Template:Non-free use rationale

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This template facilitates creating a non-free or fair use media rationale with the necessary components. Please read Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline before using this template.

Usage

To use the template, copy the empty template to an image or other media file (see Help:Files) where the content is regarded to be non-free, and fill in applicable fields (described below).

{{Non-free use rationale
| Description       = 
| Source            = 
| Article           = 
| Portion           = 
| Low resolution    = 
| Purpose           = 
| Replaceability    = 
| Other information = 
}}

Description

A description of the copyrighted material. Always include the copyright holder here.

Source

Where you acquired the copyrighted material, or how you recreated it.

Article

The exact name of the Wikipedia article in which the media is to be used (unlinked, as the template will link automatically).

Portion

How much copyrighted material is used? The amount used must not make the work as a whole less valuable to the copyright holder.

Low resolution

Is the material in a lower resolution that would be unlikely to impact the copyright owner's ability to resell or otherwise profit from the work? For raster images, this would be strictly the resolution (in pixels) of the picture used; for vector graphics, this would involve the level of detail in the image; for audio, this would be the bit rate and sample resolution used.

Purpose

How does the media contribute significantly to the article(s) in which it is used? The use of the media must not interfere with the media's original purpose.

Replaceability

Explain why sourced text or equivalent free content media (perhaps to be obtained or created) could not adequately convey the article subject.

Other information

If applicable, provide any other information that justifies the current use of this non-free media. This variable is optional, and can be blank or removed.

Example

{{Non-free use rationale
| Article           = Strong Poison
| Description       = Book cover of ''[[Strong Poison]]''.
| Source            = Derived from a digital capture (photo/scan) of the book cover (creator of this digital version is irrelevant as the copyright in all equivalent images is still held by the same party). Copyright held by the publisher or the artist. Claimed as fair use regardless.
| Portion           = Book cover only, a small portion of the commercial product.
| Low resolution    = Yes
| Purpose           = The image serves as the primary means of visual identification of the subject (the book). It illustrates educational articles about the book from which the cover illustration was taken.
| Replaceability    = There is no free equivalent of this book cover, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.
| Other information = The use of the cover will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original. In particular, copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the book.
}}

See also

• {{Non-free use rationale 2}}, an alternative to {{Non-free use rationale}}.
• For more specific rationale templates, look in Category:Non-free use rationale templates.
• A different approach is to use {{Non-free media data}} combined with {{Non-free media rationale}}, which is less clumsy in situations where an image is used in multiple articles.
• A derivation of this template, optimized for use on copyrighted logos, is {{Non-free use rationale logo}} which automatically includes rationale text relevant to that use case.
• For free images, you may use {{Information}}.

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools.

Non-free use rationale

Template for any images or content that can be uploaded via Wikipedia's fair use policy.

Template parameters[Edit template data]

This template prefers block formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Special_header	Special_header	no description	Unknown	optional
Article	Article	The article the file will be used in. It must actually be in the mainspace (i.e. the article space)	Page name	required
Description	Description	A description of the file	Unknown	suggested
Source	Source	Enter the source of the file	URL	suggested
Portion	Portion	The portion of the non-free file used Example The whole work is used to prevent misinterpreting the work	Unknown	suggested
Low resolution	Low resolution Low_resolution Resolution	Indicate that this file has low resolution. Example This image's size and resolution is sufficient enough to provide identification of the work. But the low resolution would make it unsuitable for stolen versions and reproduction/replication elsewhere.	Unknown	suggested
Purpose	Purpose	The purpose the non-free media will serve in the article. Example This non-free art will be the primary form of identification of the subject of the article in the infobox used in the article.	Unknown	suggested
Replaceability	Replaceability	Indicate why this non-free content cannot be replaced by free content (existing or not created yet) Example Because this work is non-free, any free substitute would either be a copyright violation or misinterpret the work.	Unknown	suggested
Other information	Other information other_information	Enter more information that may be relevant. Example This file's source indicates that they allow the file to be copied verbatim, without modifications. This does not meet the criteria for free content, and is thus non-free.	Unknown	optional

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