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::::Unless it's a symmetric object, I'd leave the choice to the painter (or the photographer). Here I don't mind that much, since I picked [[John Adams]] primarily because I recalled that the template for US Presidents includes an image and he was just the first one to look to out of the article (BTW the third image in the article even more so). -- User:Docu

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::There are a lot of articles in Wikipedia that have images or diagrams that are already sized to be displayed as-is, without thumbnails, and which also have captions. As soon as I found out about this new image syntax the very first thing I did was try to create such an non-thumbnail image/caption structure with it, and was puzzled when it didn't. I think it's not at all overkill to display the caption text as a caption too, since that's one of the main things I want to ''do'' with images. :) [[User:Bryan Derksen|Bryan]] 00:41, 3 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Could someone vistit [[Monument to the Royal Stuarts]], and fix the nifty magnifying glass thing, which I copied from [[Athens]], so that it leads to the big version of the photo as it is supposed to. The big version is uploaded as <nowiki>[[Image:ac.stuarts.jpg]]</nowiki> and the small version as <nowiki>[[image:ac.stuarts2.jpg]]</nowiki>. Obviously I have missed a step in the process somewhere. [[User:Adam Carr|Adam]] 11:41, 1 Feb 2004 (UTC)

:With the new version, you need just one picture. I changed it on the page. Hope you like the result. -- User:Docu

Many thanks. So I just upload the big version, and then specify in the edit box the width I want the small version to appear as, is that correct? [[User:Adam Carr|Adam]] 11:54, 1 Feb 2004 (UTC)

*Yes, but I haven't tried out all options yet. A quick way to do it, seems to be <nowiki>[[Image:ac.stuarts.jpg|thumb|Monument to the royal Stuarts, Rome]]</nowiki> -- User:Docu

::Have you been here yet: [[Wikipedia:Extended image syntax]]? There are examples of the different options that you can copy and paste. :) [[User:Fabiform|fabiform]] | [[User talk:Fabiform|talk]] 13:40, 1 Feb 2004 (UTC)

::: Here's the code I'm now using for a large pic with its associated thumbnail, it seems to work fine:

<nowiki>[[image:yourfilename.jpg|thumb|right|300px|<center>yourpicturetitle</center>]]</nowiki>

:::Put double apostrophes around the picture title to give the italics.<br> DON'T UPLOAD A THUMBNAIL, the new code does it for you.

:::The result is a centred, italicised, caption and a nice-looking thumbnail 300 pixels wide and set on the right of the article. Go to [[Morris Marina]] to see how it all turns out.

:::Can I suggest that 300 pixels be the standard thumb width, it makes a thumbnail big enough so that the reader is not forced to view the big pic but not so big that the text is squeezed into a narrow channel on an 800 by 640 screen.<br>

:::[[User:Arpingstone|Adrian Pingstone]] 15:28, 1 Feb 2004 (UTC)

::::I second this suggestion. A standard width of 300px would be perfect. [[User:Hadal|Hadal]] 16:32, 1 Feb 2004 (UTC)