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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.
A caption is a short descriptive or explanatory text, usually one or two sentences long, which accompanies a photograph, picture, map, graph, pictorial illustration, figure, table or some other form of graphic content contained in a book or in a newspaper or magazine article.
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.
"Three words. Eight letters. Say it, and I’m yours." — Gossip Girl "When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as ...
Ring in 2024 in style using one of these short, funny or inspirational captions for loved ones that are perfect for Instagram, texts and cards. ... Write a good one! New Year's Captions.
It's hard to write a full sentence caption that doesn't fulfill at least one other goal of a good caption, and with that in mind, a full sentence is a good place to start. Keep in mind that captions are wiki text just like the articles - they're always subject to improvement! -- ke4roh 19:24, Aug 24, 2004 (UTC)
"The secret to getting ahead is getting started." "Allow us to recall: One book, one pen, one youngster, and one instructor can change the world."
I recently found some captions that were nothing but a year, e.g. (2022) for Huntington Street Baptist Church which I think is just too cryptic and without precedence. After fixing several to align them with typical infobox captions, I was reverted by Beyond My Ken who strongly objected (User_talk:MB#Please_stop_changing_the_captions.