The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. The result of the discussion was Approved.

Operator: MBisanz ^talk

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic & Unsupervised

Programming Language(s): AWB

Function Summary:Correcting copyright compliance tags on image pages

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): repeated runs

Already has a bot flag (Y/N):Y

Function Details:This task will take instances of improperly named image copyright tags on Image: pages and correct them to the standard naming convention. It will convert things such as {{Product-cover}} to {{Non-free product cover}} to increase the machine readability compliance of the NFCC rules.

So basically you are 'fixing' links to redirects? Can't the machine just be made smarter? -- maelgwn - talk 05:53, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not really, the issue is machine readability, and we can't assume every machine scraping our pages will know to follow the templates and categories. Plus this was done before on 70,000+ images, so this is just getting the remainder it missed. MBisanz ^talk 05:55, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What sort of 'machines' are we talking about? :-S -- maelgwn - talk 06:39, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Automated tools owned by people who reuse our content, such as say a user on commons who wanted to scrape us for free-images or another user looking to republish WP sans the non-free content. This has been done to tens of thousands of images, this is just to bring the last set into compliance. MBisanz ^talk 06:50, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Also, per consensus at Wikipedia:Non-free content/templates, all nonfree templates should be in this form. MBisanz ^talk 09:05, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Is there any harm, in doing this task? I see a benefit, but, I do not see any harm. SQL^{Query me!} 06:54, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to see a more detailed task description, however, for this. SQL^{Query me!} 06:58, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

These templates will be renamed per discussion at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Image_copyright_tags:

• {{BC-traffic-sign}}->{{Non-free BC-traffic-sign}}
• {{BCRP}}->{{Non-free BCRP}}
• {{Boardgamecover}}->{{Non-free Boardgamecover}}
• {{CartoonNetworkImageTag}}->{{Non-free CartoonNetworkImageTag}}
• {{Cereal box cover}}->{{Non-free Cereal box cover}}
• {{Denver Public Library images}}->{{Non-free Denver Public Library images}}
• {{Diagnostic}}->{{Non-free Diagnostic}}
• {{DisneyImageTag}}->{{Non-free Disney image}}
• {{Dutch-politician-photo}}->{{Non-free Dutch-politician-photo}}
• {{ESA media}}->{{Non-free ESA media}}
• {{EU image}}->{{Non-free EU image}}
• {{FinnishDefenceForces}}->{{Non-free FinnishDefenceForces}}
• {{Flagimage}}->{{Non-free Flagimage}}
• {{HKGovtCopyright}}->{{Non-free HKGovtCopyright}}
• {{IEEPA sanctions}}->{{Non-free IEEPA sanctions}}
• {{Indian-politician-photo}}->{{Non-free Indian-politician-photo}}
• {{Malaysian politician photo}}->{{Non-free Malaysian politician photo}}
• {{Money-EU}}->{{Non-free Money-EU}}
• {{Money-EU banknote}}->{{Non-free Money-EU banknote}}
• {{Money-EU coin common}}->{{Non-free Money-EU coin common}}
• {{Money-Switzerland}}->{{Non-free Money-Switzerland}}
• {{NZ-Currency}}->{{Non-free NZ-Currency}}
• {{NZCrownCopyright}}->{{Non-free NZCrownCopyright}}
• {{WWE-photo}}->{{Non-free WWE-photo}}
• {{USPSstamp}}->{{Non-free USPSstamp}}
• {{Robert Richardson image}}->{{Non-free Robert Richardson image}}
• {{School logo}}->{{Non-free School logo}}
• {{Softwarecover}}->{{Non-free Softwarecover}}
• {{Speech}}->{{Non-free Speech}}
• {{Sports uniform}}->{{Non-free Sports uniform}}
• {{StateGov-AK}}->{{Non-free StateGov-AK}}
• {{StateGov-AL}}->{{Non-free StateGov-AL}}
• {{StateGov-AR}}->{{Non-free StateGov-AR}}
• {{StateGov-AZ}}->{{Non-free StateGov-AZ}}
• {{StateGov-CA}}->{{Non-free StateGov-CA}}
• {{StateGov-CO}}->{{Non-free StateGov-CO}}
• {{StateGov-CT}}->{{Non-free StateGov-CT}}
• {{StateGov-DE}}->{{Non-free StateGov-DE}}
• {{StateGov-FL}}->{{Non-free StateGov-FL}}
• {{StateGov-GA}}->{{Non-free StateGov-GA}}
• {{StateGov-HI}}->{{Non-free StateGov-HI}}
• {{StateGov-OH}}->{{Non-free StateGov-OH}}
• {{Parliament of Australia}}->{{Non-free Parliament of Australia}}
• {{Permission-Microsoft}}->{{Non-free Permission-Microsoft}}
• {{PhilippinesGov with fair use}}->{{Non-free PhilippinesGov with fair use}}
• {{Old-50}}->{{Non-free Old-50}}
• {{Old-70}}->{{Non-free Old-70}}
• {{Official document}}->{{Non-free Official document}}
• {{Fairuseair}}->{{Non-free air}}
• {{FairusewithNC}}->{{Non-free withNC}}
• {{FairusewithND}}->{{Non-free withND}}

