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Adding a photo

How do I add a photo to a page — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zeenatzeenat (talk • contribs) 21:19, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

Possible image vandalism

I'm unsure of how this particular image - File:Nelson Mandela consuming hamburger.png - should be treated. It was uploaded by a new user and added to a page on the English Wikipedia (see the diff), where I've just reverted the edit. The user's WP contribs are all disruptive, which raises questions about the image - it's probably inappropriately titled (it's obviously not THE en:Nelson Mandela, and may also be a copyvio (but I have no experience in doing image searches). Bahudhara (talk) 01:44, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for reporting. I tagged it as a copyvio because it’s all over the internet, including in memes, variously Photoshopped, &c., but it could probably also be speedied as a hoax or vandalism. I noticed that one of the TinEye hits was captured from a file that got deleted from here (for likely copyvio) six years ago; see File:Fat man burger.jpg.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 02:16, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

How can I delete my image?

Yesterday I tried to upload an image as part of Wiki Loves Monuments 2018, but it wasn't listed there and I don't know why because I think there was still time. However, since my photo was not listed among the entries for the Wiki contest I would love to delete it from Wikipedia as soon as possible. I look forward to hearing how I can resolve this problem. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Paula Borkovic (talk • contribs) 07:33, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Image of Belenski bridge

Hello! I need a suggestion about how to correct the name and the description of an image: this one says it depicts a bridge by Kolyo Ficheto over river Yantra (the so called Belenski bridge or Byala bridge) and that it is a Cultural Heritage of Bulgaria, but really it is not that bridge : the image really depicts the road bridge in front of Kolyo Ficheto bridge (you can see it for example on google maps). What is the best way to correct it? --Postcrosser (talk) 11:14, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

@Postcrosser: You can edit the description of the picture by using the "Edit" link near the top of the image page. To ask for the file to be renamed, either add the {{Rename}} template while editing it or use the "Move" item in the "More" menu, also at the top of the page. Commons' policy on file renaming explains when it's appropriate to rename files, and this case seems to fall squarely into criterion 3. --bjh21 (talk) 20:55, 27 September 2018 (UTC)
Thank you, I did as you suggested --Postcrosser (talk) 08:39, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Photos of same object

How should photos of the same object be handled to indicate that they belong to each other? I have 2 cases in which there are photos of front and rear of the object. An extra category seems oversized for that. I can write it into the description, of course. But is there an established way which should be followed? Thank you. --Leserättin (talk) 06:49, 29 September 2018 (UTC)

I submitted two contest submissions...one disappeared

Hi, this is my first time submitting to the commons. I submitted two - the watchtower at Grand Canyon and the Pioneer Cemetery at the Grand Canyon. The second had many photos, but I didn't know I needed to name the files over and the errors were bouncing back until I missed the deadline. I worked for hours on it and then it just disappeared. Any thoughts? Thank you, Sally Richards — Preceding unsigned comment added by SallyRichards (talk • contribs) 07:40, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

@SallyRichards: You may add the {{Wiki Loves Monuments 2018|us}} template to any of your photos that are missing it. That will put them in Category:Images from Wiki Loves Monuments 2018 in the United States.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 12:29, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
Best to add the two-letter state code (suffixed to “us” with a hyphen, {{Wiki Loves Monuments 2018|us-az}} for example) as well, which will help the submission-sorters.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 03:15, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

העלאת תמונות לאחד המושגים בויקיפדיה

הובא לתשומת ליבי שיש פרק על בית דולפין, מלון שכבר מזמן נזנח ביישוב שבי ציון. אבי המנוח היה מנהלו כמה שנים טובות בשנות ה-50 של המאה הקודמת. התמונות הללו הן חלק מאוסך התמונות שנשאר אחרי מותו והייתי שמחה לצרף רק חלק קטן מהתמונות הללו. אין לי שמות של צלמים, אין לי שום פרט מזהה פרט לכך שבשתי תמונות אבי נמצא בעצמו בתמונה. אשמח אם תסבירו לי כיצד להעלות את התמונות ללא שיש לי את המידע הנחוץ לגבי זכויות יוצרים. יש לי זכויות של בת, זה הכל.

תודה

נורית — Preceding unsigned comment added by ברטה13 (talk • contribs) 11:43, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Upload images to one of the Wikipedia terms

It was brought to my attention that there is a chapter about the Dolphin House, a hotel that has long since been abandoned in the settlement of Shavei Tzion. My late father was a manager for a few good years in the 1950s. These pictures are part of the archive of pictures left after his death and I would be happy to include only a small part of these pictures. I do not have names of photographers, I have no identifying detail except that in two pictures my father is himself in the picture. I would be happy if you would explain how to upload the images without having the necessary copyright information. I have a daughter's rights, that's all. Thanks

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translator: Google Translate via   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:56, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
@ברטה13: אני מצטער, אבל אתה לא יכול להעלות את התמונות האלה כאן. עם זאת, אתה יכול להעלות אותם אל ויקיפדיה העברית [[::ויקיפדיה:רישוי תמונות/שימוש הוגן]]. I am sorry, but you may not upload those pictures here. However, you may upload them to Hebrew Wikipedia subject to he:ויקיפדיה:רישוי תמונות/שימוש הוגן.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 12:16, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Copyright help regarding File:Face the Nation's 2018 title card.png

I uploaded this image intending to add a fair use rationale for Wikipedia. I see I have accidentally uploaded it to Wikimedia instead. Please delete it when able! Thanks.

--Alextincbs (talk) 13:44, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

@Alextincbs: I have tagged it as a copyright violation for you.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 13:57, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Previews of my SVGs are broken

I have uploaded some SVG files, some playing cards. The SVG is very simple, and works directly in the browser (so why do you even have png previews). However, the png previews are broken. Some of the cards have some of the artwork but most do not. How are you making the previews (inkscape has not trouble converting them to png). Is there a way I can "fix" these previews?

e.g. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2C.svg has symbols (clubs and digit "2") which simply do not show! — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheRealRevK (talk • contribs) 15:39, 8 July 2018 (UTC)

Update: The problem is the use of a "use" object without both "width" and "height" attributes. Sounds like a bug in the preview stuff. I am re-uploading my cards with added attributes. The original, smaller, files are at https://www.me.uk/cards/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheRealRevK (talk • contribs) 16:01, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 21:18, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

Why can't I upload an image today?

I get as far as selecting the file and then the next step says "Upload successful" (before it actually was) and when I go to take the next step - licensing! - I only get a blank screen. SergeWoodzing (talk) 01:35, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

What is the difference between "Historical buses" and "Historical images of buses"?

What is the difference between "Historical buses" and "Historical images of buses"?--Kai3952 (talk) 08:33, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

With historical images of buses, the images themselves are old (see Category:Historical images for guidelines on these). For historical buses, the buses were historical when the images were made. For example, if there is a museum that has old buses in it and you take a photo there today, you could put it under historical buses (if the buses meet the definition of historical), but not under historical images (because the image would be new). Does that help? --Auntof6 (talk) 08:57, 2 October 2018 (UTC)
But how do I know if it is "Historical buses" or not?--Kai3952 (talk) 14:16, 2 October 2018 (UTC)
If you know it's old, use the category. If you don't know either way, no calamity to just call them "buses". - Jmabel ! talk 16:06, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

I cant upload any more

I cant upload any more. Why? User: --Elinor Rajka (talk) 11:10, 2 October 2018 (UTC)Elinor Rajka — Preceding unsigned comment added by Elinor Rajka (talk • contribs) 11:07, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

@Elinor Rajka: more information please. Are you using Special:UploadWizard, Special:Upload, the Mobile app, or something else? If you are using a browser-based method, which browser are you using (Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox ...)? Are there any error messages being displayed? There are some known issues with the UploadWizard going on right now that should be fixed soon: phab:T205636 --El Grafo (talk) 11:25, 2 October 2018 (UTC)
(Edit conflict) @Elinor Rajka: Where did you find a cc-by-2.5 license at the source for File:Bildsten med skepp 800-1099 Tjängvide, Gotland.jpg? Also, please standardize your signature.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:36, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

アップロード出来なくなりました

2018年10月辺りから、画像ファイルをアップロードしようとすると、「許可する権利」画面に移行した直後にアップロード画像等が全く表示されなくなり、そこから先に進む事が出来なくなってしまいました。原因が全く分かりませんが、2018年10月に入った直後に不具合が発生したとしか考えられません。何が原因なのでしょうか？--BATACHAN (talk) 11:11, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

(English translation)Upon uploading image files from around October 2018, uploaded images etc. are no longer displayed immediately after switching to the "Right to authorize" screen, so you can no longer proceed from there. I do not know the cause at all, but it can only be thought that a problem occurred immediately after entering October 2018. What is the cause?
@BATACHAN: You may want to follow mw:How to report a bug.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:24, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

Russian Science Photo Competition

Коллеги, прошу совета.

В рамках проводимого НП «Викимедиа РУ» и телеканала Наука «Конкурса научных фотографий 2018» (см. https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Конкурсы/Конкурс_научных_фотографий_2018) загрузил на Викисклад файл GVG 00.jpg, указав категорию «Images of people in science from Russian Science Photo Competition 2018».

Изображение присутствует на сайте (см. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GVG_00.jpg).

Обратил внимание на то, что при ПОДРОБНОМ просмотре файла в конце абзаца «Лицензирование» перед абзацем «История» отсутствует сообщение «Это изображение было загружено в рамках Конкурса научных фотографий — 2018.» Получается, что по этому формальному признаку данный файл не будет допущен к рассмотрению жюри конкурса.

Какие действия с моей стороны необходимо предпринять, чтобы включить данный файл в состав рассматриваемых работ, представленных на конкурс и допущенных к рассмотрению жюри конкурса? — Preceding unsigned comment added by ComeToScience (talk • contribs) 12:28, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

@ComeToScience: The template {{Russian Science Photo Competition 2018}} was missing, I've added it. --A.Savin 12:48, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

How to define "Historical images"?

