Template:No licence
• Files without licences marked with this template are listed in Category:Media without a license or one of its subcategories.
• If the file is without a known open licence: Ask its uploader to clarify situation or find a replacement and replace its uses. In case of a replacement from Wikimedia Commons, mark file with {{Superseded by Commons}}.
• If uploader was notified this month: Use
{{No licence|subcategory=uploader notified 2024, August}}
– to put media into Category:Media without a license - uploader notified 2024, August and mark image as one where uploader was notified.• If no action taken helped or the file is a known copyright violation then you should remove its uses and mark the file with {{Delete}}.
↑ This template should only be used on file pages.
Note to editors: Please don't categorize this template by editing it directly. Instead, place the category in its documentation page, in its "includeonly" section.
Usage
Use this template to indicate that a file has missing licence information. The template does not provide a license it just indicates its absence.
{{No licence}}
{{No licence|optional comment}}
{{No licence|subcategory=uploader notified 2024, August}}
to also put image into specified category, in this case into Category:Media without a license - uploader notified 2024, August.
Note: "uploader notified" subcategories can be used only if uploader was notified that their file has some problems.
We have a number of templates that seem to be based on Wikipedia ones, whose use are documented here on Wikipedia.
The Unknown template was used both as a table cell template and as a license template for uploaded files with an "I am not sure choice" for the license, so has been modified to work as before in namespaces other than File, and to show "Unknown license" in the File namespace.
It adds page to Category:Media without a license
Note that there are thousands of files where this template would be applicable. In case of adding this - consider notifying uploader on their talk page and asking to clarify licensing status. Category:Media without a license has potentially useful template of such request.
No description.
Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
---|---|---|---|---|
nocat | nocat | insert anything to switch-off categorisation
| Boolean | optional |
category | category | adds a category | Unbalanced wikitext | optional |
subcategory | subcategory | add a subcategory, commonly used to document when an uploader was notified about the missing licence, category name starts with "Media without a license - "
| String | optional |