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Before you upload a scan, you need to be able to answer three questions. If you
cannot answer all three, upload the record anyway and say what is missing — an
honest gap is better than a blank that looks like nobody looked.

== The three questions ==

; Who holds the right?
: A newspaper, a syndicate, an estate, a museum, or the artist. If genuinely
  unknown, write "Unknown" and record what you searched.

; How do we know?
: This is '''evidence''', and it is the field that matters. A dated email from
  an estate. A licence agreement reference. A published statement. "Found on
  the internet" is not evidence. "Believed public domain" is not evidence
  either — say ''why'' it is believed: the year of publication, the death date
  of the artist, the jurisdiction.

; Under what terms may it be shown here?
: A named licence, a fair-dealing rationale, or a public-domain determination
  with its reasoning.

== What counts as evidence ==

{| class="wikitable"
! Situation !! What to record
|-
| Permission from the rights holder || Who granted it, when, and a reference for the correspondence
|-
| Public domain by age || Country of first publication, year, and the rule you are relying on
|-
| Public domain by author's death || Death year and jurisdiction
|-
| Fair dealing / fair use || The specific purpose — criticism, review, reporting — and why a lower-resolution scan would not serve it
|-
| Archive holding under agreement || The holding institution and the agreement reference
|}

== Recording it ==

Use {{tl|Rights record}} on the file page:

<pre>
{{Rights record
| holder    = Daily Mail / Associated Newspapers
| credit    = ''Daily Mail'', 12 March 1947
| source    = National Library of Wales, NLW-ILL-0044
| evidence  = Written permission from the estate, 12 March 2024
| licence   = Fair dealing — criticism and review
| reference = RR-2026-441
}}
</pre>

The file page turns that into a provenance panel and a credit bar. Until
<code>evidence</code> or <code>reference</code> is filled in, the file shows
'''Provenance missing''' in ochre and is listed at
[[:Category:Files with no rights evidence]].

== If you are asked to take something down ==

Do not argue in an edit summary. Note the request on the file's talk page, tag
the file, and raise it at [[CartoonWiki:Community portal]]. A rights holder
asking is not an attack on the archive; it is the archive working.

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