I have added "Historical images of bridges in Taiwan" category to Category:Changchun Bridge (1960), but I think the problem is: How to define "Historical images"?--Kai3952 (talk) 14:08, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

  • That doesn't make sense. The bridge survived until 2013. I wouldn't call a photo from 2010 "historical". (Though I should add: the term is vague, and I've never liked "historical" in category names.) Also, categories like that pretty much always belong on individual images, not categories for physical things. - Jmabel ! talk 16:10, 2 October 2018 (UTC)
  • For what it's worth, Category:Historical images says this: "This category is for non-contemporary photographs and other images such as old postcards or paintings (suggested deadline: pre-WW2), and for images of objects that do not exist anymore, or that have heavily changed in appearance since their depiction displayed here." --Auntof6 (talk) 23:16, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

Copyright help regarding File:Uganda National Examinations Board Logo.jpg

I Just Uploaded A Logo For An Organisation But I Don't Know Under Which License I Should Release It? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rollback95 (talk • contribs) 21:52, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

@Rollback95: why do you think it has a free licence? The source site has an ARR copyright notice, and I don’t see any further information about the logo on the linked home page (and it only appears in colour there).—Odysseus1479 (talk) 22:02, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

Copyright help regarding File:Jockey Fernando Fernandez.jpg

Hello. Regarding a particular copyright infringement of my photo, I don't know what more I can say beyond what I put in the required information when I uploaded it. This photo is from my (the author's) personal family collection. My father owned the horse and is in the original picture. It is 77 years old and It has been in my fathers possession since 1941. It was taken by the official track photographer, J. Hernandez, Habana, Cuba, deceased since the fifties, and the track itself, has been defunct since 1968, and all relics of its existence were purged by the Cuban government. There is absolutely no reference to this photo, race or horse ANYWHERE online, as I have searched exhaustively for years, except on my own, personal website, camilomarin.com, where it has been available to view since 1998. I hardly think that anyone, anywhere can find this to be protected material. If it is a question of the source of this particular image, since I have multiple copies and edits in my computer, this may have been downloaded from my own page. Further, there are absolutely no photos of the subject anywhere else online except, again, on my own webpage. There are no heirs of the subject, either. Awaiting your response. Camilo Marin, Jr.

--Camilomarin (talk) 05:51, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

  • When the bot tagged it, you had given no indication of licensing at all.
  • Whether you can identify heirs, whether the race track exists, etc. have nothing to do with whether the photo is in the public domain, as you now state.
  • What year did the photographer die, which is presumably what is relevant to expiration of copyright (unless I'm missing something)? - Jmabel ! talk 16:17, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

Copyright help regarding File:O.R. Crittenden, grocery store, Malvern, c1930.jpg

Hi, I have uploaded a photo taken in Australia about 1930. I believe such images, taken in Australia before 1955 are copyright free. I cant figure out where the appropriate tag, which I think is {{PD-Australia}}, should be inserted. Appreciate your advice.(Histragic (talk) 04:20, 4 October 2018 (UTC))

@Histragic: I did it for you. Please have a look at the diff so you can do this yourself next time it arises. - Jmabel ! talk 04:52, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
Many thanks Jmabel. I much appreciate the help.(Histragic (talk) 05:00, 4 October 2018 (UTC))

Uploading problem

I successfully uploaded my photo, but Upload Wizard would not continue to Release Rights. I have never had this problem before. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Susan Slater (talk • contribs) 07:03, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

I successfully uploaded my photo, but Upload Wizard does not show anything in Release Rights. It will not move on to the next stage. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Susan Slater (talk • contribs) 07:30, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

Hi, Sorry, this is a known bug: phab:T205636. It was supposed to be fixed... :/ Yann (talk) 07:56, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
@Susan Slater: Please try using a different browser like Chrome or Firefox. :-) Braveheart (talk) 08:02, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
It has not been fixed since I wrote about it here a few days ago. --SergeWoodzing (talk) 17:10, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
Are you saying this is failing for you on either Chrome or Firefox? Or just that it is still not fixed on IE? - Jmabel ! talk 04:48, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
Pinging @SergeWoodzing.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 05:23, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
Also note that not all users can simply use a different browser, my "camera" device is a Nokia Lumia 730 Dual SIM which comes preloaded with Microsoft's Internet Explorer Mobile (where the bug is still present) and alternative browsers like Beijing Maxthon, Surfy, Opera Mini clones, Etc. can't even "regularly" upload or select files so in some cases (like mine) using Microsoft's Internet Explorer (or Microsoft's Internet Explorer Mobile) is literally your only option. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 07:12, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
Are we to accept and be content with that fact that we no longer can upload images if we use Explorer or SeaMonkey, when we've been able to do it before, for years and years?! --SergeWoodzing (talk) 07:35, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
PS Explorer works for me again right now. --SergeWoodzing (talk) 07:41, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

Tacoma Public Library Has Granted Permission to Publish Photo from Defunct Studio.

I have an email granting permission (with specific library attribution) to publish a photo from a photographic studio no longer in business. I can provide email. Is this sufficient? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Seabix (talk • contribs) 23:03, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

  • @Seabix: Is the work in copyright?
  • If so, who is the copyright holder?
  • The fact that the studio is defunct has little bearing on the matter, except that if they owned the copyright, and if the work is still in copyright the question would then be who their copyrights passed to when the studio closed. Unless they passed to the Tacoma Public Library, their permission is not relevant. If they did pass to the Tacoma Public Library, then what we'd need is a specific "free license" from them (not just a non-specific permission to publish); ideally that should come through the process described at COM:OTRS, although there are some workarounds. If someone other than that library holds the copyright, then that other entity is whose permission we would need. - Jmabel ! talk 00:10, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

"Invalid CSRF token."

I keep getting this message. 😣

Every time I try to upload a file on my wife's French best-friend's Nokia Lumia 730 Dual SIM (my "provisional" camera) I keep getting this message for only the first file if I try to upload more than one file at a time, is anyone else experiencing this? I didn't have any issue with it yesterday as it seems to have popped up today and it affects every attempt at uploading more than a single image at a time, the issue resolves itself if I re-select a file but it's still annoying. I test tried to see if this issue also happens on my Microsoft Lumia 950 XL phablet (using Microsoft Edge) and it didn't. I'm not sure if this is a device-related error or a browser-related error. (yes, I've cleared all cookies on that device and it didn't help.) --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 08:47, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

Update: The issue seems to have "resolved" itself, well, as far as it's "resolved" but it doesn't seem to affect every multiple upload anymore. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 06:04, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 06:05, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

Author change

Hi, Lets say for instance you upload files under the name "JamesMontomgery234" but for the author bit you link it as "[[User:JamesMontomgery234|LJM]]" (So it goes to JamesM but the text says LJM),
After a few years can you then change the author bit to a complete different unsername (Commons account) ?

Bear in mind the file history box below the image still has your old username,

Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 22:28, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

I would be somewhat suspicious should I notice such a change being made without explanation. But a clear ES and the presence of a template or note on the user page identifying it as an alt-account would allay such suspicions. Authorship and copyright pertain to a person, not to a WM account per se, so I can’t see anything inherently problematic about changing an author link unless there’s socking or block-evasion involved.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 00:43, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
Apologies Jmabel & Odysseus1479 I did try to be clear as possible,
Long story short Themunnery started to replace the author bit on all of their images from "Themunnery" to "emporer" citing privacy concerns, I objected and after we emailed each other they've created the account Emperor64 and have proceeded to change the author from PJM to Emperor64 and long story short I wasn't sure if they were correct in doing this considering there's a box directly below their image with their username,
Thanksm, –Davey2010Talk 03:04, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
It would, of course, be a lot cleaner if they did this from the account that originally specified the attribution, but if we are sure it's the same person, I wouldn't consider this a problem. The file history will show the old name, so if someone attributes it the old way on the web it shouldn't be a confusion. I wouldn't encourage changes like this, but I don't offhand see a policy being violated here. For what it's worth, early on for my own photos, I had just left the default that I would be attributed as User:Jmabel, but I soon realized that I wanted to be attributed by my actual name, and started changing even those early ones to say (deliberately suppressing wikification in the example here) [[User:Jmabel|Joe Mabel]]. That certainly is a change of attribution, so I guess I have a dog in this fight. - Jmabel ! talk 06:20, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
Ah okay, See I wasn't sure if it could or would cause attribution issues but I guess not, Like you say all is in the history, Okie dokie thanks very much for your help :), Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 19:11, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

I could not upload image at wikipedia Commons

I tried but failed, everyone I got message retry to upload. Please suggest me. K K Mishra of Manhan (talk) 08:14, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

@Krishna Kumar Mishra: You may want to follow mw:How to report a bug.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 15:44, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

Copyright help regarding File:The Mind of Jake Paul - Title Card.png

Can you help me with the copyright because the file got delete before and I don't know how to format it. It is a web tv show. Thanks. --Coasterdude1 (talk) 16:50, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

Question regarding expired works

So I have uploaded an image that is a screenshot of an actor from the episode of a TV series that is in the public domain, though it is only in the public domain because the copyright expired. I used the "PD-US-not renewed" template, but I was wondering if this is the proper one or if another would be more suitable/describes it properly, I just want to be sure. -NowIsntItTime (talk) 01:04, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

  • Very hard to answer without specific example. If the episode was from 1963 or earlier and you have evidence that copyright was not renewed, then this is the correct tag; otherwise, you are most likely mistaken about this being in the public domain. - Jmabel ! talk 04:52, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
Sorry for the lack of an example. The episode was from The Andy Griffith Show called "Aunt Bea's Medicine Man"; it was released in 1963 but the copyright expired. So it is the correct tag then and I should be good? - NowIsntItTime (talk) 14:09, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
As long as the copyright for the episode really wasn't renewed, I believe so. - Jmabel ! talk 15:54, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

Replace an image file

Hi,

I have replaced an image file by a newer version with a minor crop in it. However, my file list page still shows the old version, rather than the new one.

