Template:Improve images

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This template indicates that the article needs additional or more specific images. If placed on an article in the category "living people" it also invites the article subject to submit an photograph of themselves, directing them to TechInfoDepot:A picture of you.

This template is intended for article space, and may be placed at the top or at the bottom of the page. Place it at the top when you feel the lack of images is urgent; place it at the bottom if you feel a top placement would draw undue attention to the article's image status. Either way, placing this template adds the article to the Category:Articles needing additional images category (or one of its subcategories, see |date= below), where editors go to find articles in need of improvements related to images.

Use this template both for when the article needs more images, more specific images, and when the article needs better images (acknowledging that the article already contain a sufficient number of images).[lower-alpha 1] If the article currently has no images, consider using {{Image requested}} instead.

If the template is placed on the biography of a living person, it will display the additional text:Template:Xtn2

Parameters

  • |talk= If there is an existing discussion on the article's talk page, you can link directly to the discussion using |talk=Discussion name. Note: supply the talk section header directly; the linking is made automatically. If you omit this parameter, the talk page is linked to in general, unless placed on a page in the category "living people", in which case the invitation replaces the general talk link (but not any specific link supplied by including this parameter)
  • |type= The text you supply for this parameter gets added just before the word "images", so you can have the template say "This article needs clearer images" by supplying |type=clearer
  • |reason= can be used to provide clarification on the request. This text gets appended to the end of the template

This template also includes standard support for the |date= parameter. Adding this parameter sorts the article into a dated subcategory of Category:Articles needing additional images and out of the parent category, allowing the oldest problems to be identified and dealt with first. A bot will add this parameter if it is omitted.

Example usage

Basic usage

{{Improve images|date=December 2025}}

Detailed usage

{{Improve images|date=December 2025|type=clearer|reason=The current image is blurry and the subject is difficult to identify.|talk=Image is blurry, does anyone have a better one?}}

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template, which is used by TemplateWizard, the VisualEditor and still other tools.

TemplateData for Improve images

Adds a reader-facing request for images

Template parameters

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
Image typetype

A simple description of the type of image requested

Suggested values
clearer biographical more relevant additional
Example
less blurry
Stringsuggested
Datedate

Month and year the template was placed

Stringrequired
Reasonreason

Suffix for the template to provide additional details

Example
The current image is blurry.
Stringoptional
Talk page discussiontalk

The relevant discussion on the talk page

Stringoptional

See also

Template:Media request templates

Notes

  1. Per this TfD discussion the {{Better image requested}} template was merged into this template.