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	General Pepper: Peppy, When you have a chance, please look at this policy. I would like your opinion on it. Peppy Hare: Right, I will place my feedback on the talk page.
	This draft policy is recommend by a member in accordance with LW:Draft. You are free to make small changes, as long as the original purpose of the policy is preserved. Any feedback should be provided on the talk page.

What makes a "good" Image?

We thank the contributors of the following pages as they were a big help in creating the topics covered here.

• Super Mario Wiki
• Bublapedia
• Wikipedia
• Zelda Wiki

Type

Files come in a variety of types, and get used in many different situations.

Each type has an idea situation and each situation has an ideal type. Please upload files according to these rules.

Animations

Animations should be uploaded in a .gif file format. They should not be a distraction, and should not cost too much time on the clients computer (Browser or CPU).

Character Art

Official art of a character, vehicle, location, or scene. Should be uploaded in .png format.

Screen Shots

Screen shots should be .jpg file type. They should be taken with the good quality screen shot software, and cropped down to only the actual screen shot is visible and nothing from the computer it was taken on is seen.

Box Art

Box Art should be done in jpg or png. At best, we should see everything there was on the original box, but nothing surrounding it.

Fan Art

Any art that was created by a FAN!

When uploaded, please attach the right template. (Psst! -Click the links above. It's to the Template).

If the right template is not identified, please mark with Template:Tl. If a file is uploaded as the wrong file type, if a new file of a different type has been uploaded, or something similar, please mark the old file with Template:Tl and the new with Template:Tl

Also note:

• File extensions for images are to be in lowercase and not capitalized. (.jpg not .JPG)
• For images with transparent backgrounds, a .png file format is preferred to .gif.
• Images, unless appropriate, should not have solid colors as their backgrounds, and should be uploaded with transparent backgrounds. Images without background transparency need to have their backgrounds removed, but this must be done to a quality that leaves smooth edges with no strokes, and leave no traces of any background. (see Lylat Wiki:Art Requests.)
• Images uploaded to Lylat Wiki should be of an acceptable quality, not being extremely small or pixelated files.

If an image does not meet quality standards it will be deleted by an administrator. (see Lylat Wiki:File Deletion Policy.)

License & Source Information

Each image needs to be identified where it came from. This includes the following information:

Source

What game did the file come from? What system was that game on? what site was it downloaded from? put Template:Tl if a file doesn't include these answers.

Other related questions:

1. Which game is it related to & What system did the game come on?
2. What site was it found on and when?

Information

1. What characters appear in it, if any?
2. does the image show a stage? if so, which one?

if these questions aren't answered, please update the image, or mark it with one of the following templates. Template:Tl

History

What has the file been through before and since being uploaded?

1. What file type was it when downloaded?
2. What file conversion and manipulation software has affected it? So, for instance
   • If this is an original art of a user, did they use photoshop? GIMP?...paint? paint.net? inkscape?
   • Did the file start off as a jpg then go to png?
3. Who was the original Artist?
   • If it was a user, what is there username?

If the previous information is missing, please post Template:Tl and then post to the related discussion page what exactly is missing. There maybe a reason for it.

License

When a file is loaded on the server, we need to identify a licence it is under.

• Copyright with a fair use rational - Template:Tl
• GNU General Public License
• Public domain (except where not applicable) - Template:Tl, Template:Tl
• free art license - Template:Tl
• creative commons license - Template:Tl
• missing licence - Template:Tl

Style & Content Guide

When an image is good, it get's used. doesn't matter how often, or in what place; the simple fact that it is used if enough to fulfill the image's purpose.

But what of unused images? What do we do with them?

Files themselves

Well, first make sure the article isn't one of the following:

• redirected or duplicate files
• marked with Template:Tl, as someone has said another type is better for the file you are looking at.

second, is the file of really poor quality? or is it too out of date?

(too mark on as such, please use Template:Tl and Template:Tl).

Usage on other pages

third, see if any pages are marked with Template:Tl & Template:Tl, as those articles are in need of images most of all.