Note that in the file page, the "File history" shows the correct (new) version in thumbnail, but when I click on it the old version is shown.

Link to the file: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:רביעיית_פלורנטין_וגרפיטי.jpg

What am I missing?

In addition, I would like to rename this file. I did not find the way to do it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LizzyShaanan (talk • contribs) 06:20, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

@LizzyShaanan: , that's normal. Usually you just have to wait a few seconds and then renew the tab, if you go back to the image do you see the new version now? --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 07:05, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
Although I do not see any difference in versions, how did you drop it? (what tool did you use?) but the image does seem smaller. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 07:06, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
It's fine. Presumably a caching issue on your end. - Jmabel ! talk 15:56, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
@LizzyShaanan: I think you lost too much detail. For renaming, please see COM:FR#How to rename a file.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 09:35, 7 October 2018 (UTC)

Images in public domain deleted

I uploaded a series of images:

All of them were from the New Zealand history webpage Hawks Bay Knowledge Bank that discussed New Zealander John Caulton and his service in the RAF. According to the webpage, all of the images were in the public domain for non-commercial use. Included on the web page where each were located was the statement: "This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License."

After I added them the images were all tagged for deletion. I tried to explain that the permission I gave when uploading the images was supported by the page they were obtained from, but they were all deleted anyway.

I have no experience in working through these problems. My primary interest is in writing biographical pages or history pages in wikipedia, and the images were to support that work. I did review the Commons:OTRS page. Apparently I needed someone to provide a written permission? Could someone take a look at the page the images were derived from, click on one of the images, look at the permission provided there and see if I made an error in uploading them, or give me a tip in how I might use them, if at all. Thanks for your consideration.Gunbirddriver2 (talk) 23:59, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

@Gunbirddriver2: Commons:Licensing#Well-known licenses. {{Cc-by-nc}} is a trap. - Alexis Jazz ping plz 00:17, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
Oh, okay. I see that is excluded. Thanks for the clarification. Gunbirddriver2 (talk) 03:39, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
Also, in general: except for (arguably) CC-0, a CC license does not make an image "public domain". Besides being NC, the license mentioned here requires attribution, which is a long way from public domain. - Jmabel ! talk 17:39, 7 October 2018 (UTC)

Constant crashing of the MediaWiki Upload Wizard

The MediaWiki Upload Wizard keeps crashing on my Nokia Lumia 730 Dual SIM and displays the above, the odd thing is that I can still continue to upload the files but it will constantly do the above every few seconds. Is anyone else experiencing this? As I don't want to open a Phabricator ticket for an issue exclusive to my device, or are these technical issues better reported in the Phabricator? --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 21:05, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

@Donald Trung: I suggest using our minimal interface for experienced users who understand the requirements of successful uploads at Commons for now.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:55, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
That actually seems to work, I haven't experienced a single crash just yet. Thanks. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 18:20, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
@Donald Trung: You're welcome.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 18:31, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 18:20, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

Military OrBat Graphics

Can someone show me how to make a military orbat graphics please? Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ryan120202 (talk • contribs) 12:56, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

Pinging @Noclador: as I see that they've made a few Military OrBat Graphics, could you help "User:Ryan120202" out with this question as I couldn't find any instructions and telling them to use Microsoft Paint 🎨 probably isn't going to help them make them of the quality of for example File:Armenian Army January 2007 OrBat.png. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 21:30, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

IRC

why is my IP banned from IRc? — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 108.50.164.123 (talk) 17:53, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

Have you ever used the IRC before? It could be a rangevlock and then you're just caught in the middle. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 21:24, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

Problem with my svg image colors

So I updated a map and uploaded it. On the file page view it seems to be colorless. However, when I open it, I can see the original colors back again. I think the reason is that I used var function in the CSS. Does anyone know how to solve the issue? — Preceding unsigned comment added by A314100050 (talk • contribs) 23:27, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

I see all the colours now, so can we mark this section as resolved? Have you figured out what caused it and then fixed it? --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 21:25, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

Copyright of Photos Created for Client by "Photographer for Hire"

We very often need to upload photos provided by a "photographer for hire". As the contractor of the "photographer for hire" Copyright law seem to assume that unless there is a written contract otherwise, the contractor by virtue of payment of consideration for the photos acquired by contractor from the "photographer for hire", owns the copyright of such photos.

There seems to be no notification template which cover this circumstance? Should not a "copyright circumstance template" to cover this situation be created and accepted by the wiki-commons community? Otherwise, how should this be handled if no new "copyright template circumstance" is warranted ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by CorporateMapWiki (talk • contribs) 02:40, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

@CorporateMapWiki: as long as the license is free (as in compatible with Commons:Licensing) y'all can donate your images, however if the images were provided by third parties OTRS permission is required. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 21:22, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

Email address confirmation.

My confirmation code is expired... it went to spam... Please send me another code. Thank you. JG Jacques — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jean Guy Jacques (talk • contribs) 20:23, 11 September 2018 (UTC)

People here can't re-send any confirmation codes, you can simply ask for another code in the form. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 21:20, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

موظوع الربح من المعالم التارخية

كيف يتم الرب من تحميل صور المعالم التارخية — Preceding unsigned comment added by MenouarN (talk • contribs) 16:59, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

You could use perhaps try "the village pump equivalent" of your language to find an answer. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 21:19, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

Is this image in public domain?

I found this image on Flickr (marked as public domain) of musician Alicia Keys via the Wikipedia:Public domain image resources. The Google Reverse Image search from free-images.com shows the image being sold on Getty Images, naturally. I Googled Getty Images and public domain and found articles like this noting that sites like Getty can legally commercialize photos from the public domain. So is the image actually in the public domain? How can I verify whether or not it is? Also, if an image is in the public domain but no author is available it cannot be uploaded on Commons? Lapadite77 (talk) 19:30, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

  • I would say that inclusion on Flickr is pretty blatant "Flickrwashing" (illegitimately claiming a particular copyright status on Flickr). I literally cannot imagine a basis for that image to be public domain. The Flickr account in question appears to be full of images that look like likely copyright violations.
  • For what it's worth, although irrelevant for this photo: often, authorship is part of what determines whether a particular image is public domain or not, but in cases where authorship is not relevant to public domain status (e.g. a painting from the 18th Century; a 1906 ad from a U.S. newspaper), we will happily host a public domain without knowing the author. - Jmabel ! talk 19:44, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

Thumbnail issues

  • Sometimes these issues happen right after uploading.
    Sometimes these issues happen right after uploading.
  • This seems to affect multiple images at a time.
    This seems to affect multiple images at a time.
  • Sometimes it affects some, but not others.
    Sometimes it affects some, but not others.
  • When I use "landscaper" mode almost all images show up like this.
    When I use "landscaper" mode almost all images show up like this.

I seem to have an issue displaying thumbnails while uploading on a Nokia Lumia 730 Dual SIM device, this issue doesn't seem to occur on any other devices and wanted to know if someone else here that used a Nokia Lumia 730 Dual SIM has this issue, not all thumbnails have this issue (see the attached images above), but a large number do, usually if I upload more than two (2) images all after the first and before the last. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 21:12, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

Ratelimit exceeded lockout

I got this warning at 02:56, 9 October 2018, although actual edit rate was nowhere near the limit. Any idea why and what to do? Retired electrician (talk) 03:02, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Photo and Information Box

Dear Wikipedia:

How do I add a photo and information box to a Wikipedia page? I tried to upload a photo by using insert media, but Wikipedia will not accept the photo and description for some reason. I would appreciate any assistance and information that you can provide.

Sincerely,

Sandra — Preceding unsigned comment added by Starburstgal (talk • contribs) 15:32, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

Hello 👋🏻 Sandra, you can easily use w:en:Template:Infobox and then use the parameter | image =, although this is Wikimedia Commons and not (I presume the English language) Wikipedia. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 11:32, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

ВЛП

Я завантажив фотографії до сховища, потім хотів подати їх на конкурс ВЛП,розумію, що часу обмаль, але я не можу додати їх зі сховища, а також я не можу їх завантажити, знайшовши монумент у списку, тому що фото вже завантажене й я так і не знайшов як його видалити, щоб переграти ситуацію. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Соколов Дмитро (talk • contribs) 22:48, 29 September 2018 (UTC)

"I uploaded the photos to the repository, then wanted to submit them to the SFM contest, understand that the time is a little, but I can not add them from the repository, and also I can not download them, finding the monument in the list, because the photo is already downloaded and I did not find how to remove it To re-play the Situation."

- Microsoft's Bing Translator (Ukrainian to English).

This concerns a competition, @Соколов Дмитро: have you tried asking at "Commons:Кнайпа"? As they might be more familiar with Ukrainian stuff seeing as your question hasn't been answered in a fortnight. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 13:57, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Copyright help regarding File:RKD - Zelfportret, 1924.jpg

images with digital watermark

I like to place many images of Dutch artists on Wikimedia Commons. I can find them in the Dutch archive RKD; They all have a digital watermark in the image, so how can I use them in a proper way, especially when did not died later than 70 years ago? Is it enough to give the link of the page of the Archive RKD, in the description? Like this one: https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/images/record?filters%5Bkunstenaar%5D=Toorop%2C+Charley&query=&start=13? Please, will you give me advice. Thanks! --FotoDutch (talk) 07:46, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

@FotoDutch: Both paintings (and more of your uploaded paintings) are attributed to Dutch painter Charley Toorop, who died in 1955. Assuming she painted them in The Netherlands, per Commons:Copyright rules by territory/Netherlands her work won't be PD until 1955+70+1=2026. The referenced website has no indications of a free license. Please do not upload any more images of works of Dutch artists that died after 1947 unless you have a free license to do so (see COM:L for details). Unless you find appropriate licenses, I suggest you tag all of your uploads of her work as {{speedy|COM:CSD#U1 mistaken understanding of COM:L}}.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 12:04, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for your fast reaction Jeff G. But notice please that the image is edited with digital watermarks all over the image. Who wants an image with watermarks all over in the image? And how about the copyrights in that case: The Dutch RKD Archive from which I have the images is an official Dutch Archive of Art History and edit all her images online in this way: covering with watermarks, to protect the copyright.FotoDutch (talk) 12:39, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
@FotoDutch: I have noticed the watermarks. We generally do not want such watermarked images, unless no better images are available. Do they watermark the images of PD artworks, too?   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 13:43, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Shortcut, redirect or alias?

