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'''{{warnicon}}Please use {{tl|PD-old-auto-1923}} or {{tl|PD-old-auto-1996}} in preference to this template.'''

The licensing '''Template:PD-old-auto''' automatically re-calculates the current public-domain year span, based on the year in which the author died.

The license box, displayed by the template, will change (from year to year) to select from the current multi-language license boxes for public-domain spans, such as {{tl|PD-old-80}} for life of the author plus 80 years. In future years, the box will change to use {{tl|PD-old-90}} and then {{tl|PD-old-100}}.

As time passes, the license span will change, because more years will have elapsed since the lifetime of that person. Once the template is being used, there will no need to re-edit a page for the license year span, because it will automatically adjust for the actual year (currently: {{CURRENTYEAR}}), in the future.

'''Impact -''' This template applies to many thousands of image files, for authors who died in the [[:en:20th century|20th century]]. Expect it to be used for most works among the top 5,000 artists or painters. There will no longer be a need to re-edit those pages to adjust the public-domain year span, in future years.
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* [[Template:PD-old-auto-1923]]
* [[Template:PD-art-auto]]
* [[Template:PD-scan-auto]]
* [http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixIndex&prefix=PD-old&namespace=10 List all templates named PD-old-*]
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--NOTES:
--
-- NOTE PR: The purpose of this template is to auto-select the
--      licensing tag for the current public-domain year span.
--      In later years, the template will display {{PD-old-80}}
--      or {{PD-old-90}} or {{PD-old-100}} for the current date.
--
-- NOTE P1: The template's parameter 1 is the final year of
--      the author's (or artist's) life. Parameter 1 can also
--      be specified by keyword name, year=1925 or 1=1925.
--
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--HISTORY:
--20Aug09 Created to auto-select licensing tag {{PD-old-NN}}.
--20Aug09 Put NOTES comments to explain template coding.
--20Aug09 Put HISTORY comments to log major template changes.
--21Aug09 Modified to decide by final month (month=).
--06May11 Removed ill-conceived month functionality.
-->

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