| abstract | - A user image is not:
* any image which appears on a user page or user signature It's possible to use pictures on your user page which appear on other pages around the wiki. To put it into concrete terms, a picture of you is a user image, because it won't appear on another page of the wiki — unless you happen to have worked on a Doctor Who-related project. A simple screenshot of the First Doctor is likely not a user image — unless you have heavily altered it.
* an avatar image Avatar images appear to the left of your name on your user page. Avatar images are held on the wikia, not the tardis.wikia, domain. They follow you around regardless of the particular wiki you're on. We here at Tardis have no power to regulate them.
* an image you have uploaded to demonstrate a technical problem on the wiki Sometimes, things go wrong on the wiki. In such instances, we want you to feel free to upload images which demonstrate whatever technical problems you're having. Even though these images may reside on your user talk page, or an admin's, these are not user images.
* images you currently have in a sandbox subpage of your user page Sometimes, editors create a sandbox on a subpage of their user page, so that they can work on articles or templates they intend to later upload to a different namespace. They may have a picture on such a page which is destined to be in normal article space or template space, but which isn't there yet. Such pictures aren't user images. For instance, if I'm rewriting Steven Taylor on a subpage of my user page, I might put some pictures of Steven there which don't yet appear elsewhere on the wiki. These aren't user images, despite being located in the user namespace, because I never intended them to adorn my user page.
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