File:Jiangzhai pottery symbols 2.gif

This work is copyrighted (or assumed to be copyrighted) and unlicensed. It does not fall into one of the blanket acceptable non-free content categories listed at Wikipedia:Non-free content § Images or Wikipedia:Non-free content § Audio clips, and it is not covered by a more specific non-free content license listed at Category:Wikipedia non-free file copyright templates. However, it is believed that the use of this work: To illustrate the subject in question Where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information On the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Copyrights. Fair use //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jiangzhai_pottery_symbols_2.gif true

Summary

File information

Description	image of archaeological discovery, pottery inscriptions from Neolithic China
Source	Qiu Xigui (2000). “Chinese Writing”. Early China Special Monograph Series No. 4. Berkeley: The Society for the Study of Early China and the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. ISBN 1-55729-071-7.
Date	May 21, 2008
Author	Qiu Xigui copied this image under fair use from Wang Zhijun 1980 1980, Kaogu yu Wenwu journal vol. 3, pp.14-21.
Permission (Reusing this file)	Fair use for research and educational purposes
Other versions	This image was uploaded in a raster graphics format such as PNG, GIF, or JPEG. However, it contains information that could be stored more efficiently and/or accurately in the SVG format, as a vector graphic. If possible, please upload an SVG version of this image. After confirming it is of comparable quality, please replace all instances of the previous version throughout Wikipedia (noted under the "File links" header), tag the old version with {{Vector version available|NewImage.svg}}, and remove this tag. For more information, see Wikipedia:Preparing images for upload. For assistance with converting to SVG, please see the Graphics Lab. Do not re-draw or auto-trace non-free images; instead, seek out vector versions from official sources.

All the following criteria have been met for non free fair use in the Neolithic symbols in China page:

1. No free equivalent. (this is the sole source of the symbols images)
2. Respect for commercial opportunities. (the source is a scholarly work, and adoption of a single image, with attribution, is normal fair use in academia)

  2. Minimal extent of use. One small low-res image is used.

1. Previous publication. Non-free content must have been published outside Wikipedia. Affirmative.
2. Content. Non-free content meets general Wikipedia content requirements and is encyclopedic. Yes.
3. Media-specific policy. The material meets Wikipedia's media-specific policy. For example, images must meet Wikipedia:Image use policy.
4. One-article minimum. Non-free content is used in at least one article. Used in exactly one article
5. Significance. Non-free content is used only if its presence would significantly increase readers' understanding of the topic, and its omission would be detrimental to that understanding. Discussing the appearance and nature of the pottery symbols is not possible without an image.
6. Restrictions on location. I don't understand this. It is being linked in only one main article.
7. Image description page. The image or media description page contains the following:

  1. Attribution of the source of the material (yes, see above source and derivation) and, if different from the source, of the copyright holder. See: Wikipedia:Citing sources#When uploading an image.
  2. A copyright tag that indicates which Wikipedia policy provision is claimed to permit the use. For a list of image copyright tags, see Wikipedia:Image copyright tags/Non-free content. (yes, see top)
  3. The name of each article (a link to the articles is recommended as well) in which fair use is claimed for the item, and a separate fair-use rationale for each use of the item, as explained at Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline. The rationale is presented in clear, plain language, and is relevant to each use.