Call of Duty Wiki:File rules

Our policies on pictures very simple:

Licenses
When uploading a pictures, ALWAYS remember to add a license. If not, your picture may be deleted.

To add a license, look for the "License" dropdown bar when uploading a picture. the general rule is that all screenshots are under "Copyrighted media" (i.e. Fair Use), so select that when uploading screenshots.

For non-screenshots, look up the copyright status of the picture. If you can't find it, don't upload it!

If you don't know the license, do not guess what it should be, pick a random license, or otherwise license it incorrectly. Doing so accomplishes nothing, as the picture still remains without a correct license.

Tagging pictures
Images of low quality may be tagged with.

Naming pictures
When naming pictures, the title must be relevant to the image, such as File:Vasquez.jpg. Other images of Vasquez, such as File:05.jpg, would not show up in search results and therefore harder to find. Image titles must be (in some way) related to the image itself.

TV pictures
Generally, you shouldn't take photos of the game on your TV. These tend to look horrible, and are of large size when uploaded.

However, a big exception to this are pictures of the PS2 Call of Duty games. Currently, PS2 emulators can barely run the PS2 CoD games, so pictures of TVs with the game on it are the only of source of images for those games.

Graphics settings
When taking pictures, try to make sure that your graphic settings are high and/or at maximum. This makes screenshots look much better.

If you can't up graphic settings without something really bad happening, like your computer exploding, then you can upload a picture with low graphic settings. However, it might be replaced by a picture with better graphics, so don't be angry if it is replaced.

Cropping
After you take a screenshot, you should crop the image so that only the thing you are focusing on is in the image. Infraview has an easy to use cropping system, so grab it if you want a free and easy way to crop pictures.

If you can't, another user will probably go back and crop the image himself.

Personal Images
Personal images are allowed. However, no pornographic or "gross-out" images (such as Goatse) shall be uploaded. Any new uploads of Pimp-My-Gun images, or PMGs, are also not allowed. PMGs added to the wiki on or before May 26, 2011 are allowed to remain on the wiki. Uploading any of these images will result in a ban.

Personal images, when uploaded, should be prepended with "Personal", also possibly with the username of the user uploading it. An example name for a personal image would be File:Personal XxXxNoScopezxXxX 360 quickscope.gif, where the name of the user has also been provided.

Weapons
There is a hierarchy style of naming weapons, this being:

[Weapon] [Attachment/SOPMOD, Grenadier, etc.] [Action being depicted] [Camo] [3rd person/pick up/HUD/Menu icon] [Game].[file extension]

Per some examples:
 * G36C Red Dot Sight MW3.png
 * G36C Red Tiger CoD4.png
 * G36C Iron Sights Red Tiger CoD4.png
 * G36C Dual Mags reload MW3.png
 * G36C Red Dot Sight pickup MW2.png
 * G36C Red Dot Sight Blue Tiger 3rd person MW2.png
 * L86 LSW Grenadier pickup MW2.png

Images of weapons should also be uploaded as a .png to allow for transparency, preferably with an already edited image using Anti-Alising.

Preferably this hierarchy style should be adapted onto other images as well, some examples include "Destroyed Remote Sentry MW3.png", "US Marine M4A1 War Pig CoD4.jpg" and "Mi-8 in-filght CoD4.jpg".

For assistance naming see here

Transparency
Unless it can be proven to look better otherwise, only weapons, vehicles and menu icons are permitted to have transparency enabled (an alpha layer). A guide on how to enable transparency can be found here.

Image effects
Any sort of image after-modification such as drop shadows or shading is prohibited. Feathering may be used with appropriate extent to smoothen a transparent image, though.

Videos
Videos that contain commentary (in the way they are biased) and weapon montages are banned from us on mainspace articles. Videos for your userpage should be done using " " instead of being uploaded. Guides are acceptedable for mainspace use as long as they are of good quality.