Category:Credit lines: Difference between revisions

Under discussion at http://forum.citizendium.org/index.php/topic,1263.0.html

This is how credit lines appear. Note how the text is gray.(CC) Photo: Ian Muttoo

Click on the on the image information template and add the code and credited party as in the directions below.

• Use "photo" for photographs proper; "image" for all other images.
• C = Copyright
• Attribution = Copyrighted but only attribution is required
• CC = Creative Commons
• GNU = GNU Free Document License
• PD = Public Domain
• Fuzzy = Rarely used. Provenance uncertain, though we've tried; probably used under fair use

In a large house, the butler (centre-left) is traditionally head over a full array of household servants. This is the servant staff at the Stonehouse Hill of Massachusetts, the estate of F. Lothrop Ames, 1914.(PD) Photo: Easton Historical Society

All images should probably fit under these categories.

See the bottom of the page for the actual verbiage of all templates. Follow the pattern in the preceding examples.

Usage examples:

{{CC-image|John Doe}}

Returns:Template:CC-image

{{C-photo|John Doe}}

Returns:Template:C-photo

{{C-courtesy-image|John Doe}}

Returns:Template:C-courtesy-image

{{GNU-photo|Jane Doe}}

Returns:Template:GNU-photo

{{Attribution-photo|Jane Doe}}

Returns:Template:Attribution-photo

{{PD-photo|John Doe}}

Returns:Template:PD-photo

{{PD-courtesy-image|John Doe}} - use when any fee is waived.

Returns:Template:PD-courtesy-image

{{PD-anon-image}} - use when not crediting the PD image to any party

Returns:Template:PD-anon-image