Guide: Crediting

This is a guide that will explain how and when to credit on the wiki. For specific information on our policy regarding crediting, please refer to the Popee the Performer Wiki Policy and Page Formatting and Editing Guidelines. 
Breaking the rules will result in disciplinary action, and going against the editing guidelines will result in your edit being removed.
If you have found that your image has been uploaded to this wiki without credit, please contact the administrator by posting on their message wall here with the action you'd like taken.
== Crediting Wikipedia and Other Fandom Wikis ==
Wikipedia and other Fandom Wikis are allowed to be used as a reference, and including material from them on pages on this wiki is allowed. This is because both Fandom wikis and Wikipedia itself operate under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (known as CC BY-SA).
However, if you copy/paste, it must be formatted as a blockquote, and you must acknowledge that the information you're sharing is from a certain Fandom wiki or Wikipedia page. You may not claim this information as your own, and doing so, or copy/pasting without notice will be regarded as plagiarism.
For formatting a credit of this variety, please see the Crediting Wikipedia or Other Fandom Wikis section below.
== Translation Credits ==
In situations where you have an external translation done by another human, credit is necessary. This can be done using a citation/reference. For more on references, please see the reference guide on how to use citations in articles, or refer to Fandom's official Help Page.
For formatting a credit of this variety, please see the Translation Credits section below.
== Image Crediting ==
Going forwards on the wiki, images from other sources (not including images from official sources such as official websites and manufacturers, such as in cases of merchandise pages) should be credited both within image captions and on image pages. 
Try to get permission if possible, however, this is not always possible due to both a language barrier and also the difficulties of reaching someone through whatever website the images exist on.
Generally, the policy for images from shopping sites is a little different. For one thing, contacting a user on a shopping site is not always possible, and sometimes images do not exist otherwise in certain situations. In addition, some shopping websites such as Yahoo! Japan Auction do not archive listings for items longer than a certain time period. In this case, please use the Wayback Machine to archive the page and then link to the archive. If you're not sure where an image came from, please try to backwards search for the image and find the source. 
For formatting a credit of this variety, please see the Image Crediting section below. 
== Formatting Credits ==
This section will explain how to format credits on the wiki.
=== Crediting Wikipedia or Fandom Wikis ===
A blockquote is what you would use to quote people and articles, and appears as an indented block of text on a page. This separates it from the rest of the article, and allows it to stand on it's own within a page, and would be the appropriate way to credit in this case.
To use a block quote, on the visual editor, select where it says "NORMAL TEXT" on the left of the toolbar. Click "NORMAL TEXT" and select "blockquote". You can also highlight the text you want in the blockquote and then select blockquote on the toolbar, and it will have the text appear within a blockquote.
For example, on the Nippon Columbia page:Note the statement about the information's source and the use of the blockquote. To use a block quote, on the visual editor, select where it says "NORMAL TEXT" on the left of the toolbar. Click "NORMAL TEXT" and select "blockquote". You can also highlight the text you want in the blockquote and then select blockquote on the toolbar, and it will have the text appear within a blockquote.
=== Translation Credits ===
In situations where you have an external translation done by another human, credit is necessary. This can be done using a citation/reference. For more on references, please see the reference guide on how to use citations in articles, or refer to Fandom's official Help Page.
=== Image Credit Formatting ===
Credits that are for images that editors obtained and are using with permission from their original owners should follow this format:
 Image courtesy of <Name of person who owns image> on <platform of their choice>.
Example from the Kedamono Silver Ring page's gallery:
Credits for images that you are unable to obtain permission for use (NOT in cases where permission was denied) should follow this format (the external link should be the exact page the image can be found on, but not a direct link to the image itself):
 [http://www.external_link_example.com Image source]
Please note the use of pre-formatted text to allow users to copy/paste.
Example from the Movic Trading Figures page's gallery:
In addition, credits should be available on the image page itself for other wiki users to use when using the image on other pages. 
For example:
=== When a Source is Not Available ===
When a source is not available and the image falls under the wiki policy's exception, there is a specific format of noting this that must be followed.
You do not have to note that the image source is unavailable every time the image appears, but you must note that the image source is unavailable on the image's own individual page, and as a citation on the primary article it appears on. Note where you found the image, and that it is no longer available live on the web. 
Please see the reference guide on how to use citations in articles, or refer to Fandom's official Help Page.
=== Preventing the Loss of Sources ===
Please see the Wayback Machine guide for an in-depth explanation on how to preserve sources for future use. If you find a shopping site listing for a piece of merchandise, these listings are not permanent and are typically deleted within two weeks of the item being purchased by someone, depending on the shopping site. They will need to be archived before the webpage goes down, and the images will need to be saved before you archive them on the Wayback Machine, as the Wayback Machine does not always work as intended. 
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