As well as correcting images transcluded with redirects to: {{Non-free Olympics logo}} {{Non-free Otto Perry image}} {{Non-free Scout logo}} {{Non-free Wikimedia logo}} {{Non-free album cover}} {{Non-free album cover/proposed}} {{Non-free audio sample}} {{Non-free book cover}} {{Non-free building}} {{Non-free card}} {{Non-free character}} {{Non-free comic}} {{Non-free computer icon}} {{Non-free currency}} {{Non-free currency - UK}} {{Non-free fair use HoF}} {{Non-free fair use in}} {{Non-free film screenshot}} {{Non-free game cover}} {{Non-free game screenshot}} {{Non-free historic image}} {{Non-free logo}} {{Non-free magazine cover}} {{Non-free mugshot}} {{Non-free music video screenshot}} {{Non-free newspaper image}} {{Non-free parody}} {{Non-free poster}} {{Non-free product cover}} {{Non-free recording medium}} {{Non-free reduce}} {{Non-free seal}} {{Non-free sheet music}} {{Non-free software screenshot}} {{Non-free stamp}} {{Non-free stamp of Canada}} {{Non-free stamp of India}} {{Non-free standard test image}} {{Non-free symbol}} {{Non-free television screenshot}} {{Non-free unsure}} {{Non-free video cover}} {{Non-free video sample}} {{Non-free video screenshot}} {{Non-free vodcast screenshot}} {{Non-free web screenshot}} {{Non-free-NASA}} {{Non-free promotional}} {{Non-free media}} {{Non-Free Political party trademark}} {{Non-commercial from license selector}} {{Non-free 2D art}} {{Non-free 3D art}} {{Non-free Crown copyright}} {{Non-free FirefoxWiki}} {{Non-free Mozilla logo}}

So when all is said and done, the only image copyright tags transcluded to non-free image pages will be in the proper format of {{Non-free X}}. MBisanz ^talk 07:30, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It seems to me that a number of these templates should be deleted rather than renamed ({{Permission-Microsoft}} being the most blatent). Also, {{Old-50}} and {{Old-70}} aren't really copyright tags. --Carnildo (talk) 07:41, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If any need to be TFD' thats fine with me, I just did one of the Train one's yesterday and others a couple weeks ago. Of course any that redlink won't be renamed or will carry over the TFD. Also, what should Old-50 and Old-70 be called then, since they are in the category with all the other licensing tags? MBisanz ^talk 07:43, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Interestingly enough, {{Permission-Microsoft}} survived a TfD this January. Also, we should look at cleaning up the names and capitalization of some of these before they are moved. For example, {{Cereal box cover}}->{{Non-free Cereal box cover}} should be {{Cereal box cover}}->{{Non-free cereal box cover}}. I would also rename the "StateGov" ones to "USStateGov." - AWeenieMan (talk) 16:07, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Disregarding problems with some of the templates, this is a good idea and should be approved. If we want Wikipedia content to be reusable, we need to clearly distinguish between free and non-free content, and the established way to do that is to have non-free copyright tags start with "Non-free". rspeer / ɹəədsɹ 04:42, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, all the renaming has been done. Now to wait a couple days for it all to populate through and for me to code the bot replacement schema. MBisanz ^talk 06:21, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've updated the replacement list, which can be seen at User:MBisanz/BotR. MBisanz ^talk 04:48, 6 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. giggy _(:O) 04:13, 7 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

{{BAGAssistanceNeeded}} Trial completed at [1] ran as expected. AWB tells me there will be 5688 remaining images to correct if/when the bot is approved. MBisanz ^talk 06:29, 8 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

As noted on IRC, please link to a page with a full list of template changes in the edit summary, and remove the "using AWB" so it's a bit easier on the eyes.  Approved. giggy _(:O) 06:33, 8 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.