This page contains the Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Wiki's Image and video policy. It describes rules for images and videos which are uploaded to the wiki.

• Policies set general rules for the wiki's administration and its content.
• Any registered editor is free to edit this page to improve its readability as long as the essence of the article remains unchanged.
• If you would like to suggest content changes or propose a new policy or guideline, please use the wiki discussion forum.
• See the policies and guidelines page for an overview of this wiki's policies and guidelines.

GeneralEdit

• Images and videos are subject to the general content criteria. In addition, there are some specific rules for this type of content outlined below.

ImagesEdit

UsageEdit

• Images are a welcome addition to the Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Wiki, since they help illustrate the articles, particularly on the following topics:
  • Characters
  • Devices
  • Objects
  • Locations
  • Spells
• Generally, all infoboxes can and should contain an image (see Category:Articles needing an infobox picture).
• Adding entire galleries of miscellaneous images to articles without indicating their relation to the topic of the article is not allowed. However, articles may contain a Gallery section with a gallery semantically generated with the {{list/Gallery}} template out of the properly tagged images.
• Unused images or images used only in generic galleries will be deleted.

QualityEdit

• Images should be of good quality. The minimal size of an uploaded image is 200px on each side.
• Images should never include parts of the text, clean bubbles of the manga properly.
• Images should have a descriptive name.
• Images in black and white from the manga should be replaced by colored anime or video game screenshots if possible.
• PNG is the preferred image format on this wiki because it is lossless. GIF and JPG are the alternatives.

If an uploaded image does not conform to the quality requirements above, it should be tagged with a request for improvement using the template {{improve image}}.

ManagementEdit

All uploaded images should be added to Category:Images per default by adding following code to the bottom of their description page:

[[Category:Images]]

Additionally, two semantic properties can be added to the image description pages to simplify image handling: Property:Media tag and Property:Media source.

Tags: [[media tag::Article title]], [[media tag::Article title]], [[media tag::Article title]].

Property:Media tag links ("tags") the image file to the characters, objects, locations, etc., which are depicted on it. For example, in group images like File:Long Arch crew.jpg, all characters on it should be linked via such media tags. Only characters whose face or most of the body are visible on the image should be tagged.

Source: ''[[media source::Series title]]''.

Property:Media source links the image to its original source, i.e. to the anime (if it is a screenshot) or manga (if it is a scan) series it was taken from. If the original source is unknown or the source media does not have its own article on this wiki (see Category:Media), it should be omitted. Normally, a file only has one source.

Below is a complete sample code to copy to a newly uploaded image's description and alter accordingly (you can also do this during the upload, by posting and altering it in the "Summary:" field of the upload form):

Tags: [[media tag::Article title]], [[media tag::Article title]], [[media tag::Article title]].

Source: ''[[media source::Series title]]''.

[[Category:Images]]

VideosEdit

• Embedded videos may only be used in articles if they illustrate issues which cannot be expressed by written text at all or only with difficulty. Examples for acceptable videos are anime or game trailers.
• It is recommended to use the video embed tool (see Special:WikiaVideoAdd) rather than to upload videos directly to the wiki.
• All videos should be added to Category:Videos.

See alsoEdit

• Content policy