Template talk:Non-free use rationale poster

Public domain posters
Many pre-1964 US posters are actually in the public domain, and uploaders of these poster images are thus using this non-free template instead of the correct one. I'm thinking of modifying this template to ask users to include the year of US publication. This would go with a note that pre-1964 US posters are likely to be in the public domain, and a link to instructions about how to check for this. Let me know if any objections. Easchiff (talk) 10:53, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Edit proposal
Only a small edit, nothing important. In this line:

I recommend adding a comma, which produces "help the user quickly identify the work , product".

The same thing here:

Replace the dot with a comma, after work.

And here, we need two more spaces between the comma and product: work,product.

ALittle Que nhi  ( talk to me ) 15:34, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅ -- John of Reading (talk) 06:28, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 15 June 2015
Infobox Purpose of use currently renders two sentences without following spaces: "words alone.The image" and "looking for.Use for". &mdash; ATinySliver &#47; ATalkPage 01:59, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

&mdash; ATinySliver &#47; ATalkPage 01:59, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ -- John of Reading (talk) 06:28, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 19 March 2016
On line 8, please change this:

-->. . nyuszika7h (talk) 11:12, 19 March 2016 (UTC)


 * I freely admit to being confused by this one: Assuming someone was to add this template to File:Get_carter_imp.jpg, the poster for Get Carter (2000 film), what would this modification achieve that's desirable?
 * Can you provide an example of where this modification would prove useful (perhaps the circumstances that inspired the request)?
 * My confusion is not limited to the specifics of this edit request BTW; I fail to understand why  shouldn't contain brackets. fredgandt 18:23, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
 * You misunderstood, the Article parameter already needs to be explicitly specified in the fair use rationale (it can't guess), and PAGENAMEBASE is called with that as an argument, so it won't return the file name, but rather the specified article title with the disambiguation tag removed. This change only affects the description, where the disambiguator is unnecessary, for example on File:Hellions poster.jpg: "This is a poster for Hellions (film)." It would still show the complete article name below, but it's not necessary in the description as especially with the italics it sounds like the work is called "Hellions (film)". This can be fixed with Hellions, but it's better to have the template automatically strip the disambiguation tag. nyuszika7h (talk) 18:59, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Unless the template is being used incorrectly at File:Hellions poster.jpg, this is an example of the endless fun that can be had at the hands of "brackets" -_-
 * Sensibly assuming that " ..., no brackets" means " ... , no square brackets" i.e. "no need to add wiki markup to form a wikilink", then this request (and the template's doc) makes much more sense :-)
 * Thank you for the example, it helps make a decision. I'll be back when my mind is less scrambled, or someone else might deal with it in the interim. fredgandt 19:13, 19 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the template.
 * Automatically stripping parenthetical additions to any given Article name may not be suitable in all cases, and the  of the work should only specified where it's different from the article name. The fallback to the use of the value of   where   is included but has no value is therefore a pretty strange thing to do in the first place. Utilising and then altering this fallback behaviour for unpredictable cases is a lazy exploit IMO, and this change would force an unexpected result. My opinion aside, this would change the behaviour of this template, and as such, consensus should be sought. If it is agreed by discussion with an appropriate group of users that this change should be made - please resubmit or reopen your request. fredgandt</i></b> 01:00, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

Author
This template automatically categorizes files into Category:Files with no machine-readable author, yet there is no author field. How do we avoid such categorization? —  Jeff G. ツ (talk)   13:31, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Apparently, we don't. Came here for the same reason. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 18:02, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Well then, good luck emptying that cat.  — Jeff G. ツ 18:06, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Working on it. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 18:08, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

Incorrect italics
The description section automatically italicizes Article which is bad for a number of reasons. If the article title is dismabiguated it italicizes it as well. Also, this template is also used for posters which are for television episodes. Italics are not used for them at all. --Gonnym (talk) 09:59, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Support, but Gonnym which series have enough budget for a poster per episode?  — Jeff G. ツ 18:11, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. for example has a lot, of which en.wiki uses 20+. --Gonnym (talk) 11:54, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 6 November 2020
Please change "This is a poster for" to "This is the poster for" in the file description Rodney Araujo Tell me - My contributions  10:21, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the template. Changes the meaning of the sentence, is it really likely to be singular and primary? ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 13:44, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Singular, yes. Primary, not so much.  — Jeff G. ツ 18:08, 5 December 2020 (UTC)