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[a] Most captions draw attention to something in the image that is not obvious, such as its relevance to the text. A caption may be a few words or several sentences. Writing good captions takes effort; along with the lead and section headings, captions are the most commonly read words in an article, so they should be succinct and informative.
Do not use articles (a, an, or the) as the first word (Economy of the Second Empire, not The economy of the Second Empire), unless it is an inseparable part of a name (The Hague) or of the title of a work (A Clockwork Orange, The Simpsons). Normally use nouns or noun phrases: Early life, not In early life. [f]
Its use to add emphasis in modern documents is a deprecated practice. [12] In web pages, hyperlinks are often displayed with underlines – to identify them as such rather than to emphasize them. Underlining is also used for secondary emphasis, i.e. marks added to a printed text by the reader.
Edit shared documents while offline and your changes will upload when you’re back online. Enhance your documents with a variety of new, editable shapes. [28] 10.1 July 9, 2020 Play YouTube and Vimeo videos right in documents. Add captions and titles to images, videos, shapes, and other objects. Create more flexible formulas using new functions.
The procedure for adding images to articles is the same, regardless of whether the image was uploaded to Commons or directly to English Wikipedia. To make your uploaded file appear in an article, you need to insert it: edit the article and add the syntax [[File:Image name|thumb|Caption]] where you want the file to appear.
I see above that there's no set standard for when to use italics for stage directions in captions like (left). I was wondering, when I do decide to use them, should the parentheses be italicized, e.g. (left), or just the word, e.g. (left). I'd lean toward just the word (the recommendation of Chicago), but curious to hear others' views. I do ...
What a case there is for the current guidelines has broken down into 2 main arguments: (a) adding captions to images adds clutter, and (b) photographers will use wikipedia articles as a platform for self-promotion, perhaps for SEO purposes with links back to their pages, etc., but at least being noticed as named in the middle of the content.
How do you read an article? Start to finish without skipping, or do you survey the article before delving in deeper? Captions, together with their images, help the reader survey the article and lead the reader into the article. This project aims to improve captions in Wikipedia articles with pictures, in accordance with Wikipedia:Captions.