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If you are here to register a complaint regarding this bot's edits, before doing so please note: There is a very clear policy regarding having fair use rationales on fair use images. This policy is located at Misplaced Pages:Non-free content criteria point #10(c). Rationales must be provided for each use of an image. Also please see Misplaced Pages:Fair use rationale guideline. We do not permit fair use, copyrighted images to exist on Misplaced Pages if rationales for that image's use are not provided. Please see Misplaced Pages:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion#Images.2Fmedia #6. Also please see the Wikimedia Foundation's resolution on this matter at m:Resolution:Licensing policy point #4. For quite some time, we have attempted to encourage people to provide rationales. The results of this effort have been dismal at best. The creator of this bot has come under fire for performing this work manually. One of the main complaints is that the effort to tag images could just as readily be spent providing rationales. This is not the case; the uploader and/or user of each fair use image is the person who should provide the rationale. A non-involved editor can not know under what principles the user of an image intended such use as fair use. The use of fair use, copyrighted images on the Wikimedia servers is covered by United States law. Our policies with respect to this bot's actions are based on that law. Please see Fair_use#Purpose_and_character. Bug reports are very welcome; tagging images as this bot is doing per policy is not a bug.

Favorite statements about ORFU images:

Thank you for the message, Mr. Bot, but you have to understand that this image was used in an article, but the article got deleted. PK 18:19, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Stop immediately

You're adding user tags to article pages. Gimmetrow 05:41, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

yeah I just realized that, there was an error in the BOTREQ, Im having that fixed now. β 05:45, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

What is going on?

The bot is tagging images that have a fair use rationale. For example Image:Virtual_Qumran.jpg. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 20:05, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Yes, it has a fair-use rationale, but not a correct one. The fair-use rationale has to be provided for every page it is used on, but now it links to another page. Hope this helps. --Dirk Beetstra 20:42, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Image:The Bachelors Greatest Hits.jpg

I loaded this up thinking it was OK as "cover art" being an album cover, if I am wrong please remove immediately. --Richhoncho (talk) 20:11, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

You have to explain on which page(s) the fair-use rationale is valid. Hope this explains. --Dirk Beetstra 20:59, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Thought you might want to know

Your link to WP:NONFREE in edit summaries is going directly to the edit link instead of the page itself, thus it is showing as red in the edit summaries. IvoShandor (talk) 20:17, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Looks like you caught it before I commented. IvoShandor (talk) 20:18, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Redirects. Again.

Didn't you get in trouble for not recognizing redirects about 5 months or so ago? Well, your bot is ignoring backlink redirects in fair use rationale again. Due to page moves and merges and the like, this is not tenable. Please stop your bot until you fix the problem. SnowFire (talk) 20:19, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

BCBot does now see redirects and follows them, comment from 17 September 2007. Could Betacommand please clear this up quickly or I may block the bot. Haukur (talk) 21:25, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Image:Tuff.jpg

This image was not found in any web site. It was taken from an offline, burned DVD. Please do not remove the image at any costs. Thank you. Jonghyunchung (talk) 20:32, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

But the fair-use rationale is not for the correct page, you might want to repair that. --Dirk Beetstra 20:44, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:STB-tvchannel-logo.jpg

What is wrong whith that image? Cannot be it used as a logo? K r i s t o f 20:37, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Image:Tnp-logo.png

Could anyone help me to put a right fair use template to this image?... Image:Tnp-logo.png I don't understand a thing, and I'd really like to have this problem solved. It would be sad to have this pic removed... Help, please! Klow (talk) 20:42, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

You have to tell for each use why you think that the use is 'fair use' (per WP:NFCC. You can find the instructions on that page. Hope this helps. --Dirk Beetstra 20:57, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Tagging missed redirect

The bot just tagged Image:Shriners.png for not having the article name. However, the FUR did contain a valid redirect to the article name. Should it be checking for this case?--uɐɔlnʌɟoʞǝɹɐs 20:46, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Image:The Amityville Curse 1990 DVD Cover.JPG

Image:The Amityville Curse 1990 DVD Cover.JPG wrongly tagged it would seem by your bot? The DVD cover had the appropriate licensing tag and was only linked to one page? I will check for a link to the article name but was unaware that that was mandatory. What have I missed?--Matilda formerly known as User:Golden Wattle 21:01, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

I have added the fair use rationale using the template but ALL that information had already been included in the summary with, in my view, an adequate and unambiguoius form of words. --Matilda formerly known as User:Golden Wattle 21:10, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Fair use image:Image:Renegades-logo.GIF

This is a logo of an organization, item, or event, and is protected by copyright and/or trademark. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images on the English-language Misplaced Pages, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, of logos for certain uses involving identification and critical commentary may qualify as fair use under United States copyright law.

Logo is of a 501c not-for-profit organization. Also no free equivalent of this image can exist. Use of this image on Misplaced Pages does not restrict its use by the copyright holder. It illustrates the organization or a component or an aspect of the organization in question.Werecowmoo (talk) 21:21, 26 November 2007 (UTC)