ArmchairGM Wiki:Image description page

Each uploaded file has an associated image description page.

The image description page of any image on ArmchairGM may be accessed by simply clicking on the image.

To make a link to an image description page without including the actual image, use a link like: Image:an_image.jpg. The leading colon prevents the image being embedded in the article, and instead makes an ordinary link.

The description page consists of four parts:
 * In the case of an image, the image itself
 * Description of the image or sound
 * "Image history"
 * "Image links", a list of pages that link to the image/sound (not including the rare case of an uploaded html file linking to it)

The description part has also an edit history; it is labelled, somewhat confusingly, Image:xxx Revision history. It should not be confused with the Image history.

What to include on an image description page
The image description page is the appropriate place to put information about:
 * The author and immediate source of the image
 * The copyright status of the image
 * General descriptive details
 * Technical details about the image
 * Helpful links

Some image file formats allow the information to be "embedded" in the image itself. Most ArmchairGM readers won't be able to or won't know how to access this information, so you should duplicate it on the image description page.