I categorize a lot of artillery and aircraft images and I notice there are some categories which don't have the best names but have the content I'm looking for. Is there a way to create a shortcut to another category? I see there's redirect but that looks like it lists one category as a subdirectory of another category. It also looks like it requests moving files to the new category. I would just like to have a shortcut from "12 cm Luftminenwerfer M16" to "Kriegspressequartier Alben 1914-1918 (12 cm Luftminenwerfer M16)". Because nobody is going to remember a category with that long a name and the search function does a poor job of long search strings. Or should I just copy the files to a new category named "12 cm Luftminenwerfer M16"? Snowdawg (talk) 20:42, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Category:Kriegspressequartier Alben 1914-1918 (12 cm Luftminenwerfer M16) is an intersection of Category:12 cm Luftminenwerfer M16 and Category:Kriegspressequartier Alben 1914-1918 (Luftminenwerfer). As such, I think that it should be a child of both categories. Images categorized in it should not be categorized in either of the parent categories, due to COM:OVERCAT.
A case could also be made for the whole tree of Category:Kriegspressequartier Alben 1914 - 1918 to be a hidden maintenance category. In this case, the images should be categorized both in the corresponding maintenance category and the "real" category. I'd prefer the first solution, however. --rimshottalk 22:04, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Updating logo for my company's Wiki page

Hi all. I'm told that I cannot upload the most recent version of my company's logo due to the fact that I do not have enough edits/posts made to wikipedia. Is there a better way to handle this, or do I have to find someone that has more posts than I do? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ccotton17 (talk • contribs) 21:09, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Hi. If the logo has changed, it would be better to upload it under a new file name, so that both files can exist side by side. Does the logo consist of more than text and (very) simple shapes? If not, it might be copyrighted and the copyright holder would need to release it under a free license. Some Wikipedias, English Wikipedia in particular, offer ways to upload non-free content (see en:WP:NOTFREE for full details). Wikipedia Commons only accepts content that is free for everyone, for every purpose. --rimshottalk 21:40, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
Hey Ccotton17. You can file a request at en:WP:FFU and someone (probably me) can figure out the specifics about how to upload it according to policy. GMGtalk 21:59, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
@Ccotton17: , if you are the owner of the company or the designer of the logo (or just the owner of its copyright) and won't mind it if everyone can do with it as they please you could also send OTRS permission to have it uploaded to Wikimedia Commons so it could also be used in other language versions of Wikipedia and Wikidata. Warning: any image here may also be used commercially, you can however demand attribution re-users may not claim that you(r company) endorses them if you so wish to allow the logo to be uploaded here. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 22:51, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Help transferring file from Wikipedia to Commons

I need help transferring a file from Wikipedia to Wikimedia Commons. I tried to do myself so but I botched the transfer. Can someone please help me? I am trying to transfer the file that another user uploaded to Wikipedia here since I believe the file can be used on other Wikipedia sites. This is the source file. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:73_Road_and_Theikpan_Road.jpg Thanks JC7V7DC5768 (talk) 00:28, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

It's at File:73 Road and Theikpan Road.jpg, it doesn't seem botched. --ghouston (talk) 01:07, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

Map doesn't appear

I just replaced this map [1] with this map [2] in a Wikipedia page Nung people [3], but it doesn't show up. When I click on this version 01:47, 10 October 2018‎ of the page, it does show up [4], but when I simply click on the page it does not show up. Why is that ? . I did clear cache of my web browser. 180.14.25.186 02:12, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

Sometimes the servers get behind on updating thumbnails; there are caches in the ‘back end’ as well as in your browser. You can encourage an update by purging the page, but occasionally you just have to wait (rarely more than a few hours) for the new previews to be generated.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 07:29, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

message when I click my name in my account "This page does not currently exist. You can search for this page title in other pages or create this page."

hello there

this is Konalouisa

I created an account on September 2018

today I logged in my account so as to vote some photos and clicked on my name because it has a red color and the following message appears :

"This page does not currently exist. You can search for this page title in other pages or create this page. "

How come I do not exist ?? I upload images and I vote !!!

What is that supposed to mean ??? Did I do something wrong ???

Thank you

Konalouisa — Preceding unsigned comment added by Konalouisa (talk • contribs) 05:48, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

@Konalouisa: there is no problem not having a user page, and you haven’t done anything wrong; your contributions are the principal indicator of your presence on this site, and your talk page is where others can go to contact you. Your user page is a “red link” simply because you haven’t created it yet. Feel free to put some information about what you do here, or would like to do, but it’s not required. See COM:PSP#User pages, galleries and categories for the user-page policies, and perhaps browse through some other users’ pages for examples of content & design.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 07:21, 10 October 2018 (UTC)
@Odysseus1479: than you for the answer, I am a beginner in wiki — Preceding unsigned comment added by Konalouisa (talk • contribs) 08:56, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

Logo of music streaming service

Hi! Please help me) How to add the logo of music service? Can I make a screen from the site? what license in this case? Thanks!--Oleghv (talk) 11:32, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

Hey Ccotton17. You can file a request at Files for Upload at the English Wikipedia and someone can figure out the specifics about how to upload it according to policy. Just be sure to fill in all the required fields to the best of your ability, and that will usually be enough to sort out the details. GMGtalk 12:18, 10 October 2018 (UTC)
@GreenMeansGo: Already resolved. - Alexis Jazz ping plz 12:31, 10 October 2018 (UTC)
Actually the problem must have been File:Logo Yandex Music.png.. No idea what that was. I hope not the textlogo. - Alexis Jazz ping plz 12:33, 10 October 2018 (UTC)
It was the textlogo. @Túrelio: I don't understand why you delete an overly obvious PD-textlogo? - Alexis Jazz ping plz 12:35, 10 October 2018 (UTC)
(Edit conflict) Ah. That's what I was waiting for, to see if there was a particular English logo in question. Works for me. Thanks. GMGtalk 12:37, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

Removed image

I uploaded an image of Prof. Tryggve Mettinger, which has been officially and explicitly licenced by its creator for the present purposes. However, it was removed (I did not know which of the licenses to check, since the permission is in "old school" physical writing, so I checked none but wrote a description of the picture being legally used). Is a written license not enough - must an explicit adherence to one of the specifically formulated licenses be acquired? 130.238.159.161 10:05, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

What username did you use? Ruslik (talk) 10:27, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
This File:Tryggve Mettinger.png might be the image in question uploaded by User:Pshenusire. Ww2censor (talk) 10:41, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
Please send permission including a scan or photo of that "old school" physical writing via OTRS.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:02, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

Thank you - I'll do that as soon as I get back physically to where the document is. The image is, indeed, the one mentioned above. Thanks so much for your help! / Pshenusire — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pshenusire (talk • contribs) 11:38, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

  • @Pshenusire: Signing your posts on talk pages is required and it is a Commons guideline to sign your posts on deletion requests, undeletion requests, and noticeboards. To do so, simply add four tildes (~~~~) at the end of your comments. Your user name or IP address (if you are not logged in) and a timestamp will then automatically be added when you save your comment. Signing your comments helps people to find out who said something and provides them with a link to your user/talk page (for further discussion). Thank you.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:41, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

Yes, sorry! Thanks for the heads up. Pshenusire (talk) 12:04, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

Cannot add license to an image.

I've recently uploaded the following file I was then prompted to add a license because I forgot to, so I did, but the prompt is still there? Did I add the license correctly?

Thanks in advance :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Artificial Robot (talk • contribs) 20:06, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

I want to upload a logo to commons but there's an accompanying text that says it may not be used for commercial purposes without permission. Is commons included in "commercial purposes"? --Dutchy45 (talk) 22:05, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

  • Commons itself is non-commercial, but to keep re-use relatively simple, we only accept content that is licensed for commercial purposes as well as non-commercial. (Actually, it's bit subtler than that, because it's OK if commercial use is limited by trademark, or by personality rights, but not if it's limited by copyright.) If the log is complicated enough to be copyrightable, and if the copyright-holder grants only a non-commercial license, then we can't host it. - Jmabel ! talk 23:39, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
    • Moi @Dutchy45: , what you should do in this case is contact the organisation and ask them if they are willing to license it for commercial (re-)use and if they would e-mail the OTRS team to confirm this. I've actually had quite some success acquiring OTRS permission from several websites this way but not everyone is thrilled to have their images on Wikimedia Commons, but it's always worth a try (if you really want the image here), otherwise you can upload it locally to a Wikipedia as they do accept fair use (I know for certain that the Dutch Wikipedia doesn't, though), but I prefer for files to be on Wikimedia Commons as they're then not limited to Wikipedia. If the logo is very simple (as in only text or nothing creative) it could qualify as {{PD-ineligible}}. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 18:13, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

Translating template parameters

I want to add the name of a country, passed as a parameter, to a template message. Thus:

{{sampletext|country=Germany}}

would render as

Sample Germany text.

That is easy enough. The English version of the sampletext template is something like:

Sample '''{{{country}}}''' text.

But if I translate the template message into French, I want it to render as

Exemple de texte en Allemagne.

