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Template for images or content that can be uploaded via Wikipedia's fair use policy, meant to facilitate creating non-free use rationales with the necessary components. Please read Wikipedia:Non-free content for the relevant policies. This template is used by the Wikipedia:File Upload Wizard.
This page provides some basic examples for how to write a fair use rationale. Good rationales might expand on why the non-free item is needed, why a free item cannot be used in its place, and what essential function it performs in each article in which it is to be used. Please modify the text so that it applies to the specific image and use of it.
If the template has a separate documentation page (usually called "Template:template name/doc"), add [[Category:Non-free use rationale templates]] to the <includeonly> section at the bottom of that page.
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Template for images or content that can be uploaded via Wikipedia's fair use policy, meant to facilitate creating non-free use rationales with the necessary components. Please read Wikipedia:Non-free content for the relevant policies. This template is used by the Wikipedia:File Upload Wizard.
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. To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license ...
This template is optimized for book cover art used in the article about the book. It may or may not work in other contexts. For example, this non-free use rationale may not be appropriate for images of magazines, comic books, collections, or alternate editions. Before saving, try the "preview" feature to review the text produced by this template.
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