Thread:Old McDonald/@comment-26306690-20151226210244/@comment-24494906-20151226215302

You should only permanently upload images that you intend to use for article illustration.

As a test run, we do now allow uploading (almost) arbitrary images for comments, but these uploads are only temporary and will be deleted a few hours to days later and you have to put in the image description/summary. If you don't put in the description or don't edit it into the description page of the image immediately after you uploaded it, the upload will be considered a rule violation. (See Special:Upload for more details.)

We haven't made a decision yet for how to handle images of official art that are only uploaded for use in user profiles or blogs. A decision will be made in the near future, since we're planning to write down and put into effect a detailed image policy soon. But whatever decision we make, we'll probably not force people to remove the images on their profiles who already placed it there before the policy was written down.

I recommend that you always use Special:Upload for image uploads, as you're given the most options there and get a list of the most important rules on image upload.