Template:Non-free fair use
- To illustrate the subject in question
- Where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information
- On the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,
qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Copyrights.
- Please add a detailed non-free use rationale for each article the image is used in, which must also declare compliance with the other parts of the non-free content criteria, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.
- For example non-free use rationales, see Wikipedia:Use rationale examples.
- Template:Non-free use rationale may be helpful for stating the rationale.
- This tag is not a sufficient claim of fair use.
|image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template..svg){kind=link}
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NOTE: This template does not replace {{Non-free use rationale}}, which is required on the image description page to explain how the image is used in a way consistent with Wikipedia's non-free content criteria.
Place this template in image description pages of non-free images that do not fall into one of the blanket acceptable non-free content categories listed at Wikipedia:Non-free content § Images or Wikipedia:Non-free content § Audio clips.
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This template should be used on the description page of non-free images that do not fall into one of the blanket acceptable non-free content categories. It does not replace the non-free use rationale template, which is required on the image description page to explain how the image is used in a way consistent with Wikipedia's non-free content criteria.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image has rationale? | image has rationale image_has_rationale | This parameter should have the value “yes” if a rationale is provided for the image. | String | optional |