User:CmdrDan/Best practices/Headshots

There are a lot of pages on en.wikipedia.org about People.

Many of these articles use the template: Infobox_person.

Infobox_person includes an image field which the documentation says,"should be representative of the person." But, not only is there not a sample photograph, the image on the template page is--well--it's not representative of the person because it's not a person! Here's the placeholder:

I would really like some guidance on the recommended size of the image--but there isn't any.

I very much welcome guidance, suggestions, and feedback on image sizing and also cropping guidelines.

As of 31 March 2025, the Infobox_person uses four Lua Modules:

As I've never really given much thought to LUA let alone LUA modules other than, "LUA sounds cool and interesting and I should learn how to use it" I really don't know what the above modules do. The one that sounds like it might have something to do with images is InfoboxImage (duh.). Good news: Only one of these is Image related: Module:InfoboxImage, but I really don't know what this does. The Overview says: This module is used within infoboxes to process the image parameters and tidy up the formatting of the result.

I am pretty sure that I have to explicitly invoke a LUA script at least that's what the Sample and Examples section show

People

Bradley Graham

Bradley Graham needs nifty gallery display

Jessica Meir

I encountered Ms. Meir by chance on the street; on 8th Avenue and 57th Street in Manhattan. I noticed the Time 100 pin she was wearing and asked if she was one of the honorees. When she told me who she was I asked if I could take some photos of her for Wikipedia. She agreed.

Jessica Meir with nifty gallery display

Michael Rezendes

Michael Rezendes with nifty gallery display

Elaine Sciolino

Elaine Sciolino needs nifty gallery display

Elise Stefanik

Elise Stefanik with nifty gallery display

Sources:

Template:Infobox person
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Images
Wikipedia:Image use policy
Head shot
Category:Headshots of men
Category:Headshots
File:Corporate headshot.jpg

Imagestack of Elise_Stefanik_in_2017