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Note if a request was recently declined for a given user/permission, a bot will comment with a link to that discussion. You may wish to ping the administrator who declined the previous request asking for their input before responding to the new request. To grant the permission: Grant the user right(s) to the user at Special:UserRights.
This page is intended as boilerplate text for requesting permission to re-use somebody else's content in Wikipedia. To do this, they must re-license it under the Creative Commons Attribution, Attribution-ShareAlike, CC0 or a compatible license.
If a user already has the requested permission, or is autoconfirmed and requesting confirmed, {{already done}} should be used. N hours after the last comment was made (as specified by the config ), the request will be archived automatically: approved requests will be placed here ; declined requests will go here .
The information should be as specific as possible, i.e. why you need to use the image as part of the article. Adding this information is no guarantee that the image will not be later removed, but it will demonstrate a rationale to others that you may have a valid justification for including fair use materials that can be used under the GFDL.
The rationale to use the non-free content is necessary to show that the non-free content criteria have been met. The rationale should clearly address and satisfy all ten points of WP:NFCC . A generic template, {{ Non-free use rationale }} , may be used for any non-free media.
This wasn't exactly a request for permission, more a clarification that a person who already granted permission was in a position to do so. commons:User:Radustefanescugross uploaded numerous images of George Ştefănescu's paintings (on Commons) and marked them with [[:commons:template:Bild-CC-by-sa/2.0/de]]. I corresponded with him to verify ...
Template:Non-free use rationale may be helpful for stating the rationale. This tag is not a sufficient claim of fair use. To patrollers and administrators : If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.