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When there is a long strip of right-positioned images or infoboxes together with a number of article sections, it usually causes the section editing links—"[edit]"—for the sections which start after the first and before the last image or infobox to bunch up to the left of it like this: [edit] [edit] [edit] (see Example 1.)
There are basically two type of pictures (images, files, pics, etc.) that are used here on Wikipedia: Free images; Non-free images; A free image is an image that can be freely used anywhere on Wikipedia. A free image may be either public domain, or released under a free license, such as CC-BY-SA. Free images can be used in any article where ...
The fix is to open the SVG file in a text editor, find the <image> element, locate "image/jpg", change it to "image/jpeg" and re-save. At right is an example of this problem. The Commons SVG Checker looks for this problem; see Commons:Commons:Commons SVG Checker/KnownBugs#Checks for details.
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.
This page explains how to place images on wiki pages, where the image acts as a hypertext link to somewhere other than the image description page.Care should be taken that this is done in compliance with the licensing terms of the file in question, particularly if they require proper attribution.
An alternative, supplementary method has been to add a hidden comment to the target section such as <!-- "Quark" links here --> [e] so that someone changing the title of that section can fix the incoming links. This method is weaker, since it puts the workload on the editor seeking to change the section title.
For example, a YouTube verification badge is used to identify an official channel of an established creator, business or organization, [1] but it does not fully guarantee that all its videos comply with copyright and fair use. Links to online videos should indicate that they are videos. The file size associated with links may also be useful.
External links and references are two important elements of Wikipedia that newcomers sometimes find trouble with. This page is designed to cover only the technical aspects of linking and referencing; it is essential that editors also familiarize themselves with Wikipedia:External links, Wikipedia:Reliable sources and Wikipedia:Citing sources, as well as Wikipedia's various other policies ...