User:Netscott/NPOV image policy

If the subject of an article covers a disputed concept or idea then in order to maintain neutral point of view Wikipedia must not add images (particularly lead images) to the article that support one view of a concept or another without properly qualifying the image in the context of the article.

To illustrate how this works the following examples will show an incorrect version and subsequently a corrected version. All that is changed between the two examples is the text of the caption that accompanies the image. In the context of these examples the article will be about the hypothetical creature known as the Duckgull, a cross between a seagull and a duck. Because the first example's caption does not clearly identify the subject of the picture nor establish the picture's relevance to the article nor context then as a lead image on the Duckgull article Wikipedia is implicitly saying that the image is that of a "Duckgull" and takes Amy B. Gous' point of view. In the second example this is rectified.