Hypixel SkyBlock Wiki:Image Policy

Images are an important part of a wiki. They help users visualize how the game looks, thus assisting the user's intuition. Images often come hand-in-hand with licenses and other legal matters, thus they must be handled with care. This page outlines guidelines for the usage of images.

Legal Consideations
In general, images uploaded to this wiki are one of the following:
 * Own Work: You own all rights to the image, usually meaning that you created it entirely yourself. In case of a photograph or screenshot, you must also own the copyright for all copyright-protected items (e.g. statue or app) that appear in it. This means that renderings, or screenshots are not considered as your own work.
 * Freely Licenced: The copyright holder permitted you to use the image, but with specific terms, or policies, regarding how and where you can use it. This includes Minecraft textures, as Mojang have published everything with a commercial use licence.
 * Public Domain: The copyright holder gave up on the copyright, and you may use it for any purpose with no terms or policies surrounding it.
 * Fair Use/non-free: You believe that the image meets the terms specified below under the "Fair Use" section.

Own Work
If you made the image entirely, and it is not a screenshot, nor a render, and it does not contain anything protected inside the photo, then you have all the rights to use it, and you may upload the image at your will. Users are encouraged to create their own creative work!

Freely Licenced
Licences, such as the CC-BY-SA, or the GPL are permitted to be uploaded to the wiki, as long as you follow all the requirements stated within the licence. These images include screenshots from Minecraft, or renderings from Minecraft, but not skins/textures made by Hypixel. Freely licenced images are usually clearly marked, so they should be easy to find. Minecraft has special guidelines regarding this, and they are available at, and they can be marked with mcc.

Public Domain
Public domain images are not copyrighted, and copyright law does not restrict their use in any way. Fandom wikis are hosted within the united states, therefore, they must comply with US laws.

Images may be placed into the public domain by their creators, or they may be public domain because they are ineligible for copyright or because their copyright expired. In the U.S. as of January 1, 2021, copyright has expired on any work published anywhere before January 1, 1926. Although U.S. copyrights have also expired for many works published since then, the rules for determining expiration are complex.

In the U.S., reproductions of two-dimensional public domain artwork do not generate new copyright; (see Bridgeman v. Corel.) Scans of images alone do not generate new copyrights—they merely inherit the copyright status of the image they are reproducing. For example, a straight-on photograph of the Mona Lisa is ineligible for copyright.

Works must usually entail a minimum amount of creativity to be copyrightable. Those that fail to meet this threshold of originality and are therefore not copyrightable, fall instead into the public domain. For instance, images that consist only of the simple typeface are generally public domain (though they may yet be trademarked). Editors must be aware of the origin country of the image, as the threshold of originality may vary significantly among jurisdictions.

If you strongly suspect an image is a copyright infringement, you should list it for deletion; see Deleting images below. For example, an image with no copyright status on its file page and published elsewhere with a copyright notice should be listed for deletion using Delete.

Fair Use
See this page for details.

Watermarks
Images with watermarks should not have the watermarks removed, but they may be uploaded to the wiki under fair use guidelines per DMCA Section 1202.

Terms of Service
The FANDOM terms of service, under USER CONDUCT, all content must not:
 * Abuse, harass, threaten or intimidate other Fandom users;
 * Post or transmit any content that is obscene, pornographic, abusive, offensive, profane, or otherwise violates any law or right of any third party, or content that contains homophobia, transphobia, ethnic slurs, religious intolerance, or encourages criminal conduct;
 * Post any illegal or unauthorized content or use for any illegal or unauthorized purposes;
 * Not to upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party

This means, that all content, including images, must not be obscene, pornographic, abusive, offensive, profane, or violate laws.

Reporting content that violates your intellectual property rights
To file a report regarding a violation of your rights, please contact us via OTRS at. If this does not resolve your issues, please contact FANDOM at

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Before any image gets uploaded, it must meet this policy, or it will be deleted for legal/policy reasons.

Non-free images
Non-free images must meet the fair use criteria from both international and US laws, and they must be tagged with {{t|Fairuse}. If it does not, it will be deleted for legal reasons.

Public domain
Images that belong to the public domain should be marked with a PublicDomain license.

Free licenses
Certain free licenses, such as the CC-BY-SA or similar licenses, should be marked with CC-BY-SA or GPL licenses.

Out-of-context images
Unused images that do not pertain to Hypixel SkyBlock or it's close related topics such as Hypixel should be deleted.

Unused images
Unused images that are not used in the mainspace are subject to deletion at any time.

NSFW
Any image that contains any hint of pornographic/sexual content is not only subject to deletion, an indefinite block, but also being reporting to Fandom staff, as such images are a violation of Fandom's Terms of Service.