The Flash Wiki:Policies and guidelines/Images

The Flash Wiki's users are expected to adhere to policies and follow guidelines, and with images these are no different.

Image quality
On most if not all pages, we prefer to use screenshots of the series whenever possible. When uploading those screenshots, it's preferred to use the full screen. Of course, if the character or whatever it may be only takes up a small, relatively unimportant part of the image, then it's smarter to simply crop it to focus on them.

Categorizing
As with pages, we like to keep our images nice and clean, with categories. For images of characters, use   and , replacing NAME with the character's name, for each of the appearing characters. For images from specific episodes, use , replacing NAME with the episode's name. For promotional images, use   and for those that are only intended to be used on a user page, use . Cast and crew members use , while guest starring actors will also have   on the image.

Filetype
When uploading images in the mainspace, all file types are welcome on both pages and userpages, except for GIFs, which are forbidden. If you wish to use one, upload it to Community Central and substitute it in that way.

Naming of images
Name images correctly and appropriately, just use common sense. Name them after what the image is about. We'd rather not have images with names like "DC-12345.png" or "B-aLLeN.png".

User images
User images, along with being categorized correctly, must be named "User-USERNAME-1" and the filetype, or if a second is uploaded "User-USERNAME-2" and as follows for a third, replacing USERNAME with your username. If an image is being used elsewhere in the wiki, such as in the mainspace or even another user's page, they may be placed on your page.

Blog posts
Most blog posts will use images relevant to mainspace, though should they use others, the images uploaded are to follow practically the same method as user images, with a minor change: the image should be titled "UserBlog-USERNAME-1" followed by the filetype, and so forth. It is still expected that these are added to the User images category. Due to the amount of blog posts that may be made, any amount of images like this can be uploaded, though this privilege is not to be abused.
 * This practice is also used for user images in blog comments.