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Free images should not be watermarked, distorted, have any credits or titles in the image itself or anything else that would hamper their free use, unless, of course, the image is intended to demonstrate watermarking, distortion, titles, etc. and is used in the related article. Exceptions may be made for historic images when the credit or title ...
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.
Wikipedia:Picture of the day is an image which is automatically updated each day with an image from the list of featured pictures. The {{ POTD }} template produces the image shown above. Category:Wikipedia Picture of the day lists the different templates that can be used.
Review the image style guide and use policy. Give context with captions and alt text. Try to find at least one image for each article. Find free images, or create and upload your own. Clean up images: crop, color-correct, etc. Use the best file format for each image. Use objects for scale where helpful. Place images in the section to which they ...
Note: To achieve a plain image with a caption, one can use {{Plain image with caption}}. The caption is automatically added as the image's title and alt text, and any wiki markup used on it will be correctly displayed on the caption, but will be automatically stripped down from the alt and title text. See an example here.
The non-free use you're proposing is bascially a WP:DECORATIVE type of non-free use, and it's not really considered policy-compliant to use non-free images in list articles or in a list-, a gallery- or a table-like display per WP:NFLIST and WP:NFTABLE simply to show what one of a group of entries looks like. If the rationale you posted above ...
Maps and images for Wikipedia; Coloring cartographic maps; Keep in mind that images can contain hidden data and that you might want to remove the hidden data before publishing the images. Text can be overlaid onto images using Template:Annotated image or Template:Annotated image 4.
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