Template:Non-free
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- This template will categorise tagged articles into Category:Articles with improper non-free content.
- This template is not useful for Wikipedia:Subst.
Usage
This template should be used on the following (Note that the specific criteria of concern has to be stated in the edit summary when using this template):
- Pages containing non-free content for which, to serve the purposes of that specific page, equivalent free content is available or could be created (WP:NFCC#1).
- Pages containing non-free content that is not necessary (or is more than is necessary) to significantly increase the reader's understanding of the page's topic (WP:NFCC#3a and WP:NFCC#8).
- Pages containing non-free, non-Wikimedia-owned content in locations where non-free content is not permitted, such as user pages or templates (WP:NFCC#9).
- Pages containing non-free content with no rationale for its use on that specific page (WP:NFCC#10c).
- Do not place this tag on pages with excessive or inappropriately used free images.
See also
- Wikipedia:Copyright problems § Instructions - for a more detailed description on how to use this template as well as the other related templates
- {{Db-g12}} – for speedy deletion of blatant text copyright violations involving an entire article
- {{Copyvio}} – for blanking entire articles or sections of article that violate copyright but do not meet the speedy deletion criterion
- {{Copyvio-revdel}} – for requesting a revision deletion after infringing material has been wiped
- {{Copyvio link}} – for just tagging a single external link, rather than an entire page
- {{Copyright violation}} – inline version to tag a sentence or paragraph
- {{Copypaste}} – for articles or sections that appear to be copy-pasted from another source
- {{Close paraphrasing}} – can be used when content was apparently copy-pasted but also slightly reworded
- {{Non-free}} – for flagging articles that may use excessive amounts of non-free material
- {{Cclean}} – for notifying a removal of infringing material on articles' talk pages
- {{Uw-copyright}}, {{Uw-copyright-link}}, {{Uw-copyright-new}}, {{Uw-paraphrase}}, {{Welcome-copyright}} – for warning users who violate copyright
- {{CCI}}, {{CCId}}, {{CCI-notice}}, {{CCI-project}}, {{CCI-subject}} – talk page notices regarding contributor copyright investigations
- {{copied}}, {{translated page}} – to show where page text originates, from other pages or from other language wikis, respectively
- {{Backwards copy}} – to show a source has copied Wikipedia, not the other way around