Category:Credit lines: Difference between revisions

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This is how credit lines appear. Note how the text is gray.(CC) Photo: Ian Muttoo

To add credit lines, click on the on the image information template and add the code and credited party as in the directions below.

Image or photo?

• Use "image" for non-photographic images and for all public domain photos and images
• Use "photo" for all other photographs

It means...

• C = Copyright
• Attribution = Copyrighted but only attribution is required
• CC = Creative Commons
• GNU = GNU Free Document License
• PD = Public Domain
• Fuzzy = Rarely used. Provenance uncertain, though we've tried; probably used under fair use. See example

In a large house, the butler (centre-left) is traditionally head over a full array of household servants. This is the servant staff at the Stonehouse Hill of Massachusetts, the estate of F. Lothrop Ames, 1914.(PD) Photo: Easton Historical Society

All images should probably fit under these categories.

See the bottom of the page for the actual verbiage of all templates. Follow the pattern in the usage examples. See how it appears in situ to the right.

Usage examples

{{CC-image|John Doe}}

Returns:Template:CC-image

{{C-photo|John Doe}}

Returns:Template:C-photo

{{C-courtesy-image|John Doe}}

Returns:Template:C-courtesy-image

{{GNU-photo|Jane Doe}}

Returns:Template:GNU-photo

{{Attribution-photo|Jane Doe}}

Returns:Template:Attribution-photo

{{PD-photo|John Doe}}

Returns:Template:PD-photo

{{PD-courtesy-image|John Doe}} - use when any fee is waived.

Returns:Template:PD-courtesy-image

{{PD-anon-image}} - use when not crediting the PD image to any party

Returns:Template:PD-anon-image