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What makes an image fair use?
Fair use allows certain uses of copyrighted works without obtaining permission from the copyright owner. Fair use allows copying of copyrighted material in an educational setting, such as a teacher or a student using images in the classroom.
How do you delete a picture from Wikipedia?
You can’t delete photos directly, but you can request that the photo be deleted. One of Wikipedia’s “speedy” deletion criteria (allowing pages to be deleted without further discussion) is “author request” (general criterion 7, or G7 for short).
Does Wikipedia have copyright?
The text of Wikipedia is copyrighted (automatically, under the Berne Convention) by Wikipedia editors and contributors and is formally licensed to the public under one or several liberal licenses. The licenses Wikipedia uses grant free access to our content in the same sense that free software is licensed freely.
How do you delete a Wikipedia account?
Basically, click on the “More” dropdown at the top of the page (the delete option will only appear if you are an administrator logged in to your account), enter a reason (or edit the automatically supplied reason), and hit delete. That’s all there is to it.
When does an image need to be deleted from Wikipedia?
Images that have been listed there for more than 7 days are eligible for deletion if either a consensus to do so has been reached or no objections to deletion have been raised. Users may feel attacked or demoralized when a large number of their uploads are nominated for deletion all at once.
What are the conditions for the use of an image on Wikipedia?
Fair use/non-free: You believe that the image meets the special conditions for non-free content, which exceptionally allow the use of unlicensed material, and you can provide an explicit non-free use rationale explaining why and how you intend to use it ( example, see below for details). Wikipedia encourages users to upload their own images.
Do you have to tag an image on Wikipedia?
Image description pages must be tagged with a special tag to indicate the legal status of the images, as described at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags. Untagged or incorrectly-tagged images will be deleted.
What should I do if someone uploads an image on Wikipedia?
This page in a nutshell: Be very careful when uploading copyrighted images, fully describe images’ origins and copyright details on their description pages, and try to make images as useful and reusable as possible.