Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-25980608-20150522212203/@comment-24930713-20150814063354

I feel like you're still not understanding our responses. You aren't, and probably never will be, able to add a non-existing image link to a page and get credit for it when an image with that name is uploaded.

There was nothing to test. We were saying a person will never get credit towards the badge for adding a non-existing image link to a page. There's no way to guarantee the person adding the name will also add the image. It also makes it far too easy for someone to try and spam non-existing image links just so they could get the badge.

The only way to get credit for the badge is to add existing images to an article page. i.e. You must add the image to your wiki first, before trying to use it.