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In English the sport is known by several names, "hoop and stick", "bowling hoops", [29] or "gird and cleek" in Scotland, where the gird is the hoop and the cleek, the stick. In the west, around the end of the 19th century, the game was played by boys up to about twelve years of age. [30]
Correct misinterpretations of free images. One of the main complaints about free images is lack of quality when compared with a promotional images. That is not true: there are very good free images as shown by Wikipedia:Featured pictures. In the case of replaceable images, it is possible that a promotional image will look better than free versions.
For sports and games related articles needing an image or photograph, use {{Image requested|date=December 2024|sports and games}} in the talk page, which adds the article to Category:Wikipedia requested images of sports and games. If possible, please add request to an existing sub-category.
This element is extremely important when fair-use images are used in galleries. If one image, say, from a copyrighted book, is used in an article, it may be fair use. Then another image from the same book is used in another article and so on. If all of these images from the same book appear in a single gallery, it is almost certainly not fair use.
Wikipedia:Picture of the day is an image which is automatically updated each day with an image from the list of featured pictures. The {{ POTD }} template produces the image shown above. Category:Wikipedia Picture of the day lists the different templates that can be used.
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Sometimes, using a symbolic image to convey a concept is more impactful than words. This page compiles examples of such images along with their corresponding files, making them easy to copy and use. You are welcome to utilize these examples and, if you wish—while accepting full responsibility—contribute to expanding this collection.
You can use (free) images from Wikipedia on your own site, or anywhere you like. You can use images that are freely-licensed images, provided you comply with the individual image' s license terms. While all article text is licensed under the GFDL, free images have several free content licenses to choose from.