Template:Non-free video game screenshot/doc

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Usage

This template accepts the platform(s) as parameters to better categorize the tagged image.

WikiProject Video games

This image is a screenshot from a video game, and its copyright is most likely held by the game's publisher or developer. It is believed that the use of low-resolution screenshots

to visually identify the game in question
on the English Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,

constitutes fair use under the Copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image may be copyright infringement. For more information, see Wikipedia:Non-free content. Fair use

To the uploader:

Please add a detailed non-free use rationale for each article the image is used in, which must also declare compliance with the other parts of the non-free content criteria, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.
For example non-free use rationales, see Wikipedia:Use rationale examples.
This tag should only be used for video game screenshots.
Either of the following may be helpful for stating the rationale: Template:Game rationale or Template:Non-free use rationale video game screenshot.

To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.

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or

WikiProject Video games

This image is a screenshot from a video game, and its copyright is most likely held by the game's publisher or developer. It is believed that the use of low-resolution screenshots

to visually identify the game in question
on the English Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,

constitutes fair use under the Copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image may be copyright infringement. For more information, see Wikipedia:Non-free content. Fair use

To the uploader:

Please add a detailed non-free use rationale for each article the image is used in, which must also declare compliance with the other parts of the non-free content criteria, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.
For example non-free use rationales, see Wikipedia:Use rationale examples.
This tag should only be used for video game screenshots.
Either of the following may be helpful for stating the rationale: Template:Game rationale or Template:Non-free use rationale video game screenshot.

To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.

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or just

WikiProject Video games

This image is a screenshot from a video game, and its copyright is most likely held by the game's publisher or developer. It is believed that the use of low-resolution screenshots

to visually identify the game in question
on the English Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,

constitutes fair use under the Copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image may be copyright infringement. For more information, see Wikipedia:Non-free content. Fair use

To the uploader:

Please add a detailed non-free use rationale for each article the image is used in, which must also declare compliance with the other parts of the non-free content criteria, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.
For example non-free use rationales, see Wikipedia:Use rationale examples.
This tag should only be used for video game screenshots.
Either of the following may be helpful for stating the rationale: Template:Game rationale or Template:Non-free use rationale video game screenshot.
Additionally, please specify at least one platform in the first parameter. See usage below.

To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.

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if the platform is unknown. (For the platform names you can use, see the subcategories of Category:Screenshots of video games.)

If arcade is used as a parameter, it must be in the first position, e.g.

WikiProject Video games

This image is a screenshot from a video game, and its copyright is most likely held by the game's publisher or developer. It is believed that the use of low-resolution screenshots

to visually identify the game in question
on the English Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,

constitutes fair use under the Copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image may be copyright infringement. For more information, see Wikipedia:Non-free content. Fair use

To the uploader:

Please add a detailed non-free use rationale for each article the image is used in, which must also declare compliance with the other parts of the non-free content criteria, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.
For example non-free use rationales, see Wikipedia:Use rationale examples.
This tag should only be used for video game screenshots.
Either of the following may be helpful for stating the rationale: Template:Game rationale or Template:Non-free use rationale video game screenshot.

To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.

</syntaxhighlight>

Maintenance

If categories are merged or renamed, add a switch line into the sub-page Template:Non-free video game screenshot/platform, e.g. <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" style="font-size: normal"> | Microsoft Windows = Windows</syntaxhighlight>

Usage

Maintenance

See also