Category:Image Links: Difference between revisions

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At {{SITENAME}}, pictures are a great way to show some tropes. On these pages, you can post links to what you think are great examples of a given trope.

# '''Post links, not pictures:''' Do not post just the image address. That actually hotlinks the image, and will suck up bandwidth. Links are text, and even if there is a long, descriptive paragraph about the picture, it's likely to take up less than 1 kilobyte. Even a tiny avatar pic is bigger than that.<ref>To make it a link, surround ~~the~~ ~~address~~ with double ~~bracket~~ ~~characters,~~ ~~like~~ ~~this:~~ <nowiki>[[an address]]</nowiki></ref>

# '''Post links, not pictures:''' Do not post just the image address. That actually hotlinks the image, and will suck up bandwidth. Links are text, and even if there is a long, descriptive paragraph about the picture, it's likely to take up less than 1 kilobyte. Even a tiny avatar pic is bigger than that.<ref>To make a local image a link, surround its name with double brackets and add a colon just after the opening brackets; for example, <nowiki>[[:File:Example.jpg]]</nowiki>. To make an internet address a link, surround it with single brackets and add a description after a space; for example, <nowiki>[http://example.com/example.jpg Here's an example]</nowiki>.</ref>

# '''Do not post anything explicit or link to sites known for explicit material:''' It's not that we're prudes here. We want as many people to see our site as possible, and getting blocked because we link to [[Not Safe for Work|porn sites]] is not something we want.

# '''Do not link to malicious sites:''' As in don't link to any site prone to have spyware and viruses that attack any computer that goes to them. If you're not sure about the site, ''don't link to it''.