Thread:VeganCritter/@comment-27888570-20161114021443/@comment-27025402-20161114022633

Permission should be obtained before uploading the image to the wiki. The images already on the wiki with the "permission needed" tags are from the earlier days of this wiki, when there were no art policies and no one cared. We need to go back and rectify the misappropriation of people's work, so the art caption template makes it easier to notice which of those images need permission.

Ideally, we should ask for an artist's general permission to use their images for illustrative purposes, rather than asking to use a single image. By obtaining blanket permission, we don't have to pester them each time they publish a new piece of art that we think would be nice on the wiki.