Template:Trademarked

Per en.wiki TFD, adapted to Commons:

This template (specifically and only for public domain images not subject to copyright, but which are or contain trademarks) appears to have no legitimate use case on Commons, and is just being added to images as a bit of wikipedia:en:WP:BUREAUCRACY. We do not need it because:

• There is no use case for such an image on Commons that could cause trademark violation problems. We already have a hard rule that non-free images cannot be added to Commons.
• Commons does not use trademark and other legal disclaimers, like putting "™", "®", or "©" on things. This is just a huge banner version of doing the same thing.
• Commons does not give legal advice or veer anywhere near it. Commons has no reason to engage in trying to advise people that their off-site use of an image found here might have trademark implications.
• Should there actually be a perceived need to identify a specific image hosted here as being subject to a trademark in one jurisdiction or other, this is better done in a plain-English sentence on the image's wiki page. This could also be done as a simple parameter of Template:Pd-textlogo. That is, even if there is some COM:OFFICE red-tape rationale for keeping a template for this, we do not need a separate one.

Lojbanist (talk) 01:00, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

There is no use case for such an image on Commons that could cause trademark violation problems.

...Lojbanist... You do realize this image is used on 104,438 images. GMG^talk 19:51, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

•  Keep per Commons:Non-copyright restrictions. Commons can and should advise reusers to make sure their use of a file is legal in their jurisdiction, even if we don't give specific legal advice (compare {{personality rights}} and the disclaimers on many public domain license tags). Maybe there's an argument for folding this template into {{PD-textlogo}} (along the lines of {{subst:tmlogo}}), but that's a discussion that should happen elsewhere. clpo13_(talk) 20:53, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
•  Keep In case that wasn't evident. GMG^talk 20:59, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
•  Keep Commons:Non-copyright restrictions --Steinsplitter (talk) 12:00, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

Kept: no valid reason for deletion. --Christian Ferrer ^(talk) 17:13, 12 January 2019 (UTC)