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One of a caption's primary purposes is to identify the subject of the picture. Make sure your caption does that, without leaving readers to wonder what the subject of the picture might be. Be as unambiguous as practical in identifying the subject. What the picture is is important, too. If the image to be captioned is a painting, an editor can ...
Most images should use [[File:Name|thumb|alt=Alt|Caption]] and not specify a size. The other details: are optional and; can be placed in any order, except for Caption. Type thumb (or thumbnail; either can be followed by =filename), frame (or framed), or frameless. Displays the image with specific formatting (see below). Border border. Put a ...
Note: To achieve a plain image with a caption, one can use {{Plain image with caption}}. The caption is automatically added as the image's title and alt text, and any wiki markup used on it will be correctly displayed on the caption, but will be automatically stripped down from the alt and title text. See an example here.
Table headers and captions (but not image captions) A link to the page on which that link appears, called a self link; Manually added boldface markup in such cases will end up making excessive double-bold (900 weight) fonts.
For formatting guidance see the Wikipedia:Article titles § Article title format section, noting the following: Capitalize the initial letter (except in rare cases, such as eBay ), but otherwise follow sentence case [ e ] ( Funding of UNESCO projects ), not title case ( Funding of UNESCO Projects ), except where title case would be used in ...
Italic and bold formatting works correctly only within a single line. To reverse this effect where it has been automatically applied, use {{ nobold }} and {{ noitalic }} . For text as small caps , use the template {{ smallcaps }} .
Long captions are a new kind of structure, 'sidebars' like in magazines, or perhaps just another way to lay out content on a page. If Wikipedia ever wants these they should be explicit structures that are distinct from captions, or alternate content formatting should be introduced to produce a different visual layout of existing article structure.
You must also remove all options except for the caption; |thumb=, |right=, |left=, and px values are not supported and may cause invalid image option errors. Optionally, remove the File: prefix. You will be left with the following: Name of file|Caption. If you do not want to include a caption, remove |Caption as well.