] Images
- Further information: Wikipedia:Picture tutorial
The following general guidelines should be followed in the absence of a compelling reason to do otherwise.
- Start an article with a right-aligned image.
- Multiple images in the same article can be staggered right-and-left (Example: Timpani).
- Avoid sandwiching text between two images facing each other.
- Generally, right-alignment is preferred to left- or center-alignment. (Example: Race (classification of human beings)).
- Exception: Portraits with the head looking to the reader's right should be left-aligned (looking into the text of the article) when this does not interfere with navigation or other elements. In such cases, it may be appropriate to move the Table of Contents to the right by using {{TOCright}}. Since faces are not perfectly symmetrical, it is generally inadvisable to use photo editing software to reverse a right-facing portrait image; however, some editors employ this controversial technique when it does not alter obvious non-symmetrical features (such as Mikhail Gorbachev's birthmark) or make text in the image unreadable.
- If there are too many images in a given article, consider using a gallery.
- Do not place left-aligned images directly below second-level (
===) headings, as this disconnects the heading from the text it precedes. For example, do not use:
[edit] Section 1b
[[Image:Image relating to section 1b.jpg|frame|left|]] First paragraph of section 1b.
- Instead, either right-align the image, remove it, or move it to another relevant location.
- Use {{Commons}} to link to more images on Commons, wherever possible.
- Use captions to explain the relevance of the image to the article (see #Captions).
- Specifying the size of a thumbnail image is not recommended: without specifying a size, the width will be what readers have specified in their user preferences, with a default of 180px (which applies for most readers), and a maximum of 300px. However, the image subject or image properties may call for a specific image width to enhance the readability or layout of an article. Cases where a specific image width is appropriate include:
- images with extreme aspect ratios
- detailed maps, diagrams or charts
- images in which a small region is relevant, but cropping to that region would reduce the coherence of the image
- a lead image that captures the essence of the article (recommended not to be smaller than 300px, as this will make the image smaller for users who have set 300px in their user preferences).
- Some users need to configure their systems to display large text; forced large thumbnails can leave little width for text, making reading difficult.
The current image markup for landscape-format and square images is:
[[Image:picture.jpg|thumb|right|Insert caption here]]
and for portrait-format images:
[[Image:picture.jpg|thumb|upright|right|Insert caption here]]
[edit] Category:Wikipedia image help
SilkTork *What's your point? 16:01, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
