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Thanks for uploading File:Chowan University logo.svg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of non-free use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 03:12, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Minorax. Can you please double check what you did at File:University of Warwick logo.svg? You've added both a non-free an PD license to the file's page, and this is causing bots to treat the file as non-free. If you feel the file is non-free, you should replace the {{Information}} template you added with a non-free use rationale template and remove the PD license; otherwise, the file is at risk of being tagged as a WP:NFCC#10c violation by a bot and removed from the articles it's being used in per WP:NFCCE in addition to being reduced. If, on the other hand, you feel the file is PD, then you should remove the non-free license before the unused revisions are removed by a bot per WP:F5.

One more thing if you're arguing that the file is too simple to be eligible for copyright protection in the US per c:COM:TOO US even though it might still be protected in the UK. You probably would be better off using the license {{PD-ineligible-USonly}} instead of {{PD-USonly}}; the syntax would be {{PD-ineligible-USonly|United Kingdom}}. You could also add {{Insignia}} or {{Trademark}} of you want. -- Marchjuly (talk) 13:11, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. Seems like I copied it from File:University of Warwick logo.jpg and forgot to change it to PD-textlogo. Can I also check what's the difference between {{PD-ineligible-USonly}} and {{PD-USonly}}? --Min☠︎rax^«¦talk¦» 13:20, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Most of the license template used on Wikipedia and Commons were probably created by Wikipedians or Commons users; so, their wording was probably just meant to make their use a bit easier to understand. From a copyright law standpoint, either if probably OK, but "PD-ineligible-USonly" was probably just worded to better deal with things like logo files because the US's TOO tends to relatively high in comparison to some other countries, whereas the wording of "PD-USonly" is a bit more general and might work better for works too complex to be things "PD-logo" or "PD-shape" under US copyright law but which still might be PD for something other than a TOO reason. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:26, 17 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]