Is there a standard method of taking a country name given in English and converting it to that name translated into another language? Aymatth2 (talk) 14:26, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

You can use {{Country}} to convert country codes to country names, i.e. {{Country|de|nolink=yes}} renders as "Germany". If you have a parameter named country and you know it will always be English country names you could try {{{{{country}}}|nolink=yes}}. For example, if country were "Germany" that would resolve to {{Germany|nolink=yes}} which renders as "Germany". —RP88 (talk) 14:49, 12 October 2018 (UTC)
That answers my question. So "{{#ifexist: Template:{{{country}}} | {{{{{country}}}|1={{{lang|}}}|nolink={{{nolink|}}} }} | {{{country}}} }}" renders as "{{{page}}}|{{{display}}}" if country=Germany and the user's language is French. If country=Erewhon it renders as "{{{page}}}|{{{display}}}". There are still kinks. If country=USA, it gives "{{{page}}}|{{{display}}}", but that is a minor issue. Thank you very much for the quick response. Aymatth2 (talk) 16:46, 12 October 2018 (UTC)
The template used by {{Country}} for country code 'US' is {{United States}}, not {{USA}}. I think you're better off changing your template message to take a country code as its input parameter, rather than an English country name. If you insist on using English country names as the values for your input parameter, and you're worried about arbitrary (possibly even unrelated) templates being invoked to display the country name, you might consider using a switch statement to convert English country names into a country code, and then calling {{Country}} with that code. —RP88 (talk) 07:59, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

Uploading via script from en.wikt

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T206942

Please help. The script at should make it very easy to record audio and upload it to Commons and then use it in Wiktionary seamlessly. It appears the breakdown is with uploading via the API. Can anyone debug this and make it functional? It would be a huge help on that project (and elsewhere--imagine quickly and seamlessly recording across WMF projects!). —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:29, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

@Koavf: shouldn't this best be reported to the Phabricator? Unfortunately technical users don't always check around the Wikimedia Commons help desk as (I suppose) they do in other Wikimedia projects, yet they're always around in the Phabricator so you can just open a ticket. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 05:49, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
@Donald Trung: Hm. Good point. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:56, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

Image from local municipality in the State of Florida

I downloaded a map of historic Distric’s and sites in he City of Miami Beach in the State of Florida. He map was created by the city government.Thus, I believe there is no copyright.

Here is the link: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/323853606

I do not know how to properly classify the map.

Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Miamireader (talk • contribs) 05:48, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

Miamireader (talk) 05:49, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

@Miamireader: {{PD-FLGov}} should work there.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:38, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

I accidentially created someone else's user page...

...what should I do now? I intended to write on that user's talk page. The concerned page is User:Thomasterhorst98. Best regards, Hbf878 (talk) 19:27, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

I've removed it from the userpage. --Túrelio (talk) 19:40, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

Re-uploading image with correct copyright

I uploaded an image of Joy Division from here a while ago from Flickr and it was accepted. Soon after it was taken down after a user realized it wasn't uploaded with the correct author (in this case Kevin Cummins); I didn't know that at the time I uploaded it. He found the image here and I would like to re-upload the same image (image 10/14 from that site) from NME but this time attribute it to the correct author. However, I'm not sure what the correct copyright mark would be and would like to know which one. Thanks. BeatlesLedTV (talk) 19:02, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

  • I'm confused. Are you saying that Kevin Cummins (or NME) has granted a license? Or are you saying something else, in which case, what? Because if the person with the Flickr account who posted it isn't the copyright holder, I see no particular reason to think that any license claimed there is accurate. - Jmabel ! talk 23:33, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

Question about cultural monument ID's

Hello, I am wondering how the cultural monument ID's are assigned, specifically for Pakistan. Is it by the person who uploads the files? I am finding some wild inconsistencies, resulting in confusion on my part and a need to often change the names of categories. Also, sometimes the category name is in one of the country's languages, while the wikibox uses a different name used on Wikipedia. Is there a policy about what to do in these situations? Thanks, Kalbbes (talk) 21:04, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

Kalbbes do you have some examples?
-- Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton m 18:59, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Accessing Account

I would like to access my account, but didn't set up an email address with it. The account is "User:sirpalmtree". Is there any way I can get logged back in if I forgot my password? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:9000:7007:cc00:d460:bf1d:9ff3:d0f3 (talk • contribs) 04:05, 16 October 2018‎ (UTC)

No, sorry. - Alexis Jazz ping plz 04:35, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

Redirect or rename long URL upload

I uploaded File:Plaque_commemorating_the_location_where_Charles_David_Keeling_planned_and_led_his_project_to_measure_the_level_of_carbon_dioxide_gas_in_the_atmosphere,_Scripps_Institute_of_Oceanography,_La_Jolla,_California.jpg but in my haste I didn't edit the URL. The URL is too long for openplaques.org to use, so I'd like to change the URL to be shorter. Is it most appropriate to rename this file or use a redirect? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Millerdl (talk • contribs) 09:40, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

  • @Millerdl: Signing your posts on talk pages is required and it is a Commons guideline to sign your posts on deletion requests, undeletion requests, and noticeboards. To do so, simply add four tildes (~~~~) at the end of your comments. Your user name or IP address (if you are not logged in) and a timestamp will then automatically be added when you save your comment. Signing your comments helps people to find out who said something and provides them with a link to your user/talk page (for further discussion). Thank you.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:44, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
I made redirect File:Charles David Keeling plaque.jpg, does that work for you?   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:44, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
Thank you for trying this. Unfortunately it seems that the redirect doesn't work with openplaques, would it be possible to move the content to that new URL? Millerdl (talk) 08:59, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
I've renamed the file. In future, you can request renaming using the "Move" link in the "More" menu. Criterion 1 (uploader request) covers this sort of case. --bjh21 (talk) 10:47, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
@Millerdl: What is this openplaques that doesn't work with long URLs and redirects? I'd hardly call such behavior "open".   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 14:16, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

Vectoring Signatures

What are the legal procedure to vectorise the signatures? --Nahid Hossain (talk) 18:44, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

St Donat's Castle

File:St Donats Church Wales - panoramio.jpg

I'd be grateful if someone could help me out by renaming the above. It shows St Donat's Castle, in Glamorgan, South Wales. It is incorrectly labelled as St Donats Church. My use of it is yesterday's TFA caused some comment, en:Talk:St Donat's Castle#Mis-named photo, and it would be really helpful if it could be renamed. Many thanks. KJP1 (talk) 06:47, 17 October 2018 (UTC)
✓ Done Next time, you can use {{Rename}}. Regards, Yann (talk) 07:16, 17 October 2018 (UTC)
Yann - Many thanks indeed. KJP1 (talk) 07:38, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

Deletion request backlog

Is there a huge backlog on deletion requests, or something? I dobbed in Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Ferose_002.png in July, and it still seems to be around; and if I look down Commons:Deletion_requests/2018/07/21 many of the other files seem like fairly open and shut cases. Pinkbeast (talk) 01:04, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

You kind of answered your own question there. But yeah, it's bigger than normal. —LX (talk, contribs) 19:33, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of TimedText subtitles?

TimedText:Near-open_front_unrounded_vowel.ogg.hrx.srt needs to be deleted; how do I mark it for speedy deletion? The template doesn't seem to be interpreted as wikitext. Suzukaze-c (talk) 05:24, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

Suzukaze-c why speed deletion? -- Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton m 08:57, 17 October 2018 (UTC)
It's nonsense; the recording is of a pure vowel sound. Suzukaze-c (talk) 17:39, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

Trouble exporting using Adobe Illustrator

I traced an image and coloured it in Adobe Illustrator, but I'm having trouble exporting it correctly. Is there someone I can send the .ai file to and hopefully help rectify the issue on File:BC Cannabis Stores logo.svg? Thanks. Jon Kolbert (talk) 17:01, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

What is the version of your Adobe Illustrator? Ruslik (talk) 20:23, 17 October 2018 (UTC)
CC, so I guess the most updated one? I managed to save it as an SVG and it was fine... but right-click export was no good. Jon Kolbert (talk) 20:38, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

Category:...

This category was recently created when Category:L'histoire militaire - Balla-Arabé was inexplicably moved to Category:.... The category already had files and a subdirectory, so it's a bit of a mess. What's the best way to straighten this up? - Eureka Lott 23:58, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

What are valued images and quality images? How does a picture become one?

I went around looking at pictures and I saw that some were valued images/quality images. What are these?


Thanks --Boothsift (talk) 00:48, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

@Boothsift: Please see COM:VI and COM:QI.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 02:49, 18 October 2018 (UTC)
Boothsift
QI are images of some technical quality, photographicly speaking. The must be from one of our volunteers, importations, and digitalisations do not count.
VI is a little bit trick, are images that illustrate some scope, 99% of the times, the "best" illustration of some specific category. Image that you want to illustrate a building, the "best" photo of exterior could be one VI, and the "best" of the interior could also be a VI. Volunteers that are evaluating this tag are very... never mind, they do not accept anything but photos, draws and charts. For them, and only for them videos are not images...
Hope that you understood
-- Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton m 04:54, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

Using Move to request changes to filenames

Move seems to have stopped working. I want to correct a typo in a filename. But after making the edit to the filename, when I try to add the reason, the drop-down does not show any choices. The choice I would make is "At original uploader's request" but neither that or any other option is visible. I've tried with both Chrome and Edge.Kognos (talk) 21:30, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

@Kognos: Please see Commons:File renaming. Unlike Wikipedia articles, files at Commons can only be moved by certain user groups, i.e. stewards, administrators and approved file movers. You don't have any such rights so you can't use the move function for files. To request a new name for a file because of a typo, please add a template {{Rename |1=proposed new name.jpg |2=3 |user=Kognos }} to the file page. This will alert the file movers or admins to perform the task. Or you could just point me at the file in question and I'll fix it (can't do this tomorrow though due to travelling all day). De728631 (talk) 21:44, 16 October 2018 (UTC)
@De728631: I understand that I can't move the file immediately and have to make a request to a mover to do so. But I have done this before, several times - I have clicked More|Move and this has given me a dialogue box where I can request the move and give a reason. More|Move still does give me the dialogue box, but the drop-down menu does not work. This seems to be a technical issue. Kognos (talk) 22:47, 16 October 2018 (UTC)
Perhaps you didn't move files in the past but pages in other namespace like user subpages or galleries and categories? Technically you should not have been able to move files at all. De728631 (talk) 18:42, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

OAuth Uploader

Hi, I saw somebody use this in the recent changes. What is it?


