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Using a 'by-sa' licence on Flickr. Keep in mind that pictures with "NoDerivs" and "Non-Commercial" licenses can not be used on Wikipedia, and Commons does not accept Flickr's "Public Domain Work". "Public Domain Dedication (CC0)" is okay, however. Flickr See screenshot image, above, and Open-licensing your images. What it means and how to do it.
Once an image is uploaded, and the source and licensing information are correctly given, it may be used in articles. Our Image Use Policy describes the accepted ways of displaying, formatting, and otherwise using images in Wikipedia. If you jump into using images in articles, you should be familiar with them.
fair-use images can only be used in articles (not e.g. talk pages or user pages), as specified in the image's fair-use rationale; and; fair-use images become subject to deletion if not actually used in an article—see Wikipedia:Fair use § Policy and Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion § Images/Media.
A Wikipedia reader can click on the thumbnail, or on the small double-rectangle icon below it, to see the corresponding file page which will let the user see the image in its original size. Although the above text may appear in multiple lines for formatting purposes, the actual image text is on one line, as it uses spaces without any line breaks.
Special:Search – Use the "Multimedia" setting to search for images and other files uploaded to the English Wikipedia by keyword or title. Most fair-use images are located here. commons:Special:Search – Go to Wikimedia Commons to search for images and other media files by description, title, or category.
Wikipedia (like its sister projects) uses images that document the things we write about, that includes people. Biography articles benefit from a photograph of the subject, and images can break up long sections of text in other articles, making them more attractive, and easier to understand for people whose English or reading skills are limited.
You can make a request for an image by adding {{Image requested}} to the talk page of the article, to see if other Wikipedians have access to an image. Be aware that this may take some time. Please follow the guidelines explained on Wikipedia:Requested pictures. You can also use the images at Category:Wikipedia image placeholders as ...
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.