UniWiki:Manual of Style/Captions: Difference between revisions

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=== Clear identification of the subject ===

One of a caption's primary purposes is to identify the subject of the picture. Make sure your caption does that, without leaving readers to wonder what the subject of the picture might be. Be as unambiguous as practical in identifying the subject. What the picture ''is'' is important, too. If the illustration is a painting, the painter's ~~Wikilinked~~ name, the title, and a date give context. The present location may be added in parentheses: ([[Louvre]]). Sometimes the date of the image is important: there is a difference between "King Arthur" and "King Arthur in a 19th-century watercolor". If the image of the painting is on the page for the artist's biography, wikilinking the artist's name is not needed. See below for more details. If the image depicts the subject of the article, it need not be wikilinked. For instance, if the article is about [[J. D. Salinger]] and the image depicts him, his name should not be linked.

One of a caption's primary purposes is to identify the subject of the picture. Make sure your caption does that, without leaving readers to wonder what the subject of the picture might be. Be as unambiguous as practical in identifying the subject. What the picture ''is'' is important, too. If the illustration is a painting, the painter's wikilinked name, the title, and a date give context. The present location may be added in parentheses: ([[Wikipedia:Louvre|Louvre]]). Sometimes the date of the image is important: there is a difference between "King Arthur" and "King Arthur in a 19th-century watercolor". If the image of the painting is on the page for the artist's biography, wikilinking the artist's name is not needed. See below for more details. If the image depicts the subject of the article, it need not be wikilinked. For instance, if the article is about [[Wikipedia:J.D. Salinger|J. D. Salinger]] and the image depicts him, his name should not be linked.

=== Succinctness ===

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 === Clear identification of the subject ===
-One of a caption's primary purposes is to identify the subject of the picture. Make sure your caption does that, without leaving readers to wonder what the subject of the picture might be. Be as unambiguous as practical in identifying the subject. What the picture ''is'' is important, too. If the illustration is a painting, the painter's Wikilinked name, the title, and a date give context. The present location may be added in parentheses: ([[Louvre]]). Sometimes the date of the image is important: there is a difference between "King Arthur" and "King Arthur in a 19th-century watercolor". If the image of the painting is on the page for the artist's biography, wikilinking the artist's name is not needed. See below for more details. If the image depicts the subject of the article, it need not be wikilinked. For instance, if the article is about [[J. D. Salinger]] and the image depicts him, his name should not be linked.
+One of a caption's primary purposes is to identify the subject of the picture. Make sure your caption does that, without leaving readers to wonder what the subject of the picture might be. Be as unambiguous as practical in identifying the subject. What the picture ''is'' is important, too. If the illustration is a painting, the painter's wikilinked name, the title, and a date give context. The present location may be added in parentheses: ([[Wikipedia:Louvre|Louvre]]). Sometimes the date of the image is important: there is a difference between "King Arthur" and "King Arthur in a 19th-century watercolor". If the image of the painting is on the page for the artist's biography, wikilinking the artist's name is not needed. See below for more details. If the image depicts the subject of the article, it need not be wikilinked. For instance, if the article is about [[Wikipedia:J.D. Salinger|J. D. Salinger]] and the image depicts him, his name should not be linked.
 === Succinctness ===