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Category:Media without a license: needs history check

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{{en|Files which might be lacking a license, flagged by CatScan2 tool as not transcluding {{tl|License template tag}} template. Usually images and us in this category because:
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{{en|Files which might be lacking a license, flagged with help of CatScan2 tool as not using any of [[Commons:Copyright tags|main-stream license templates]]. Usually images and us in this category because:

#They originally had a valid license, but lost it due to vandalism or some editor's mistake. In this case original license should be restored.

#They originally had a valid license, but lost it due to vandalism or some editor's mistake. In this case original license should be restored.
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#License template is imbedded in {{tl|Information}}, or similar template, which is not displayed properly because of {{}} bracket imbalance. In this case please fix wikicode.
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#License template is imbedded in {{tl|Information}}, or similar template, which is not displayed properly because of {{}} bracket imbalance or some other syntax error. In this case please fix wikicode.
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#License template has a typo. In this case please fix wikicode.
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#License template has a typo - either name or brackets. In this case please fix wikicode.

#The license template was never added to the image. In this case, one should either add a license, if possible (there is OTRS ticket, license is described but no template added, license can be deduced based on other metadata, etc.) or the image should be tagged with {{tl|no license}} template. Some images that never had a license were copied from one of the wikipedias, but a matching license was not identified. Some of them name the license, or license template but do not use license template.

#The license template was never added to the image. In this case, one should either add a license, if possible (there is OTRS ticket, license is described but no template added, license can be deduced based on other metadata, etc.) or the image should be tagged with {{tl|no license}} template. Some images that never had a license were copied from one of the wikipedias, but a matching license was not identified. Some of them name the license, or license template but do not use license template.

#Image is using some exotic rarely-seen license which is not written following standards of most license templates. More specifically its layout is not defined by one of the standard [[:Category:Style formatting templates|style formatting templates]]. Please list such templates in the talk page of this category. Some of those might be [[:Category:User custom license tags|User custom license tags]] which do not transclude an actual license template.

#Image is using some exotic rarely-seen license which is not written following standards of most license templates. More specifically its layout is not defined by one of the standard [[:Category:Style formatting templates|style formatting templates]]. Please list such templates in the talk page of this category. Some of those might be [[:Category:User custom license tags|User custom license tags]] which do not transclude an actual license template.

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