Template:Non-free video game cover

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 //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Non-free_video_game_cover true

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 should only be used for video game covers. Either of the following may be helpful for stating the rationale: Template:Game rationale or Template:Non-free use rationale video game cover. Additionally, please specify at least one platform in the first parameter. See usage below. 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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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.)

Maintenance

If categories are merged or renamed, add a switch line into the sub-page Template:Non-free video game screenshot/platform, e.g.

 | Microsoft Windows = Windows

See also

• {{Non-free use rationale video game cover}}

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