Wikinews talk:Fair use/Amendment to Template:Logo

Discussion

Policy

This is a proposal to modify the image policy so that logos do not require individual fair use rationales. The reasoning is as follows:

• All logos are made to represent a company or some sort of entity
• Entities want you to associate them with the logo
• With exception to a few open source projects (not all), logos are copyrighted and trademarked to the greatest extent possible
• All logos are the same in the above characteristics

Therefore, as all logos are the same, their fair use rationale are the same.

Typing the same thing over and over again is repetitive, if we put it in a central page and transcluded that page, it would reduce typing.

Therefore we should put the fair use rationale in {{logo}} for logos and no longer require individual rationales for logos.

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Comments

Thoughts? Bawolff ☺☻ 05:20, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

I'd suggest a {{logousage}} template with a title parameter, basically a boilerplate of {{wikinews}} for the fair use justification on the image page. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 11:40, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Votes

• Support I thought this was already covered in the policy. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 05:24, 20 January 2008 (UTC)`

Your probably right, wikipedia must have the same issue. Nyarlathotep 10:00, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

• Support --Brian McNeil / ^talk 11:37, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
• Support. --Jcart1534 15:46, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
• Support More sensible than the current system Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 11:12, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
• Support --Skenmy^(t•c•w) 11:26, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
• Support --Anonymous101 Talk 15:52, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
• Support Seems a sensible step to reduce bureaucracy. Adambro - (talk) 17:17, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
• Support with Brianmc's boilerplate. Chris Mann (Say hi!|Stalk me!) 01:27, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Result

Make as policy, clearly unanimous support, per above. Cirt (talk) 13:40, 16 November 2008 (UTC)