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Photo captions, also known as cutlines, are a few lines of text used to explain and elaborate on published photographs. [1] In some cases captions and cutlines are distinguished, where the caption is a short (usually one-line) title/explanation for the photo, while the cutline is a longer, prose block under the caption, generally describing the ...
One of a caption's primary purposes is to identify the subject of the picture. Make sure your caption does that, without leaving readers to wonder what the subject of the picture might be. Be as unambiguous as practical in identifying the subject. What the picture is is important, too. If the image to be captioned is a painting, an editor can ...
Often the caption or article will describe the image adequately, and where this is the case you can write alt=caption or alt=see adjacent text. If additional alt text is added, it should be a succinct description that complies with the content policies; see WP:ALT for more information.
The empty string, if there is an explicitly requested Caption and the image type has a visible caption. The image file name if there is no explicitly requested Alt or Caption. This is never a satisfactory option. It is possible to specify the link title text only for images with no visible caption (as described above).
Videos that simply show a sequence of still pictures should be replaced with an image gallery. Videos that are just text being read aloud should be replaced with text - or if the sound of words is being demonstrated, audio files (with the text being read in the file caption or in closed captioning).
A caption is a short descriptive or explanatory text, usually one or two sentences long, which accompanies a photograph, picture, map, graph, pictorial illustration, figure, table or some other form of graphic content contained in a book or in a newspaper or magazine article. [1] [2] [3] The caption is usually placed directly below the image.
Other issues involving photojournalism include the right to privacy, negotiating how the subject desires to be depicted, [41] and questions of whether compensation is warranted. Especially regarding pictures of violence, photojournalists face the ethical dilemma of whether or not to publish images of the victims. The victim's right to privacy ...
Instead of text in the caption, include a small icon of the word "Attribution" or "License" or something similar linking to the image description page, much like the Enlarge icon in captions already. This would require a bit of creative coding to make the license info show in printed articles, but it's certainly possible.