Epic Luigi Object Show:Gallery and image guidelines

Certain articles will have a gallery subpage that will host the majority of relevant images, usually to prevent the main article from becoming to bloated or lengthy.

Henceforth, the term "gallery" will refer to the subpages and not the smaller sections found on articles.

## Concerning galleries

### Gallery necessity

Galleries are only necessary when the amount of images present becomes overwhelmingly large, and to make the on-article gallery smaller would require the images to be shrunk to an impractical size.

If every image can be reasonably sized and arranged on an article without the article becoming too large, then a subpage is not necessary.

### Basic gallery structure

Galleries mainly utilize the `<gallery>` tag and the {{GalleryBox}} template at the top of the page. When appropriate, the {{Episode top navigation}} and {{Character top navigation}} templates are used, as well. See MediaWiki's help page here for more insight on galleries and images.

### Character gallery structure

Character galleries are structured into three main headings: Assets, Poses, and Scenes.

Assets include the faceless, limbless, and background-transparent images of a character's body.

Poses include images of the character with limbs and a face, as well as any accompanying props or other characters, with a transparent background.

Scenes mostly include still shots and screen captures of frames during an episode that include the character, though other images that don't fit in the other two sections will be included here as well.

For characters who do not have a standard limb or face layout, such as Mug or Black, the Poses section may be greatly diminished or absent entirely.

All images are ordered chronologically.

### Episode gallery structure

Episode gallery pages lack headings entirely. Exceptions may be made. Images are ordered chronologically.

### Image necessity

In galleries, images that are considered redundant are consequentially considered unnecessary. For example, an image depicting a scene from an episode that is already depicted in another image, with little to no visual variation, is unnecessary.

## Concerning images

### Image upload policy

Any and all images uploaded to the wiki must be appropriate and follow the rules of the wiki. As a result, pornography, fetish art, images containing profanity, and gore are prohibited.

### Image quality

Any image added to a page must be of an acceptable quality. While poor quality may be tolerated when the image is necessary, such as in an infobox, poor images of lesser importance, such as screenshots of an episode, will be removed.

Poor image quality can be denoted by compression artifacts, visible UI (such as the YouTube video progress bar, a gradient, or the cursor), sloppy cropping, improperly cropped images, etc.

### Fan-made and unofficial images

Images made by people who do not work on BFDI, such as fan art, or images that do not relate to BFDI, such as stills of another show, are prohibited from being used in articles. The term "fanon images" is used to cover both instances.

### Captions

Captions for images are preferably formal and descriptive. Therefore, joke or humorous image captions are unwanted. When referring to an episode, use the shorthand, abbreviated form rather than the full episode title (such as BFB 5 instead of "Fortunate Ben"). Captions must be accurate.

### Personal images

Images can be uploaded to the wiki that are never meant to appear on any actual article. These images may be posted to userpages, article talks, user talk pages, etc. These images are allowed and are considered personal property. Thus they cannot be replaced by any user other than whomever uploaded that image.

### Image replacement

Images intended for the mainspace can be replaced by images of greater quality. For example, an image that depicts a pose that was manually cropped from a background can be replaced by a cleaner image derived from Flash files.

However, replacing an image must not replace the intent or idea that the image is meant to serve. An image of one pose should not be replaced by a completely different pose. If one wished to replace an image on an article such that the idea is changed as well, they must upload their new image under a different file name and change the file that appears on the page.

### Image necessity

Off galleries, images are typically seldom used. Images then serve the purpose of acting as evidence or proof to support a claim or description, or they serve the purpose of displaying a topic that would be cumbersome to explain in text.