MediaWiki:Uploadtext

Before you upload, read Elite Dangerous Field Manual:Image Use Policy — in short: only upload images you personally captured or created, never something copied from Fandom, Reddit, Discord, YouTube, another wiki, or a search-engine image result.

Which Licensing option do I pick?

Almost every upload to this wiki will be an ordinary gameplay screenshot — pick "Elite Dangerous in-game screenshot" unless you have a specific reason not to:

• Elite Dangerous in-game screenshot — the normal choice. A screenshot you captured yourself: an Engineer headshot, a ship, a station or facility, a UI element, a location, anything captured from within the game.
• Official Frontier / Elite Dangerous media — only for media Frontier Developments itself released (press kit assets, official screenshots, promotional art) — not something you captured in-game.
• Original work — creator retains copyright — a diagram or graphic you made, not a screenshot of the game (e.g. a hand-drawn route map).
• CC BY 4.0 / CC BY-SA 4.0 — original work you made and are deliberately releasing under a Creative Commons license.
• Used with explicit permission — someone else's image, used with their explicit, documented permission. Rare — most uploads shouldn't need this.
• Public domain — genuinely public domain (expired copyright, government work, etc.), with the reason stated in the description. Not a fallback for "I don't know the license," and not correct for game assets, which aren't public domain.

There is deliberately no generic "unknown" or "fair use" option — every upload needs one of the classifications above.

Fill in the description box

The description box below is already pre-filled with an empty {{EDFM image information}} skeleton — fill in the fields that apply and delete the rest. This records the picture's own provenance (what it shows, who captured/made it, how it's been modified, what it's for, who owns the underlying material) as a separate == Summary == section — kept apart from the == Licensing == section the dropdown above generates, and apart from the subject's own article, which is where gameplay facts belong. For example, a Professor Palin headshot captured in-game:

{{EDFM image information
 |description = In-game portrait of Professor Palin, a Ship Engineer in Elite Dangerous.
 |subject = [[Professor Palin]]
 |subject_type = Ship Engineer
 |captured_by = Your commander name
 |modifications = Cropped to portrait framing
 |intended_use = Identification and illustration on the Professor Palin article.
 |copyright_holder = Frontier Developments plc
}}

Only state capture_date or modifications if actually known — leave them out rather than guess. See Elite Dangerous Field Manual:Adding an Image for the full walkthrough.