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Please follow these terms while uploading:

1. BIONICLE related images ONLY - Only BIONICLE related images are to be uploaded. No personal images like your cat, your "expensive" sofa or your "supercool" MOC.
2. No direct linking - Read the bottom section of this policy.
3. Absolutely NO personal pictures. - Please use Maj or other image hosting sites for uploading personal pictures.
4. No fan-made MOCs. Only MOCs that have been accepted into the BIONICLE storyline may be uploaded. e.g. Krakua
5. No pornography or sexual innuendos -- This should be simple logic, but it will be stated anyways. Nothing sexual AT ALL.
6. Do not upload images to use as an example. If you wish to show something in an image, or ask if an image can be used on the site, host it elsewhere and link to it so it can be looked at. Do not upload it.
7. Signatures - The only pictures permitted to be included in signatures are those hosted on an image hosting site, not linked to from BS01. In addition, they must not be overly large, distracting, or make noise.
8. BZPower year images (those spinning masks) are not allowed to be used on this site unless you have earned them on BZPower. This is done out of respect for BZP and its members who have earned such things. If members who haven't earned them can't use them on BZP, then the same should go here.

Image Use on Articles: Templates/Gallery

Below are the order in which images should be used:

1. Comics
2. CGI
3. Sets
4. Flash
5. Movie

The reason for the change of order is that characters such as the Toa Inika and the Barraki would never appear in movie form, and thus movie is not the most important version of an image. Comics are common, thus they are given more priority. CGI is almost abundantly common, and thus it is second. (Movies after BIONICLE 3: Web of Shadows are counted as CGI, not Movie.)

When using please use the best quality of that file. This does not mean "Movie is best, so use Movie all over the place!" but rather to say, "If the highest image category on the list is the least great quality, look at the next one down. If none of them match the quality of Movie, use movie."

When sorting in Galleries, please follow this format for more organized reference.

The only exceptions to this rule are the Locations pages and the Kanohi pages. In the case of Locations pages, the order is of the following:

1. Movie
2. Comics/CGI
3. Flash

Set images of a Location should not be used. As for Kanohi pages, set images are the top priority and should be the only ones used on the main templates.

Personal Images

1. No religious content - Just as BIONICLE doesn't involve religion, neither do we. So don't have a picture of a cross or the Star of David.
2. Nothing that discriminates against a certain sex, race, gender, nationality, etc. It simply will not be tolerated on this Wiki.
3. No pornography or sexual innuendos - Once again, nothing sexual AT ALL.

Direct Linking

When you use an image that's from another site, that image is hosted somewhere on the Internet. When you use an image, the site that it's hosted on must pay money for the use of bandwidth; therefore, if you use an image from a website without its consent, you are stealing bandwidth, and money. That's called Direct Linking, and is removed from pages, because it's not allowed on the Wiki. There are some specific sites, called Image Hosting Sites, such as Maj.com and Brickshelf, that allow you to host your images there. If you direct link from your homepage or a Freewebs account, that’s okay, because it’s coming from yourself. They are only to be used on your own pages! For chronicle pages please just upload them as it is easier to use them.

Bottom line is, if the image is on a site you do not own or have permission to directly link to (like Brickshelf and Maj), you may not direct link to it.

Information extracted from BZPower.