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(For information and context, [[User:Lord Emsworth|Emsworth]] seems most concerned with captions on portraits of people.) There is some more guidance about when not to write captions at [[Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject Writing Captions#Standard image types]]. Nominative pictures (which simply serve as an example of the subject of the article with no further information) generally don't need captions at all. In writing captions, I've found that the most difficult are for portraits. Shorter is better, but it's also harder to write concisely, and there's nothing to tell ''about'' a portrait except the date. I agree that the adjacent text should explain the picture in detail, and I also believe that the caption should explain it in brief, as a means of introduction to the adjacent text for readers scanning the article. -- [[User:Ke4roh|ke4roh]] 23:34, Jul 18, 2004 (UTC)
::Actually, the caption text should make readers interested to read the adjacent text. Interested. Waking up. Thus, boring text pieces are not recommendable. For this very reason, the caption text should not answer to everything. But it should steer to the correct portion of adjacent text. [[User:213.243.157.114|213.243.157.114]] 00:19, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
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