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Delete old author info

Hi there,

I've just uploaded some photos that are not my own work, and I've instructed the author to send an email to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org. However, they do not want to be attributed for the work, and decided this after I had uploaded the files. I have deleted the authorship info from the files, but the file history still shows their name. Is there any way to edit the file's history to maintain the author's anonymity?James Hyett (talk) 17:06, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

James Hyett, Green Giant has done this for you. In future, {{Speedydelete}} allows free text entry, and given new files can be deleted by the uploader, I imagine you could ask for a revision to be deleted there - this will give a much quicker response. ~~ Alex Noble - talk 19:16, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: ~~ Alex Noble - talk 19:17, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

It has been established that Matthew T. Rader's blog is in fact operated by the Commons user of the same name. This is sufficient to make him credibly licence his photos at Commons without an additional CC licence at the blog. This is Wikimedia Commons, not Wikipedia, and while an explicit licencing of previously published material is recommended, is has been longstanding practice that the identity of the author can be established by other means – this includes OTRS verification or declaring a person's identy/username through a website they control. At the same time, referencing the blog in the file pages is suitable to show that these have been published elsewhere. Graywalls is therefore requested not to remove any such links from the file pages uploaded by M. T. Rader. Any user behaviour pertinent to this issue may now be discussed at COM:AN. De728631 (talk) 01:22, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Can i upload images with this license?--SharabSalam (talk) 13:47, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

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Flickr2Commons

Flickr2Commons is not working but showing the message: "Invalid API Key (Key has expired)". Is this the end of Flickr2Commons ? If so what do we use instead ? When I post this question at the Village Pump the subject is removed. Could somebody please explain.

Bengt Nyman (talk) 12:13, 3 April 2020 (UTC)™

Bengt Nyman There is a thread at Commons:VPT#Flickr2Commons failure, which gives alternatives whilst it's down. ~~ Alex Noble - talk 12:25, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
Thanks Alex Noble. Bengt Nyman (talk) 12:39, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
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Wikidata Infobox

I am fairly new to creating categories. When I attempt to put a Wikidata Infobox in a category I am creating, it doesn't work. Please help. Lettler (talk) 16:18, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

@Lettler: I looked at your recent category creations and several of them have working infoboxes, and none have broken ones. If your category is still not working, please share a link to it. I'm guessing this was a cache issue. These fix themselves eventually but you can force them by submitting a change to the page without actually changing anything, or you can enable the 'UTCLiveClock' gadget in your Preferences. – BMacZero (🗩) 16:26, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

Okay then. Thank you. Lettler (talk) 16:27, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
I purged the cache on Category:Jack Mackey and added a infobox. The infobox blanked and stated "NO WIKIDATA ID FOUND!" Jack Mackey is the only Wikidata item with the name, so I don't know what I'm supposed to do here.Lettler (talk) 16:33, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

@Lettler: That's because the Wikidata item, Jack Mackey (Q6113825), isn't linked to the Commons category. You need to add a sitelink on Wikidata: visit Jack Mackey (Q6113825) and under "Other sites" add an entry for "commons" saying "Category:Jack Mackey". Then reload the category page (and maybe null-edit it) and the infobox should work. --bjh21 (talk) 19:10, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

Thank you. Lettler (talk) 19:11, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

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Suche nach Interessenten für einen 3-4 Wochen Haustausch gegen mein Haus, 3-Zimmer, Küche, Bad,WC, Lift, Sauna, bei Frankfurt, gegen gleichwert. In Kapstadt im Oktober

Hallo und guten Tag, können Sie mir helfen? Ich möchte ein Inserat aufgeben von privat an privat: ich möchte mein Haus mit allem drum und dran, Voll eingerichtet, mit jemandem in Kapstadt oder Umgebung tauschen gegen eine 3-Zimmer-Wohnung, ebenfalls voll eingerichtet,so daß man nur die Zahnbürste mitbringen braucht, für 3 oder 4 Wochen im Oktober oder Oktober oder November. Wo kann ich am besten eine Annonce aufgeben, in welcher Zeitung? Vielen Dank für Ihre Antwort! Hans Peter Ettlich Limburger Straß E 16, 65558 Holzheim (bei Limburg). Deutschland. — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 2A02:810B:380:368:B076:D855:B77B:95FD (talk) 10:34, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Sorry, falsches Forum. Versuch's mal bei de:WP:Auskunft …--El Grafo (talk) 10:47, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
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User account with copyright issues. Most of their pictures are sourced from their web page that asserts copyright notice while they're posted as creative commons here

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For example: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Taj_Mahal_main_building.jpg

Much of that user's photos attributes to his own website where it has a copyright notice and images are not properly identified as Creative Commons at the source which suggests he may only be selectively licensing the photos for use on Wikipedia related use only, which is not permissible. Where should this be taken to? Graywalls (talk) 20:03, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

@Graywalls: It should be noted that a work is "copyrighted" when it is licensed under a CC license. Given that the website also attributes to Matthew T Rader, there is no problem for Matthew T Rader to attribute these images to relevant personal websites, regards.廣九直通車 (talk) 12:52, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
Seconding that. It is possible (hasn't ever been determined in a court) that CC-0 waives copyright, but none of the other CC licenses commonly used here waive copyright. - Jmabel ! talk 16:04, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
@Graywalls: Why are you editing all my photos and removing my link to my source when they just told you that it's okay. What are you doing? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Matthew T Rader (talk • contribs)
Because, these contributors are not aware of your promotional intent by LINKING pictures to YOUR BLOG, and linking to your business homepage for AUTHOR instead of your Wiki profile is questionable not on the copyright ground, but on promotional use grounds. While you may have removed your resume page user page here, I think the promotional intent is fairly clear by how you have been using your user page all along to promote your photography business. Graywalls (talk) 17:25, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
@Graywalls: That's not true, I appropriately crediting the source and author of the image. Yes I had links to my website on my user page because I thought that's what the user page is for, talking about yourself and showing how people can connect with you. Obviously that was a misunderstanding and has been corrected after I read more about the intention of user pages. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Matthew T Rader (talk • contribs) 17:48, 4 April 2020‎ (UTC) (UTC)
The EXIF data contains the string "(C)2009 Matthew T Rader, all rights reserved". While copyright is fine, "All rights reserved" is indeed not compatible with Wikimedia Commons. Matthew T Rader, would you mind fixing this? ~ ToBeFree (talk) 00:45, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
@ToBeFree: Yes I can fix that, didn't realize that was in there, it's in all my images by default. I will fix the one on wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Matthew T Rader (talk • contribs) 00:49, 5 April 2020‎ (UTC) (UTC)
No worries, Matthew T Rader, thank you very much in advance! ~ ToBeFree (talk) 00:50, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
Per the above: I do not believe that there are actual concerns about whether Matthew T Rader has the copyright for these images. I also do not believe that there is reasonable doubt about Matthew T Rader's intent to freely license these images. However, if you seriously disagree, you are welcome to start a proper deletion discussion. I think this can be closed. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 00:54, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
Are these these procedures not applicable to commons? It specifically says that if something has already been published, then release needs to be made on the source. For example, for this one which was uploaded on March 26, 2020 and cites a website that was published in 2010. Per that instruction, the release needs to be published on the website or done through OTRS. Graywalls (talk) 02:42, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

Stopping A User From Reverting My Contributions

A User graywall has a personal vendetta against me and is systematically removing my edits without any valid reason other than is opinion. How can I stop this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Matthew T Rader (talk • contribs) 20:34, 4 April 2020‎ (UTC)

Problems with particular users can be reported here: COM:AN/U. In this case, User:Graywalls apparently judged the links to your Website to be spam, which would be a valid reason. As I see it, we generally allow authors, within reason, to specify how they wish to be credited. A link to a Website is quite usual and should be really unproblematic. It would be good form to mention the CC license on your Website, however, for those images you wish to be freely licensed. The link to your Wikipedia profile is rather inconspicuous so that the question may arise whether the Wikipedia user and the photographer really are the same person. --rimshottalk 23:36, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
Background. I noticed user's recently contribution over on en.wikipedia has been essentially nothing but adding a swath of his own authored images into numerous articles in a few days, but never making use of pre-existing gallery in Wikimedia commons, and until a few days ago, the the user's user page was quite evident that it was intended for promotional purpose, as you can see from the older version of his user page. The "Author" hyperlink in file description on many of his files link to his personal website off wiki rather than his Wiki user page. Linking to user's Wiki profile or not hyperlinking is the standard. I've made it so it links to his Wiki page, but he reverted them back to go to his personal website. Given the editing pattern, I feel in good faith that there's sufficient clues to suggest there's promotional intentions to bring traffic and promote branding subtly. Also, I believe that if his website asserts copyright, then I believe he needs to setup authority control for it with Wikimedia to verify he does indeed control the website. It also seems that the blog he sources has lower resolution image than the image present here. If the image in blog, as well as the image here are sourced from the original file, then it was not "sourced" from the website, therefore the inclusion of link to his blog seems inconsistent. Graywalls (talk) 23:59, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
These are first-rate, in-scope images, definitely the sort of thing we want. - Jmabel ! talk 01:00, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
Are we talking on commons, or on EN?Graywalls (talk) 01:10, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

Solving this

@Graywalls and Matthew T Rader: While I, personally, have no doubt that Matthew T Rader owns the Flickr account in question, it would be good for Matthew T Rader to demonstrate that. OTRS would probably be overkill, and a waste of time for the very busy OTRS team. Matthew, could you post a sentence somewhere on https://matthewtrader.com/ saying that User:Matthew T Rader is, indeed, your account on Commons? Then you could link that from here to demonstrate that and from your user page so that the issue won't arise in the future. You don't need to affect some normal page of your site to do this, just create a page somewhere on that domain for this purpose. Would that work for you? - Jmabel ! talk 17:17, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

@Jmabel: , there was no mention of Flickr anywhere. What the procedures say is that Creative Commons release statement needs to appear on the website. Graywalls (talk) 19:11, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

@Graywalls: Ah, sorry. That's even simpler, then. He just needs to post a sentence somewhere on https://matthewtrader.com/ saying that User:Matthew T Rader is, indeed, his account on Commons.
No, there is no requirement that some other place on the Internet also indicate the Creative Commons release statement. We just have to know that he's the same person, and that he is releasing the rights here. - Jmabel ! talk 19:51, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
@Jmabel: , No, it does not say that stating his Wiki user name(s) is sufficient. Did you even look in his blog? He'll upload a photo, then refer to his blog that has more pictures than the photo in question. Since the photos were uploaded on Wikimedia Foundations after they have already been online on the source website for years, the specific procedures apply. Copyright policies state that the webmaster specifically needs to expressly attest that applicable photographs have been released under CC BY-SA terms on the web page. It is imperative that this is done correctly, to avoid recurrence of situations similar to this or any other excuses such as "oh the person posting for me on Wikipedia did not have full permission to entirely release it like that" from being made if these images are used for commercial purposes. Graywalls (talk) 20:14, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
@Jmabel: Here's a page on my website: https://matthewtrader.com/usermatthew-t-rader-is-indeed-his-account-on-commons. Not sure why graywalls is still bothering me, he was specifically asked to stop hounding me by the admins here Matthew T Rader (talk) 20:25, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
first of all, the case on this help desk precedes your grievance. secondly, your grievance is on the en.wikipedia domains, not commons. There's nothing even suggesting that all unwrapped cases to be abandoned. The metadata was changed for the one example named here, but assertion of copyright still appear to be present in the other pictures you have uploaded that can be a hindrance to companies that maybe interested in commercially using the photos without having to pay anything. user Tobefree pointed out to you that your default copyright claim is incompatible with CC BY-SA 4.0 terms. Graywalls (talk) 20:33, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

@Jmabel: , this section while hosted on en.wikipedia does appear to relay Wikimedia Foundations copyright procedures. In there, it gives two options. An express release statement at the web source that is cited as the source (each blog page where the photo is found) or through OTRS. No where does it say simply put a page that mentions wiki username. So are you saying the aforementioned is not applicable to Wikimedia Commons? I appreciate clarification. Graywalls (talk) 21:34, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

@Graywalls: this is ridiculous. You are pointing at the procedure that would let a third party upload the photos, but that is not what we are dealing with. He has demonstrated that the account is his, and that he is acting on his own behalf uploading the photos. This isn't an exercise in hair-splitting, it is an attempt to build a repository of educationally useful media. We have here an excellent photographer providing useful images, there is no serious question remaining about his identity and that this is his own work and as far as I can tell you appear to be trying to make this process miserable for him. What is the purpose of that? - Jmabel ! talk 22:20, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
I second this. Regards, Yann (talk) 22:31, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
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Category:Évremond de Bérard

I'm trying to link this category to an existing page in Wikidata (Q3592909), which is the one on the Creator page, but for some reason, it keeps creating a NEW Wikidata page. If I try to make the connection manually, instead of using the template, the links to the Wikipedia articles are broken. I'm stumped. WQUlrich (talk) 07:32, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

Alternately: Is there an easy way to transfer the Statements from one Wikidata page to another? WQUlrich (talk) 07:53, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
WQUlrich The Wikidata database currently appears to be on fire or something. See phab:T249565. Until this is fixed, I wouldn't attempt to do anything WD related, as it will take quite a bit of work to clear up all the duplicates etc afterwards. ~~ Alex Noble - talk 08:02, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
Wow! Thank you! I was starting to feel a bit stupid....hope it isn't too serious.
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استفسار

تحية طيبة وبعد ، قمت برفع صورتين في ويكيميديا كومنز و أريد حذف تلك الصور — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ali zuhaifa (talk • contribs) 20:35, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

Inquiry
Hello, and yet, I uploaded two photos to Wikimedia Commons and I want to delete them
translator: Google Translate via   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 02:16, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
لقد قمت بوضع علامة على كل منهم للحذف نيابة عنك تحت COM:CSD/ar#G7. :@Ali zuhaifa:
I have tagged each of them for deletion on your behalf under COM:CSD#G7.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 02:16, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
✓ Done I have deleted these files. De728631 (talk) 02:22, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
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The 'Picture of the Day' caption is weird

It reads: "Two juvenile nolan warthogs (Phacochoerus africanus africanus) having a drink in Senegal. Senegal gained independence from France on 4 April 1960.". The two sentences are virtually unrelated. Jumping from a description of warthogs to a historical facsimile. --Polegåarden (talk) 19:21, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

@Polegåarden: Changed at {{Potd/2020-04-04 (en)}}, regards.廣九直通車 (talk) 06:58, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
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My own work licenced open source is marked as possible copyright violation

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%22Er%C3%A4maateatteria_katsomassa_Utjoen_Kevolla%22_elokuvan_juliste._Graafinen_suunittelu_Jukka_Tarkiainen.jpg

this is my own work and i have licenced it with creative commons open licence. I want to keep it in wikimedia. What should I do? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jukkatarkiainen (talk • contribs) 11:15, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Replied at User_talk:Jukkatarkiainen#File:"Erämaateatteria_katsomassa_Utjoen_Kevolla"_elokuvan_juliste._Graafinen_suunittelu_Jukka_Tarkiainen.jpg //Eatcha (talk) 12:16, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
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Adding an image to a Wikipedia page

I have a portrait of Rudolph, 6th Prince Kinsky by the artist Severin Pflaz that I wish to add to both men’s Wikipedia pages.

I own the painting, and agree that the image is Public Domain.

How do I add this image?

Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Citizen Riley (talk • contribs) 00:38, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

  • Assuming you mean the 19th-century artist Severin Pflaz, it is certainly in the public domain. Upload just like any other picture, give Pfalz as the author, and indicate {{PD-old-100}} as the license. Obviously, the best and most detailed photo you can provide would be welcome. - Jmabel ! talk 06:26, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Problems uploading files

For several days, I have been suffering from problems when trying to upload image files. The upload slows down, then at least 3 of the files will fail to upload. When I click "try again", the images still fail to upload. When I try uploading them one at a time, the upload succeeds. Does anybody know what's going on? --Peulle (talk) 08:01, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

  • Maybe really busy Internet in your area while everybody is quarantined? Are you getting the usual response rates on other things on the Internet? Also: is your browser set to time out if things don't complete within a certain amount of time? - Jmabel ! talk 15:14, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Publishing

Hi I'm trying to publish my photos in the wiki loves Africa competition. I've spend ages today writing captions and tags etc for 38 images but it won't publish. I don't want to leave the page and 2 hours work, can you suggest what may be the problem please? Thanks so much Tracy Brooks — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 41.13.96.172 (talk) 11:20, 1 April 2020‎ (UTC)

I am logged in, trying to do this from my phone as if I leave the page I lose all my work — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tracy Anne Brooks (talk • contribs) 13:47, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Not allowing me to publish

hi, I've spent several hours this morning uploading and describing 38 images for the Africa Transport competition. The Publish button just won't function. I can go back to the upload page but not forward nor can I leave the page as nothing is saved. Is 38 images too large to publish or is there a site failure somewhere? My heart quails at starting from scratch with all of this, especially if I end up at the same dead end. Any help out there please? Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tracy Anne Brooks (talk • contribs) 13:46, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Uploading a Logo for a social enterprise as non-free content

I want to upload a logo for a social enterprise for use in the infobox of the social enterprise page without as not free content. When I try to upload to Wikimedia Commons I can't see this as an option even though I believe it meet the criteria to be not free content on the site. Thanks for your help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SFlynn50 (talk • contribs) 11:54, 1 April 2020‎ (UTC)

SFlynn50, non-free content is strictly prohibited on Commons. Try uploading directly onto your local wiki, if fair use is allowed there (e.g. yes for enwiki and no for dewiki). VLu (talk) 12:00, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Contacting the author

I was wondering how to contact the author if this file? image It says to get permission, but I don't know how to ask

BW — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 92.233.241.209 (talk) 13:03, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

It was uploaded by User:Ksaviano, who last edited in August 2010. You could put a message on User talk:Ksaviano, but it probably won't be read. They haven't set up user email, so that is probably your only option.
Copyright wise, you don't need permission as long as you attribute the user. For personality rights, have a look at Commons:Country specific consent requirements - the rules vary by country.
~~ Alex Noble - talk 13:36, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

media permission

Good evening sir, I have a picture of a celebrity, she published on her account for for her fans ( it doesn't need permission) although I have permission for it from the owner but I still can't publish it on Wikimedia, so I can write about her biography here is her account on Instagram you can check (instagram: @banuuuly)check it,her name is Bana Shirwan Also known as Bana. your sincerely, — Preceding unsigned comment added by MalikOo0ka (talk • contribs) 17:21, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

For such images we need an explicit permission from the copyright holder which should be sent by email (see COM:OTRS). Please note also that most often copyright is not held by a person depicted in a photo but by the original photographer. That said, all images without a free licence, do require a permission from the copyright holder to be uploaded at Commons, even if they were published online before. De728631 (talk) 17:31, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Deleted screenshot

I uploaded a screenshot from my phone, shoving an SMS from the Chief of the Norwegian Home Guard to all soldiers in the Home Guard.

This was then deleted, even though I explained the content and context.

Why? --Znuddel (talk) 21:00, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

@Znuddel: According to Premeditated on your user talk page, "This is a screenshot of copyrighted computer software, and the copyright for its contents is most likely held by the author(s) or the company that created the software." According to deleting Admin Storkk in the deletion log for File:SMS fra Heimevernet.jpg, "Likely copyright violation; see COM:Licensing. If you are the copyright holder, please follow the instructions on OTRS." Do you have permission from the Chief of the Norwegian Home Guard?   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 01:21, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

Copyright help regarding File:MiS Pomeranian Medical University Stettin Logo.jpg

Please delete this picture - it wasn't the official logo of the University. Thanks.