Thanks--Boothsift (talk) 01:41, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

@Boothsift: It's a component used by several semi-automated upload mechanisms listed at Commons:OAuth Uploader. --bjh21 (talk) 15:42, 17 October 2018 (UTC)
@Bjh21: I am not able to use it. Why? --Boothsift (talk) 00:53, 18 October 2018 (UTC)
@Boothsift: I don't know. Which of them are you trying to use, and how is it failing? I've noticed some comments recently that CommonsHelper isn't working, and someone recently had a problem as a new user of Geograph2Commons, but Geograph2Commons has worked fine for me in the past week. In any case, Magnus Manske may be in a better position to answed than I. --bjh21 (talk) 11:08, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

Inaccurate picture name

There's a picture here on the Commons that claims to show a Mr Mikhail Borodin with Chiang Kai-shek. The problem is, the person in the picture is clearly not Borodin, and the source of the picture is questionable. There are many other pictures from the relevant time frame to compare with this one, and the result is very clear. How do I go about getting the image corrected, so as to avoid spreading false information? Perhaps someone can do it for me? RGloucester (talk) 03:34, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

On the source page there’s a head-shot that looks a lot more like your example (fourth one down), yet despite the discrepancy in appearance it identifies both as the same person (鮑羅廷 1882–1951). Strange. But I’m not good at recognizing faces in photos through changes of hairstyle, lighting, &c., so I wouldn’t swear it’s a misidentification myself. Anyway, @RGloucester, Commons policy is pretty non-committal about content, and the preferred tack is to tag with something like {{Factual accuracy}}, discuss on the Talk page or with the uploader, and so on. That said, the renaming guidelines allow for “correct[ing] obvious errors” (criterion #3); if you’re sure this qualifies, see the how-to section there.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 04:47, 19 October 2018 (UTC)
Well, the problem is the source is not reliable for identifying the relevant subject. There are many pictures of Borodin from that period...his moustache and hair are consistent. It would not even be possible for him to have shaved his head, as he appears in other pictures from that year with relatively full hair. More importantly, the facial shape is wrong. Mr Alex Shih provided this picture, where the bearded man appears with Sun Yat-sen and some other Soviet advisors. Unfortunately, we haven't be able to figure out the fellow's name. One thing we do know, though, is that it isn't Borodin...but I suppose all I can do is apply for a file move. RGloucester (talk) 05:05, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

Problem with svg

Why does the most recent revision of the image doesn't come out?--Jeromi Mikhael (talk) 14:33, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

Searching for images NOT in use in a given wikipedia language. It is possible?

I am trying to figure whenever I can search for images NOT used in a given language via CirrusSearch. For example, I want to search for all images in a category using 'incategory' that are not in use in the italian wikipedia. I have no idea how to do this. Anyone?--Cabeza2000 (talk) 23:55, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

File:Secretary Pompeo arrives in Mexico City.webm

How this user is saying that the above file is not a free work? This file comes from U.S. Department of State official YouTube account.--√Tæ√ 16:35, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

@Tæ: Sorry, my mistake. I was misled by the U.S. Department of State's choice of a Standard YouTube License.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 17:01, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

Misreferenced photographs in Wikipedia Commons

Good evening,

I have recently posted in Wikipedia Commons photograpghs which I thought could fall into the originality criteria. Therefore, I listed myself as the author. I tried to reference the original source of the images prior to modification anyway, but it seems to have been insuficient. Is there a more proper way to provide this information that I do not know of, or am I simply not allowed to use these images freely? In any case, what can I do to solve the problem? Any help would be deeply appreciated. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by BQUB1819-CPalom (talk • contribs) 19:27, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

Your photos of other's works are derivatives of those works. Therefore permissions from the authors of original works are required. Moreover if your photos are exact copies of other works then you will not possess any separate copyright at all. Ruslik (talk) 20:11, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

COPYRIGHT

good day, I have been recently editing the article for Catfish and the Bottlemen. I was unable to insert a jpg file to the article because of lack of knowledge for the editing tags, see I am in 8th grade and I am still learning the basics of Computer tags, but as a dedicated enthusiast of CATB, i decided to edit their article on this webpage, mainly Wikipedia.com. Can I just put credits for the owner of the image? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Saintbully13 (talk • contribs) 14:42, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

  • @Saintbully13: It's not clear what you are trying to do. Are you trying to include an image that is already on Commons (in which case see en:Help:Pictures, or are you trying to grab a picture from somewhere else on the Internet? If it's the latter, then probably this is not OK. Most content on the Internet is copyrighted and does not offer any sort of free license. While the English-language Wikipedia makes some allowances for fair use, photographs of living people can never be used there on that basis. - Jmabel ! talk 16:53, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Помогите с загрузкой фото и фотокопий статей

День добрый.Помогите пожалуйста! Перечитала все что есть про лицензии - в голове каша, а очень нужно: 1.загрузить в статью фото автора методики, которое он мне сам прислал; 2.Загрузить фотокопии его статьи, размещенные в газетах и журналах 3.Фотокопии статей о нем, его интервью в газетах и журналах - к сожалению это было до того, как это начали хранить в нете. Как это можно сделать, нужен ли доя этого WIKIсклад и какая в каждом случае нужна лицензия? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chaika1980 (talk • contribs) 15:18, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

@Chaika1980: Поскольку вы не фотографировали, вы не являетесь владельцем лицензии. Вместо этого он Commons:OTRS/ru.--BevinKacon (talk) 20:06, 22 October 2018 (UTC)
As you did not take the photograph, you do not own it to license. Instead it has go by Commons:OTRS/ru.--BevinKacon (talk) 20:06, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

contacting user "Aejozwik"

Hi I'm trying to get in touch with the user "Aejozwik" who took this picture https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plik:Pa%C5%82ac_w_M%C4%99%C5%BCeninie.JPG I think my family visited this place when they were in Poland (some 50 years ago) and i wanted to get some more information on the place itself Can you tell me how can i get in touch with the user who uploaded this picture? thanks Oren Orenbu (talk) 21:24, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

@Orenbu: the user was only active for a couple of days in 2014, evidently to participate in that year’s WLM contest, so it may not be possible to make contact. However, you could try e-mailing—a link is in the sidebar at User talk:Aejozwik, under “Tools”. Or you could simply leave a message on that page; if the user happened to set up e-mail notifications, an alert message will be sent. (But two other messages have received no answer there.) Note that the user uploaded several pictures of the site, which may be seen at Palace in Mężenin. Good luck!—Odysseus1479 (talk) 22:48, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Help: How to add a flowchart from an article

Moved to Commons:Village pump/Copyright#Flowchart copyright
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Images with CC 3.0 licence deleted

I recently uploaded three images which have the CC 3.0 licence e.g. this one http://www.nzfashionmuseum.org.nz/c/costume-to-face-the-world-of-the-commonplace/?f=&e=&s= And they were deleted. I don't understand why, as this licence is listed as OK to use on WP. Can someone explain? TIA. MurielMary (talk) 20:51, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

@MurielMary: These were published under a non-commercial licence at that website (note the CC-by-NC-sa bit). Uploads at Commons, however, must be free for any purpose including commercial reuse. This is why we don't accept such non-commercial restrictions. De728631 (talk) 21:17, 16 October 2018 (UTC)
Muriel,
Just complementing, free licenses by definition do not accept any kind of restrictions of used, non commercial licenses as cc-by NC, are not allowed.
Here is the whole explanation of why NC are not free.
And ND, non derivative also is not free, so not all Creative Commons licenses are free.
But, did you know that we work with digitalisation of museums? Check out outreach:GLAM, maybe you cold convince the museum to change the license to a free one.
-- Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton m 09:05, 17 October 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for the replies, I can try to approach the museum regarding their licensing. MurielMary (talk) 10:56, 20 October 2018 (UTC)
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Thumbnail is much darker and loses detail compared to original

Photos should not be PNG
There I fixed it

This thumbnail has lost a lot of detail and seems much darker than the original file. I tried regenerating thumbnails and reloading the cache with no effect. I haven't noticed this effect with other thumbnails, even of images with similar characteristics. It seems there's something about this file that is causing suboptimal results with whatever scaling algorithm is being used. Other thumbnail sizes (e.g., 360, right) do not exhibit such a marked darkening. Is there any easy fix for this? Sarcasmboy (talk) 05:40, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

@Sarcasmboy: fixed, do not use png for photos. Jpg files get sharpened, png and svg do not because sharpening hurts text which is often found in those formats. The darkening is a bug I've seen before which has already been reported, doesn't happen with jpg either. - Alexis Jazz ping plz 12:01, 20 October 2018 (UTC)
@Alexis Jazz: Thanks for the info regarding sharpening of jpg vs. png, good to know. This wasn't my upload, but I noticed it on an article I was editing and wanted to get it fixed. Thanks for the jpg version! Sarcasmboy (talk) 01:39, 21 October 2018 (UTC)
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Image question

Hello, I'm new, and I'm wondering if this image on DeviantArt by KIMIKO is okay to upload and fits the project's scope? It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License but has a watermark. --SilverTails (talk) 06:02, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

@SilverTails: Do you have any evidence that it is free-licensed? I would think not, so I would expect it not to be eligible for Commons. - Jmabel ! talk 16:02, 20 October 2018 (UTC)
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"It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 "
That's his evidence Jmabel
...
SilverTails,
Sometimes people license works as CC-by, but they are not, all this cases presented are violations of copyright, they are clearly a derivate work of copyrighted media. The watermark is not the problem, but the art itself is.
Let me know if you understood, and copyright question is preferable to use: Commons:Village pump/Copyright
-- Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton m 18:11, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, I will not upload it, and I will use Commons:Village pump/Copyright next time. --SilverTails (talk) 18:17, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

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Query on creation of New Account / Username, for New Editor take over Retiring User:Judgefloro

