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Attribution To re-distribute text on Wikipedia in any form, provide credit to the authors either by including a) a hyperlink (where possible) or URL to the page or pages you are re-using, b) a hyperlink (where possible) or URL to an alternative, stable online copy which is freely accessible, which conforms with the license, and which provides credit to the authors in a manner equivalent to the ...
Permission: Who or what law or policy gives permission to post on Wikipedia with the selected image copyright tag; Date the image was created, if available; a full date, if available, is better than simply the year; Location at which the image was created, if applicable and available. This can be as specific as a GPS-derived longitude and latitude.
See Wikipedia:Non-free content and below for more information on when and how copyrighted text and images can be used on Wikipedia. Unless copyrighted images and text meet Wikipedia's non-free content allowance, we can't use them or create "derivative works" of them.
For images, you are not limited to CC BY-SA: any free license will do. If the photographer's identity is unclear (for instance, if an image was uploaded stating the photographer's name and claiming a free license, but the image cannot be found on the web), ask them to confirm that the image is theirs.
Wikipedia policy is intentionally stricter than U.S. law with regards to copyrighted images. Any copyrighted image being utilized under "fair use" must meet all ten criteria of WP:NFCC . Among these rules are WP:NFCC#9 which states that such images can only be used on "article namespace" pages.
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.
The single use of a non-free image in any article is already considered quite an exception to WP:COPY#Guidelines for images and other media files and can be fairly hard to justify; so, the use of additional non-free images or additional uses of the same non-free image is seen as being even more exceptional and even harder to justify.
Anything else may still qualify as fair use in the right context, but a fair use rationale is still required to use such images on Wikipedia. To obtain freely licensed images, you can take photos yourself and upload them under a free license, place a request for other Wikipedians to create such images, or ask the copyright holder of a non-free ...