Wikipedia talk:Non-free use rationale guideline

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Doubt on use of Rationale image in other articles

I have a doubt on any rationale provided image. Example i would like to use is 'File:Amol Palekar with Zarina Wahab, Master Raju, Vijayendra Ghatge, singing Aaj Se Pele, in Chitchor, 1976.jpg. This screenshot image has a Non-free rationale from 2008 and is used in the article for 1976's Bollywood film Chitchor, of whose it is a screenshot. The guidelines do not allow a non-free rationale for images of Living people to be used in the infobox of these people. But can we use this image in the article about that person? I intend to use it for the BLP article of Vijayendra Ghatge whose Free picture is not available for use. -Animeshkulkarni (talk) 15:41, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

If I want

If I want to upload a logo of an organization How can I upload it.. I will have to upload it to wikipedia or wikimedia commons. Can someone briefly discuss about it.... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aizaz Ur Rahman (talk • contribs) 22:28, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

Why Rationalize?

Hello, I have a question: why rationalize fair use? Any use on Wikipedia is fair by default as per a universal presumption of innocence—whatever it may be, it is used fairly unless proven otherwise. As such, Wikipedia and its editors are not in the slightest obliged to give anyone any explanations or rationale whatsoever. Clearly the rationales serve no purpose other than wasting digital space and helping potential challengers find words of accusation easier by obtaining apriori knowledge of Wikipedia′s fair use argumentation—helping enemies. The rationales are optional at best—unnecessary complications—so I′m asking you: when did you all forget how to apply Occam′s Razor? Resources shouldn′t be wasted on awkward apologies. 95.220.226.75 (talk) 19:21, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

All Wikimedia projects work on a free content mission, with an allowance for exceptional uses of non-free material to help comprehension. As such , our requirements for non-free images are purposely more stringent than US Fair Use law to assure we are working towards free content and minimize use of non-free content. To comply with the Foundation's non-free exception doctrine policy we need to include rationales to explain why the images are being used. --MASEM (t) 19:25, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Is there a difference between a "non-free" and "fair-use" rationale? I recently posted a few images to a character-list and they were reverted. The claim was the images were there to simply "decorate" the page. I find this to mean that this is a disagreement on the image so I wonder if I the image need a different rationale. NintendoFan (Talk, Contribs) 10:22, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

WHAT TO DO ?

I have been given permission through e-mail from THE PHOTOGRAPHER & AUTHOR himself to use two photos related to articles Sonny Johansson and Landskrona BoIS. The permission was given directly to me through e-mail, and the photos came from the Archivist that also recieved the permission. All the photographer BERTIL PERSSON, he is born in 1935, and he only asks of me to print his name on the photo. And so I have done. "Donated for use at Wikipedia by BERTIL PERSSON" may clearly be seen in full view. Photo isn't for any other use. I cannot possibly ask of him to make an upload them here. I goes above MY HEAD aswell. Please tell me what to do and where. Authors e-mail is in the Summary, by the way. Boeing720 (talk) 07:41, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

You'll want to follow the instructions over at WP:CONSENT for how to submit work that others have donated (namely, we'll need them to send email to a specfic address to affirm their allowance for use. --MASEM (t) 13:04, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

Add Template:Non-free use rationale 2

Could a mention of Template:Non-free use rationale 2 and the fact that it is sufficient to meet the NFCC be added to this article? That template is what the File Upload Wizard adds to many fair use files uploaded to Wikipedia (at least most, if not all, the ones I've uploaded). This created confusion with a recent file that was uploaded with fair use rationale included in the NFUR2 template. The file was quickly nominated for speedy deletion (diff) despite having clear and detailed information in the NFUR2 template. A couple other editors then claimed that the article must have the NFUR template for each article, which was the reason for the speedy deletion claim, despite the fact that the NFUR2 template has a parameter for "Use in article" with the correct article wikilinked. The image now has both templates, which isn't appropriate/necessary. The main difference between the templates that I think could create this confusion is that the NFUR template includes the article name in the header, but NFUR2 doesn't. Refer to: image in question, brief contested deletion discussion on image talk page, extended discussion on article's talk page (it will likely be archived soon, then search for "Infobox photo choice" discussion). AHeneen (talk) 18:29, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

I think there was some other issues on that image, but I definitely don't see why the second NFC template was added to the page, since the one you had was sufficient. I have added the ref to NFUR2 as well as the note that templates are not required to meet NFC. --MASEM (t) 20:19, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Using Gold Records images

I am writing a wiki page about a mastering engineer and with his permission, have taken several pictures of Gold and Platinum Records that have been awarded to them by the record labels in hopes to use them in the article. It has their name on the award so it needs to be large enough to be able to see it. I see that album covers are allowed (which is on the award as well) so am trying to figure out where and how I can upload the images to be used in my article correctly. They will go next to the list of credits to illustrate the sales of the records. I would really appreciate the help in doing this properly as it's really confusing to me. Thank you so much! Dmileson (talk) 11:54, 29 March 2015 (UTC)