Summary

Useful for Wikimedia projects that have an image copyright policy stricter than fair use under United States law. For example, there's a big discussion at English Wikipedia about deprecating the use of any unlicensed image for which a free replacement could be created within twenty years. Some of the users who have contributed to this discussion, Mr. Wales included, believe that all biographies of living persons on English Wikipedia would be better with no photograph at all than with a non-free photograph. This icon is meant to substitute for non-free photographs that are removed from biographical articles.

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