Good evening and Best of the Seasons wishes. I am Philippine Judge Florentino Velasquez Floro who loves photos of Luzon Philippines, and for this reason, it is my ardent desire to share my wisdom to this great Wikimedia Commons; thus, now as senior citizen, at age 64, I am blessed with friends, acquaintances or admirers who accepted my call for help to put my photos in this profound encyclopedia of knowledge; I donated all my works, photos to these 2 editors who worked for free due to love of beautiful photos of Philippines; the Donations Inter Vivos of all my photos to them is only upon one condition, to Upload and Donate all my photos to Wikimedia Commons for use of Public Domain without any condition whatsoever; User:Judgefloro has 947,028 contributions and User:Ramon FVelasquez has 120,091 contributions; however, the foregoing 1st editor had a long wiki-break due to ailments; the 2nd editor had already done so much and asked me to scout for another 3rd editor, as he desires to retire; I therefore desire that a new account be created so that an alternate editor can take over User:Judgefloro who desires to put the Retire Template in his page; thusly : User:Florentino Carreon Floro, the middle name is the maternal surname of my father’s mother; I therefore ask your Commons Help, to enlighten me if this is alright, hence, after creation, the 3rd new editor will take over and I will Donate all my works to him for Wikimedia Commons Uploading for public domain without any conditions, hoping for your kind reply to my query, Very sincerely yours, Judgefloro 11:23, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

  • I don't think you can actually transfer an account, but you can contact OTRS to let someone else upload on your behalf, and there is nothing to prevent an account name like User:Judgefloro2 or User:Judgefloro_proxy. - Jmabel ! talk 16:21, 21 October 2018 (UTC)
Good evening and thanks for your kindness, reply; best wishes and sincerely Judgefloro 11:06, 23 October 2018 (UTC)
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Incorrect Attribution

Hi, A photo of mine has been taken from my Flickr account, https://www.flickr.com/photos/architectgja/18216344554/ and uploaded here on Wiki https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tauri_competition_1.jpg with attribution incorrectly given to the subject in the photo (Tauri Vahesaar - slackliner). Could you tell me how to correct this please? I have periodically found my images being mined from Flickr and reposted under different attributions, so it is somewhat of a concern. Thanks, Ed (ArchitectGJA) — Preceding unsigned comment added by ArchitectGJA (talk • contribs) 23:06, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for responding Jmabel - I don't mind sharing it here if the attribution can be corrected. — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 2603:3024:1A8B:0:38DE:F930:2F2A:36AB (talk) 02:05, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

@ArchitectGJA: : thank you! It’s your choice what licence to apply (see the licensing policy; I believe the default for images here is the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0—that’s what was inappropriately placed by the uploader. Ideally the Flickr page should be updated to show a free licence; not sure what choices you have there, but I believe they include an older (but quite similar) version of the same licence. You might want to use a matching version here. (The BY part indicates that attribution is required. Note that the NC and ND versions are not allowed here.) If you don’t want to do that, we would need to verify that you are the owner of the Flickr account, which can be done confidentially through COM:OTRS. In the meantime I’ll fix the attribution on the file page, if nobody else has already. Thanks again for your generosity under the circumstances, which should not have arisen.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 04:00, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

Thanks much, Odysseus1479 — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 2603:3024:1A8B:0:38DE:F930:2F2A:36AB (talk) 13:48, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

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Ralph M. Steinman image use on WP articles

Hi, I would like to use an image (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ralph_M._Steinman.jpg) with a so-called Non-free use rationale. It will be used and added to the List of McGill University people of which Mr. Steinman was an alumnus, to identify him. I see that this same jpeg image is used similarly/for the same purpose in the List of Canadian Jews. Besides uploading it into the List of McGill University people, is there anything else that needs to be done to justify and indicate a fair use rationale so that it can be used there? I do not see any for this image under the List of Canadian Jews. Kindly advise. Thanks.Tansyderby (talk) 16:50, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

First of all, this is Wikimedia Commons where fair use content is not allowed at all and we don't have any such articles, so you might want to have asked your question at the English Wikipedia where the file is hosted. As to the List of Canadian Jews, I'm afraid I had to remove the photograph from this article because the file did not have a fair use rationale for that specific page and would likely not get one either. A core principle of the fair use policy at the English Wikipedia is minimal use of non-free images. This means that fair use at the English Wikipedia is not allowed for image galleries and collective illustrations – especially not if there is already a main biographical article where the same photo is presented to identify the person. With the same reasoning, please do not use the picture for the McGill list either. De728631 (talk) 19:25, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for all the helpful information you supplied. I thought the List of Canadian Jews used that image legitimately, but then you said "no" and you had to take it off from there. So there is really no use asking about its possible use in the McGill list. I appreciate your reply and explanation.Tansyderby (talk) 21:17, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
@De728631: Hi, again, I was trying to upload this image (from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RMS.jpg) into the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_McGill_University_people (kindly scroll down to the third to last image box]. However, it is automatically redirecting and showing a weird logo (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rashtriya_Military_School_Chail_(crest).jpg) instead of that image. Would you know why? Could you help correct it so that the actual image that shows up there is the one from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RMS.jpg? Thank you so much for your help again.Tansyderby (talk) 12:50, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
@Tansyderby: the page File:RMS.jpg on the English Wikipedia was a redirect to File:Rashtriya_Military_School_Chail_(crest).jpg, which had been moved to a different file name. The presence of a file locally available on Wikipedia overrode File:RMS.jpg from Wikimedia Commons. I've deleted the redirect, so the proper RMS.jpg now shows up on Wikipedia. clpo13(talk) 16:33, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
@Clpo13: Thank you very much for promptly responding to this request. I did not realize that a file override was possible but now I know. Thanks again.Tansyderby (talk) 17:01, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
(Edit conflict) @Tansyderby and Clpo13: In the meantime, I renamed it to File:R. M. Steinman.jpg.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 16:36, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
@Jeff G.: : Thank you for your help as well and for renaming the file to avoid any further confusion.Tansyderby (talk) 17:01, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
@Tansyderby: You're welcome.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 19:45, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
(via edit conflict) A couple of things: (1) please, when referring here to a file, use File:RMS.jpg (that's [[:File:RMS.jpg]]), not the URL. Similarly en:List of McGill University people ([[:en:List of McGill University people]])(2) Back to your issue: en-wiki apparently already has its own en:File:RMS.jpg, which is a redirect to the logo in question, and hides our File:RMS.jpg on en-wiki. A bot then substituted the target of the redirect. The best solution here would be to move our File:RMS.jpg to something more mnemonic, which it looks like User:Jeff G. has already done: File:R. M. Steinman.jpg. "RMS.jpg" is an almost meaningless filename in any case, you shouldn't use names like that in the future. - Jmabel ! talk 16:37, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
@Jmabel: Thanks for all your suggestions. I did not realize these, especially file-naming guidelines, until now. 'Will keep them in mind so that I do not encounter the same issues the next time around.Tansyderby (talk) 17:01, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
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Problem when cropping

I uploaded a new version of File:Academy Image.jpg after cropping the white space. It is displaying correctly on this page but the thumbnail on the file description page has been squashed. What's happening? MSGJ (talk) 10:04, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

You probably need to clear your browser cache. --Magnus (talk) 10:26, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
Yep thanks, that sorted it MSGJ (talk) 12:29, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
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Same Categories

Hi Anybody! Please see the categories: Category:Miranjani and Category:Miranjani Peak. These are same. Please delete Category:Miranjani Peak and put its files in the Category:Miranjani. Thank You. PakEditor (talk) 03:45, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

✓ Done. I added the parent categories from Category:Miranjani Peak to Category:Miranjani, replaced Category:Miranjani Peak with a {{Category redirect}}, moved all the category members using Commons:Cat-a-lot, linked Category:Miranjani to Miranjani (Q3695170) on Wikidata, and added a {{Wikidata infobox}} to Category:Miranjani. --bjh21 (talk) 13:48, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

Using Photos for School

I want to use some photos for a History project...how do I legally use them and source them to? — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 162.249.43.186 (talk) 19:35, 23 October 2018‎ (UTC)

Hey anon. So long as everything is done right on our end, photos on Wikimedia Commons should be free to use for anyone for any purpose. Usually the most that is required is to attribute them, which usually means a little text in the corner that says where you got the image from. But if you are just using them for a history project for school, I don't think you should have anything to worry about. GMGtalk 20:29, 23 October 2018 (UTC)
If that project is online, then it becomes a bit more important to be careful. It's usually best to state under what license you are using the image. Also, if your school has requirements about footnoting in a particular manner, that's for you and them to sort out.
In any case, if you go to the file page for any given image, it will have information about authorship and sometimes something more specific about attribution. A few random examples of attribution:
I hope those give you a fair sense of this. If you have a question about attributing some specific image, please ask that specific question. - Jmabel ! talk 23:48, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

upload file

I entered "Commons:Upload Files" and was set on tab "Learn". "uppload" tab is there but I can not open it. Please advise. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ElSophista (talk • contribs) 22:16, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

I wish to upload some documents in commons but I want to make sure they are not used to defame my family

Hi, my name's Carlos Barros, recently I found out some old documents from my grandparents in perfect conditions, that would illustrate perfectly well how Portuguese documents were. In this case it is Social Security documents from my grandpa and grandma from 1983 and 1964, my grandparents died both in early 2006 and these kind of documents, me and my mother we mourned them and we feel that these documents are important to document the human history, there wouldn't be a problem with the Portuguese state either, since these kind of documents are not anymore in circulation. As for the family their only living relatives are me and my mother and we are fine to upload these kind of documents. However we wanted to donate these scans on the condition they are not used to spoil my grandparents good name. Is that possible?

