Commons:WikiProject Public Domain/PD-because review

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{{PD-because}} is an occasionally used PD template. Many of its uses are better served with a specific tag (sometimes one needs to be created), and many of the remaining uses are invalid and the files need to be deleted.

Background

• Commons:VPC#Category:PD_other_reasons

Guidance affected

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Templates affected

• {{PD-because}}

Tools

• Help:VisualFileChange.js - a very powerful tool, to be used with caution. Can do text replacements ("custom replace" option) to execute the review process on many similar files at once.

Identifying the most-used files

Commons:Tools#Glamorous can identify the most-used files in a category. Make sure "Show details" is checked to get the list of files, as well as "Show limited details" to give you the count instead of the names of the pages where they're used.

Target for completion

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Progress

6 Sep 2012

• 11,904 in Category:PD other reasons.
• 15 in Category:PD images without reason
• 18 in Category:Copyrighted free use provided that

Related issue

Category:PD tag needs updating, many of which are from deprecated template {{PD}}