{{Löschen|1=''Bitte um Löschung des Bildes - es ist nicht das offizielle Logo der Universität gewesen. Danke'' --[[User:Drmed79|Drmed79]] ([[User talk:Drmed79|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 00:10, 8 April 2020 (UTC)}}

--Drmed79 (talk) 00:10, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Drmed79, trage das zu Beginn der Dateibeschreibung ein: {{G7}} (vgl. {{G7}}). Gib noch kurz einen Bearbeitungskommentar an („speedy delete: not the official logo of the university“) und speichere. — Speravir – 02:12, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
@Jmabel: I think we can consider this as a speedy deletion request by uploader. Could you be so kindly? — Speravir – 00:37, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
@Speravir: It was uploaded about 6 weeks ago, so normally we wouldn't handle that as a speedy.
It's not the official logo of the university, so the description may need to change, but it is on their website so assuming the licensing issue can be sorted out (quite likely PD-ineligible, but I don't know the threshold for Poland) I think we should keep it. - Jmabel ! talk 04:02, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
Ah. But, Joe, https://www.medizin-stettin.de is not the official website! Please, check en:University of Szczecin. It seems to be related, though, for recruiting young Germans as medicin students, ie. not a fake website. On the other hand with a missing license the file must be deleted anyway. — Speravir – 04:17, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
@Speravir: I agree on most counts. If this exceeds the threshold of originality for Poland, then it should be deleted as unlicensed. Otherwise, it should be tagged as {{PD-ineligible}}. - Jmabel ! talk 15:54, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
Ah, yes you are right here. But I assume the real concern of the uploader is the filename, but this could easily be fixed, too. I was apparently wrong with linking to the University of Stettin/Szczecin. It is this this one, instead: Pomorski Uniwersytet Medyczny. — Speravir – 21:31, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
Forgot pinging you, Joe.— Speravir – 22:27, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
@Speravir: I've fixed the English-language description and started a conversation about the copyright status at Commons:Village_pump/Copyright#File:MiS_Pomeranian_Medical_University_Stettin_Logo.jpg. I don't think we need further discussion here. - Jmabel ! talk 01:01, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
Acknowledged. — Speravir – 01:05, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
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NEW TİTLE

How can ı add a new title? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hypatiaphilosophia (talk • contribs) 21:48, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Hi Hypatiaphilosophia, What page title or image are you talking about and I'll move it for you (depending on what you're trying to do), Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 20:58, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
I think they are trying to create a new gallery. Though they have attempted to upload a file only to be blocked by the cross-wiki upload filter. Idk. pandakekok9 09:10, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: Given the user hasn't returned and given no one seems to know what they're talking about I'm marking this as resolved, I've left them a message in the hope of actually getting somewhere but my senses tell me I won't lol. –Davey2010Talk 14:22, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

delete photo

i uploaded the wrong photo, how can i delete it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nigel747 (talk • contribs) 07:23, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

@Nigel747: I marked File:N747PA.jpg for speedy deletion per CSD G7. pandakekok9 08:20, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
Deleted by Túrelio. Marking this section as resolved. pandakekok9 09:05, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
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Как доказать, что фотографии действительно принадлежат мне?

Администратор Sealle без обсуждения удалил 5 отсканированных и загруженных мной фотографий, которые принадлежат мне, ссылаясь на то, что у него возникают сомнения, что они мои. Как я мог доказать обратное? Lucky Fighter (talk) 10:14, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

  • Владение бумажной копией произведения, ее фотографирование и сканирование не означает обладания авторскими правами на оригинальную творческую работу. Судя по вашей странице обсуждения, вы сами признали, что эти фото - архивные, поэтому авторскими правами вы не владеете. --VLu (talk) 10:38, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
    • Нет, слово "Архивные" означало только исторический период (70-80 годы). Фотографии из личного архива. Lucky Fighter (talk) 10:49, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
      • Что вы имеете в виду, говоря "принадлежат мне"? Кто делал эти фото, буквально - кто нажимал на спуск фотокамеры? --VLu (talk) 10:54, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
        • На спуск фотокамеры нажимал дедушка. Lucky Fighter (talk) 10:58, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
          • Ну, вот видите. А указали вы, насколько я понимаю, что это ваши собственные работы. Таким образом, сомнения в вашем авторстве были обоснованными, и дальше нужно вступить в переписку с представителями OTRS, предоставив информацию об авторе и о том, что вы являетесь единственным его наследником. Если ваши объяснения будут приняты, файлы восстановят с подтверждением от OTRS. --VLu (talk) 11:09, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
            • Владимир Александрович, вы забыли, что еще нужно предоставить важную справку, заверенную в соответствующем уполномоченном органе, что именно дедушка, а ни кто-либо еще нажимал спуск фотокамеры, ведь это тоже очень сомнительно. Но даже если он и нажимал кнопку, то всё равно нужно проверить, а чья была идея, кто действительно автор, ведь нажимающий мог оказаться всего лишь исполнителем механической работы под руководством другого лица (автора сей фотографии). И вообще необходимо ввести регистрацию логинов Википедии по паспорту через портал авторизации и аутентификации, например, ЕСИА Госуслуги, дабы чего не вышло, и чтобы была возможность привлечь виновных в соответствии с КоАП/УК Укараины/РФ/США/Великобритании/и т.д. (нужное подчеркнуть) в случае нарушения соответствующего законодательства (распространение фейков, клеветы, нарушение авторских прав и чего-либо еще). Можно довести всё что угодно до абсурда, и надеюсь, что абсурдные требования Вас обязательно коснутся в жизни, когда очередной «кожаный робот» будет действовать, приговаривая, что всё в соответствии со строгой инструкцией.
            • ps/ Скорее всего, вы еще не сталкивались с так называемой «Проблемой вагонетки», но уже пытаетесь судить всех подряд (переключать стрелку, определять что важно). / Lucky Fighter (talk) 02:28, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
              • Lucky Fighter, вы пришли в проект, принципиально подчеркивающий, что он предназначен для свободного контента (свобода означает не право делать что угодно, а безукоризненную чистоту загружаемого контента от претензий третьих лиц), вправе загружать свои работы и произведения, находящиеся в общественном достоянии, но вам хочется обойти правила да еще и нагрубить тому, кто взялся ответить на ваш вопрос. Бог вам судья, больше не буду реагировать на ваш троллинг, всего доброго. --VLu (talk) 06:24, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
                • VLu, но данный контент имеет ту самую безукоризненную чистоту и, более того, он никогда нигде не загружался и не публиковался до 2011 года. За 9 лет ни у кого никогда не возникало никаких вопросов. Сейчас данные фото были удалены и у меня возникает вопрос: а почему все остальные фотографии не удалены, ведь там тоже нет никаких подтверждающих справок с подписями и печатями? И если бы я действительно хотел обойти какие-то правила, то просто бы загрузил на Flickr и они бы появились здесь автоматом без каких-либо дискуссий. Почему загрузка сканированных фотографий через 9 лет автоматически стала считаться нарушением авторских прав? В Википедию пришло новое поколение, которое никогда не видело фотографий на бумаге? Lucky Fighter (talk) 16:50, 2 April 2020 (UTC) Ладно, пофиг. Lucky Fighter (talk) 17:18, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

Copyright on photoshopped painting

I made a 8-bit version of "Arthur Schopenhauer Portrait by Ludwig Sigismund Ruhl 1815" by photoshopping it on adobe. I tried to upload it as my work but filter didn't accept. Can i upload it, if i can't upload it as "my work" how else can i? --Ayberk205 (talk) 12:16, 2 April 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ayberk205 (talk • contribs) 10:08, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

@Ayberk205: Hi, and welcome. I am sorry to inform you that you have triggered Special:AbuseFilter/153 by trying to cross-wiki upload a smaller (<50KB or <5MP) jpg image as a new user while leaving the summary intact. The image you tried to upload is smaller, and you indicated it's your own work. Usually when someone uploads a smaller image, it is a copyright violation taken from the web. If you made the image yourself, please upload the full-size original of it, including EXIF metadata. If you did not make the image, please see Commons:Licensing for why we can't accept it, and have the image photographer / designer license it on their website or social media, or send the image and permission via OTRS. If you change the summary or use our Upload Wizard instead, you should be able to avoid that filter. Where may we find the source? See also COM:DW.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 13:01, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
There probably won't be any "EXIF metadata" on your photoshopped image, but otherwise what Jeff says is largely correct. Also, you should indicate the underlying work from which it is derived, and the fact that the underlying work is in the public domain. - Jmabel ! talk 15:26, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

Seeking for new uploads by category

As OgreBot has been down since 27 of March and it's the longest break I've recorded, is it possible to find new uploads from a category with subcategories using public tools like PetScan or other? ~Cybularny Speak? 17:25, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

Pinging @Magog the Ogre as Operator.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 12:38, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
He's been pinged about this and there are posts on his talk page. Ww2censor (talk) 13:01, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
That's the case, I actually noticed that nothing has been fixed despite those comments and since I look for a way to monitor new uploads by category without OgreBot help, I hope temporarly. ~Cybularny Speak? 14:50, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

BUYING FRAMED IMAGES

I'D LIKE TO BUY OTHER PICTURES BESIDES 'DIE+ACTION+VOR+CHATTAM', HOW CAN I DO THAT? — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 2601:140:4201:3610:544C:1EE4:1A6F:192C (talk) 14:01, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

Convite

Hi eu sou brasileira e estou afim. De te receber aqui no Brasil — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 177.129.192.83 (talk) 00:49, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

Invitation
Hi, I'm Brazilian and I'm in the mood. To receive you here in Brazil
translator: Google Translate via   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 01:57, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
Agradecemos seu convite gentil, mas seja mais específico. Como você gostaria de nos receber? Que humor você está? Que comida, bebida e acomodações você deseja oferecer? Que limites você impõe? Exatamente onde e quando devemos chegar?
Thank you for your gracious invitation, but please be more specific. How would you like to receive us? What mood are you in? What food, drink, and accommodations are you willing to provide? What limits do you impose? Exactly where and when should we arrive?   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 01:57, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

Name change - wrong spelling - Help please

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/St_Anne%27s_Chapel_at_rear%2C_right_of_convent.jpg

The above new file needs to be changed to St Ann's Chapel (Est. 1888) at rear, right of Convent of Mercy, Warrnambool

Thanks Srbernadette (talk) 01:24, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

@Srbernadette: I renamed File:St Anne's Chapel at rear, right of convent.jpg to File:St Ann's Chapel (Est 1888) at rear, right of Convent of Mercy, Warrnambool.jpg for you; please see {{Rename}} for future use.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 01:47, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

Reverting upload

Hi, I have tried to undo my upload here, an update from 2017 to 2019 because content is wrong for the filename, but the system says "The edit appears to have already been undone" but the 2019 file is still there. I cannot upload the 2019 in a different name because that file already is in the system (I just uploaded it..). How to fix the situation? TGCP (talk) 15:43, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

You needed to use the "revert" link for the file version to which you wanted to revert to. Ruslik (talk) 20:22, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
Ah, thanks for fixing it. The "revert" button should probably be called "revert to". As it is now, it looks like it reverts *from* the previous file to the file even before that. Confusing. TGCP (talk) 00:14, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
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Gebietsentwicklung-stadt-wolfsburg

There is an error in the file Gebietsentwicklung-stadt-wolfsburg.png. The place called "Kästorf" never was in "Kreis Gifhorn" but in "Kreis Helmstedt" (can be verified in the linked page). This has two consequences for the map: The (relatively) dark green area around the place Kästorf should be light green and not be distinguished from the light green area next to it, with e.g. Warmenau and Brackstedt (no line between them). Secondly, the word "Gifhorn" should be replaced by "Helmstedt" in the text next to the yellow square (but not next to the dark green square). That is because that strip also was part of Kästorf before (and thus of Kreis Helmstedt, not Kreis Gifhorn). I've already mentioned it on the file's talk page, but the original author is inactive since 2013. So, I hope someone reading it here can help out, because I can't do it, and someone else already pointed to the error in 2013 on the talk page, but nobody able to do it seems to see it there. Thanks! Sigur (talk) 19:15, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

Hmm, this is a factual mistake. I would favor overwriting. — Speravir – 03:20, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
Sigur, stell eine Anfrage in de:Wikipedia:Kartenwerkstatt. Ansonsten: In Commons:Forum kannst Du Fragen auf Deutsch stellen (hier allerdings auch, nur ist die Chance auf eine Antwort etwas geringer). Ich erklär das hier jetzt als erledigt. — Speravir – 03:20, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
This was fixed fast: de:Spezial:PermaLink/198738005#Gebietsentwicklung-stadt-wolfsburg and Special:Diff/106283677/410507056. — Speravir – 19:05, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
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how to communicate consent of identifiable persons depicted in an image

I have uploaded an image that depicts two identifiable persons. (See file:Frari_(Venice)_Cappella_Corner_-_sotto_il_monumento_a_Federico_Corner). One of the identifiable persons is deceased (in 2016). The other person is still living. I have obtained the consent of the living person. How do I attach this consent to the uploaded file, or otherwise communicate it to Wikipedia Commons?Grandmotherfrompeoria (talk) 00:55, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

Convenience link: File:Frari (Venice) Cappella Corner - sotto il monumento a Federico Corner.jpg.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 01:11, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
Maybe I'm missing something, but why would explicit consent be needed for this particular photo? Is it to make it more readily available for commercial use? Anyway, you can add {{Consent}} to the image, and pass the document showing consent to OTRS, who can vouch for its content without making details public. - Jmabel ! talk 01:31, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
@Grandmotherfrompeoria: Who grants the publicity rights of the deceased subject?   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 02:10, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
@Jeff G.: If the advice above is correct, then my question is, how to pass the document showing consent to OTRS? How to carry out this "passing"?. Should the person granting the publicity rights send an email to someone? As for the deceased subject, the living person is his sole heir and is the executor of his estate, so I assume the living person has the legal power to grant publicity rights for both subjects. Am I correct on this?Grandmotherfrompeoria (talk) 17:41, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
@Jmabel: I am a novice user of Wikimedia Commons. This is only the second file I have ever uploaded, so there are lots of things (rules, procedures, mechanics) that I am unfamiliar with. I looked at Wikimedia Commons' guidelines on consent of identifiable persons, and I noticed it says "in some countries" consent is required even from persons depicted in public settings. But it doesn't specify which countries those are. So just to be on the safe side, I thought it prudent to attach the subjects' consent. Just in case.Grandmotherfrompeoria (talk) 18:14, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
@Grandmotherfrompeoria: Commons:Country specific consent requirements. - Jmabel ! talk 03:03, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
@Grandmotherfrompeoria: From the second paragraph of COM:OTRS: "Such evidence should be sent to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org (or a language specific address)." Since you speak English, you can ignore the parenthetical remark. - Jmabel ! talk 03:09, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
@Jmabel: OK got it. Thank you for your help. Getting back to your opening comment ("Maybe I'm missing something, but..."), I understand you're suggesting there's no need for explicit consent for this photo. So if that's the case, I won't bother. Thanks again.Grandmotherfrompeoria (talk) 18:06, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

Personally created and unpublished drawings

In this deletion request, I claim that "unpublished" art works/drawings that are created by Wikipedia users or any non-notable people shouldn't be in Wikipedia projects. For example, I can't just draw someone notable and add this to the Wikipedia article by saying "a drawing of Brad Pitt by User.Nananhuatl" or something like that. Because the work isn't published and created by someone non-notable. Is there anyone has any knowledge about this issue?--Nanahuatl (talk) 22:17, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

If another Wiki uses the file, for any reason, it's in scope. It isn't the role of Commons to tell other Wikis what is and isn't useful to them, so if they are using it, we consider it automatically useful. Nothing to stop you having a discussion on the using wiki about use of the image, but that isn't a commons matter.
So yes, if a wmf wiki decided to add an image drawn by a user to an article, the image would be in scope.
This is set out at COM:INUSE.
~~ Alex Noble - talk 22:39, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
@OxonAlex: , so if I just remove the image from the projects, should we delete it? Or if someone just adds, should we keep?--Nanahuatl (talk) 22:46, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
@Nanahuatl: please be aware that you can not remove images from other Wiki projects with the intent to delete them from WikiCommons solely because you disapprove of non-notable people donating "unpublished" and "unencyclopedic art"--Mr Fink (talk) 00:07, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
@Nanahuatl: At the very least, you'd need to keep the picture unused on all those projects until the DR is closed. And note that being unused is not enough; if the picture is realistically useful for an educational purpose then it still belongs on Commons. --bjh21 (talk) 20:03, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
@Bjh21: , personally, I am not interested in removing the images or deleting all of these images. I only encountered with the image when I was writing koala article, that's all :)--Nanahuatl (talk) 20:05, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
First, Wikimedia Commons is not Wikipedia. Second, illustrations are of great value when we can't provide photographs. It helps a lot to have illustrations of pre-historic life forms. Not Brad Pitt, but I can see a drawing of a person we can't find a free photograph of being quite useful.--Prosfilaes (talk) 00:16, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
Images such as Nanahuatl describes are usually not in scope, but some of them are, and this needs to be decided on a case-by-case basis. Certainly if someone were (for example) a professional book illustrator or someone of comparable skill level, but not so famous as to be notable, and were to draw us images that were otherwise in scope -- e.g. two T. Rex running toward the viewer, or an imagined street scene from Seattle during the Yukon Gold Rush -- we would want those images. - Jmabel ! talk 16:09, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

Uploading pictures

I am having trouble uploading a photo. How do I go about doing that? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lfeisee (talk • contribs) 22:27, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

What did you try? What has happened? Did you try to follow the first steps? --rimshottalk 23:13, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

en:Darren Criss

It's not a question but can someone change Darren Criss' picture, please as it should be updated as that picture was from 2015. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Loopuny122 (talk • contribs) 22:39, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

These are the images we have of him: Category:Darren Criss. You can edit the English Wikipedia article, if you think one of those is more suitable. --rimshottalk 23:11, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

Chen Houei-kuen portraits

I am related to Chen Houei-kuen. I have happened upon two portraits that have been in the families posession that I would love to share, as there are no photographs of him on wikipedia. One is a portrait of himself, the other from his marriage to his first wife. It is not my own work, but the photographer is unknown and obviously deceased at this point, as the photo was taken 90 years ago. Can I not share them? It seems that I am not allowed to, but I thought I'd ask as I can't find any information about sharing a family photograph where the photographer is deceased. I wanted to attach the photographs for you to see, but it wont allow me that either. Thanks for your help! Kristin Ting — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kristin Ting (talk • contribs) 01:32, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

Question also asked at Village Pump.[2] As the other thread has already attracted a response, I would suggest continuing the conversation there. From Hill To Shore (talk) 02:17, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

User talk

Why "User talk" pages are named "Discussion"? What is the difference between wikipedia talk pages and here commons? -- Estin  Giç Giç? 14:09, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

Página de usuário

Existe algum padrão para o que se escreve na página de usuário? O que é adequado escrever na página de usuário da Wikimedia, que tipos de informações? Posso por exemplo colocar uma foto minha e informações sobre formação acadêmica ou extra-acadêmica? Ou informações sobre o tipo de produção que mais provavelmente devo vir a oferecer (por exemplo música, vídeo, podcasts, diagramas...)? — Preceding unsigned comment added by João Ribeiro de Borba (talk • contribs) 15:17, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

There is any pattern concerning what to write in the user page? What is adequate to Wikimedia, what kind of informations? May I, for example, put a picture of myself and informations about my academic and extra-academic formation? Or informations about the kind of contributions that I could probably offer (such as musics, videos, podcasts, diagrams...)? (the same João Ribeiro de Borba, from Brazil, trying to put the question in english to facilitate answer) — Preceding unsigned comment added by João Ribeiro de Borba (talk • contribs) 16:06, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

  • The rules are pretty loose; it should not be out of proportion to your contributions here. That is, if someone had the equivalent of a major article about themself and had contributed all of half a dozen photos, three of which were only realistically usable on their user page, that would not be OK. But feel free to check out mine, or User:Fæ, or User:Butko, or User:Mike Peel to get some sense of what is acceptable from someone who is really participating here. - Jmabel ! talk 17:34, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

How to copy pics, and pages to my home laptop.

when I first came on here, and found the site picture maps of the location I was seeking, and the information about the site. I wanted to copy them into my personal windows 10 laptop, but you don't have a button for that. I don't want to upload to you anything, but I need to find a map of the places and the information to download. How do I do that when I don't have a lot of experience know how to program anything, and I barely know windows 10. Please help me. Please get ahold of me at 12facets1952@gmail.com Thank You for your help in this matter. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SusanJo31 (talk • contribs) 17:14, 5 April 2020‎ (UTC)

  • @SusanJo31: You can do this exactly the same way you save any other picture in virtually any modern browser: you right-click on the image, and one of the choices will be "Save image as...". If you want the full-res image, then remember to first "click through" on the image on the file page to get a full-res image. Also, under the image on the file page there should always be a list of different resolutions you can get if you want something other than what is on the file page or full-res; e.g. on File:Green River Natural Resources Area - observation tower 02.jpg, see where it says, "Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixels. Other resolutions: 320 × 240 pixels | 640 × 480 pixels | 1,024 × 768 pixels | 1,280 × 960 pixels | 3,264 × 2,448 pixels." First get the appropriate-sized image you want to download, then right-click on the image and choose "Save image as...". - Jmabel ! talk 17:40, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

Can I use a photo for my book?

