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The best place to upload images is Wikimedia Commons, where they become part of a collection that can be used by Wikipedias in multiple languages, as well as our sister projects and the general public. To upload images to Commons you can use the Commons Upload Wizard tool, which will guide you through the process.
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.
The best place to upload most images is Wikimedia Commons, where they become part of a collection that can be used by Wikipedias in multiple languages, as well as our sister projects and the general public. To upload images to Commons you can use the Commons Upload Wizard tool, which will guide you through the process.
In order to claim that an image is fair use you must comply with all 10 non-free content criteria. Non-free use images can only be used sparingly in articles in order to provide basic visual identification of the artwork.-You can only claim "fair use" for low resolution images.-Non-Free images cannot be used in Galleries, article drafts, or ...
Because we want free content, ideally all images uploaded would be free for everyone, and therefore would be acceptable on our sister project, Wikimedia Commons. Images submitted to Commons are used the same way as images uploaded locally to Wikipedia and are automatically available on Wikipedia—as well as on hundreds of other Wikis run by ...
Images must be uploaded either to Wikipedia or to Wikimedia Commons before they can be used. Free images that can be reused commercially and modified are preferred. Non-free images may sometimes be used, but only in certain circumstances. Wikimedia Commons accepts only free images, which can then be used by any of the other Wikimedia projects.
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.
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