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Float the image on the right unless overridden with the location attribute. With an operand, e.g. thumb=Example.png, the operand names an image that is used as the thumbnail, ignoring any size specification. frame Preserve the original image size, and put a box around the image. Show any caption below the image.
Finally, you can link to one image from a thumbnail's small double-rectangle icon , but display another image using "|thumb=Displayed image name". This is intended for the rare cases when the Wikipedia software that reduces images to thumbnails does a poor job, and you want to provide your own thumbnail.
It is most useful with a transparent background, e.g. svg or png. Its height is set to determine its scale. By default its top-left corner is aligned with the top-left corner of the frame. It can be shifted right and down relative to the frame to position it over part of the background image. It may have its own alt text set.
Media in category "Images that should have transparent backgrounds" The following 105 files are in this category, out of 105 total. 111th Battle For The Bell.jpeg 370 × 208; 33 KB
An image sometimes includes a familiar object to communicate scale. Such fiducial markers should be as culturally universal and standardized as possible: rulers, matches, batteries, pens/pencils, footballs (soccer balls), people and their body parts, vehicles, and famous structures such as the Eiffel Tower are good choices, but many others are possible.
The image acts as a hypertext link to the specified page. Do not enclose the page name in square brackets. If Page is a URL, the image acts as an external link; otherwise it links to the named Wikipedia page. Image maps offer more possibilities. [[File:Example.png| link=Name of page |alt=Example alt text]]
Icons should not be added only because they look good: one reader's harmless decoration may be another reader's distraction. An icon is purely decorative if it does not improve comprehension of the article subject and serves no navigational function. Where icons are used for layout purposes only, consider using bullet points as an alternative.
Images in this category have unnecessary borders and/or opaque or translucent space around the subject of the image that need to be removed. Where borders are desired they should usually be added with article markup such as table markup. If cropping a JPEG, consider using a lossless cropping tool such as jpegtran.