Gaiapedia:Image Policy
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This policy details the rules on uploads and images.
Licenses
All images must have the appropriate license tag placed onto their description page. This tag can easily be selected from the drop down box so there is no excuse for not adding the tag. Images uploaded without the proper tags may be deleted and users who repeat these actions will be warned and possibly blocked.
Information
The most restrictive tag that describes an image should be selected from the drop down box and used to license the image.
Generally when an image comes from Gaia Online you use the {{gaiaimage}} tag from the drop down box under (Gaia Fair-Use > Other Gaia Fair-Use) so that the image will fall under US fair-use law and Canada's fair-dealing laws. But when the images is something like a Item, NPC, or Ball Image, the appropriate tag should be grabbed from the drop down box.
Under other circumstances, most images not from Gaia use the General Fair Use tag.
Generally you can find the best tag by finding the category of the image under the sections, then picking the first descriptive tag because the less descriptive ones are listed at the bottom of the sections.
Personal Images
Personal images such as Photos, Avatar images, Avi Art, Sketches, etc... are not allowed to be uploaded to The Gaiapedia. This rule is in place because The Gaiapedia is a place for documentation, not personal Image Storage or User listing and uploading images fills up ours, or our host's webspace with things that don't belong on the Wiki and in most cases pose potential copyright issues.
See the section on external linking and the Userpage Policy for information on image use on personal pages i.e. Userpages.