Hello,

My name is JoAnn Hill and I am currently writing a book titled, Secret DC: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure, which is part of a multi-city guidebook series.

I am featuring the Prayer Stop in Silver Spring, MD as an entry in my book and would like to use a photo by user Bohemian Baltimore. Can I use the photo and provide a credit line crediting Bohemian Baltimore? Do I ned to contact the photographer and if so, is there a way I can contact the photographer directly?

If I need more photos for additional entries in my book, can I use ones I find here as well?

Thank you in advance for your help and please let me know if you have any questions.

JoAnn Hill Author Secret DC: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure, coming fall 2020

joannhill.secretdcbook@gmail.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joannhillsecretdcbook (talk • contribs) 17:23, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

Every photo here can be reused, but there are some conditions. user:Bohemian Baltimore uses the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. What this means, is that the photo can be used as long as attribution is given. You should give the name of the photographer (unless they indicate otherwise use their username here), and indicate the image is licensed under CC Attribution-ShareAlike.
We recommend the format Bohemian Baltimore / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
This is pretty much the most restrictive license here - so the other images here will be usable with the relevant attribution. (Just change the license given in your credit if the image is under a different license - CC BY-SA stands for Attribution-ShareAlike)
You don't have to contact the user, but I imagine most users would like to know if their work is being used. To do this, you can use their user talk page here, or Special:EmailUser/Bohemian_Baltimore which sends them an email.
~~ Alex Noble - talk 17:34, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

Transferring files to EN

Hi, Are there any tools that can transfer files to EN, If not then my next question would be How does one move all of the files here to EN?, Thanks, Kind Regards, –Davey2010Talk 11:21, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

@Davey2010: No, sorry. there are no such tools. You can use those files there as-is.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:31, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
Hey Jeff G., Well bum, So we have like 5-6 tools that can move files to Commons but none to do the opposite ..... well that sucks!, So do I upload those logos to EN individually or leave them be as readings De728631's reply these shouldn't actually be here ?, –Davey2010Talk 11:54, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
Davey2010: Yes. Only way to do it is to download onto your computer then locally reupload, as Wikipedia itself only cares about US copyright status, as opposed to here requiring home country and USA.
Surprised there isn't a tool, as fair use images also get uploaded here a bit, and would help to move those across.
Also, for watchers, De728631's reply is at Commons:Village pump/Copyright#TOO - US and UK logo list
~~ Alex Noble - talk 13:52, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
Also, at enwiki, you can use en:Template:PD-ineligible-USonly to tag the images. 13:55, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi Alex, Great!, Okie dokie I'll get them done tomorrow :),
Many thanks Alex, De728631, Jeff G. and Alexis Jazz for all your help (Alexis originally found the logos and created the gallery at their EN space which I copied to the Copyright noticeboard),
All of your help here and there are greatly appreciated so many thanks again, Thanks, Regards, –Davey2010Talk 14:00, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
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Question about a Vimeo account

Hi, I was looking some free videos and upload screenshots from them here and I found this Vimeo account. All or most of their videos have acceptable Commons licenses, and is a branch of this company but in some videos, they use external content. Beyond obvious copyrightable of some images/videos, do we can use screenshots in "normal images" (ownership) from a same video? --Chrishonduras (talk) 11:36, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

Thank you, Jmabel. I'll follow your recommendation. Cheers, Chrishonduras (talk) 19:50, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
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Uploading a file from geograph.co.uk

Hi - I'm active at Enwiki, but don't have much experience uploading images to commons. I'm trying to use this photo, from geograph.co.uk, in an article; it's released under a CC 2.0 licence, but that doesn't appear to be an option when I try to upload the image using the upload wizard. I've also been advised that I should use this template when I upload it - is that something I can do with the wizard? Sorry for the newb questions... Girth Summit (talk) 16:27, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

Girth Summit, the Special:Upload page gives you free text input for the licenses etc, so you can use any permitted license via that method. ~~ Alex Noble - talk 16:44, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
Thanks OxonAlex - I've uploaded it successfully. I didn't know how to use the geography.co.uk template, I'll have a play with that though and see if I can figure it out tomorrow. Cheers! Girth Summit (talk) 18:31, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
@Girth Summit: If you want to use the Upload Wizard, there's an option for "some other reason not listed above" or somesuch. Choose that and you get a text box where you can enter any copyright template at all, so you can use {{Cc-by-sa-2.0}} or {{Geograph}}. Alternatively, if you click "reuse" below an image on Geograph you get taken to a page giving guidance on re-using a Geograph image. Scroll right to the bottom and you'll find a section about reusing pictures on Commons. This has a link to Geograph2Commons, which is very easy in the 90% of cases where it works. Alternatively, there's a lump of wikitext that you can simply copy and paste into Special:Upload. It looks like Deor has already added the {{Geograph}} template to File:Arms of the Earl of Seafield, West Wing Cullen House - geograph.co.uk - 2615014.jpg. Geograph Update Bot will be along eventually to sort out the geocoding. --bjh21 (talk) 23:58, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
Thanks Bjh21 - I'll make a note of that, and give it a try next time I come across such an image I need. Girth Summit (talk) 10:15, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
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File:Uk-міць.ogg

An IP noted that this audio file is misnamed: the Ukrainian word being pronounced is мідь, not міць. Could someone rename it? PUC (talk) 18:17, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done see Uk-мідь.oga. — Speravir – 00:15, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
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Не мога да използувам в своя профил!

Днес не мога да ползувам своя профил - неизвестна причина. Системата Ви не работи за моя профил! Очаквам Вашата помащ! Моят профил е: <redacted> — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.43.211.172 (talk • contribs) 19:52, 4 April 2020 (UTC) (UTC)

I can't use in my account!
I can't use my account today - unknown reason. Your system is not working for my account! I look forward to your help! My profile is: <redacted>
translator: Google Translate via   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 14:40, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
Здравейте и добре дошли. Какво е точното съобщение за грешка? Отчетите за грешки обикновено изискват конкретни данни, моля, вижте mw:How to report a bug/bg за подробности. Какво е името на вашия акаунт?
Hi, and welcome. What is the exact error message? Bug reports generally require specifics, please see mw:How to report a bug for details. What is your account name?   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 14:40, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Upload new version of existing svg

Hi all,

I was trying to add translation to existing artwork on Commons but I've been searching for hours regarding how to update images. I tried to ask the last contributor of the svg and he/she said the "Upload a new version of this file" button should appear on the image page, but somehow I've never seen this button anywhere else except on the "test.svg" page. My account is a new one so I am thinking about if my trouble is because Wikimedia Commons prohibits newcomers from updating images or due to other reasons.

Thank you so much in advance if anyone of you could help me with this! I am starting a translation project for science (esp Biology) entries so I'm now trying out a lot of different things, such as how to add translation to existing files. Somehow I spent the entire weekend searching for the solution but I really couldn't figure out how to solve this. Thank you!

JPiGGoD (talk) 01:41, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Hi there, JPiGGoD. Since your account is new, you cannot reupload new versions of files. It takes 4 days from creating an account to become "autoconfirmed", so new users can perform various tasks like overwriting files.
In general though, existing files should not be overwritten with substantially different content, especially when translations from or to different languages are involved. In such cases you should always upload a new file with a different name. Overwriting an existing SVG should only be done if you would like to correct errors in translation of the same language or fix some code issues. De728631 (talk) 01:53, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi. Glad to know this information - thank you! So does this mean that the button will automatically appear when the "autoconfirmation" processes are complete?
I also checked multiple pages to see whether to overwrite existing artwork or to upload a new one with a different name would be a better choice, but it seems that suggestions are quite divergent among Wikipedians. The .svg image to which I've been trying to add a new translation already has multiple translations embedded within its own xml, and I'm afraid uploading the same image with a slightly different name (e.g. specifying language translation) may have a chance ending up disrespecting the original author. I also checked some guidelines on the Translation page, but it also seems that the guidelines appear to be slightly different between the English page & those in other languages (perhaps not updated as much as the English, I guess?).
Best, JPiGGoD (talk) 03:33, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
I do see some SVGs with multiple translations in one file, so I understand your point. What De728631 says is for general cases, but if the original author is ok with multiple translations in one file, you can overwrite it. You will have to wait for your account to become autoconfirmed though (yes, a clickable link will appear just below the file history which will allow you to overwrite the image). Alternatively, you can try requesting the confirmed right in COM:RFR which is basically autoconfirmed but without having to wait 4 days. pandakekok9 03:42, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Regarding upload of a non-free web screenshot of a streaming website.

How do I upload a non-free web screenshot? I have tried using fair use rationale. I want to upload the screenshot of a streaming website (namely Disney+ Hotstar.) much like the Disney+ article has. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lagaash (talk • contribs) 04:42, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

  • @Lagaash: Non-free screenshots are not acceptable on Commons. Period.
  • Not sure what article you are talking about, but if it is in the English-language Wikipedia: yes, the English-language Wikipedia accepts certain non-free images, but those have to be uploaded directly to the English-language Wikipedia, not Commons. - Jmabel ! talk 05:13, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Need help on an Image

Hello, An Image of Saint Rampal Ji has recently been deleted from the Commons and hence from His english Wikipedia Article. I've another Image to insert there for which I hold the copyright. I was reading Wikipedia's Image use policies. I wish to upload It in the public domain, i.e., in Commons, but i'm afraid someone might misuse His Image. Do you have any policy to make sure that no one misuses It? Thanks. Kabirisgod (talk) 12:13, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Kabirisgod: No, any image, and any content on any WMF wiki can be used for any purpose, as long as the creator is attributed. We don't allow images where permission is only given to be used at Wikipedia, as this would prevent reuse of Wikipedia.
On the English Wikipedia, there are some occasions in which non free images can be used. However, this is only in circumstances where there could never be a free alternative, and so articles about living people must use free images.
~~ Alex Noble - talk 12:54, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Image with correct NRHP number keeps showing up as not having one

I have been going through Category:National Register of Historic Places without known IDs and fixing obvious mistakes in NRHP formatting. File:G-R Arcade interior.jpg keeps showing up as not having a known ID despite having one. I can't figure out why. This problem has never happened before even though I have fixed hundreds. Hope someone can figure out why! Thanks, Kalbbes (talk) 15:09, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

I thought of Help:Purge#Null edit, but wasn’t successful with this, here. — Speravir – 03:36, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
@Kalbbes and Speravir: It works for me, please see COM:FAQ#PURGE.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 13:41, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
Sorry, Jeff, but I think you misunderstand something. For me, the file G-R Arcade interior.jpg is still wrongly categorized into National Register of Historic Places without known IDs despite containing {{NRHP|98000027}} in file description.
Should you, though, not have misunderstood, than I guess the reason is phab:T249325. — Speravir – 18:48, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
@Kalbbes: Yesterday just before going to sleep I took a look again, and the image is now in category National Register of Historic Places with known IDs (the huge time span supports my idea that this is related to the Phab task). How is it for you? Can we consider this section as resolved? (Also ping @Jeff G. for info.) — Speravir – 16:53, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
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Biography

All I am trying to do is publish my biography to Wikipedia not unlike other biographies. But the tools for doing so are complicated. Is there an easy way to do this? GHN — Preceding unsigned comment added by NelsonGailH (talk • contribs) 12:26, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

@NelsonGailH: Hi, and welcome. I am sorry to inform you that you have triggered Special:AbuseFilter/153 by trying to cross-wiki upload a smaller (<50KB or <5MP) jpg photo as a new user while leaving the summary intact. The photo you tried to upload is smaller, and you indicated it's your own work. Usually when someone uploads a smaller photo, it is a copyright violation taken from the web. If you took the photo yourself, please upload the full-size original of it, including EXIF metadata. If you did not take the photo, please see Commons:Licensing for why we can't accept it, and have the photographer send the photo and permission via OTRS with a carbon copy to you. If you change the summary or use our Upload Wizard instead, you should be able to avoid that filter. See also en:WP:AUTO.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 12:53, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
Also, while it is not a Commons matter, please see en:WP:AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Writing your own biography on the English-language Wikipedia is never acceptable. - Jmabel ! talk 15:59, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

Filename misspelled

I want to change the spelling of a file I uploaded due to misspelling. Also, I tried to upload the file under a new name, but a notice came up showing it as a duplicate and wouldn't let me do it.

Here's the file:

File:Kipling Regional Bus Terinalm.jpg

Thanks, Transportfan70Transportfan70 (talk) 13:54, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Moved to File:Kipling Regional Bus Terminal.jpg. -- Asclepias (talk) 15:05, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Thanks - Transportfan70 (talk) 01:34, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

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Cat-a-lot and HotCat

From 3-4 days ago, Cat-a-lot and HotCat don't appear. What happens?. --Jmarchn (talk) 08:27, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

They both seem to work fine as far as can judge. It is a problem with your configuration. Ruslik (talk) 19:55, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
Now they already appear (I had not changed the settings)...?? --Jmarchn (talk) 07:03, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
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Use of picture in a new e-book I am writing? Hugh Hefner.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hugh_hefner_promo_image_cropped_(cropped).png


Hello anybody,

I am writing a short story religious book and would like to use the above image of Hugh Hefner. The page says it was released in the public domain with no trademark. Would I be free to legally use this image?

Thank you for your help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Endres88 (talk • contribs) 12:25, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Firstly, please see the Commons:General disclaimer - this is not legal advice.
Yes, it can be used in most countries, including the USA and EU countries. As a work published in the USA between 1925 and 1977 without a copyright notice, it is legally public domain, for anyone to use as they wish.
However, some countries don't apply the en:Rule of the shorter term for US works, in which case, as a 1970 work, it will probably be still under copyright in these countries. - Check the list at en:Rule of the shorter term#Worldwide situation - it can't be used in countries that don't apply the rule.
~~ Alex Noble - talk 12:48, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
Endres88, I would suggest that you use File:Hugh hefner promo image cropped.png instead of the image you asked about — it's another version of the same image, so the copyright status is the same, and this one's a bit lighter in colour than the one you asked about, which is exceptionally dark. Nyttend (talk) 22:58, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Super boy

Can I change super boy picture on Wikipedia because that one is ugly.

Please respond to me ASAP. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kushiiey O'cute (talk • contribs) 21:00, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

@Kushiiey O'cute: Commons can host any number of pictures related to the same subject. If you want to change which of these a Wikipedia article uses, you do that by editing the relevant page in Wikipedia. If the others working on that page agree with your choice, then it will probably stand. If not, then someone will probably revert you. - Jmabel ! talk 03:44, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

gallery tool - time-out

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T249786

on page https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Contributing_your_own_work in text "(Note that the Gallery tool automatically shows you all the files you have uploaded.)" the link to "Gallery tool" http://tools.wikimedia.de/~daniel/WikiSense/Gallery.php produces a "504 Gateway Time-out" Hannes Grobe (talk) 05:30, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

@Hgrobe: I duplicated the problem and started task phab:T249786 for you.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 01:45, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

new logo download

Bună ziua,

Constant primisc o eroare la încărcarea fișierlui nou. Compania noastra a avut rebranding in decembrie 2019 și este necesar să fie actualizată toată informația.

Vă rog respectuos să mă ajutați. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Victoriabank.mk (talk • contribs) 09:15, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

  • Vă rog, ați putea să fiți mai exact în ceea ce s-a întâmplat? Ce pagina sau programul utilizați (URL sau nume de instrument extern)? Ce mesaj de eroare (dacă există) ați primit și dacă nu ați primit niciunul, ce exact s-a întâmplat? - Jmabel ! talk 16:33, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Getting "Good pictures" button to work

When I'm at a category that has many subcategories, I want to press the "Good pictues" button to generate a gallery that allows me to actually see what's in it and what content might be good without having to click on all the subcategories. But when I try to use it, it just says "connecting..." indefinitely. Is it broken? Sdkb (talk) 10:22, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

You probably mean gadget Help:FastCCI. It works fine for me. Can you look at your browser console and report what you see as described in en:Wikipedia:Reporting JavaScript errors? Ruslik (talk) 13:52, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Copyright help regarding File:Discount Tire Logo.jpg

Hello, I recently uploaded the file Discount Tire Logo.jpg. It said that the uploader didn’t put sufficient info about the copyright status. I want this file to have a licence on it. The licence I want to have on my file is the CC-BY-SA-4.0 licence so it can be freely used but giving credit required, also below that put a notice that the file contains trademarked material. If anybody has put the licence on the file please reply back ASAP.--MetricSupporter89 (talk) 22:33, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

MetricSupporter89, because this image is just words on a simple background, it's too simple for copyright. I've marked it with the appropriate license template, {{PD-textlogo}}, to indicate its status. Nyttend (talk) 22:50, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

[rollback all]

Glancing at my contributions just now, I noticed a new-to-me tab at top left, [rollback all]. I suppose it's been there ever since I became an admin several years ago, but I'd never noticed it. This prompts some questions: (1) Does this tool roll back every rollbackable edit I've ever made, or just the current page of contributions, or something in between? (2) If it does more than the current page, can it apply to any user, or does it break if a user has more than a certain number of contributions? (3) If I click it, will there be a dialogue box asking for confirmation?

Just trying to know how careful I have to be to avoid clicking it; I don't want to test it on someone else, and I definitely don't want to risk rolling back thousands and thousands of my own edits. Nyttend (talk) 22:53, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

  • @Nyttend: You got the several years part right. There is a confirmation box that allows you to input a custom edit summary. If memory serves me correctly, it only rollbacks the pages listed on that Contribs page. If you have it set to show 20, it will only rollback 20. If you have it set to show 500, it'll do 500. Handy tool for LTAs, dangerous to use for anything more than that. ~riley (talk) 23:07, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
@Nyttend: As a Global Rollbacker, I have found many good uses for it after placing it on my global.js page.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 01:30, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

What license to use for a logo (of a company I am not connected with)

I decided to uploaded a file ( https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Outfit7_logo.svg ) after noticing that the original logo version was at least 5 years old (there was another version from 2015 till 2018 which was also out of date but no one bothered to add it for some reason), so I did the following:
1. Take a png logo from the Logopedia Fandom ( https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Outfit7#2018.E2.80.93present )
2. Use an online site to convert png to svg (It comes at a surprisingly high quality, if the logo uses just 1 colour)
3. Alter the svg code to make the logo red (because the website always gives black and white versions of logos)
I have already uploaded the image, but I realised only now that I was supposed to check the required license type, so what license was I supposed to use? — Preceding unsigned comment added by RedBulbBlueBlood9911 (talk • contribs) 11:06, 9 April 2020 (UTC) RedBulbBlueBlood9911 (talk) 11:06, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

@RedBulbBlueBlood9911: You had overwritten a file that is already marked as {{PD-logo}} (which is the "license" of the logo), so you don't have to change it. If you upload a logo that is simple enough to not be copyrightable, you can mark it as public domain under {{PD-logo}} per COM:TOO. pandakekok9 11:23, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
Marking as resolved, as OP thanked me. pandakekok9 11:39, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
Except that this is a violation of COM:OVERWRITE. I see User:Jeff G. reverted it (which is entirely appropriate); Jeff, did you upload the new logo somewhere else? - Jmabel ! talk 15:59, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
@Jmabel: No, I did not upload it somewhere else, as my use of Template:dont overwrite on User talk:RedBulbBlueBlood9911 instructed RedBulbBlueBlood9911 to upload it with a different name himself.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 00:26, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
(Convenience link: File:Outfit7 logo.svg). - Jmabel ! talk 15:59, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

Hello,

logo was deseinged by the Omeron Techologies from which we have full right and licence to upload and publish. How we can do that?

Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Monsterflix Awards (talk • contribs) 13:00, 9 April 2020‎ (UTC)

Omeron Techologies would have to confirm this by following the procedure here. Rodhullandemu (talk) 13:24, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
@Monsterflix Awards: Hi, and welcome. I am sorry to inform you that you have triggered Special:AbuseFilter/153 by trying to cross-wiki upload a png logo as a new user while leaving the summary intact. Such uploads of png logos are not allowed at all. You indicated it's your own work. Usually when someone uploads a png logo, it's a copyright violation taken from the web. Please upload the full-size original of it, including EXIF metadata, but it may be judged too complex to be under TOO in the country of origin, so you may need to license it on your website or social media or send permission via OTRS. Also, any png image will look fuzzy when scaled down or jaggy when scaled up, so you may want to upload an svg or jpg version, too. If you change the summary or use our Upload Wizard instead, you should be able to avoid that filter.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 14:03, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

Valider un brouillon

Bonjour Je n'arrive pas à valider mon brouillon pour le publier Merci pour votre aide Maxime — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 2A01:E0A:299:7240:9BD:5354:C9B:5FD2 (talk) 17:54, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

Validate a draft
Hello I can't validate my draft to publish it Thanks for your help Maxime
translator: Google Translate via   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 00:45, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
Maxime: Salut, et bienvenue. Le message ci-dessus semble être votre première modification, vous avez peut-être oublié de login. La connexion est requise avant de télécharger ici, veuillez le faire. Il existe également De nombreuses autres raisons pour créer un compte et se connecter. De plus, quel est le nom de votre compte et sur quel fichier écrivez-vous?
Maxime: Hi, and welcome. The above post appears to be your first edit, perhaps you forgot to login. Logging in is required before uploading here, please do that. There are also many other reasons to create an account and log in. Also, what is your account name and what file are you writing about?   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 00:45, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

Uploads of images

How do I delete a picture that I have uploaded previously — Preceding unsigned comment added by Neil van wyk (talk • contribs) 13:25, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

@Neil van wyk: I reverted your overwrite per COM:OVERWRITE.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 13:41, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
@Neil van wyk: For recent uploads, visit the image page, click "Edit", add "{{SD|G7}}" to the top of the page then click "Publish changes". That indicates that you'd like the files deleted under criterion G7 of Commons:Criteria for speedy deletion. --bjh21 (talk) 14:07, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

Logo Not Founded

i was working & updating the Wikipedia Topic: Web Entertainment, a record label company, & i updated the status & all the information, but the problem is: i can't put their logo in the inbox, their only current logo was not acceptable because there was no file of it(or not have been created.), & the only image i found to their label is at Discogs's website, Discog doesn't owned the logo, because it was only for their music listing, i try to put the image address, & the URL address of the image but it won't accepted it, i can't put it on for 5 times, i don't think they can't just not make it not acceptable becuase it's their official logo & due to today's time. is there any way i can put the logo in?

Logo address: https://img.discogs.com/s8t_d9SKLvFew1oXveYt_jiVBCk=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/L-22082-1488920560-1074.png.jpg — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 2601:840:8200:5260:38C6:391C:311A:8CAC (talk) 15:00, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

Liscence

I began uploading, added .jpg and then: liscencing. I cannot liscence. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Creepycreepers (talk • contribs) 15:17, 10 April 2020‎ (UTC)

  • @Creepycreepers: "Cannot" in what sense? If you mean that you were trying to upload someone else's work and they haven't offered a license, then indeed you cannot offer a license and should not upload that image. If you mean something else, please indicate (1) what upload tool you were using and (2) what exactly happened. - Jmabel ! talk 16:16, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

Openstreet map upload

please how do I upload an image from openstreetmap, and how is the license going to be. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anasskoko (talk • contribs) 15:20, 10 April 2020‎ (UTC)

TOO

Hi, this file at EN is currently templated with PD-USonly and en:Template:SVG-Trademark whilst also having PD-textlogo - Given the file is only text and given it's above the threashold of originality shouldn't the file be here instead?,
Admittedly copyright such as this isn't my strong point so knowing my luck there's something I missed lol, Just didn't want to transfer if I did miss something,
Many thanks, Regards, –Davey2010Talk 20:18, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

The implication is that the logo may not be below ToO in UK. Ruslik (talk) 20:25, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi Ruslik0, Genuinely had no idea TOO-UK logos were copyright still, I assumed all logos could be uploaded here but apparently not....., Many thanks for your informative reply, Thanks, Kind Regards, –Davey2010Talk 20:30, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

video or audio files?

Where do i upload videos or audio files? LordLiberty (talk) 22:10, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

You can upload them here at Commons just like you would upload images. Please note though, that Commons only accepts free file formats like OGA, OGV, FLAC, or WAV but no MP* files. See COM:Audio and COM:Video for details. De728631 (talk) 22:26, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

Problem when trying to upload a new file.

Hi,

Yesterday I accidentally uploaded a file with an incorrect name and requested it to be renamed which was promptly done, thanks. (File:Punch and Judy - Punch and the Doctor.png to File:Punch and Judy - The Doctor physics Punch.png https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Punch_and_judy.djvu/136)

However when I now try and upload the new correct file, File:Punch and Judy - Punch and the Doctor.png (for page https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Punch_and_judy.djvu/133) the system reports that there is already a file with that name existing.

I have tried purging the Cache and reloading again, but am still unable to upload the new file.

I notice a redirect on page (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Punch_and_Judy_-_The_Doctor_physics_Punch.png) and tried removing it, but was still unable to upload the new file, so I have put it back.

Would someone be able to take a look and resolve the problem so that I can upload the outstanding file?

Thanks Sp1nd01 (talk) 10:21, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

I've requested the redirect be deleted. Once that takes place, you will be able to upload using the same title.
~~ Alex Noble - talk 10:37, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
Sp1nd01 the redirect has been deleted, so you should have no trouble uploading it now. ~~ Alex Noble - talk 13:06, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for the help, the new file has now been uploaded. Sp1nd01 (talk) 13:44, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: pandakekok9 13:03, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

Please rename File:Insect.jpg

The file Insect.jpg has been causing problems due to its non-specific filename. A photo of some sort of Heteroptera, It has been used in multiple Wikipedias (by bots or careless users filling in from an example template, I think) and ends up being the used to illustrate articles on random other species. If it could be renamed to "Unknown Heteroptera" or something that would be very helpful. Abductive (talk) 07:44, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

Done, you can also use {{rename request}} --Fæ (talk) 07:57, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: pandakekok9 08:13, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

File:Detailed 20161219-Cosmic ‘Winter%u2019 Wonderland.jpg

I saw an image I liked - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cosmic_%E2%80%98Winter%E2%80%99_Wonderland.jpg I downloaded a copy and cleaned it up in Lightroom to show more detail. Should I upload it? If so where?

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Chasfs (talk • contribs) 04:09, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
@Chasfs: Please use {{Extracted from}} and {{Image extracted}} or dFX to link between the files.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:39, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

about the copyright of music performance

Hello. I myself filmed File:2020-04-05 Jeremy Amadei amadeimusic street performance Deoksugung Stonewall Walkway.webm. In this case, who is the copyright holder? me or performer? am I allowed to upload the file in Commons? thank you for your help. Choikwangmo9 (talk) 11:06, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

@Choikwangmo9: There are many copyrights to be considered for such an amateur music video, including those of the Composer, Lyricist, Performer, and Videographer. Your post only considers the latter two. Permissions from all must be documented, either here on Commons or indirectly via OTRS. In some jurisdictions, we must also consider the Performer's publicity right.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:28, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

Copyright question

Hi, I have a copyright question about: File:Arrivalogo.jpg. The uploader says it's their own work (I'm pretty sure it isn't 🙃), but I'm not sure what to do with it. Is it so simple that it doesn't meet the threshold of originality? Or are the lines complex enough to be a copyright violation? Sanbonani (talk) 11:35, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

Pinging @Bezeh.nl as uploader.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:46, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
Just as a note: Alex Noble opened a deletion request. — Speravir – 19:00, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

Uploading Photo

I'm trying to upload a picture of my great grandmother to her wikipedia page. My family obviously owns the ORIGINAL photo - so I've taken a picture of it to upload - but it says i can't and won't let me! help appreciated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lu williamson (talk • contribs) 13:19, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

@Lu williamson: Hi, and welcome. I am sorry to inform you that you have triggered Special:AbuseFilter/153 by trying to cross-wiki upload a png photo as a new user while leaving the summary intact. Such uploads of png photos are not allowed at all. You indicated it's your own work. Usually when someone uploads a png photo, it's a copyright violation taken from the web. Please upload the full-size original of it, including EXIF metadata, but if you were not the original photographer, that person may need to send permission via OTRS with a carbon copy to you. Also, it will look fuzzy when scaled down, so you may want to upload a jpg version which will look sharper, too. If you change the summary or use our Upload Wizard instead, you should be able to avoid that filter. See also COM:DW.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 13:35, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
If the photo was taken by a family member, and you are pretty certain that you are in a position to claim ownership of the intellectual property rights, then you can license this with {{Cc-by-sa-4.0-heirs}} or another "heirs" license. If it was taken by a professional photographer, though, you probably don't own the copyright, so you would not be in a position to offer a license. - Jmabel ! talk 16:58, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
In addition: For “or another "heirs" license” check category License tags for transferred copyright. — Speravir – 18:55, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

Confused about my Wikipedia submission appearing on Wikitia

CONFUSED I wrote, submitted, and edited an Wikipedia entry for Anthony (Tony) Raymond DeCorse. This is listed in “My Contributions,” along with the Wikipedia message “Review waiting, please be patient”. It further says that it may take more than 3 months to review the contribution and that notification that the submission had been accepted or declined will be posted in my Wikipedia Contribution space. All of this seems clear.

However, I find that my submission has appeared as a Wikitia page: https://wikitia.com/wiki/Anthony_(Tony)_Raymond_DeCorse This Wikitia entry is the exact text/references/and formatting used in my Wikipedia submission, though without the photos I submitted with my Wikipedia submission. I find I cannot edit the Wikitia page. The Wikitia entry is OK, except for the fact that it omits the sentence from my original submission dealing with the artists most significant public works. How do I get this added/corrected?

This is my first submission to Wikipedia and I can’t figure this out. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Reperio2020 (talk • contribs) 19:49, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

Reperio2020 under Wikipedia's license, as long as the original source is attributed, as they have done on the page history page, anyone can use our content for any reason. It seems that site is one of a few that simply takes everything done here that meet a certain criteria, and upload it to their site. It also seems they don't allow editing of their articles, and there are only 8 registered users.
I'm not quite sure why there are quite a few of these similar sites,(does anyone actually use them consciously?) but they are one of those strange things that exists.
I'd just ignore it and move on.
Also, you would be better asking at the english Wikipedia's help desk - this is Commons, the media store for the Wikimedia projects
Thanks,
~~ Alex Noble - talk 21:22, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

Imagen equivocada

Hola. Primero felicitar a todos y agradecer la colaboracion en Wikimedia y Wikipedia. He subido una imagen y quisiera borrarla ya que el diseño esta equivocado. la imagen es Rectificador Onda completa.jpg (archivo) con fecha 10 de Abril de 2020. Solicito instrucciones para hacerlo o en su lugar que sea borrada por un usuario que pueda hacerlo. gracias --Fmlazaro (talk) 23:53, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

Information of an Image

Hello, File:Saint Rampal Ji Maharaj.jpg that I uploaded needs more information to confirm that I owned It. Because of not being aware with the templates here, I don't know what information to be filled. I have already attested at the time of upload that I own the Image be it the Image of Saint Rampal Ji or the Background. Kindly tell me what should i do now ? Kabirisgod (talk) 11:32, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

Kabirisgod, the problem is, is that you also need to hold the rights for all the component parts used in an image. The user that tagged the image doubts that the original image on the man, on which you assumedly added the background and text is your original work. A derivative works doesn't remove the copyright of it's component parts. ~~ Alex Noble - talk 11:44, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
User:OxonAlex, Thanks for your response. I assure that I own the Image of Saint Rampal Ji used for this Image in question along with the background. It is not copyrighted. I just don't know what to write in the description of the Image to confirm this. There is already Own work tag placed in the 'source' field. I need help with this. Kabirisgod (talk) 12:02, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
@Kabirisgod: In that case, you should upload the original photo with complete EXIF data, either as a new file, or overwriting the existing file (and reverting it back if you want). That would prove that you took the photo yourself. pandakekok9 12:17, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
@Kabirisgod: How could that possibly not be copyrighted? It looks like a modern photograph, probably even taken with a digital camera. - Jmabel ! talk 17:01, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
It can be non-copyrighted if Kabirisgod is the author, which is explicitly asserted here in this thread. Nyttend (talk) 00:24, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
@Nyttend: In that case it would be copyrighted by Kabirisgod, no? Which is very different from "uncopyrighted". He asserts that he owns the image (which does not imply owning the intellectual property rights); he asserts that it is not copyrighted (and I do not see how that is possible). Am I misreading? Where is it "explicitly asserted" that Kabirisgod is the author of the image, and how would that make it uncopyrighted? - Jmabel ! talk 02:19, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
@Jmabel: This Image was originally owned/authored by Sanews.in team as is evident from the Images they have on their Website and their social media channels, like the thumbnail of [Video]. I took their permission if I could use that Image to put on Wikipedia and they agreed and gave me the Image. So, this particular Image can be used here and is not subject to copyright now, you can confirm this from them. Kabirisgod (talk) 09:32, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
@Kabirisgod: "I took their permission if I could use that Image to put on Wikipedia and they agreed and gave me the Image." Assuming that transfer was in a written form and explicitly allowed commercial use and derivative works, then please forward it as described at COM:OTRS, referencing this discussion. If not, though, they will either need to go through that COM:OTRS process, or indicate the license on their own site. - Jmabel ! talk 16:10, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
@Jmabel: Alright. Thanks for your guidance. I'll ask them to send the email. Just one more doubt, do they need to go through Template:OTRS pending or Commons:Email templates? I didn't understand this from the page you directed me to go. Kabirisgod (talk) 16:47, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
@Kabirisgod: If they are taking the OTRS approach rather than indicate the license on their own site, they will need to send email to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org. They can do this in any of the manners described at Commons:OTRS#Declaration_of_consent_for_all_enquiries.
Template:OTRS pending is a way to mark a file page once you know the OTRS process has been started, so that it won't be deleted for 30 days or so to give the OTRS team some time to sort things out. Commons:Email templates is pretty much the same as Commons:OTRS#Declaration_of_consent_for_all_enquiries. - Jmabel ! talk 22:42, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
Alright. Thanks a lot. Kabirisgod (talk) 11:32, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
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What is the copyright status of an audio recording of an out-of-copyright text?

The subject line summarizes my question. I came across a 1963 recording of Alice B. Toklas reading a recipe from The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book. The cook book, published in 1954, may be public domain according to the Hirtle chart. If the books is PD, is the recording? Just to make things more interesting, I understand that in the U.S., individual recipes can not be copyrighted unless "accompanied by substantial literary expression". Bri (talk) 16:32, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

@Bri: In brief, a sound recording has its own copyright separate from that of the underlying work. As File:U.S. Copyright Office circular 56.pdf puts it, the song “Rolling in the Deep” authored by Adele and Paul Epworth and a recording of Aretha Franklin singing “Rolling in the Deep” are two distinct works. So, even if the cookbook is public domain, a recording of someone reading it is not, unless it was explicitly released into the public domain or under a free license. Due to the arcane rules surrounding pre-1972 sound recordings in the US (see {{PD-US-record}} and the bottom portion of the Hirtle chart), the recording is protected for a period of 110 years from the date of first publication. clpo13(talk) 17:16, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
Thanks, I also found out since posting that the cookbook copyright was renewed in 1982. Bri (talk) 18:32, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
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how to upload a batch of public domain graphics?

Hi, there, I was looking at several public domain ebooks by Project Gutenberg and noticed how many interesting and reusable images should be more accessible? I was thinking of uploading dozens or hundreds of images to Wikimedia Commons? Is there a tool to do this? What about making the correct metadata? I'm very certain all of these are pre-1923, but I'm worried about the time to upload and label. Also, is there an easy way to verify that an image hasn't already been uploaded? (I've been told by people at Gutenberg/Distributed Proofreaders that they don't normally upload to Wikimedia Commons, but I wouldn't want to duplicate someone else's efforts. Thanks.--Idiotprogrammer2019 (talk) 20:07, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

@Fæ and Mr.Nostalgic: Since you are experienced bot and batch uploaders, you might want to share some tips and experiences here. De728631 (talk) 20:52, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi @Idiotprogrammer2019: , i use Pulover Macrocreator. It's free and easy to learn. It has some nags but i do not know much about internet programs such as Phyton so i keep using this. You can program with it to arange the metadata any way you like. However, your source where you upload from should have arranged the to be uploaded pictures in some kind of structured way. Exact and thus real duplicate uploads are prevented from uploading by Commons itself however, if someone uploaded a different resolution or altered the photo before they uploaded it, Commons does not see this. this is a good thing, because the original should be uploaded first and alterations should be done afterwards. If you need any help just let me know. If you want me to upload them for you, i will have a look to see if i can. Regards Mr.Nostalgic (talk) 05:47, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
There are many ways of doing mass uploads. If you want lots of control and to use this as an excuse to work out how to mine any archive and potentially upload to any website, examine past projects at COM:BATCH for ideas on old project pages, and start playing around with mw:Pywikibot which gives you a generic way of doing almost anything on wiki projects and learning more about writing small Python programs to do interesting internet stuff.
Probably the most powerful tool out of the box we have is COM:GWT which runs parallel upload processes and can handle very large upload projects (like 100,000+ images) very fast, though you will need to work out how to pull data from online archives in an XML file to feed into it.
WRT your specific question about duplicates, there are several ways of doing it, I suggest checking for whether a link to the specific file already exists on Commons, then checking for whatever most likely unique ID exists for the digital file, then finally checking for SHA1 value through the API or using Pywikibot, though an API standard upload will do this once the file is uploaded to the Commons server and return a warning but doing your own SHA1 hash check can be a lot faster. --Fæ (talk) 10:31, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for the useful information. Idiotprogrammer2019 (talk) 20:07, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
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Looking for a way to filter Category:Images with borders by upload text

Hi all. Is there any way to generate a list of all files in Category:Images with borders where the most recent uploaded version contains either "Jpegcrop" or "CropTool" in the upload comment?

I am trying to create a list of files in that category that have already had their borders removed, and therefore need {{remove border}} to be removed. Thanks, The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 06:01, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

Moved to Village Pump/Technical since it did not get a response here. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 01:42, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
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map

File:Rapid transit map of Mumbai.jpg How to make maps like this? Can anyone provide any tutorial? ArnabSaha (talk) 14:24, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

@Jmabel: Mr. Chumwa doesnt seem active for the last 2 months. Thats why asked here... ArnabSaha (talk) 17:20, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
@ArnabSaha: Then I would suggest Commons:Graphic_Lab/Map_workshop. - Jmabel ! talk 01:26, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
@Jmabel: OK. thank you... ArnabSaha (talk) 08:35, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
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page incorrectly deleted

Hi, I'm trying to create a wikipedia page about the company I work for.

I just had it deleted. I don't get it.

I'm waiting for your help.

Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shokobarcelona (talk • contribs) 22:11, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

@Shokobarcelona: Hi. Unfortunately, I'm afraid Commons community can't help much. I suggest asking the administrator who deleted the page you created. I'm not familiar with Spanish language, but I think w:es:WP:C/A is the Spanish Wikipedia's help desk. I suggest asking for help there, too. Ahmadtalk 00:40, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
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Hope for Wildlife

Can someone reupload the original version [3] of File:Hope for Wildlife TV.png under a different filename? (say FILE: Hope for Wildlife TV web.png) The current version is for the TV series logo, is a different topic than the original version, which is the streaming network logo. -- 65.94.170.207 09:44, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

Indeed, that should be in a different file. But when was that logo used and discontinued? Do you also know when this one was used and discontinued? pandakekok9 09:56, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
All three are current logos. The originally uploaded logo is for the streaming network. The current visible version is for the television series. The other logo you point out is not a TV logo, it is the logo for the charitable foundation. If possible, that should also be broken out into a separate file, say FILE: Hope for Wildlife centre.png -- 65.94.170.207 10:06, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
Ok, I will request a history split for this file. Thanks, pandakekok9 10:11, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
Request can be seen here. pandakekok9 10:15, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for your help. Hopefully this will be resolved at split. -- 65.94.170.207 14:40, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
✓ Done by Tulsi Bhagat. pandakekok9 04:36, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: pandakekok9 04:36, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Downloading a djvu file from Commons

How can a djvu file (for example File:Poet Lore, volume 4, 1892.djvu be downloaded from Commons to my computer? When I click the "download" button, I am asked about the resolution and after I choose one, nothing happens. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 10:54, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

@Jan.Kamenicek: When I choose "Full resolution", it seems to download fine (though it's a big file, so it might take a few minutes). Alternatively, the "original file" link below the picture should work as will. Or indeed this link: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/Poet_Lore%2C_volume_4%2C_1892.djvu. --bjh21 (talk) 12:28, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
I was trying what you have advised before as well and it did not work. However, now I tried it in Firefox instead of Chrome and it works fine. Thanks for your time. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 12:50, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
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Image enhancement

Hi, OSX had enhanced their images File:1998 Land Rover Discovery II V8 5-door wagon (2010-07-21) 01.jpg and File:1998 Land Rover Discovery II V8 5-door wagon (2010-07-21) 02.jpg 10 years ago however IMHO the originals were of much better quality,
So my question is: Should the edited versions be reverted back to original (with the enhancements being reuploaded as new files) or should I reupload the original files under new filenames ?,

Given the uploader enhanced these images 10 years ago and no one has appeared to object to them I figured I should ask here as the best course of action to take,
Thanks, kind Regards, –Davey2010Talk 17:40, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

The edits are fine, although the color seems over-processed, but the main focus is the vehicle and its users own work, seems fine to leave them alone.--BevinKacon (talk) 17:51, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
You can always split out the original to a different filename if you want it more accessible. The credits would be the same; link them with {{Other version}}. - Jmabel ! talk 18:04, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi Jmabel, Many thanks for your informative and valued reply - I'll go ahead and reupload the originals, Thanks again for taking the time to actually help me, Thanks, Kind Regards, –Davey2010Talk 00:46, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
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Question about duplicate images

I recently accidentally tried to upload an image I had already uploaded. Commons gave me a warning that this was a duplicate image. How did it know this? Did it really go through all over 60 million images and see if it was pixel-to-pixel identical to any of them? JIP (talk) 20:35, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

No. A hash is generated for any uploaded image and compared to hashes of all other images. Ruslik (talk) 20:48, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
So if there is a hash collision, Commons does a double check to see if the files really are identical, and on a positive result displays a warning? JIP (talk) 21:33, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
It gives you the warning you saw. You can still override warnings and upload anyways, which is what you'd do in the exceedingly unlikely case of a hash collision. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 03:45, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
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Flickr-to-Commons issue

Hi, I've been trying to transfer some VALID files from Flickr, but the Flickr-to-Commons tool does not let me upload anything. It shows me: "Flinfo says bad user." I want to know what rules have I apparently broken for this to happen... How may I get permission to use this tool back? Thank you. TheSoccerBoy (talk) 03:33, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Hi @TheSoccerBoy: Can you link me to the image you're trying to upload? I think that what the error is saying is that the Flickr user is on our blacklist. If the account is on this list, Commons has determined that the person that operates the Flickr account does not own the copyright to the images they're releasing under a free license, which means that we cannot have them on Commons. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 03:43, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi @The Squirrel Conspiracy: , I guess what you are saying makes a lot more sense. Here is a link to one of the pictures in the set. I have checked the blacklist and I found the same name as the user who uploaded the picture provided in the link. BUT it seems to be a different account (noticed by a different profile picture and amount of followers). Is it the same person though? TheSoccerBoy (talk) 04:02, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
@TheSoccerBoy: There is definitely something weird going on here. There are at least four different Flickr accounts by this person - 30478819@N08, 149561324@N03, 160866001@N0, and 160866001@N07 - and they're all blocked on Commons. I would avoid anything by that uploader. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 04:09, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
@TheSoccerBoy: Okay, I did some digging. It appears that there's a long history of problems with their uploads. Definitely don't use any of their uploads. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 04:11, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
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Lost phone

J would like to know location of my friends phone — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 41.210.143.222 (talk) 13:46, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

This is a help desk for using Wikimedia Commons. We do not usually provide advice for problems not related to this or other Wikimedia websites. De728631 (talk) 15:26, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
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Autographed work

I wrote a book review which was published in a magazine. I got the authors to autograph the page with the review. May I upload a photo of the page? Rp2006 (talk) 03:55, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

  • Presuming you own the copyright to the article (as against having transferred it to the magazine), yes, but you'll need to go through COM:OTRS to establish that you own the copyright to the article. - Jmabel ! talk 16:54, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

SUPPRESSION DE DEUX DE MES DESSINS ( dont l'import en correction ne sait pas avéré correct).

SUR: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Raccordement_mixtiligne-curviligne.jpg

Raison pour la demande de suppression : Dans la nouvelle version corrigée que j'ai envoyée, celle-ci n'apparaît qu'en allant sur la page à télécharger et laisse donc l'aperçu de la première page au début...J'attendrai sa suppression pour faire un nouvel import. Je pense qu'il vous faudrait une technique qui écrase l'image précédente lors d'un nouvel import corrigé ou ayant un ajout. Bien respectueusement.

SUR: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tra%C3%AEnage_feuillet%C3%A9.jpg 

Raison pour la demande de suppression : J'ai réalisé quelques ajouts, or, hier je l'ai remplacé malheureusement à l'identique et il m'est impossible de le remplacer par le nouveau, je vais donc faire une nouvelle importation dont celui-ci deviendra un doublon, dans la mesure ou la manoeuvre soit réussie...J'ai essayé de le mettre à nouveau en import mais cela n'a pas marché non plus donc j'attend sa suppression pour l'importer corrigé.Je pense qu'il vous faudrait une technique qui écrase l'image précédente lors d'un nouvel import corrigé ou ayant un ajout. Merci pour votre compréhension.

Ma question: j'ai bien fait une demande de suppression, mais j'aimerai une suppression rapide pour relancer les deux dessins corrigés. — Preceding unsigned comment added by GRDROND (talk • contribs) 08:27, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

@GRDROND: Bonjour, Je ne suis pas sûr de comprendre vos explications, mais il semble vous ayez un typique problème de cache, qui fait que vous ne voyez pas immédiatement les versions modifiées de vos fichiers et vous fait penser à tort que vos modifications n'ont pas été prises en compte. Si c'est bien ce dont il s'agit, il suffirait d'attendre plutôt que de supprimer les fichiers et de verser des doublons. -- Asclepias (talk) 17:42, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

Inability to edit photos, etc

I recently made an article (Up for review- just now submitted review). Article Temple Apollo. Retitlee by helping administrators to Apollo Temple mountain.

The article uses 2 photos from Commons. User:McAnnis59/sandbox/Apollo Temple mountain. Or ?? User:McAnnis59/Apollo Temple mountain

For photos. I am now unable to edit categories. I cannot add. Or Delete. McAnnis59 (talk) 13:57, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

Inability to edit or delete categories

I recently made an article (Up for review- just now submitted review). Article Temple Apollo. Retitlee by helping administrators to Apollo Temple mountain.

The article uses 2 photos from Commons. User:McAnnis59/sandbox/Apollo Temple mountain. Or ?? User:McAnnis59/Apollo Temple mountain

For photos. I am now unable to edit categories. I cannot add. Or Delete. McAnnis59 (talk) 14:00, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

Convenience links: en:Draft:Apollo Temple mountain, File:Precambrian - Cambrian Unconformity in Grand Canyon.jpg, and File:View from Lipan Point.jpg.
@McAnnis59: Hi, and welcome. What is the exact error message? Bug reports generally require specifics, please see mw:How to report a bug for details.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 14:46, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

Theft of Intellectual property

While browsing WikiMedia Commons I found that a person by the name Simon Pierre Barrette is using a photograph of mine that was watermarked. He has falsely stated that he is the photographer of it. I took that photo and would like it removed from this site and any other site it may be on connected to WikiMedia Commons. 

P.S.  I have proof that the photo is mine!

Thanking you in advance, AvianLuber — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.197.124.5 (talk) 18:56, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

There are 223 photographs by SPB. Please tell us the page title, thanks. Pinging User:Cephas. --Achim (talk) 19:27, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
Once you pick a page to show us, if you're not sure how to supply the page title, you can just copy/paste the page's URL here, if that would be easier for you. Nyttend (talk) 01:22, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

What species of bird is this?

I stumbled upon File:Share-6D2E9EF9-D848-4071-8844-C6EB8A69AEDB.jpg, and the description doesn't specify what bird this is. Google Images says it's a Budgerigar, but I want to make sure by asking here. pandakekok9 02:20, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, will be asking there as well. I want to request rename for that photo, but I don't know what the filename should be if I can't identify the species... pandakekok9 02:35, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
They seem to agree that it's a budgie as well. I requested a rename. pandakekok9 02:52, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
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Military Organizational Charts

Is there a standard template to use for military organizational charts? Also, is there a standard tool that is used to create them?

Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cjhusvar (talk • contribs) 16:33, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

@Cjhusvar: You mean stuff like this? As far as I know we don't have such templates, but perhaps you can refer to the charts in Military OrBat Graphics? We prefer SVG graphics for charts as well, so for creating them you may want to refer to this list of applications, thank you.廣九直通車 (talk) 13:31, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Why were the two McClain images denied?

I thought the licensing is compatible.Factfanatic1 (talk) 23:58, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

How do you (or anyone reading this) recommend that I find images? It's so difficult to find free images for actors and singers, which is what my focus is. Google Images and Flickr both give very little to nothing. I'm working on pages of mildly famous actors and singers, not superstars, so it's difficult to find images for their pages that are free.Factfanatic1 (talk) 04:04, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

I would guess that most of our images of moderately famous people are taken by our own participants. Here are some of mine. Normally I'd say, "start getting out there and taking photos," but right now in the time of COVID-10, that's not practical.
It's tricky. Most mildly famous actors and singers don't own the rights to [any] photos of themselves except if they take selfies, the photographers do, so you can't simply contact the performer to ask. Basically, there are two approaches:
  1. Contact their management, if they have management, and try to get them to free-license one good publicity photo.
  2. Find all the images of them you can on Flickr or other similar sites; start approaching photographers as suggested at Commons:Flickr files/Appeal for license change.
But on the whole, there is good reason why a lot of Wikipedia articles about people do not include a photo: for a lot of people, there is no free-licensed photo available. - Jmabel ! talk 16:53, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

Jmabel I mean nothing you said really is a solution. I'm not a photographer and of course because of the pandemic I can't get out there but even if I could, I don't take pictures. I've approached several photographers already and it's been a while and I haven't gotten any answers. Are there no other websites I can use besides Flickr? Factfanatic1 (talk) 03:15, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

  • There are some; Vimeo for example. However, I would guess that other than if you can get an image release by their management, this is most likely not a solvable problem. As I said, "there is good reason why a lot of Wikipedia articles about people do not include a photo". - ~~``

What do you mean Vimeo? There are no pictures on there, just videos. Do you have any other suggestions?Factfanatic1 (talk) 05:10, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

You can take screenshots from a Vimeo video. Some people do that. pandakekok9 05:17, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

I can't use Vimeo. Are there any other websites I can use? Factfanatic1 (talk) 09:49, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Where do you recommend I get images for actors and singers?

I'm working on a few pages of actors and singers. All of these performers are relatively known but not superstars so I'm finding it very difficult to find images in the public domain or images with licenses that are compatible with Wikimedia. I tried using Bing.com and searching under "Public Domain" and that had many images but oddly enough, when I uploaded the images onto to Wikimedia they were denied. But they're supposed to be public domain. What is wrong?What do you recommend?Factfanatic1 (talk) 21:38, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

You may want to look at Flickr. There is a licence filter menu below the search bar. Google image search is also quite reliable from my experience. Be careful though not to use "Public domain" as a search text. This will produce faulty results. You need to use the licence filters provided on the results page. E.g. at Bing images a search with a filter "Public domain" enabled, will yield no results for China Anne McLain: [4]

I tried Flickr and it really doesn't have anything. The same goes for Google Image search. On Bing just searching under "Public domain" for China Anne McClain doesn't yield any results. But searching for China Anne McClain Comic Con yields a good amount of results under "Public domain." Here: [5] How do I use these images? Factfanatic1 (talk) 22:15, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

Please do not take the Bing search results at their face value. The webpage containing the photo of interest must contain an explicit declaration of a free license, and you have to verify that independently. Otherwise we consider the image non-free and please do not upload, regardless of what Bing says. --Wcam (talk) 00:06, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

So how exactly do I get images if I can't find them? Factfanatic1 (talk) 03:10, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

@Factfanatic1: Sometimes the answer is, you just don't have a photo and that's okay! Images for Wikipedia articles about actors are a "nice to have", but they're not absolutely essential. Just keep looking and politely asking Flickr users, and sometimes you get lucky, though most of the time you don't. One thing I ask though, is to respect the work of professional photographers. They're not wealthy people generally and they get paid when their photographs are reused. When you take photos from aggregators (Zimbio, Hawtcelebs, Celebmafia, Celebuzz, GotCeleb, etc) and upload them to Commons, you're stealing their work, even though that's not your intent.
Also, I agree with Wcam - Bing's license search is trash. Pretty much every photo that's marked "free to share..." is from a commercial photo agency.
Oh, and one more place to consider: US Government photos - celebrities sometimes do outreach work with the military or meet members of Congresss, and photographs taken by federal government staff are in the public domain. Ytoyoda (talk) 14:02, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

THREAT

I won't able to delete my image and article from my page — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aashish Ahlawat (talk • contribs) 21:23, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

@Aashish Ahlawat: What? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:43, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
See Commons:Deletion requests/File:Aashish Ahlawat.jpg (and this edit for further background). Appears to be spammer's remorse.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 04:38, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Infobox images in various Wikipedias

I know this doesn't concern Commons, but it's an interwiki images question; maybe someone here will be familiar with the answer.

Eight years ago I took and uploaded File:Hamilton County Courthouse in McLeansboro.jpg, and over the years, lots of different projects have used it to illustrate their articles on the county. At the end of last year, someone uploaded a better image, File:Hamilton County Courthouse IL 2019.jpg, but because a lot of projects were still using my image, I just now decided to go around and replace mine with the other. Unfortunately, I've not even been able to find this image in four articles: ar:مقاطعة هاميلتون (إلينوي), es:Condado de Hamilton (Illinois), hu:Hamilton megye (Illinois), and hy:Համիլթոն շրջան (Իլինոյս). It's not a spaces-versus-underscores issue — I ran a case-insensitive search for "McLeansboro.jpg" on these pages but still didn't find it. Does anyone have an idea (1) how these pages can display an image without including the filename in the page's source code, and (2) how I can change the image on these pages? Thanks!

Nyttend (talk) 01:27, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

(1) Maybe through Wikidata. For example, the template "Ficha de entidad subnacional", used in the es.wikipedia article, includes a line about the property P18 (image). (2) You probably already changed the image on these pages when you changed it on the Wikidata page. The display of the templates will probably update after some time. -- Asclepias (talk) 01:55, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
@Nyttend: You can probably speed up that process by purging, please see COM:FAQ#PURGE.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 04:29, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
Thank you. I've seen a few Commons categories with Wikidata-based infoboxes, including images, but it didn't occur to me that an encyclopedia would want to rely on WD to choose its lead image. I don't feel like trying to rush the issue with a purge, since it will get around to happening eventually. By now, my image is used only in two projects: hy:Համիլթոն շրջան (Իլինոյս) hasn't updated yet, and for some weird reason, someone reverted me at the Bavarian Wikipedia, as if I were a spammer (what kind of spammer would remove his own image?) or a vandal (why not report me globally if I'm vandalising?), so if they want to keep using an inferior image, I won't stand in their way. Nyttend (talk) 12:19, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
Many, especially of the smaller Wikipedias, do much better by relying on Wikidata than if they had to do these things themselves. - Jmabel ! talk 15:28, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

START

Dear Sirs, there is too much information about everything. I just want to learn how to transfer photos and videos. For starters, I don't know how to get started.

Suzana Mikulec — Preceding unsigned comment added by Suzana Mikulec (talk • contribs) 06:20, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Suzana Mikulec, could you tell us where you're transferring photos and videos from? If you mean transferring from your camera, the answer will not be the same as if you mean transferring them from a different site. Nyttend (talk) 12:03, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Is there a simple way to batch download these images?

https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/58964/gustave-eiffels-drawings-and-blueprints-for-the-statue-of-eiffel Any ideas? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 09:52, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

@Koavf: Apparently they charge a toll for downloading that drawing. Do you find other alternative free (I mean no money needed) sources?廣九直通車 (talk) 13:21, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
@廣九直通車: No. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:19, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Audio narrative resources

Dear Friends of Wikimedia,

i wonder if it's possible to help with audio files reading fragments of literature in spanish: poems, essays maybe complete stories like audiobooks format for blind users, schools, academies...

I work with professional studio podcasting storytelling. I will love to help at least with text from XIX century, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer initially, whitout copyright content or rights reserved.

Kind regards and many thanks for yuor work and help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Noviembre Nocturno (talk • contribs) 12:09, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

It sounds like you want to record yourself reading these fragments? Please read Commons:Formatos de archivo#Sonido. If you record yourself reading a text that is not copyrighted, that recording will be very helpful; thank you for offering. It will be best if you record with the MP3 format. You can ask more questions here, or if you are more comfortable interacting in Spanish, you may prefer to ask at Commons:Café. If you want to know how a recording can be used in the Spanish Wikipedia, es:Wikipedia:Café/Archivo/Ayuda/Actual may be the best place to ask. Nyttend (talk) 12:26, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

I want to Upload a photograph of One of my friend

I want to Upload a photograph of One of my friend. He is an Artist and I am making a Wiki Page for him. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SwaranTarun(Star) (talk • contribs) 13:52, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

  • @SwaranTarun(Star): If you are making a wiki page about your friend in the English-language Wikipedia, you are almost certainly violating en:Wikipedia:Conflict of interest.
  • If you own the copyright of the photo (e.g. took it yourself and it is not a photograph of someone else's copyrighted work), and if it is within Commons' scope, you can upload it here just like any other photo. We do not have a comparable policy about conflict of interest on taking and uploading pictures of subjects you are connected to. - Jmabel ! talk 15:33, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Hi Jmabel — Preceding unsigned comment added by SwaranTarun(Star) (talk • contribs) 18:12, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

He is not really a friend, He is an Artist (Musician). He Works with raftaar, a well known artist. So basically It's a artist Biography page. I am adding a content to wikipedia so that the people can search and know about him through this page. All the information provided is genuine. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SwaranTarun(Star) (talk • contribs) 18:09, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

INSÔNIA

Prezados. Preciso saber, em PORTUGUÊS, qual o motivo de meu artigo File:INSÔNIA.pdf ter sido DELETADO e não publicado, pois trata-se de uma técnica que desenvolvi para a CURA da INSÔNIA sem a utilização de remédios antidepressivos que provocam dependência. Constantemente vejo pessoas com este problema e SEM solução, quando poderiam fazer uso desta minha técnica e terem uma vida melhor. Eu fui uma das vítimas deste problema com a minha querida e falecida esposa que chegou a ficar quase 3 (três) meses SEM conseguir dormir em função dos antidepressivos que seus médicos lhe passavam. Após a sua morte, entrei em depressão e, para NÃO se REPETIR a situação dela, passei a pesquisar, entender o problema e a praticar diversos experimentos, chegando a esta solução que estou tentando publicar para a população. NÃO FAZ MAL, NÃO PREJUDICA e NÃO TEM CONTRAINDICAÇÕES, ALÉM DE SER A CUSTO ZERO. — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 2804:7F1:C080:D1CC:5449:2A8F:D063:A293 (talk) 16:06, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

CONTACTO

Muy buenas tardes,

Me gustaría contactar con el usuario HERALDER. Somos un grupo de personas que estamos interesados en un proyecto y necesitamos de su trabajo en la heráldica. ¿Alguien puede ayudarme? Necesitaría de un email o medio de contacto con él.

