JoJo Wiki ★ Image Policy

This page outlines guidelines for Images on the wiki.

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General Rules

Unless otherwise stated, guidelines will apply to all parts of the wiki, including the comments section.

• All images on this wiki should be used for illustrating an article to help depict information or actions that would otherwise be normally difficult to describe using words alone. Copyrighted material cannot make up a large portion of an article's content, so ensure there aren't too many unnecessary panels or several full manga pages in a gallery.
• Any images that are found unsuitable or are not being used in any articles, user pages included, will be deleted.
• Pornographic images or images with extensive inappropriate language are prohibited. Doing so will result in immediate deletion of the image, and the uploader will likely be blocked without warning.
• Filenames should be relevant to what the image depicts – Among other benefits, relevant and correct names improve search results. Where relevant, please also consider including the number of the chapter of the manga from which it is sourced (e.g. "heaven's door rohan kishibe c372.png"). Long strings of numbers or letters are not desired.
• Duplicates of images are not preferred. Users should check if the image already exists elsewhere and use that instead.
• Users should follow the guidelines found throughout this page in order to upload images and avoid arguments.

Adding Images to Articles

Acceptable

• Single panels from the manga. A full page or spread is only acceptable in certain cases, such as if it's a cover page or if an attack is demonstrated in the full page.
• Images must contain the original "raw" text, preferably in Japanese where applicable. No fan-translated text unless there is absolutely no alternative (see List of References to JoJo).
  • If raws aren't available to you, erase or white-out any translated text.
  • In cases where it's impossible to get a particular raw page (such as JoJonium colored pages), uploading official English scans is permitted.
• Screenshots of a single frame from the anime (without subtitles).
• Screenshots of a single scene from a video game.
• Animations showing a single scene from the anime, such as a single fighting move.
• File extensions: .PNG, .JPG, or .GIF.
  • Note: .PNG files are preferred as they are lossless and support transparency. However, for high quality scans or photographs with large file sizes, .JPG files are preferred.

Unacceptable

• Fan art of any form — from fan colorings to full character illustrations. These are only allowed in User Pages and should credit the artist when possible.
  • Note: This doesn't apply to fan art drawn by Araki, or fan art found in official publications. Fan art drawn by animators or others related to the series are also acceptable on the individual's own page, but not on character galleries.
• Images using fan-translations, such as anime fansubs or manga scanlations.
• Images unrelated to the article or the wiki
• Images showing a large number of pages from the manga, such as an entire fight all in one image.
  • Pages put together for the purpose of comparison, such as Giorno defeating Cioccolata are okay.
  • Do not upload an entire page if only one panel on the page is needed.
• Badly edited collages of multiple images from any source. Images neatly placed side-by-side or double spreads for the sake of clarity are fine though.
• Animations or GIFs depicting more than one scene, e.g. showing a full fight scene between two characters.
  • Note: This doesn't apply to images uploaded for the purpose of crediting animators, such as Hayama's key animation on the OVA series.
• Watermarked images. These are claimed by the copyright owner as their property and they may take action if the image was taken without permission.
• Images uploaded using uncompressed or unsupported file extensions, such as .BMP, .WEBM, or .WEBP.
• Images containing nudity, pornography, or gore that aren't related to the series.
  • Note: If you've uploaded an image with nudity (such as for the Reference Gallery), add {{Nsfw}} to the caption.

Licensing

As an online encyclopedia dedicated to a serialized franchise, the wiki will have alot of uploaded images coming from various official sources. As such, a majority of the images will have copyrights belonging to Hirohiko Araki & Lucky Land Communications, Shueisha and anyone else who legally owns the material.

Because of this, all images uploaded onto this site will need to be properly marked with proper license tags. Any user that fails to mark their images, may have their images marked for deletion.

Example 1

Example 2

There are two ways to mark an image for Fair Use:

• The easier option is when first uploading the image. When uploading, a pop up will appear asking you to choose a file to upload. After doing this, do not click Upload Photo or Add Photo. Instead, click More Options and you will be presented with a larger menu to rename your file and give it proper licensing. Drop down to the license menu and scroll and select the This will be used in a way that qualifies as fair use under US Law. After doing this, you can finish by clicking Upload Photo or Add Photo.
• To mark an image as fair use when it is already uploaded, go to the image's page by clicking on the image and then clicking it's filename. At the image file page, click the Edit button, click Source and insert {{Fairuse}} into the field below. Then simply press Publish to finish.
  • Note: For screenshots of Anime, OVAs, or Video Games, use the {{AnimeFairuse}} tag.

Deletion

• Images will be deleted if they are unused, have no foreseeable use, and/or violate any of the policies listed above. If you upload an image for use on your user page, but choose to no longer use it, tag it for deletion by using the {{delete}} template.
• Any user is welcome to add the {{delete}} tag to get an administrator's attention on an image.