Editing Encyclopedia:Image use policy (section)

===Required information===
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*An '''[[Wikipedia:Image copyright tags|Image copyright tag]]'''
*'''Description:''' The subject of the image. This should explain what the picture is of (ideally linking the article(s) it would be used on), and other identifying information that is not covered by the bullets below. For example, a picture of a person taken at a public event will often identify that event and the date of the event. (This is different from the image's caption or alt-text, and might be more descriptive than these.)
*'''Origin (source):''' The copyright holder of the image or URL of the web page the image came from
:*For an image from the internet the URL of an HTML page ''containing'' the image is preferable to the URL for just the image itself.
:*For an image from a book this is ideally page number and full bibliographic information (author, title, ISBN number, page number(s), date of copyright, publisher information, etc.).
:*For a self-created image, state "Own work" (in addition to an appropriate copyright tag, such as {{tl|self}} or {{tl|PD-self}}).
*'''Author:''' The original creator of the image (especially if different from the copyright holder).
*'''Permission:''' Who or what law or policy gives permission to post on Wikipedia with the selected image copyright tag
*'''Date''' the image was created, if available; a full date, if available, is better than simply the year
*'''Location''' at which the image was created, if applicable and available. This can be as specific as a GPS-derived longitude and latitude.
*'''Other versions of this file''' on Wikipedia e.g. cropped or uncropped, retouched or unretouched.
*'''Rationale for use''' (only required for [[WP:NFC|non-free images]]). A separate non-free rationale is required for each use of the image on the English Wikipedia. Details of what is required for the non-free rationale is described in more depth [[WP:NFC#Implementation|on the non-free content page]].