Gracias. — Preceding unsigned comment added by KichePerezPino (talk • contribs) 16:30, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Welcome 💪🏻❤️ — Preceding unsigned comment added by BarbusciaNicolas (talk • contribs) 18:16, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

MFB logo copyrightability

If this is the incorrect venue, please forgive and point me in the correct direction. Does this image qualify under {{PD-textlogo}}? — Fourthords | =Λ= | 20:36, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

It depends on the country of its origin. Ruslik (talk) 20:52, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
Sorry, of course! It's from the US, published in 1973. …in fact, it was published in 1973 without a copyright notice (on my copy of that first issue), making {{PD-US-no notice}} the easier and still correct choice. Thanks for reminding me of the other avenues by which PD happens! — Fourthords | =Λ= | 21:10, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Using the map for scientific publication

Hello. We are a group of eye health researchers and request to get a copyright permission to use the Tanzania map from your sight. Regards

Dr. Kazim Dhalla ( on behalf of the research group) — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 196.207.191.208 (talk) 21:02, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Which one of the Maps of Tanzania? In general, you do not have to ask, you just can use a media file as long as you properly attribute it, but this depends on the file and the medium you want to publish (print different from online). Please, check COM:REUSE. — Speravir – 23:56, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Copyright issue with BIBLIOTECA DIGITAL HISPÁNICA

Hi,

I want to upload public domain files on Commons from BIBLIOTECA DIGITAL HISPÁNICA, it allows to use files from its collection under CC-BY-NC-SA yet every files on commons are placed under public domain.

Is there any problem with uploading files and placing them under PD ?

Arflhn (talk) 21:55, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

@Arflhn: Hi. Why are those files in the public domain? Old creation/publication/author death date? Ahmadtalk 02:02, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
There were created in the XVIe century.
Arflhn (talk) 02:05, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
No one can own copyright on a 16th-century work, so if they are as described, then they are certainly public domain. If these are 20th- or 21st-century photos of three-dimensional works such a sculptures, or even including picture frames, that would be another matter, because the photograph would carry its own copyright. - Jmabel ! talk 02:09, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

Copyright status with Library of Congress video?

Hi - I have a student who wants to upload a video that they found on the Library of Congress website. It was created in the 40s and there are no known restrictions on the video. It looks like per this past question this should be OK to upload, but I wanted to make doubly sure before giving my student the go ahead. The video in question is this one. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:34, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

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Copyright help regarding File:Vincent Beneš "Die St. Johanns Stromschnellen auf der Moldau.jpg

hi allerseits

die bilddatei habe ich im internet gefunden und das bild dann in meinen entstehenden artikel im benutzernamensraum geladen. unter folgenden links könnt ihr die datei finden:

https://www.google.com/search?q=Vincent+Bene%C5%A1+%22Die+St.+Johanns+Stromschnellen+auf+der+Moldau&sxsrf=ALeKk02ZyEPjHwFDQAuMx1PgdFUGgqeQ6Q:1587219721147&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=PElTYz5sqA74SM%253A%252Ch9jY8rgQa_uNwM%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kQ2Hhb_uO01OsYNeyCTxbgLzxnj2A&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwit7qKdlvLoAhW0ycQBHYDUAucQ9QEwAnoECAoQBQ#imgrc=PElTYz5sqA74SM

http://www.artnet.com/artists/vincent-bene%c5%a1/die-st-johanns-stromschnellen-auf-der-moldau-mqlQ0dLDMYAO3vqyGxkwRA2

ich bin relativ neu als wiki-autor tätig, kenne mich mit bildrechten bisher nicht aus. habe fast ausschliesslich bilder der wikimedia commons oder eigens erstellte dateien in einzelne artikel integriert.

wie soll ich nun vorgehen? kann das bild im artikel erhalten bleiben bzw. gäbe es eine möglichkeit dazu? was ist zu tun?

ich freue mich auf eure tipps und unterstützung!

beste grüsse dani

--Thepriest75 (talk) 14:30, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

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Upload by URL

Hello,

I will be deploying this patch soon. Would it be possible to get access to the upload by url right so I can test it. Due to the deployment break, it could take a few week to get deployed but I'll confirm when I'm done. Thanks, RhinosF1 (talk) 07:17, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

We may be able to deploy today. RhinosF1 (talk) 07:28, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
✓ Done granted you autopatrol. Natuur12 (talk) 08:46, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
@Natuur12: Tested using File:T250646.jpeg RhinosF1 (talk) 23:15, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
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What animal?

??

Is that a hippopotamus? Or a warthog? It's from Central Africa (Gabon or neighboring territories), this is certain. Thank you, --Edelseider (talk) 14:03, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Edelseider; You might get a response here, but you are much more likley to find someone who knows at the English Wikipedia's Reference Desk - en:Project:Reference desk/Science is probably the most suitable board. ~~ Alex Noble - talk 15:18, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
Looks like a hippo skull to me. Compare File:Sachsen, Görlitz, GLAM on Tour (2018) im Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde NIK 5351.jpg. clpo13(talk) 15:24, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
@Clpo13: @OxonAlex: Ours seems to have more teeth than the German one. Maybe it's a male and the other is a female? I will ask the Reference desk to be sure. --Edelseider (talk) 16:15, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
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Is this image eligible to be uploaded to Commons?

This image is the logo for the software Stylus, which is licensed under the GPLv3. So I know that the software is free. However, I don't see any information about the license of the image, or the permissions that I have to use it. Is this image under the same license as the software? Sebastian Hudak (talk) 22:12, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

If you are sure that the logo is under the same license like the software (but I have the impression, as well, cf. user-content-license for Stylus) then you can upload it here. Use {{GPLv3}} as license tag, but additionally providing this link should be good, too. Do not forget to add proper categories. — Speravir – 00:27, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
Unfortunately Sebastian did not react anymore here, but a file search revealed that he has indeed uploaded the image: File:Stylus logo.png. — Speravir – 22:36, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
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Unable to link

On several Wikipedia pages, when we include the link to CategoryːEmory Johnson it displays - CategoryːEmory Johnson (Page does not exist).

The Category for Emory Johnson does exist on Wikipedia Commons.

What could the problem be?

Mtjannetta (talk) 02:13, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

@Mtjannetta: Hi, and welcome. You appear to be using the wrong colon, please use Category:Emory Johnson instead.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 02:40, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

@Jeff G.: Thanks for trying to help me. Check out the page - The Non-stop Flight. I added the link and it still doesn't work. Mtjannetta (talk) 03:13, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

@Mtjannetta: en:Category:Emory Johnson was deleted after discussion at en:Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 April 14#Category:Emory Johnson per en:WP:PERFCAT.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 03:36, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

@Jeff G.: Thanks for your help. the page - The Non-stop Flight - the link continues to show red. I have displayed a copy of my category links belowː Category:American drama films Category:English-language films Category:Emory Johnson I tried - Category:Emory Johnson - no luck. The Category:Emory Johnson is alive and well in Wikipedia Commons with 136 files. Any Thoughts? Mtjannetta (talk) 18:08, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

Hi, As Jeff G.said, the link is red on the English-language Wikipedia because the category Emory Johnson does not exist on the English-language Wikipedia and the guideline of the English-language Wikipedia states "Avoid categorising works by the performers who appeared in them.". Here, on Commons, a category Emory Johnson exists to group files related to this person. -- Asclepias (talk) 19:35, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
@Mtjannetta: Yes, please stop, and review en:WP:THREAD and en:WP:INDENT.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 20:21, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

question regarding noticeboards

What would be the appropriate venue if i suspect a user is systematically uploading copyright violations across multiple accounts? Should i post to the Administrator's noticeboard, or even go straight to Requests for checkuser? Regards, Nyamo Kurosawa (talk) 06:35, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

Nyamo Kurosawa I'd go to the admin noticeboard, a checkuser will become involved if necessary. -mattbuck (Talk) 06:45, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

Deletion of pictures

Hi, I created a page about a painter, who is also my grand father : René Léraud. He passed away 10 years ago. Before he died, he gave many paintings and drawings. I posted 5 of them, on his page. Can anyone explain why theses pictures of my personnal collection have been deleted? Regards, qp37 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Qp37 (talk • contribs) 16:43, 14 April 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Qp37 (talk • contribs)

Bonjour, Dans la page de la discussion de suppression, Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Qp37, deux raisons sont mentionnées par le proposeur de la suppression. La première est «out of scope», ce qui signifie que le proposeur de la suppression estime que ces oeuvres ne seraient pas compatibles avec la mission de Commons. Il n'explique pas pourquoi, mais habituellement ça pourrait être par exemple parce que l'artiste serait trop peu connu du public et que les images seraient peu utilisables. C'est subjectif et vous auriez pu faire valoir des arguments en sens contraire dans la page précitée pendant la période qui était allouée pour la discussion. Les fichiers pourraient être restaurés si l'article de Wikipédia que vous avez rédigé n'est pas contesté, puisque s'il y a un article de Wikipédia sur l'artiste, les oeuvres sont pertinentes pour l'illustrer. La seconde raison de suppression est objective et c'est qu'il faut que la personne qui a hérité des droits d'auteur de l'artiste accepte d'offrir une licence libre sur ces oeuvres. S'il l'artiste était professionnel, il est possible que l'héritier des droits d'auteur soit spécifiquement mentionné dans le testament. Sinon, les droits d'auteur seraient probablement inclus avec l'ensemble des biens et droits non autrement attribués et seraient la propriété de la personne qui a hérité de l'ensemble de ces biens et droits. Il faut donc identifier la personne qui est propriétaire des droits d'auteur et que cette personne offre une licence libre. -- Asclepias (talk) 19:13, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

Article turned down for not being relevant

I have written an article about a prominent LGBT cabaret performer and it has been deemed not relevant - so not published. Maisie Trollette has performed in the UK for over 50 years and holds the title of Britain's Oldest Performing Drag Queen. He has worked with many British celebrities over the years, has appeared on TV and in advertising, has recorded music albums and there is a BFI documentary in the works about his life. His counterpart in the US, Darcelle XV has a comprehensive Wiki page... I can't understand how the page would not be relevant? Certainly to LGBT historians it is. Can someone please advise what to do? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yeddel1 (talk • contribs) 18:52, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

@Yeddel1: I would advise that you ask this question on English Wikipedia rather than here on Wikipedia Commons, since it was on English Wikipedia that en:Draft:Maisie, Britain's Oldest Performing Drag Queen was rejected. There's an "Ask for advice" button on the rejection notice that's probably a good way to go about this. Incidentally, the term used on Wikipedia is "notable" rather than "relevant". --bjh21 (talk) 19:44, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
@Yeddel1: I can tell you right away, though: (1) the title is like a title of a newspaper story, not an encyclopedia article. (2) not a single fact in the article you linked is explicitly cited from any of the sources provided. Until you fix those two things, there is very little chance the article will be accepted on en-wiki even if it is otherwise rock-solid. - Jmabel ! talk

I want do side i another language

How to do page in another language? I live in small villige and I want do this informasjon in my language. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ulaszka (talk • contribs) 19:27, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

If you mean Polish then you should go to Polish Wikipedia. Ruslik (talk) 19:53, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
Ulaszka you might want to see en:Wikipedia:Translate us for translation from English to other languages. ~~ Alex Noble - talk 20:10, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
Ulaszka Just to make sure: are the two people above correct in understanding that this was a question about Wikipedia, even though you asked it on Wikimedia Commons? If you actually had a question here about Wikimedia Commons, it wasn't clear what you were asking. - Jmabel ! talk 22:50, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

complain for Branch code:1137

hi there, i am zaman from germany, we ordered 159.000/pieces face maskes. after we transferred -15430/usd on 08.04.2020 from poland. Account Address: name: Merve Eren. Atrium branch. account no. 90850 724 0724. IBAN No. TR39 0006 4000 0021 1373 5528 64. now bank account owner no response us. please inform us if genuine or fake? if fake how should we do next. thank you very much. kind regards, zaman. email:ruku.zaman@gamil.com — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 103.117.108.98 (talk) 01:07, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our over 60 million images and thought we were affiliated in some way with that subject. Please note that you are at Wikimedia Commons, the media repository to which anyone can contribute, and this page is for asking questions related to using or contributing to Wikimedia Commons itself. Thus, we have no special knowledge about the subject of your question. You can, however, search our vast catalogue of files by typing a subject into the search field on the upper right side of your screen. If you cannot find what you are looking for, Wikipedia has a reference desk, divided into various subject areas, where asking knowledge questions is welcome. Nyttend (talk) 02:15, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

Reject an article

Dear Sir/ Madam,

I would like to kindly ask you for rejecting the article https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yakrind.jpg regarding yakzucht.ch. The page and the business activity of Mr. Michael Schilt is not any more valid. He quitted his job few years ago. Thank you very much.

Best regards,

Nicole Magat

Schilt&Partner AG Oberburgstrasse 12 3400 Burgdorf Switzerland — Preceding unsigned comment added by NicoleMagg (talk • contribs) 09:13, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

This is a no-sense request. --Magnus (talk) 09:40, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
I assume they are asking for the dead link in file description to be removed, as the photographer no longer owns www.yakzucht.ch.
However, I would lean towards keeping it, especially as there is an archived version available.
~~ Alex Noble - talk 13:37, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
✓ Done Ww2censor decided to leave the username alone, cf. Special:Diff/190324852/412182534. — Speravir – 03:13, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
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Upload photos

Hi all,

I’ m writing an article about a painter and i face some difficulties on licensing the photos of the paintings. I’ m a heir and holder of the original works of the painter who died in 1991 Images of the works are published in 1984 onward in exhibition Catalog and catalogue raisonne. Also i have created my own photos directly from the artworks.

According to Public domain article, works that are published are in the public domain and so can be uploaded, am i right or i miss something here ? Otherwise what are the options i have. Upload my own images under a CC license or use something such as C0 or fair use ? Also can i use fair use for the photo of the painter itself? Thank you in advance — Preceding unsigned comment added by Timomac (talk • contribs) 11:59, 16 April 2020 (UTC) Timomac (talk) 12:01, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

Timomac, firstly, on public domain - this just means copyright protection has expired, not where the work is displayed. An image usually becomes public domain through age, although you can effectively make an image public domain by releasing it under the CC 0 license (in some countries it isn't actually possible to release copyright, hence why we prefer CC0, which deals with these cases) To do this, you would use {{Template:Cc-zero-heirs}}.
Alternatively, you could use any of the licenses in Category:License tags for transferred copyright, some of which allow you to require attribution.
Fair use files aren't permitted at commons, but if the article is on the English Wikipedia you can upload them locally.
The criteria for fair use at the English Wikipedia are at - for fair use to apply, the image must have been published elsewhere previously, can't be replaceable, and only where it would significantly improve the article.
In short, if you hold the rights to the image, upload it here using a license template in Category:License tags for transferred copyright.
If you don't hold the rights to the image, it may be permissible under fair use, in which case you should read en:WP:NFCC then use the English Wikipedia's File Upload Wizard.
Thanks,
~~ Alex Noble - talk 13:34, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
Alex Noble, Thank you for your answer, i will have a look at the options you suggest and come back here again.Timomac (talk) 11:38, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

Edit tags

Rererring to my question above 'Upload photos',i wonder how i can edit license tags for an image, p.ex in the tepl for hers {{Cc-zero-heirs}} or this {{Cc-by-sa-heirs}} what do i write instead of 'template' ? Is there a info page about? Also when change an image license tag, just editing? Thank you. Timomac (talk) 12:09, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

  • @Timomac: I hope it's OK that I fixed your way of mentioning the templates so they don't transclude here.
  • I'm not sure I understand your question. You don't have a user page that indicates your native language, but if it is easier for you to ask this in some language other than English, you might want to give that a try. - Jmabel ! talk 16:44, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
Jmabel,Thank you for your answer. I have a user page in Wikipedia with Greek as native language. I thought that would be the same user page in Wikimedia, but i guess I have to create one there as well. French is an option too but i will try in English again. .

What i’ m trying to do is edit/change a license tag of an image i have uploaded and i don’ t know how to do that. The new license will be {{Template:Cc-zero-heirs}} or {{Template:Cc-by-sa-heirs}}, So i don't know what i insert instead of the world 'template' in front of the license. Is it now more clear? Thanks Timomac (talk) 21:43, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

  1. You don't need to (and shouldn't) explicitly use the word "Template" inside the curly brackets.
  2. You edit this just like you edit anything else. Go to the file page, edit the source, and write in "{{Cc-zero-heirs}}". - Jmabel ! talk 00:27, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
Thank you very much. Timomac (talk) 09:35, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
I' m here again. When trying to upload another photo via upload wizard, i noticed that in the field for choosing the license, there are only 4 or 5 types of licenses to choose from. There is no option to choose or edit a license for heirs. Am i missing something ?. Thank you Timomac (talk) 22:41, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
Probably you are not missing something. The Wizards tend to be good for simple cases, and not otherwise. Just user the non-heirs version of the license, and promptly edit the file page afterwards to fix it. - Jmabel ! talk 01:37, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
Ok, fine. Timomac (talk) 22:02, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
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Licensing hard time

I’ m sorry but i face difficulties with changing a license.

I try to fix a license after having uploaded the file via upload wizard. When editing, i see the following,

-in the summary/information field:

|source={{Own}} |author=Timomac

and in the licensing field:

self|cc-by-sa-4.0 (all in double brankets)

As I’ m the heir of the original paintings, photos and other archives of the painter, and i also have taken photos of the originals myself, i want to fix the license p.ex. like this cc-by-sa-heirs. How obtain the change, do i change only the license field ? what about ‘self’ do i leave it there? Do i have i to edit the source field as well? I tried to change both but it turned out to more troubles. Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Timomac (talk • contribs)

In the 'author' field you have to specify the name of the painter. And yes, you simply change cc-by-sa-4.0 to cc-by-sa-4.0-heirs. Ruslik (talk) 19:07, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for the immediate answer, so you mean that for the 'author' i change the second word with the author's name ? like this, |author=[[User:Timomac|Costas Koutsouris]], the last is the name af the painter. But the photo is mine, so i leave the 'source' untouched, as it is, correct? .Timomac (talk) 19:18, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
  • @Timomac: You should not write "author=[[User:Timomac|Costas Koutsouris]]", given that User:Timomac and Costas Koutsouris are apparently two different people. Simply "author=Costas Koutsouris".
  • "source={{Own}}" is fine; optionally, you could be more specific; for example, I prefer on my photos to use "source=Photo by [[User:Jmabel|Joe Mabel]]", but I'm probably in the minority on that. - Jmabel ! talk 01:32, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

Moving subcategories

I have looked for an answer to this question elsewhere, but couldn't find any answer. I would like to move the over 500 subcategories in Category:Mayors of the Netherlands to Category:Mayors of the Netherlands by name‎. This is not controversial, and actually welcomed – I am currently categorizing all Dutch mayors per municipality, so they would have to gradually be removed from 'Mayors of the Netherlands', but it comes in handy to keep the individuals listed as well, so I created the subcategory 'Mayors of the Netherlands by name'. Now I can use Cat-a-lot to move files, but how do I (mass) move the subcategories? Thanks, Jürgen Eissink (talk) 10:03, 22 April 2020 (UTC).

