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=== Captions ===

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Photographs and other graphics should always have captions, unless they are "self-captioning" images (such as reproductions of album or book covers) or when they are unambiguous depictions of the subject of the article. In a biography article no caption is necessary for a portrait of the subject pictured alone; but one might be used, to give the year, the subject's age, or other circumstances of the portrait along with the name of the subject.

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==== Formatting of captions ====

* Captions normally start with a capital letter.

* Most captions are not complete sentences but merely [[sentence ~~fragment~~]]s that should not end with a period. However, if any complete sentence occurs in a caption, then every sentence and every sentence fragment in that caption should end with a period.

* Most captions are not complete sentences but merely [[Wikipedia:Sentence fragment|sentence fragments]] that should not end with a period. However, if any complete sentence occurs in a caption, then every sentence and every sentence fragment in that caption should end with a period.

* The text of captions should not be specially formatted, except in ways that would apply if it occurred in the main text ~~(e.g., italics for the Latin name of a species)~~.

* The text of captions should not be specially formatted, except in ways that would apply if it occurred in the main text.

* Captions should be succinct; more information about the image can be included on its description page, or in the main text.

* Captions for technical charts and diagrams may need to be substantially longer than those for other images. Captions for technical images should fully describe all the elements of the image and indicate the image's significance.

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-{{main article|Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Captions}}
 Photographs and other graphics should always have captions, unless they are "self-captioning" images (such as reproductions of album or book covers) or when they are unambiguous depictions of the subject of the article. In a biography article no caption is necessary for a portrait of the subject pictured alone; but one might be used, to give the year, the subject's age, or other circumstances of the portrait along with the name of the subject.
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 ==== Formatting of captions ====
 * Captions normally start with a capital letter.
-* Most captions are not complete sentences but merely [[sentence fragment]]s that should not end with a period. However, if any complete sentence occurs in a caption, then every sentence and every sentence fragment in that caption should end with a period.
+* Most captions are not complete sentences but merely [[Wikipedia:Sentence fragment|sentence fragments]] that should not end with a period. However, if any complete sentence occurs in a caption, then every sentence and every sentence fragment in that caption should end with a period.
-* The text of captions should not be specially formatted, except in ways that would apply if it occurred in the main text (e.g., italics for the Latin name of a species).
+* The text of captions should not be specially formatted, except in ways that would apply if it occurred in the main text.
 * Captions should be succinct; more information about the image can be included on its description page, or in the main text.
 * Captions for technical charts and diagrams may need to be substantially longer than those for other images. Captions for technical images should fully describe all the elements of the image and indicate the image's significance.