Topic on User talk:ThunderKat

File:Steins;Gate 0 cover art.jpg

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Looney Toons (talkcontribs)

Just a reminder, ThunderKat, per wiki rules, the terms of our licensing and copyright law, we require a license when you upload an image, and we'd really like a URL to where you got it in case we ever have to replace it. The image you uploaded over the weekend, File:Steins;Gate 0 cover art.jpg is lacking both. Can you please provide at least an appropriate license, even if it's just fair use? Otherwise we'll be forced to delete the image to protect the wiki from legal liability.

Thank you!

-- Looney Toons, admin

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ThunderKat (talkcontribs)

By the way, here's a link to the source just in case: []

ThunderKat (talkcontribs)

Hi Looney.

I just got your message, I just want to ask: how do I go about obtaining a license?

Looney Toons (talkcontribs)

It's not a matter of obtaining, you simply have to declare it on uploading. It's all there in the help page I linked you to above.

In the case of an image acquired from Wikipedia like this one, what you do is at upload time you would go the the Licensing dropdown and pick the option that reads "I got this from Wikipedia or another Wikimedia project, and the file will be used in a way that qualifies as fair use under US law". Then you paste at least part of their licensing justification into the description. Here, take a look at a file from Wikipedia I uploaded yesterday: File:Squid_Game.jpg.

When you edit a file after it's uploaded, you don't get the licensing combobox, so you'll have to add the license manually. That's done by just adding

== Licensing ==
{{From Wikimedia fairuse}}

to the file description. To get the license terms from Wikipedia, you click on the image, and if necessary the blue "details" button in the lower right corner of the page that appears when you do that.

If you upload a file from another source, the choice of license will be different. But generally if it's not a Creative Commons license like FANDOM/Wikia uses, you can simply declare "Fair Use" ("This will be used in a way that qualifies as fair use under US law" in the drop-down). If you choose fair use, though, we have to use the file somewhere, otherwise we're legally required to delete it.

ThunderKat (talkcontribs)

Hi, it's me again.

Just letting you know that the issue has been taken care of, and I hope it is near enough to what you need. I apologise for any headaches this may have caused, and thanks for your assistance.

- Kat

Looney Toons (talkcontribs)

No problem, and it's perfect. Given how many people in similar situations have flat out refused to even respond to messages like these (and subsequently got their uploads deleted to protect the wiki), it's a delight to run into someone who actually is willing to do the right and necessary thing. Thank you.

ThunderKat (talkcontribs)

No worries at all! I'll just have to be a little more careful in future.