The question has been answered elsewhere (here). Thanks, Eissink (talk) 12:11, 22 April 2020 (UTC).
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Video games

DC Power Rangers only 1mb Please — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 2409:4043:200D:F1C2:0:0:C50:B0AD (talk) 07:58, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

translation

which process should i follow if i want to translate an article from english to kurdish ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fawaz rengzerî (talk • contribs) 11:26, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

Have a read of en:Wikipedia:Translate us on the English Wikipedia. There might also be a page of the Kurdish Wikipedia for translating into Kurdish, but it hasn't been linked on Wikidata and I can't find it myself.
This is the help desk of Wikimedia Commons, the media store for the Wikimedia projects. This questions would be better asked at the English Wikipedia's teahouse or ku:ویکیپیدیا:پرسگا.
~~ Alex Noble - talk 14:10, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

Kubrick directing Clockwork Orange picture from the NYPL Collections

Is this picture alright to upload: [6]? The rights statement at the bottom says this: "The copyright and related rights status of this item has been reviewed by The New York Public Library, but we were unable to make a conclusive determination as to the copyright status of the item. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use." StrangeloveFan101 (talk) 13:19, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

How do I upload the picture of an artist to his biography? We own the rights to the pictures ("we" being the agency that manages the artist)

I have updated the biography of the artist Gigi Masin and would like to add his press shot. I work the artist and with his manager and the agency owns the rights to the picture. How can I upload the photo? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Unabibi (talk • contribs) 15:03, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

Unabibi, firstly, remember that as the contents of Wikipedia can be used for any purpose, including commercially, as long as attribution is present, the same would apply to your images. There are only certain licenses we accept, all of which allow reuse and publication of derivate works. You can't license a picture to be only used at Wikipedia, or only non commercially. Licenses are also irrevocable.
Once you have considered if you still want to do this, you should contact permissions-commons@wikimedia.org, with proof you hold the copyright over the image, and the license you wish to license the picture under. It is preferred you use a template at Commons:Email templates, which will help ensure a quicker response from our email volunteers.
Once you have sent the email, upload the file here normally, then add {{subst:OP}} to the file description page. An email volunteer will update the template once they have processed the email.
Thanks,
~~ Alex Noble - talk 15:18, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
  • @Unabibi: If the photo is already on a web site clearly under control of the copyright holder, then the simplest thing to do is to indicate the relevant free license there, cite that as the source when uploading, and upload like any other photo. This is much simpler than the approach involving an email to the OTRS team.
  • Otherwise, the permissions-commons@wikimedia.org process documented at COM:OTRS
  • (In the future, please sign your posts by typing ~~~~, which will be turned into an account name and date.) - Jmabel ! talk 15:23, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

Legislative Library of Texas: Thomas J. Lee

How can I reference the following image in a Wikipedia post? https://lrl.texas.gov/scanned/members/photos/large/L/Lee_T_59.jpg

Thanks,

YWS — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ywsanchez (talk • contribs) 20:01, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

@Ywsanchez: Hi, if the photo meets requirements, you must first upload it to Commons before you can put it in a Wikipedia article. You can follow the introduction in this tutorial to get an overview of the requirements and how Wikimedia Commons work.--段黎志寶talk 20:10, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
@Ywsanchez and Chibaodoanle: See also COM:DW.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 23:17, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

How can I update an image uploaded by someone else that has become outdated?

This image is outdated as of April 2020, and I have created an updated version with the correct countries shaded, and there is no way I can overwrite this version or even upload my new version without it being declared a duplicate.

How can I update the image so that it's accurate? — Preceding unsigned comment added by IMTuser (talk • contribs) 00:16, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

If you have changed the map, it won't be a duplicate. It can be uploaded with a different name. --ghouston (talk) 03:45, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

Pochettes d'albums

Madame, monsieur Bonjour,

Je travaille actuellement sur une page Wikipédia traitant d'un groupe de rock belge des années 1970.
J'aimerais y intégrer les pochettes des albums mais j'ai eu des problèmes avec la dimension des fair-use. Cependant, j'ai les autorisations des musiciens du groupe, qui sont propriétaires des clichés.
Puis-je tout de même importer les fichiers sur Wiki Commons ? Si oui, comment dois-je faire pour ne pas avoir de problèmes légaux ?

Je vous remercie pour votre aide et le temps que vous pourrez me consacrer.
Je vous souhaite également une excellente santé en cette période de confinement!
Bien à vous,
--MasutF (talk) 09:04, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

Bonjour, Dans ce genre de cas, il est nécessaire de fournir une preuve écrite que la personne qui est propriétaire des droits d'auteur sur l'image offre cette image au public sous une licence libre. Pour ce faire, cette personne propriétaire des droits d'auteur peut expédier un courriel à Wikimedia en suivant la procédure prévue à Commons:OTRS/fr, ou alternativement si cette personne dispose d'un site web elle peut y inclure la mention de la licence libre en regard de l'image. -- Asclepias (talk) 13:33, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

upload photo

I'm trying to upload a picture; just a logo from our organisation (I'm editing the page of our organisation). Anything I try, is nog accepted. Wikipedia keeps saying that it cannot be determined that the picture is allowed. Its just a jpg, and I've tried different pictured. How is this possible? — Preceding unsigned comment added by S.timmerdji (talk • contribs) 09:44, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

Patrick Raynaud - Wikipedia - Images

Bonjour et merci d'avance de votre réponse !

cf. WIKIPEDIA PATRICK RAYNAUD - ARTISTE / PUBLICATION D'IMAGES

1e question :

Je suis le photographe d'une oeuvre d'art d'un artiste contemporain et j'ai la permission (orale) de la publication. Le copyright de la photo m'appartient mais je ne suis pas l'artiste.

Il s'agit de quelle rubrique dans vos exemple ?


2e question :

Le copyright appartient à une tiers personne - photographe.

Est-ce qu'il suffit de nommer les copyrights du photographe, de l'artiste, du lieu d'exposition ?

MERCI ET TAKE CARE ! Bien cordialement wjk — Preceding unsigned comment added by William Joyce Kerouac (talk • contribs) 10:05, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

Wrong Sync Wikidata ID

Hello! I have created this Wikimedia Commons page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sofia_Coll Since it is my first attempt, I synched the page to a wrong Wikidata ID --> The Correct ID would be https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q90757946 Can somebody help me with this? I have been trying it but I cannot find how to do it Thank you in advance!

--Dysomnia13 (talk) 12:26, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

@Dysomnia13: It looks fine to me. It looks like an unregistered editor added the necessary link on Wikidata at 12:14 UTC: d:Special:Diff/1164525820. What do you think is wrong? --bjh21 (talk) 14:30, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Now it is fixed! Thank you so much! --Dysomnia13 (talk) 14:48, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Resolved
I think that this question was replied to adequately based on the supplied information. If you have anything to add or a follow-up question please feel free to replace this box with your comment. This section will be archived after two days. 廣九直通車 (talk) 07:20, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

how old must an image be for it to be safe to upload

I found an image of julien benda from about 1900 to 1910. Is this old enough? If it is doubtful, what are the criteria exactly? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Reimervdhoek (talk • contribs) 10:50, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

Reimervdhoek: Which country was it published in? Works have to be free in both the USA, and the source country. It will be public domain in the USA, as published before 1925.
If I assume it was published in France, copyright lasts for Life + 70 years, so the image would have to have been taken by a photographer that died prior to 1949. If the work was published anonymously, it would be public domain, as these works are covered for up to 70 years after publication, making it public domain.
As for determining it, the Commons:Hirtle chart gives copyright expatriation time for US works, and the Commons:International copyright quick reference guide covers elsewhere.
~~ Alex Noble - talk 11:28, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

Translation of a danish wikipedia entry to German

In the Danish Wikipedia there is the article about https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frits_Uldall. I have translated all the text, but how do I get to use the pictures of the original article in the German version. Is there a search option in Wikimedia commons for the picture files? The Swedish version has not the same pictures as the Danish version. And where can I find the author of the original version to ask for permission to use the pictures? — Preceding unsigned comment added by BrittaDK (talk • contribs) 14:59, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

@BrittaDK: Welcome to Wikimedia Commons! All of the pictures in da:Frits Uldall are on Commons, so you should just be able to copy the links from the Danish article into the German one. You'll need to change the Danish [[Fil: prefix to the German [[Datei:. You don't need to ask anyone's permission to use files on Commons: part of the point of Commons is that we already have the necessary permissions. --bjh21 (talk) 15:59, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

I ask for permission fo File:Sasha Pieterse posando.jpg

Hi! I wonder if I can get a permission for this file please??- Yiwistar ! talk 22:20, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

Carl Watkiss ( a military’s war )hero

I’ve thought you my country all my life after serving 18 in the Royal Enginneers x I’ve derived in every mayor conflicts doing our jobs x After being made compulsory redundant in 2013 while on a deployment to Kenya , my oc call me in and straight away I thought want have I do . Lucky I had done nothing wrong just the military was cutting my time shout of my army penision . While been out in a big roller coaster ride for me homes less two . Sleeping g in my momma motorhome etc . Losing jobs .

I’m slowly on the up because cycling is a big part of my recover and helps my PTSD and other issues

What I can of asking would it be possibly to meet the team iso and get some photos and some cheeky kit from them .

Thank you

Cpl c r Watkiss 25030422 Royal engineers


My number 07368242844 Email chad ventures @yahoo.co.uk


Fingers crossed — Preceding unsigned comment added by Combat Carl RE (talk • contribs) 22:43, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

  • @Combat Carl RE: This is a page to ask for help in using Commons; it is not clear to me what help you are seeking. The only clue that this may be on-topic is the prhase "get some photos," but I really don't know what you are asking someone here to do. - Jmabel ! talk 01:37, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

Template:Category redirect

What's actually broken with this template? A good proportion of the "Stripped Tag" LintErrors are being generated from it? It claims there's a stripped SPAN. I can't see one in the template markup that should be generating it.

It it NOT reasonable to expect a contributor here, to go digging 2 or more levels down in arcane and esoteric code to figure out why something that worked previously doesn't anymore, especially when that template is translated, complicating the structuring and greatly increasing the complexity of figuring out exactly what ACTUALLY broke. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 00:08, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

@ShakespeareFan00: Thanks for reporting. Is it fixed now? Ahmadtalk 00:18, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
It's still currently showing up in LintErrors. (Albiet misnested Spans instead). ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 00:41, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

Uploading cropped version of a photo already on Wikimedia as a separate file

I recently uploaded this photo, which I found on Flickr, but I wanted to also upload a cropped version, which I tried doing here. I know about the "upload a new version of this file" option for photos on Wikimedia, but I didn't want to replace the first photo with a cropped version. I wanted to create two separate files, so that both photos could be used separately on Wikipedia.

When I tried uploading the cropped photo, I selected "The copyright holder published their photo or video on Flickr with the right license", but for the source, I entered the url for the original photo's page on Wikimedia, rather than the url for the photo's page on Flickr. Which I see now was a mistake. On Wikimedia's page for the cropped version of the photo, under the "Licensing" section, there's a red box with a big X in it - the box says, "This image was originally posted to Flickr by at . It has been reviewed on 2020-04-23 21:22:45 by FlickreviewR 2, which could not determine what the Flickr source image was."

What is the best way to fix this? --Jpcase (talk) 00:22, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

  • Normally, the best way to do this is to do the crop within the Commons "ecosystem" by (1) uploading the full image from Flickr, then (2) using https://tools.wmflabs.org/croptool/ to produce a cropped image. That gives you the choice of overwriting or creating a new page. It also (if you load to a new page) links the two pages correctly to one another
  • Since you already uploaded, I'll sort this out for you; again, next time please use the CropTool. - Jmabel ! talk 01:41, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
  • @Jpcase: Well, that was "fun". Probably not quite as clean a result in the history as CropTool would have left, but acceptable. - Jmabel ! talk 01:53, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
@Jmabel: Thanks for correcting my mistake! This is a huge help! And thanks for doing a better crop - I actually went ahead and took the crop a little further even, so that the picture fits in the Wikipedia article's infobox better. And I tested out the Croptool feature for another one of the music artists in that photo - seems to have worked out okay! :) I had no idea that tool even existed. It will certainly make things simpler for me in the future.
Two questions - how should I normally access Croptool? And when I'm using it, how can I know whether to go with "precise" or "lossless"? I'm not very active on Wikimedia and know almost nothing about photography, so I don't really understand what the difference is between those two options. It seems to have something to do with the image quality, but switching back and forth between the two options doesn't create any difference noticeable enough for me to pick up on (maybe someone with a better eye for photography would be able to discern the difference). Any advice on how I should choose between the two whenever I next use Croptool? --Jpcase (talk) 04:32, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Jpcase, Unless your crop needs to be accurate to the pixel level, I'd use lossless - although I doubt I could visually tell the difference between the two. ~~ Alex Noble - talk 08:57, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Jpcase There is an option under "Preferences" to add the crop tool to your left nav. I recommend it. - Jmabel ! talk 16:01, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
@Alex Noble: @Jmabel: Thank you both! --Jpcase (talk) 19:36, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
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whatsapp

how do i download whatsapp file — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 105.160.48.189 (talk) 17:39, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

@05.160.48.189: You should ask Facebook instead of us here on Wikimedia Commons!--段黎志寶talk 19:03, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
I think they are asking for the logo. They can be found here. pandakekok9 10:19, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

War Graves Location Map

I would like to upload a Map/Plan of the position of War Graves located in a cemetery. The headstones have all been removed by the CWGC because of the poor state of the cemetery, however, I can't find a way around Wikipedia blocking this upload ... what can I do to upload it please? — Preceding unsigned comment added by NeillRichardPotts (talk • contribs) 03:15, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

크롬열어주세요.감사

잘진행돼가서 기붅ㅗㅎ아요 — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 2001:2D8:E20B:CBAA:0:0:C11:80AC (talk) 14:20, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

Copyright help regarding File:Sporting-cristal final1997.jpg

So it has come to my attention that File:Sporting-cristal_final1997.jpg is being considered for deletion after I did not provide sufficient information on its copyright status. I did find this article on the web and provided a link to where it could be found, but after looking at it again, it appears that the website received it from the original owner. Now, I have tried to contact the owner, Club Sporting Cristal, but as I am not based in their country, I am unable to reach them. I would appreciate it if someone could help me resolve this issue.

--ClassicalBash (talk) 16:38, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

ClassicalBash, unless the source explicitly licenses the images under a permitted license, all images are to be presumed copyrighted, hence can't be uploaded here. (There are exceptions, most commonly being too old for copyright protection - but these aren't relevant here.)
If the rights holder licenses the image under a permitted license, then email this to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org - note we can't accept permission to use at Wikipedia, only non commercial use, etc.
~~ Alex Noble - talk 16:53, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

Lua error after SVG file uploading

The following error shows on the description page of file https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prokopis_Pavlopoulos_signature.svg:

Lua error in Module:Wikidata_label at line 52: Tried to write global yesno.

Can anyone correct this error? I have no idea why it happened. Thank you.--Flashdart2 (talk) 03:57, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

After reading the suggested dialogue, I realized that the problem was in the Wikidata. I deleted and I reintroduced the Wikidata, and it worked. How? I don't really know, but it doesn't matter. Thanks a lot.--Flashdart2 (talk) 12:12, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
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Mass import via FileImporter?

Hi! Does anyone know if there is a way to move a lot of files with FileImporter without having to open all files, click import, click ok, close window, one by one? --MGA73 (talk) 13:00, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

As far as I know this is not supported, but you could research for yourself starting in mw:Extension:FileExporter (it’s actually a pair of extensions) and mw:Extension:FileImporter. — Speravir – 01:29, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
@Speravir: Thank you! I could not find anything there either. I moved 500 files from de.wiki one-by-one and is about to move a few thousand from vi.wiki and I was getting a little tired of doing it one-by-one (I know... Lazy) :-) --MGA73 (talk) 09:24, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
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Page move

Category:Kingfisher East Bengal F.C. to Category:East Bengal F.C., since Kingfisher was the title sponsor. But, original name is East Bengal FC. ArnabSaha (talk) 15:05, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

@Jmabel: Thanks a lot for helping. ArnabSaha (talk) 08:27, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
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Regex for visual file change

I want to do as custom replace using the visual file change. Find {{in| and replace with {{id| What should I type in the fields? Senator2029 01:28, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

  • @Senator2029: It looks to me like your question answers itself; am I missing something? VFC lets you look at what would be the change on any one particular file before you run it on the set, so you can safely test this yourself. - Jmabel ! talk 03:06, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
  • @Senator2029: By default, VFC just matches fixed strings, not regular expressions, so you can simply enter {{in| in the left column and {{id| in the right column. If you click the "R. → /R\./g" button the VFC will convert the fixed string into an equivalent regular expression, switching into regular-expression mode at the same time. --bjh21 (talk) 14:00, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Senator2029, while template {{In}} is deprecated it is certainly not a language template, hence it makes no sense to replace it with {{Id}} template.
@Bjh21 and Jmabel: Only with regex all occurrences of a string in a file description can be found. If there can be only one everything’s fine, but not for more.
— Speravir – 23:14, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
I was presuming this was about fixing a typo in his own uploads, or some such. - Jmabel ! talk 01:27, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
It is a typo. I came across someone from Indonesia who uploaded his files using the wrong language code template. Thank you to all who responded with answers. Senator2029 01:49, 27 April 2020 (UTC)]
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How to upload a picture on wikimedia?

Can someone tell me how to upload a picture to wikimedia? Iam trying to get the picture not uploaded. — Preceding unsigned comment added by WP.IMPK (talk • contribs) 12:30, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

On COMMONS there is the Commons:Upload Wizard to assist you, but it is a self-help method, and not a request method.
You can try the image uploading wizard at English Wikipedia: en:Wikipedia:Files for upload/Wizard -- it helps by a step by step explicatory process. If you need to file an assisted request, instead of the self-help method of uploading it yourself; then requests filed in this manner take a while to process (think weeks) If it isn't for use on English Wikipedia, it will typically be rejected, so if it is for some other WikiMedia project/language, it won't work. (Though COMMONS should think about adding one of these) A limited number of other language Wikipedias appear to also have such a process. -- 65.94.170.207 13:39, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Replacing license of someone's image which is too simple for copyright to apply

Is it acceptable to replace a license someone has put on an image they've created when it is very clearly too simple for copyright to apply and falls under {{pd-shape}}? For example File:Scrabble_joker.svg which is just a very simple shape. --SilentSpike (talk) 15:17, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Sofia Nerbrand

Hi, I would like you to switch picture of Sofia Nerbrand. I have uploaded a newer photo on the commons. Could you please help me? Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sofia Nerbrand (talk • contribs)

To avoid deletion of the image, which you uploaded, please, follow instructions in Commons:OTRS. Ruslik (talk) 17:52, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

With respect to flickr images

I want to upload image from Flickr is it allowed — Preceding unsigned comment added by Maizbhandariya (talk • contribs) 17:21, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Under what license was this image published in Flickr? Ruslik (talk) 17:50, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
@Maizbhandariya: If you don't know the answer to Ruslik's question, just provide the URL of the Flickr page in question and someone can work this out for you. - Jmabel ! talk 22:36, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

remove picture

remove picture — Preceding unsigned comment added by Karlin0407 (talk • contribs) 18:25, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Karlin0407, which picture would you like to be deleted, and what is the reason?
If it is newer than 7 days and uploaded by you, you can request it to be deleted by placing {{SD|G7}} on the file's page.
If it is anything else, could you tell us the problem here so we can deal with it. The process is different depending on if it is a copyright violation, out of project scope etc.
~~ Alex Noble - talk 20:04, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
Karlin0407: However, the information is no different to what you have been told twice previously at Commons:Help desk/Archive/2019/10#Hi and Commons:Help desk/Archive/2019/10#Delete. The images are far too old to be deleted on request, and you haven't given any good reason for these to be removed. When you uploaded them here, you licensed them under an irrovokable license, and you are going to need a good reason to break that.
~~ Alex Noble - talk 20:09, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Images purchased from GettyImages

Am I allowed to upload images purchased from GettyImages? Specifically, I'm seeking to upload images from this event.

GettyImages says that the images purchased can be used for "Newspapers and magazines (except for covers), editorial broadcasts, documentaries, non-commercial websites, blogs and social media posts illustrating matters of public interest" and can't be used for "Book or magazine covers, commercial, promotional, advertorial, endorsement, advertising, or merchandising purposes in any media (e.g. print, commercial broadcast, film, digital)". Wikipedia seems to fall under the former as a non-commercial website and none of the latter seems to apply to Wikipedia, but I wanted to make certain I have permission to upload any images I've purchased from there before I spend money on them. Bluerules (talk) 21:35, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

  • @Bluerules: No, you cannot. Images on Wikimedia Commons must have a "free license" that allows commercial use and derivatives. It would not be a violation of the law for us to host it, given that it has been paid for, but it would be a violation of our policies. - Jmabel ! talk 01:35, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
    • In other words, the images need to be distributed freely instead of being only distributed by the owner and buyers? Bluerules (talk) 01:46, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
      • @Bluerules: I'm not sure what you mean by that, so I cannot tell you whether it is equivalent or not.
        • For photos that are copyrighted (more precisely, anything that is not in the public domain in both the U.S. and in the country it comes from) we require an explicit license that (at least in terms of copyright) allows free use by anyone, including commercial use and derivative works.
        • Just so I don't misstate (but not an issue here): in some cases, non-copyright restrictions are OK, even for public domain works: e.g. the restrictions in Germany and several other European countries on certain images from the Third Reich; trademarks; personality rights making it illegal to use a picture to defame someone or to endorse a product, etc. We have templates to indicate some issues like that, e.g. {{Nazi symbol}}, {{Trademark}}, {{Personality rights}}. That is not germane to your question here, but I didn't want someone else to come along, read what I said, and think for example, "How can we ever have a photo of a person, because some commercial use would always be illegal without a model release?" - Jmabel ! talk 02:05, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
          • What I mean is I'm assuming such images are not allowed because they cannot be freely used by everyone. They can only be used by the original owner and anyone else who legally owns them. Your explanation answers my question, so thank you for the information. Bluerules (talk) 03:15, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
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Image that I uploaded today

Hello, I am Marusero110, a new user in Wikimedia. After joining today, I uploaded an image of Susanoo-no-Mikoto, which I had found on the Internet, but don't know the name of the person who worked on it.

