Template:PD-text

The depicted text is ineligible for copyright and therefore in the public domain because it is not a “literary work” or other protected type in sense of the local copyright law. Facts, data, and unoriginal information which is common property without sufficiently creative authorship in a general typeface or basic handwriting, and simple geometric shapes are not protected by copyright. This tag does not generally apply to all images of texts. Particular countries can have different legal definition of the “literary work” as the subject of copyright and different courts' interpretation practices. Some countries protect almost every written work, while other countries protect distinctively artistic or scientific texts and databases only. Extent of creativeness, function and length of the text can be relevant. The copyright protection can be limited to the literary form – the included information itself can be excluded from protection.

This template will categorize into Category:PD text.

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This documentation is transcluded from Template:PD-text/doc.

This template marks all images released as PD-text.

Usage

{{PD-text}}

Template parameters

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<templatedata>JSON</templatedata> ./. {{TemplateBox}}

TemplateData

TemplateData is a way to store information about template parameters (the description of those and of the whole template) for both humans and machines. It is used by VisualEditor and possibly other tools like Upload Wizard.

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Existing template documentation
At Wikimedia Commons, it is recommended to use {{TemplateBox}} with either ‎useTemplateData=1 or ‎useTemplateData=only on the ‎/doc subpage and transcluding it with {{Documentation}} into the template. ‎<nowiki>-tags can be wrapped around the arguments, if required, to avoid templates being expanded.

Newly created template documentation and imports
Another option, especially for imported templates, or for users with JSON experience, is placing raw ‎<templatedata>-tags into the Wikitext of the template, as described in various Wikipediae.

Discussion
There is an ongoing discussion about that matter. Feel invited to comment if you are experienced in either way, your time permits and if you like to share your opinion or to make a suggestion.

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Wikipedia's help about TemplateData • Commons-specific information

This template marks all images released as PD-text.

Template parameters[Edit template data]

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
No parameters specified

Additional information

The template is intended to be used in the following namespaces: the File namespace

The template is intended to be used by the following user groups: all users

Relies on:
{{PD-Layout}}

See also

• For chemistry structures, use {{PD-chem}}.
• For simple charts and graphs, use {{PD-chart}}.
• For simple maps, use {{PD-map}}.
• For logos that only consist of simple geometric shapes and/or text, use {{PD-textlogo}}.
• For simple traffic signs, use {{PD-sign}}.
• For simple geometry shapes, use {{PD-shape}}.
• For simple Parliament Diagrams, use {{PD-wpdc}}.
• For raster renderings of a font (or typeface), use {{PD-font}}.
• For simple (non-creative) reproduction of two-dimensional subject, use {{PD-scan}} or {{PD-scan-two}}.
  If the depicted subject is a creative work, it should have also its own permission (license tag)!
• For SVG representations of an ancient script where the vectorization has been released into the public domain, use {{PD-ancient-script}}.
• For technical images created as part of standard medical diagnostic procedures, use {{PD-medical}}.
• For works too trivial to be copyrighted see {{PD-ineligible}}.

Localization

This template is localized through {{Autotranslate}}. The layout of the template can be found under Template:PD-text/layout.

To add your language to the list of languages supported by this template, please copy the code of Template:PD-text/en (or any other language version you prefer to translate) and replace the text strings in there (the form below can be used to create a translation, the English version is preloaded in the edit box). Please change the parameter lang from en (or whatever language you are translating) to the language code of your language.