Licensing and the drop-down menu

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I was thinking that it might be nice to have items on the drop-down license menu for

• Icons
• Mounts (visible)

It would beat having to manually add licensing templates to the icons, and make it easier to find mount images. Jeff ( talk | stalk ) 22:34, January 16, 2014 (UTC)

Mount added as {{ss|mt}} with Category:Mount Images . Icons should just be using {{ss|-}} ; they'll all be going away eventually once we (one day) convert to use the SOE data API and pull icons directly from there, plus they don't normally go in Category:Icons but rather one of the numerous subcategories so a one-fits-all wouldn't really be possible. -- lordebon ( talk ) 01:32, January 17, 2014 (UTC)

for clarification: mount images will have {{ss-mt}} if you use it via drop down

-- ( Talk ) 10:20, January 17, 2014 (UTC)

Yeah, ss-mt is the helper template that adds the category and calls ss|mt. Only ss-mt should be used directly, ss|mt should not be called manually or you won't get the category.

I'm not sure what all is needed for licensing and what not, one would hope Sony wouldn't go after the Wiki for providing players with information but I could start adding the {{ss|-}} to images. Does that go on all images?

I wonder if there would be a way to have a bot add that to all the images. Jado818 ( talk ) 16:51, January 17, 2014 (UTC)

It's more of a CYA/dotting all the i's kind of thing. All images uploaded should have a license of some sort on them; the only exception perhaps would be something that was a user's own creative work, which would then be licensed CC-By-SA like edits. Anything generated within/from the game should have a license reflecting that. Botting them I'm not sure we can do; by default the wiki used to insert a "no license" template on upload if none was selected but wikia broke that long ago so there's no list of ones without licenses; to make it worse the bot would have no way of knowing what kind of image it was and thus wouldn't be able to add the appropriate license template.

You don't have to worry about it that much for already-uploaded images, just in the future try to always select an appropriate license for new uploads or add one if you visit and image that doesn't have licensing info. -- lordebon ( talk ) 17:13, January 17, 2014 (UTC)