Template talk:Di-orphaned fair use
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{{editprotected}} Plz, add ru-wiki: [[ru:Template:Orphaned-fairuse]]. Thx. Alex Spade (talk) 17:54, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Request for additional text
Since the template is protected, I cannot edit it, but I think there should be additional instructions added to it, along these lines: "This template may be removed from images that have since been added to articles, but only if such use satisfies the rules regarding fair use." More than once, I've placed this on a copyrighted image, then someone has added the image to an article for which it has no possible claim of fair use. Then someone else comes along and removes the template because it isn't unused. So I have to remove it from the article for which it has no possible claim of fair use, and re-add this template to the image. The whole process would be a lot more streamlined if the editor who removed it had simply checked to make sure the image's use was legit in the first place, so I think this would be good additional instructions to put on the template itself. --Icarus (Hi!) 23:17, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
