Template:Information

Description	This file has no description, and may be lacking other information. Files should have a summary to inform others of the content, author, source, and date if possible. If you know or have access to such information, please add it to the file page. Notify the uploader with: {{subst:add-desc-I|1=Information}}
Source	No source specified. Please edit this file description and provide a source.
Date
Author	This file has no author information, and may be lacking other information. Files should have a summary to inform others of the content, author, source, and date if possible. If you know or have access to such information, please add it to the file page. Notify the uploader with: {{subst:add-author-I|1=Information}}
Permission	See below.

Template documentation

Usage

Full	Without optional fields
{{Information | description = | source = | date = | author = | permission = | other_versions = | additional_information = }}	{{Information | description = | source = | date = | author = }}

Syntax description

Mandatory parmeters

description

Describe of the content, (historical) background, and in the case of scientific data, a brief scientific analysis of the media file.

author

Author(s) of the image. If no individual person is known, use the name of the institution that owns, published or released the file.

Other parameters

source

Explain where the image is acquired from. Please specify accurately. For instance:

1. Work of the uploader himself/herself: Specify author.
2. Acquired from a website: Specify the URL of the web page from which it is acquired. Optionally, include a direct link to the image.
3. Scanned from a book or magazine: Specify the title, author, publisher, publication year, ISBN and page of the book or title, issue, volume, publication month and year, ISSN (if available) and page of the journal. You can use {{cite book}} and {{cite journal}}.

date

Date of creation, or date of publication.

permission

Optional. Not to be mistaken with licence. Description of the permissions granted by the copyright holder. Use only when the accompanying licence tag is not enough. Note that the media file must still be tagged with the appropriate licence template.

other versions

Optional. Links to other versions of this image. The links may be in form of a list of links or thumbnails of the other versions of the image. Please only link to images that can be used instead of the image at hand; do not use this field as a mean of grouping related files. Instead, use categories.

additional information

Optional. Contains other information about this image that doesn't fit somewhere else. For example, information that might be relevant to determining a files proper copyright status (e.g. weblinks) might be provided this way.

Example

Example for File:Arms-carter.png:

Description	Blazon: Azure semé of hearts Argent, a griffin Or armed and beaked Gules
Source	Derived from material found at Wikimedia Commons
Date	10 March 2013
Author	Turnsole
Permission	GFDL