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The following are draft Wikipedia guidelines for the use of diagrams and maps in articles.
Diagrams (including charts) and maps are valuable additions to Wikipedia pages when they fulfil these criteria:
- They give an explicit presentation that is directly relevant to the subject of the article(s) in which they appear[clarification needed]
- They are fully consistent with, and support, the surrounding text[clarification needed]
- Their style and density of information are chosen to appeal to a general reader[clarification needed]
Other qualities such as being entertaining, "eye-candy", startling or artistically rendered do not compensate for lacks in the above criteria. Avoid chartjunk.