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| Description | This is the official seal used by McAllen, Texas, Hidalgo County |
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| Source (WP:NFCC#4) | https://crwflags.com/fotw/flags/us-txmca.html |
| Use in article (WP:NFCC#7) | McAllen, Texas |
| Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8) | to serve as the primary means of visual identification at the top of the article dedicated to the entity in question. |
| Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1) |
Any derivative work based upon the logo would be a copyright violation, so creation of a free image is not possible. |
| Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3) | The file is already at a set resolution, to respect the original creator(s), but its contents are not destroyed. By using this subject of interest, the reader knows they have found the right article. |
| Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2) |
The use of a low resolution image of an organization's logo in the article about that organization will not impact the commercial viability of the logo. |
| Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of McAllen, Texas//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Seal_of_McAllen,_Texas.giftrue | |
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This is a logo of an organization, item, or event, and is protected by copyright. The use of low-resolution images on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, of logos for certain uses involving identification and critical commentary may qualify as non-free use under the copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. Certain commercial use of this image may also be trademark infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Logos.
Use of the logo here does not imply endorsement of the organization by Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation, nor vice versa.
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- Please add a detailed non-free use rationale for each article the image is used in, which must also declare compliance with the other parts of the non-free content criteria, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.
- For example non-free use rationales, see Wikipedia:Use rationale examples.
- This tag is only for use on images of logos.
- Template:Non-free use rationale logo may be helpful for stating the rationale.
- Please do not use this template to tag non-free icons of computer software. Such items should be tagged with {{Non-free computer icon}} template.
- Regarding uses other than in the original article: Check the non-free use criteria and do not assume that existing rationales can be simply copied and pasted, as they may not necessarily apply.
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