Template:Non-free web screenshot/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:Non-free web screenshot.
It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

Usage

Use this template to tag screenshots of copyrighted web pages.

Syntax:

This image is a screenshot of a copyrighted web page, and the copyright for it is most likely held by the owner of the website. It may also contain trademarked logos, which are likely not affiliated with Wikipedia. It is believed that the use of a limited number of such screenshots

for identification and critical commentary relating to the website in question
on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,

qualifies as fair use under the copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information.

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 is not appropriate for images and media found on websites; it should be used for screenshots of websites only. In other words, it should only be used when the subject of the image, not the source of the image, is a website.
Template:Website screenshot rationale may be helpful for stating the rationale.

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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This template has one optional parameter:

Parameter	Description
image has rationale	If it is set to yes, the text at the bottom of the template requesting that the uploader provide a non-free use rationale or not to use this template for media found on a web page is removed.

Usage

See also