Kind regards,

Carlos Barros

Ps: I'm not sending the documents, because Wikimedia request me to upload them under a license. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Silveringking (talk • contribs) 23:52, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

  • You can put {{Personality rights}} on the file page to emphasize your concern, but once you've digitized the documents you can't really control how someone uses them. Presumably, defamation would be illegal, and you could go after someone legally if they did that, but there is no way to achieve prior restraint. - Jmabel ! talk 15:54, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
  • As for the license: if these documents contain only simple, formulaic, text and no significant other design or images, you can use {{PD-Text}}, because they would be ineligible for copyright. If there are parts you really do not want to publish, you can blacken them. I have attached two example images of Portuguese identity documents. --rimshottalk 22:11, 25 October 2018 (UTC)


font

Hi, i want to upload a svg file (i will use object-to-path, so not scalable) using a font which is free to use for "Personal" usage but not commercial. Can i upload such SVG file? According to this & this, yes. Can someone confirm please?--আফতাবুজ্জামান (talk) 14:20, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

Input error using Microsoft Edge

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I seem to have a reoccurring issue where sometimes if I type in a field in the MediaWiki Upload Wizard the text doesn't appear in the selected field but at the upper left corner of the page, I often have this issue in Wikidata but only recently started experiencing it with Wikimedia Commons. Does anyone else who uses MicrosoftEdge to upload files to Wikimedia Commons experience this? If this is unique to mydevice I won't create a Phabricator ticket for this issue. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 09:53, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

The issue seems to have resolved itself. 😅 --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 22:11, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 22:11, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

about commons

What is commons all about? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wisdom brown (talk • contribs) 20:39, 27 October 2018‎ (UTC)

Hi Wisdom brown, you might want to read Commons:Project scope. It explains the aim and overall scope of Commons. De728631 (talk) 20:59, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

UK National Archives

I have taken a picture of a document I found in the UK National Archives and paid them £48 for a licence to display it (low res only) on the internet.

I was just wondering how to attribute it when I upload it. The conditions of the licence are:

"The reproduction of images of documents from The National Archives on an open website in perpetuity constitutes worldwide publication, and costs a one-off fee of £40.00 + £8.00 VAT. This fee covers the upload of between one and twenty TNA document images. The images must be protected from unauthorized download at high resolution by a third party. You can do this by watermarking, or by keeping the resolution to a level whereby the document is legible for information and research, but is not of sufficient quality for commercial publication."

Thanks Robin Baker — Preceding unsigned comment added by R-F-Baker (talk • contribs) 10:07, 27 October 2018‎ (UTC)

  • @R-F-Baker: Signing your posts on talk pages is required and it is a Commons guideline to sign your posts on deletion requests, undeletion requests, and noticeboards. To do so, simply add four tildes (~~~~) at the end of your comments. Your user name or IP address (if you are not logged in) and a timestamp will then automatically be added when you save your comment. Signing your comments helps people to find out who said something and provides them with a link to your user/talk page (for further discussion). Thank you.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:31, 27 October 2018 (UTC)
You should ask the people you paid.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:30, 27 October 2018 (UTC)
This looks very much like it is incompatible with Commons. Availability for commercial publication is one of the core principle of Commons as is free access to high-res images without any means of authorization. De728631 (talk) 21:03, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

Windsor, Ontario Flag

To improve the Flag_of_Windsor,_Ontario Wikipedia article, I corresponded with The Governor General Of Canada Heraldry office/department to find these images. He answered some other questions and pointed to them and among other things stated, "The emblems are not copyright-free. Copyright rests with the Crown; however, each recipient of a heraldic emblem is then given blanket permission to use or regulate the emblem as they see fit." In this case the City of Windsor ignored the proposed new flag version (as covered in the article). I don't expect this will negate the copyright. So my question is, how may I properly transfer these images to Wikipedia off Wikimedia Commons?

Thanks in advance. ~ JasonCarswell (talk) 08:33, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

@JasonCarswell: I think your best bet would be to just re-upload them to Wikipedia as fair-use content. Follow the en:w:Wikipedia:File Upload Wizard for non-free files to save a "local" en-wiki copy. --HyperGaruda (talk) 08:47, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

Where can I find the issue tracker for HotCat.js?

I want to make a feature request, but I can't figure out the best place to do it. -Furicorn (talk) 22:24, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

@Furicorn: the usual place is the associated discussion page, in this case MediaWiki talk:Gadget-HotCat.js—of which the archive pages indeed include feature requests. Note that Help talk:Gadget-HotCat also redirects there.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 23:54, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

Derivative work of a free image

I made some changes to a photograph that is already on commons, and I'm trying to upload it. The source image is File:Launay, Clément CIPB1900.jpg and the changes are cropping, unblurring and scratch removal. How should I upload the resulting image? I guess it should be "someone else's work, but what should I put in the "author(s)" field? – Pretended leer (talk) 22:30, 28 October 2018 (UTC) Would Studio Damrémont be what I'd have to put in that field? It is written on the border of the source image and it appears as a category on it too. – Pretended leer (talk) 22:38, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

If the cropping is minor, I'd upload as a new version of the existing file. Otherwise, upload it as your own and use {{Derived from}} with a link to the original image. That would satisfy the CC licence. Rodhullandemu (talk) 22:42, 28 October 2018 (UTC)
Thanks! – Pretended leer (talk) 22:46, 28 October 2018 (UTC)
In this case, I'd recommend considering it a separate, derivative work no matter how minor the cropping is. We want to have ready access to the intact historical image. - Jmabel ! talk 01:37, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Should this be deleted?

It was created for use in an English Wikipedia article which was deleted a while ago. [5] Enigmaman (talk) 16:34, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Is this the right Creative Commons licence

I have found some videos on YouTube that would be useful in an article. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcKk7-oK_PU>. It is marked "Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)". When I click on the words in quotes, it takes me to <https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2797468#>.

That page tells me "Creative Commons licenses provide a standard way for content creators to grant someone else permission to use their work. YouTube allows users to mark their videos with a Creative Commons CC BY license." The CC BY is a link. That link <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode> takes me to a page that describes the "Attribution 3.0 Unported".

By this process, I gather that the video is released under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Am I reading this right? Jacqke (talk) 04:03, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

@Jacqke: Mostly right, but it is BY, not BY-SA.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 04:10, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
@Jeff G.: Can this be used on Wikipedia?Jacqke (talk) 04:13, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
@Jacqke: Yes, after someone with sufficient rights uploads it.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 04:18, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
@Jacqke: I uploaded it for you as File:ល្ខោន យីកេ ខ្មែរស្ដាប់ហើយ ពិតជាចង់ស្ដាប់ទៀត.webm.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:27, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
@Jeff G.: Thank you. I appreciate that. Jacqke (talk) 11:32, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
@Jacqke: You're welcome.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 12:26, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

User:Scknld

Hi,

Im planning to pen an article (in Wikipedia) for which I may have to use photographs published in one of the referred books. Is it enough if I obtain a written permission from the author or the Publishers and upload the scan of this permission on to the media commons? If not, what more do I have to do about using the pictures from the book?

Sck. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Scknld (talk • contribs) 10:22, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

  • @Scknld: Signing your posts on talk pages is required and it is a Commons guideline to sign your posts on deletion requests, undeletion requests, and noticeboards. To do so, simply add four tildes (~~~~) at the end of your comments. Your user name or IP address (if you are not logged in) and a timestamp will then automatically be added when you save your comment. Signing your comments helps people to find out who said something and provides them with a link to your user/talk page (for further discussion). Thank you.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:27, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
Please read OTRS.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:27, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Hi,

Im planning to pen an article (in Wikipedia) for which I may have to use photographs published in one of the referred books. Is it enough if I obtain a written permission from the author or the Publishers and upload the scan of this permission on to the media commons? If not, what more do I have to do about using the pictures from the book? Scknld (talk) 11:40, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

@Scknld: No, it is not enough. Please see my previous reply above and stop repeating yourself.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 12:24, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
The key being "Please read OTRS." - Jmabel ! talk 14:47, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

w:The Adventures of Paddy the Pelican

Could this rare 1950s animated series well known for its poor quality possibly be in the public domain? If all film reels for it were only recently recovered (late 2016) I have doubts its copyright was ever renewed... PseudoSkull (talk) 18:46, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

@PseudoSkull: the episodes dated 1954 were due for renewal in 1981 and 1982, so if they were renewed, they would be in Library of Congress's online copyright database. However, searches for "Adventures of Paddy the Pelican" or simply "Paddy the Pelican" bring up no results. clpo13(talk) 19:44, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Verifying permission

Moved from unrelated topic above.—Odysseus1479 (talk)

Good Morning I have edited a page with text and uploaded a figure of Genealogy of the Chiefs "Kings" of a curtain Tribe from south Africa my content was Deleted the advise on text was I should paraphrase that I'm happy I will redo.

My question is regarding the figure I uploaded I took it from Someone's Dissertation I was advised I needed permeation so I located the author on social media "Linked in to be specific" the owner responded on Linked in giving me permeation to us the figure how do I upload the proof of permeation?

and is screen grab or an email enough to be proof of permeation? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zgumede13 (talk • contribs) 02:15, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

@Zgumede13: to ask a question on a noticeboard or discussion page, please start a new topic at the bottom of the page, rather than posting in an existing section, and remember to sign your posts by typing four tildes at the end.
As to your question, the copyright owner should send permission to OTRS: please see COM:OTRS for instructions and a sample letter of permission. Bear in mind that the figure must be licensed for anyone to use for any purpose in order to be hosted here; permission only for use on Wikipedia is not sufficient.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 03:42, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

Stamp image copyright question

Hi, I was wondering whether there are copyright issues with photographs of stamps. There is a stamp from Ascension Island that would be useful to illustrate HMS Kangaroo, however I am not aware of copyright problems with stamps and I seek advice, rather than make errors in judgement. Regards Newm30 (talk) 07:31, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

@Newm30: Yes, there are copyright issues with photographs of stamps. Since Ascension Island is not mentioned directly on COM:STAMPS and it is a British Overseas Territory, please see COM:STAMPS#United Kingdom.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 08:24, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
@Jeff G.: Thank you very much. Regards Newm30 (talk) 08:47, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
@Newm30: You're welcome.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 08:53, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
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