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*If the photographer/site hosting the image restricts the use or viewing of the image, then it cannot be show on this site, however a simple link to the image is allowed.
 
*If the photographer/site hosting the image restricts the use or viewing of the image, then it cannot be show on this site, however a simple link to the image is allowed.
 
*External images must conform to this sites policies and may not be of a spam/advertising nature.
 
*External images must conform to this sites policies and may not be of a spam/advertising nature.
 
==Article Naming, Renaming, and Redirects==
 
Asylum Projects is not like other wikis like Wikipedia where they continually change the names of articles whether because the subject of the article has changed it's name or by consensus votes.  The institutions that are the subjects of this site do not change their names too often, thus our article should not have to see renaming all that often.
 
 
===Naming New Articles===
 
When naming new articles, take into account the other names of the subject if you can.  Then select either the most popular name (usually the name that gets the most search hits) or then subjects/institutions most current name.  Either name will do and should be used.  Try not to use nick names and names that were not officially used. 
 
 
===Renaming Articles===
 
Because the subject of the articles rarely change their names, we should not use that as a criteria to rename an article.  If the subject does rename itself, then it's better to just add that new name to the alternate names section of the article's infobox.  The only reasons an article should be renamed is because the name had spelling errors or was a name that the institution had never used.
 
 
===Redirects===
 
Instead of renaming the article, it is better and easier to just create a redirect and using the new name to redirect back to the original article.  That way if someone types in the new name, they'll go to the article that has the information they were looking for.  Plus, it allows for more then one name to direct to one article.  Article redirects should be based off of the names in the alternate names section of the infobox.
 
  
 
==Referencing==
 
==Referencing==

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