Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/24 task force/Images

The WikiProject 24 images department is a working group of members of the WikiProject 24 dedicated to ensuring that all 24-related articles hav

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Requirements
Whenever you upload an image, you should meet the following minimal requirements.
 * 1) Always tag your image with one of the image copyright tags. When in doubt, do not upload copyrighted images.
 * 2) Always specify on the description page where the image came from (the source) and information on how this could be verified. Examples include scanning a paper copy, or a URL, or a name/alias and method of contact for the photographer. For screenshots this means what the image is a screenshot of (the more detail the better). Do not put credits in images themselves.

Rules of thumb
Below this brief checklist of image use rules is the detailed reasoning behind them.
 * 1) Use the image description page to describe an image and its copyright status.
 * 2) 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.
 * 3) Upload a high-resolution version of your image whenever possible (unless the image is being used under fair use; see Fair use considerations for details), and use the automatic thumbnailing option of the Wikipedia image markup to scale down the image. MediaWiki accepts images up to 20 MB in size. Do not scale down the image yourself, as scaled-down images may be of limited use in the future.
 * 4) Crop the image to highlight the relevant subject.
 * 5) If you create an image that contains text, please upload also a version without any text. It will help Wikipedians translate your image into other languages.
 * 6) Try not to use color alone to convey information, as it is inaccessible in many situations.
 * 7) Use JPEG format for photographic images; SVG format for icons, logos, drawings, maps, flags, and such; PNG format for software screenshots and when only a raster image is available; GIF format for inline animations; and Ogg/Theora for video.
 * 8) Add a good alternative text for images.
 * 9) In general, there is no need to specify thumbnail size. Users can select their ideal size in preferences.
 * 10) Do not place shocking or explicit pictures into an article unless they have been approved by a consensus of editors for that article.

Non-free use

 * Main page: Non-free use rationale guideline

When a non-free image is used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use, a justification for its usage, called a fair use rationale, must be presented in the Image description page. A separate rationale must be provided for each use of the image. If you are claiming fair use, you must include two things on the image description page:
 * 1) An appropriate fair use license tag. See Image copyright tags/Non-free for a list.
 * 2) A detailed fair use rationale.

This justification will help other users determine if the "fair use" could apply to a wide variety of uses or a narrow range of uses. It will also help determine if the given claim of fair use is appropriate for Wikipedia in the first place.

Images that do not include both a fair use copyright tag and a detailed fair use rationale will be deleted!