Template:Game rationale

This template should always be substituted (i.e., use {{subst:Game rationale}}).

Summary

Non-free media data
Description	Cover of {{{1}}}.
Source	{{{2}}}
Portion used	Game cover only.
Low resolution?	Sufficient resolution for illustration, but considerably lower resolution than original.
Other information	Copyright owned by {{{2}}}.

Non-free media use rationales

Non-free media rationale – WARNING: `{{{1}}}` does not appear to exist! Check capitalization. Enter only the exact title of a single article with no [[link brackets]] or other formatting. It is also possible the indicated article was deleted.
Article	[[{{{1}}} ]]
Purpose of use	Used for purposes of illustration in an educational article about the entity represented by the image. The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of this article topic.
Replaceable?	Image is protected by copyright, therefore a free use alternative won't exist.

Licensing

WikiProject Video games

This image is cover art for 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 images of game cover art

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 United States copyright law. Other uses of this image may be copyright infringement. For more information, see Wikipedia:Non-free content. Fair use

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Usage:

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

{{Non-free video game cover|Windows|Macintosh|Linux}}

or

{{Non-free video game cover|Windows}}

or just

{{Non-free video game cover}}

if the platform is unknown. (For the platform names you can use, see the subcategories of Category:Video game covers.)

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This template provides a Non-free use rationale and licensing template appropriate for cover art of computer and video games.

Usage

{{subst:game rationale|1=Article name|2=person or company owning the copyright}}
- "Platform" for {{Non-free game cover}} defaults to video
{{subst:game rationale|1=Article name|2=URL of source for file|3=person or company owning the copyright}}
- "Platform" for {{Non-free game cover}} defaults to video
{{subst:game rationale|1=Article name|2=URL of source for file|3=person or company owning the copyright|4=game platform}}
- Can only use one platform parameter- see {{Non-free game cover}} for available parameters

No description.

Template parameters
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
No parameters specified

Notes

You must subst: this template in order for it to work properly