Template:Non-free biog-pic
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This photograph is copyrighted and is NOT under a free license. However, it is believed that the use of this work:
- to provide visual identification of one or more specific individual(s), or an identifiable gathering of them,
- where the individual(s) concerned are deceased, or where access would for practical purposes be impossible,
- and for whom there is no known representation under a 'free' license,
- 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.
To the uploader:
- 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 biog may be helpful for stating the rationale.
- This tag should only be used for biographical images, typically those used to identify the subject.
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Usage
- {{Non-free biog-pic}}
If the image has an appropriate rationale then a reviewer will append
|image has rationale=yes
This will stop the message in the lower part of the template from being displayed.
Use of this template in the File space assigns pages to Category:Non-free biographical images.
If |year= is defined, and Category:Non-free biographical images published in ''year'' exists, the page will be assigned to that subcategory instead of to the general Category:Non-free biographical images.
See also
- {{Non-free use rationale biog}}, may be used in addition to this template to state the rationale for Fair Use