Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-1251315-20141030085933

Hi

In the last week or so, there has been a sharp increase in the number of people uploading pictures for sole use of depicting something in the forums, or just uploading fan made pictures to post in the forums.

Since some of our contributors do not seem to be reading the policies listed out on the wiki, I am making this announcement to point out a few things:
 * 1) You are NOT allowed to upload pictures to the wiki if they are for sole use on your userpage OR on a forum thread. This is a violation of several policies, including the Image policy that states images have to be used within the articles and Forum policy which states not to upload pictures for sole use in a forum thread: fanon does not belong here.
 * 2) The wiki is NOT an image repository. If you want to showcase pictures only in a forum thread, you should use http://imgur.com, http://tinypic.com or some other free image hosting service.

The wiki should be aware of the following consequences if they upload pictures to the wiki for only use on a forum thread:
 * 1) Your first warning will be verbal in the thread in question and your post will either be edited to remove the picture or it will be completely removed. You will also receive a notice via your talkpage informing you of the violation, in case you don't see the verbal warning.
 * 2) The second warning will result in another notice via your talkpage and, depending on the severity, a one day probationary block. In this case, you will be directed to the policies and guidelines of the wiki and expected to read them.
 * If, after two warnings, you still continue to upload pictures for only use in forums, you will receive a 3 day block and further offences will increase block length as deemed necessary by either sysops or forum administrators.

I hope this is now clearer to the wiki community that we don't tolerate the uploader being used for personal reasons.

The moral of this announcement is: Don't upload pictures if you don't plan on adding them to wiki articles.

Thanks for reading,

- Sajuuk 