Forum:Images without rationales

Hey there everyone, Arbiter here.

I've been going through some of the images that have been recently uploaded and many of them do not have the non-free use rationale that is required for every image. So far, on the first page alone, I came across almost 40 images that have no rationales. Heck, most of them haven't even been used in articles yet!

So I'm going to put my foot down. All users who have uploaded images without putting the rationales in recently have until this Sunday to put rationales on ALL of their images that they want to keep on this wiki or they will be deleted. Here is the template required to be on the image file.

It's not that hard to do this, but I'll put out a useful tip for everyone just in case:

Go to a file that already has an appropriate Summary/Licensing, press edit and change the details to fit your own image (but do not save on the file you've edited), then copy it and paste it on to your own file.

I'm also getting to the point where I'm going to start dishing out temp bans for any user who cannot follow a simple rule on uploading images. I really do not want to go to extremes here, but this is just getting more and more annoying with each image I see without a rationale. If anybody has any questions or concerns about this, feel free to post them on here or on my talkpage and PLEASE be civil about it.  Arbiter     0416    20:59, April 6, 2011 (UTC)