Board Thread:Policies/@comment-18172179-20150605035016/@comment-3361105-20150605040831

fair use covers educational purposes.

So, the thing to remember when uploading images is that you must be able to answer the question, "how does uploading this image demonstrate the thing I am trying to identify and/or portray?"

You can't just upload a page for the sake of uploading a page and call it fair use. It has to fit the criteria laid out in F:

So, that means that unless your image is serving to illustrate the subject of an article or part of that article, it does not fall under fair use, as far as it is covered by the umbrella of educational purposes.

Uploading an entire comic does not qualify, unless its pages are used in different places on the wiki - and the likelihood of every page of a comic meeting the above criteria are... near nil.

Not to mention that if there is something you could just as easily explain in text, then there's no need to use an entire page of a comic. We prefer to use single panels and textless covers for character images, etc. However, a page like One Punch requires more than a single panel, because it has a setup and a punchline.

If they come from wikipedia, we are required to attribute them and use the same rights that were used there. If we can't do that (in most cases, we can't), we can't use that image. That is why we are trying to use DC's own images, or images that we take ourselves at conventions, to serve these purposes. (staff, etc).