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For the purposes of this guideline, icons encompasses any small images – including logos, crests, coats of arms, seals, flags – or other decoration, whether produced by small image files, typographic dingbats, emojis, or CSS display manipulation.
List items should be formatted consistently in a list. Unless there is a good reason to use different list types in the same page, consistency throughout an article is also desirable. Use sentence case by default for list items, whether they are complete sentences or not. Sentence case is used for around 99% of lists on Wikipedia.
When to and not to use a list instead of prose within an article. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Icons (MOS:ICON) On the use of small images within text. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout (MOS:LAYOUT) Ordering of content within articles, structures of standard appendices (MOS:APPENDIX). Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section (MOS:LEAD)
An image sometimes includes a familiar object to communicate scale. Such fiducial markers should be as culturally universal and standardized as possible: rulers, matches, batteries, pens/pencils, footballs (soccer balls), people and their body parts, vehicles, and famous structures such as the Eiffel Tower are good choices, but many others are possible.
Images help readers to understand an article, not merely decorate it. Add or replace images only if they are better than the existing ones or further support the text of the article. When creating and uploading an image, it should be of sufficiently high resolution and in an appropriate file format.
The first and the most desirable in icon design practice is using conventional images. If there is no conventional pictogram for the particular icon, a designer can use a literal image, including an image that is shared by the main concept (for example printer is shared image for printing concept), or metaphorical image.
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This template creates an inline icon-sized image. Please refer to 'Template:Icon/doc' for the list of supported values. Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status Icon 1 class The identifier or name of the icon to be displayed. Line required size size The size of the icon to display, e.g. "30px". Default 16x16px Line optional The above documentation is ...