What should I do? – Marusero110 (talk) 17:36, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

  • @Marusero110: Do you have any reason to believe it is either in the public domain (probably due to how old it might be) or free-licensed? I see no evidence of the latter, but I don't read Japanese. I have my doubts about the former, since the style, while not particularly modern, is also not particularly archaic. – Marusero110 (talk) 17:36, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
  • Unless we have clear evidence that it is either in the public domain or free-licensed (including allowing derivatives & commercial publication), it will be deleted. Please don't upload images without knowing in advance why one or the other of those would apply. - Jmabel ! talk 03:39, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
    • @Jmabel: You know what? I'd rather have the image deleted before doing anything else. Would it be okay if I started fresh by contacting the website that had the image? I would also like to have some help in gathering information.
    • You were able to see the source, though, right? – Marusero110 (talk) 17:36, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
      • @Marusero110: Yes, but as I said I don't read Japanese, so I'm in no position to read that and work anything out?
      • As the uploader, you can always replace the {{No license since}} template with {{speedy|Uploader request, looks like I can't quickly work out the licensing status}} and the image should be rather promptly deleted. Basically, only the uploader can request a speedy on this basis; anyone else with a similar concern should do just what User:Ahmad252 did: tag it to give the uploader a week to sort out the situation. I'm sure you can understand why that is normally better than a third party doing that for/to you.
      • In this case, I'll link this conversation and do that on your behalf. - Jmabel ! talk 16:50, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
        • @Jmabel: Thanks. To be completely honest, though, I'm a novice regarding this. Since you mentioned that you don't know Japanese, is there someone in Commons who dominates that language? And, again, I feel like I need some coaching. – Marusero110 (talk) 17:36, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
@Marusero110: In theory there is Commons:井戸端, but this seems to be quite dead. Linked from there is ja:Wikipedia:井戸端 in jawiki; I cannot estimate if that’s a good alternative. I found some admins speaking Japanese according to COM:ADMIN. Let me ping them, and hopefully one of them can give a better answer. So ping @Miya, Whym, Yasu, and Y.haruo: . — Speravir – 23:57, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
@Speravir: Thank you very much. I'll make sure to go along with your suggestion whenever I can. – Marusero110 (talk) 00:03, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
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Passing a list (or other nominally formatted markup) in a template parameter...

What is the correct and dcumenteed way to do this and handle it efficently inside a template?

Example: - Creator:Jean-Baptiste Bullet de Chamblain calls {{Creator}}...

Currently the field concerned is specified as span, which means a list can't be passed to it, as that would result in bad HTML.

I've also been told elsewhere that certain white-space gets stripped when it's passed in a template parameter, which complicates things.

So, can someone please document how markup (including list syntax) that may be placed inside a SPAN or DIV inside a template is actually handled, because in dealing with various templates across various wikimedia wikis, there seems to be little consistency in observed behaviour, at present.

As I seem to be saying repeatedly of late, It is NOT reasonable to expect normal contributors, to have to dig layers deep into arcane template syntax to figure out why what should otherwise have been valid wikitext markup is mangled or misrendered when it's passed as a template parameter (named or unanmed). Furthermore expecting long-term contributors to play 'hunt the quirk' on a near daily basis (when trying to resolve LintError concerns or issues with template code) is unproductive in the extreme. It is appreciated that no-one can write 100% error-free code, especially on a collaborative project however. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 09:31, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

Unexpected error message in uploading diagram

Hi, I have created a new drawing using Draw.io. Here is a link to the drawing I have made: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1eYe2KxfoSikfo3jDIttvpl99SJ1lqE1f

I have exported a copy in .svg format but when I try to upload this into Wikimedia Commons I get this error message:

Time-graded co-ordination.svg This SVG file contains an illegal namespace "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml".

I have no idea what this illegal namespace means, or why it is somehow associated with my drawing. I have previously created a drawing using the same package and uploaded it to Wikimedia Commons without difficulty.

Can you suggest anything please ? I have spent quite a bit of time creating this drawing, and I want to use it in Wikipedia, so I need to overcome this problem. Thanks, Marshelec (talk) 04:43, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

I have conducted a few further tests. A version of the diagram without text labels uploaded successfully. When I then added text labels - either inside a polygon, or as a separate text box, I got the same error message. Frustrating. I hope you can help Marshelec (talk) 21:38, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
@Marshelec: You'd probably do a lot better to ask this at Commons:Graphic Lab/Illustration workshop. - Jmabel ! talk 00:33, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Deprecating {{Infosplit}}?

It's amazing how long bad ideas can persist...

The problems with this templates are

  • It introduces a level of complexity inside {{Information}}
  • It isn't internationalized. (I.e English only currently)
  • It doesn't create appropriate meta-data.

With these concerns in mind, what would be the best way to deprecate it and get the meta-daat contained within it duly migrated into better forms? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 11:01, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

This is probably the wrong forum for this - the main or technical village pumps would get better eyes on it, however...
- Whatever the solution is, it needs to be entirely executable by bots. Otherwise, the change would just create a large backlog that will never ever be cleared out (see: most other backlogs on this project)
- The best course of action would probably be to merge this into the Information template as optional fields, then have a bot take the data out of Infosplit and put it into the fields in Information, 1:1
That kind of change is going to require community consensus, possibly through a formal merge request, and then of course a BRFA for the bot approval, but it seems like something that isn't terribly controversial.
The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 01:33, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Uploading a picture

Hi,

i wanted to upload a picture to the wikipedia page of my grandpa (just to update the picture to the most recent one)

however wikipedia did not allow me to.

Please help me with this issue. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Axsa777 (talk • contribs) 17:11, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Image usage

Can images/pictures of items, plants etc. be downloaded and used on websites under construction? I do want to infringe on copyrights of ownership of images without proper permission. — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 73.201.250.130 (talk) 21:25, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

How to change a photo

The photo of Michael Donohoe is defective, from an old newspaper clipping. I have a quality photo of MD, my grandfather, and would like to replace it for the old one. How — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.78.77.25 (talk) 21:27, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Trying to answer several points here:
  • Since you provide no links, we have no way to know what photo you are talking about.
  • How does being from an old newspaper clipping make a photo "defective"?
  • We almost never have a reason to replace photos on Commons: we simply add more photos. It is not as if there can only be one photograph of a person. A particular Wikipedia article can, of course, then be changed to use one photo rather than another.
  • Who was the photographer of the "quality photo" in question? Was it a family member or a professional photographer? Was the photo published, or is this from a private collection? Is the photographer still alive, and if not when did they die?
  • In order to upload photos to Commons you will need to create an account.
- Jmabel ! talk 00:43, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

My Court Documents

I am trying to upload my court documents to show that a serious charge against me was made falsely and a judge vacated the charge last year. I keep getting a failed to upload because it couldn't be determined if it met your license standards. Since anyone can Google my name and see all the charges, I want the chance to make sure they also see that I was not guilty of this one. How can I get these uploaded?

Thanks, Justin Autrey — Preceding unsigned comment added by JustinAutrey886 (talk • contribs) 21:50, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Court documents, especially in an individual case, are probably copyright depending on the level of the court and almost certainly fail our requirement of having an "educational purpose" in its broad sense. Tbey're also tiny, illegible and therefore useless. It sounds like you want to use Commons for soapboxing, which is contrary to our spirit and I suggest you seek a more suitable forum to advertise your grievances. Your email has been redacted to protect your privacy. Thanks. Rodhullandemu (talk) 21:58, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Batch deletion

Dear admins

I wish to batch delete my uploads (images and pages) because I realised there is mismatching of image names and object numbers. Could you let me know please what's the fastest way to batch delete them? Could you help me do that?

I then will reupload the batch again with the correct information.

The list of images and pages to be deleted is: From RCM0001 to RCM0001A_MIMO, and then from RCM0175_Audio to RCM0919_20161102_233_Web.

I am uploading for my institution. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 2A01:388:3A7:150:0:0:1:16 (talk) 13:16, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

  • No account here, so we have no way to know you are the same person who uploaded them.
  • No links to images here, and I don't have time right now to sleuth out what images you are talking about (someone else may choose to).
  • We don't usually do batch deletes, because they destroy existing links, but if these are very recent uploads it could be done. Please make the request using the same account that did the upload.
  • It is likely that what you want to do can be easily done by placing the {{Rename}} template on the relevant file pages, in which case you don't even need to come here to get it done. Since I don't have your account name, I have no idea how many images are involved, but if it's less than 30 this is almost certainly simplest. - Jmabel ! talk 21:11, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello, Angelonkichoi. Was it you? A search for file: intitle:RCM0001 gives me 7 results. This is easier to rename. For the others I cannot estimate the amount, though; I just see that you’ve uploaded more than 100 files in the last days. You should know that in fact there are no files deleted, only hidden for ordinary users, and hence it’s better to rename. BTW there is no RCM0919 20161102 233 Web.jpg! — Speravir – 23:02, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
  • Yes it is me, Angelonkichoi. There are around 745 files affected, so actually it would be best for me to delete everything that I uploaded so that I can have a clean start. Could you help please? Angelonkichoi (talk) 08:28, 23 April 2020 (UTC)Angelonkichoi
    @Angelonkichoi:
    1. Do you want 100% of your uploads deleted, those in a certain date range, or what? This is going to need to be specific, or you will probably regret the result.
    2. I suppose the simplest way to do this is to tag these all as {{tlx|speedydelete|uploader request, poorly named, will re-upload, see [[Commons:Help_desk#Batch deletion]}}, which can be done with VFC, and then it will go into the usual process stream, but if someone has a better suggestion I'd like to hear it. One big advantage of this that you can intiate it yourself, which means that you can control exactly which files this applies to without having to explain it to someone else.
    Jmabel ! talk 15:54, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
With VisualFileChange the speedydelete request could be added more easily. — Speravir – 01:59, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Isn't that what I just said? - Jmabel ! talk 03:33, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
No, you told about VFC … in other words: Oops, and sorry. — Speravir – 00:55, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
  • Hi really appreciate all of your help. Indeed I want to delete all the images uploaded from my account and I have already tagged them all with VFC and nominated for deletion now. Do you have a rough idea as to how long the deletion will take? It seems before the deletion I can't reupload the images because the system thinks they are "duplicates". Thank you! Angelonkichoi
    1. All of the images uploaded from your account? Then why didn't you say that instead of indicating difficult name ranges, etc. This could have been done much more easily, I thought there was a delicate selection involved.
    2. It will happen over the course of a few days.
    3. You are still going to get a warning about a duplicate image for every one of these that you try to re-upload. Doesn't matter that they've been deleted. You are going to have to override that for each of them. That's part of why I thought renaming would probably be simpler.
    Jmabel ! talk 16:29, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
I just run a bot job to correct all the bad speedydelete request for those files. --Jarekt (talk) 02:22, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
@Angelonkichoi: Apparently all files are meanwhile deleted, so feel free to start again. — Speravir – 17:28, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
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removing a picture

can anyone please tell me how to remove a picture from Wikimedia Commons. It was by mistake I uploaded the picture and would like to remove it as soon as possible. thank you!

@Anuj Nagar: Hi, you've uploaded two images. For any you want to have deleted, please put {{SDG7}} on the mage page and it will shortly be deleted. Thanks. Rodhullandemu (talk) 08:50, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
✓ Done. --Achim (talk) 09:08, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
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Copyright help regarding File:Pleyte-bust.jpg

Please help me attach the correct license to File:Pleyte-bust.jpg; I found this image online and asked permission from its creator to upload it to Wikimedia commons. They granted permission by email; I will be happy to forward the correspondence. Thank you in advance. — CvZ (talk) 11:58, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

@CvZ: Hi, and welcome. What license did the photographer give? What can you tell us about the lifetime of the sculptor and the dates and countries of sculpture creation and exhibition? Please have the photographer send permission via OTRS. See also COM:DW.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 13:29, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
@Jeff G: Thanks for your help! Problem is I don't quite know what license the photographer gave; below follows the email conversation (addresses deleted). The sculptor is unknown to me; the date of the monument to Auguste Mariette (in which this bust is an element) is 1902 (see Egyptian Museum, Memorial to famous Egyptologists).
Hi Carolien,
Thanks for your email about our photograph. You are welcome to use the photo for the Wikipedia Article. If possible, please cite Nile Scribes as the photographer.
All the best,
Taylor and Thomas
- Nile Scribes -
On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 7:48 PM Carolien van Zoest <xx@xx> wrote:
From: Carolien van Zoest <xx@xx>
Subject: permission to use one of your photographs in Wikipedia
Message Body:
Dear sirs,
I am looking for a photograph of the bronze bust of egyptologist Willem Pleyte, part of the funerary monument of Auguste Mariette at the Egyptian Museum, Cairo - to use as an illustration in the Wikipedia article on Willem Pleyte. May I have your permission to use your photo? https://nilescribes.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/pleyte-bust.jpg
If you consent, I will upload the file to Wikimedia Commons, so it can be used in all Wiki projects. Please be aware this means the image is then licensed for reuse; you will still hold the copyright.
With best wishes,
Carolien van Zoest
Leiden, the Netherlands
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebruiker:CvZ
--
This e-mail was sent from a contact form on Nile Scribes (http://nilescribes.org)


--
Taylor & Thomas
- Nile Scribes -
E xx@xx
W http://nilescribes.org — Preceding unsigned comment added by CvZ (talk • contribs) 13:54, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
That looks like a modern photo taken with a digital camera. It is almost certainly copyrighted. If we don't have a license for it, we certainly should not be hosting it. - Jmabel ! talk 16:54, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
Indeed. Also, a permission to use it for Wikipedia is insufficient. We need a permission to use the photo anywhere for any purpose. De728631 (talk) 22:24, 14 April 2020 (UTC)


SUGGESTED NEXT STEPS

@CvZ: Hello Carolien, I'm sorry to see that the responses above have not given you a "way ahead". I hope the following will help (it's an adaptation of what I send in similar situations). You may think it's a long-winded process: it is, so I have kept my own comments to a minimum.  :-)

You will need to clarify one aspect before you go ahead: who exactly is the copyright owner. I see, via Canada's business registries, that there is no currently active, Toronto-based company or corporation named "Taylor and Thomas", and it seems they may be two individuals. The sign-off to their e-mail was "Taylor and Thomas - Nile Scribes", and I see they asked "If possible, please cite Nile Scribes as the photographer". However, their blog (which contains no contact details as far as I can see) states "Moderated by Toronto-based Taylor and Thomas, Nile Scribes is a dual-language blog on the latest in Egyptology....". What is needed is permission from the actual copyright owner – whether that is the photographer and/or another person or corporate entity (I can't see Nile Scribes listed as a corporate entity).

Here then is Stage 1 of my suggested approach, asking them to clarify the owner and choose the copyright licence in keeping with the three Creative Commons licences that Wikimedia Commons accepts.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Dear Nile Scribes manager,

Thank you very much for so kindly agreeing to license the re-use of your photo. In its small way it will contribute to the cause of "democratisation of knowledge", which is one of the ideas on which Wikipedia is founded.

To use the photo in a Wikipedia article, a licence via needs to be sent to Wikimedia Commons (Wikipedia's media repository) in a legally unambiguous way. Please choose one of the three licences outlined below (which are produced by Creative Commons -- not related to Wikimedia Commons). Each of them ensures that ownership of copyright is retained despite authorising the image's re-use.

SELECTION OF LICENCE

Two of the licences below are outlined at https://creativecommons.org/use-remix/cc-licenses/ (for more detail, look under the "License types" heading for the first two licence types with CC logos next to them).

Since you mentioned you want "Nile Scribes" to be included in the attribution, I can include that in addition to the name of the legal copyright owner(s).

The Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence is the licence selected most often by copyright owners.

A similar licence is Attribution–ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0). It specifies that any adaptation must be distributed only on the same terms as for your original.

Some people are happy simply to make a "public domain declaration" (CC0 -- "CC zero"). It places the image in the public domain while still retaining ownership of the the copyright. See https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/

NOTIFYING WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

I have partially drafted a consent for you to send to the volunteers who manage image copyright approvals (I'm not permitted to send it from my e-mail address). I can send the completed document to you when you let me know:

  • your choice of licence
  • the name of the photographer
  • the name of the copyright owner, whether that is the photographer or another entity – corporate or individual
  • the name of the person who will sign the consent (the copyright owner or authorised representative).

I will then upload the image awaiting approval, using the filename "Bust of Willem Pleyte in the funerary monument of Auguste Mariette at the Egyptian Museum.jpg". I will include the name of the photographer (and the copyright owner, if another entity)) in the file name.

With thanks for your patience, and best wishes, Carolien van Zoest

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Carolien, if you let me know (on my Talk page) the four pieces of information as above, I'll post the completed licence here. Feel free to either reply here or on my Talk page, as appropriate. Cheers, Simon. SCHolar44 (talk) 12:52, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Unable to upload map with small amendment to map previously uploaded

I inadvertently omitted the US from a map of Pacific Community nations (c:File:Map of member nations of the Pacific Community, 2016.png).

When I attempted via the "Upload new version of this file" button to upload the corrected version, I received the message "Copy uploads are not available from this domain", both in respect to the original source and the Wikimedia Commons page.

This had not occurred when I uploaded the original, which was in response to a Help request (Asking for help to fix a picture) to amend the map. It was a 39 kB .webp file (c:File:Map of Pacific Community, 2016.webp); I therefore created the new one as a .png.

Help would be much appreciated. SCHolar44 (talk) 04:16, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

@SCHolar44: Before your uploading problem is fixed, per the source website, it stated that "Copyright © 2020. Pacific Community.", with no copyright information suggesting that the map is released under a free license. Therefore, I have nominated the map for deletion, regards. (User:廣九直通車 talk) 10:22, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for nothing, 廣九直通車. I did no more than amend the image at c:File:Map of Pacific Community, 2016.webp at the request of the uploader, so I know nothing about the copyright licensing; I had taken the presence of that image on Wikimedia Commons to indicate that copyright permission had been obtained, and for all I know it was.
@SCHolar44: A pre-existing problem is not the fault of the person who identified it and informed you of it. Please don't shoot the messenger. - Jmabel ! talk 16:25, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
@Jmabel: You say "A pre-existing problem is not the fault of the person who identified it and informed you of it." The difficulty I have is that the "messenger" decided to get rid of the image (but not the .webp one that with the original possible copyright violation) and did not help to answer my request for information. (I say this as someone who is not associated with the original uploader, the uploader's image, or the article in Wikipedia; I simply wanted to help by correcting the error in the map.) Giving the image the chop is not just being a "messenger" -- it imposes a peremptory measure that cuts off (a) my request for help (b) a chance to rectify the copyright problem that was revealed in a reasonable timeframe. Anyway, I'll just back off; it's no longer worthwhile wasting more time on this. SCHolar44 (talk) 05:07, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
@SCHolar44: File:Map of member nations of the Pacific Community, 2016.png is not deleted. It was marked 2 days ago as needing the copyright issue resolved, with a minimum of a week allowed to do that. That is hardly preemptory. - Jmabel ! talk 15:40, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Авторские права

Я создал страницу.

Все авторские права на ввсё на ней принадлежат МНЕ.

Пару картинок пометили на удаление из=за (якобы) возможног нарушения авторских прав.

Прошу эти ограничения снять.

Страница: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8B%D0%B5_%D0%92%D0%B5%D1%89%D0%B8_(%D0%B3%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BF%D0%BF%D0%B0) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Korobeyko (talk • contribs) 14:38, 19 April 2020‎ (UTC)

@EugeneZelenko, A.Savin, and Ahonc: Could you please provide some assistance here?
Basically, he's saying that work that is actually his own is being incorrectly flagged as a copyvio. But he doesn't link anything on Commons, just a deleted article on ru-wiki, ru:Простые Вещи (группа). - Jmabel ! talk 01:57, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

Iroquois Confederacy Sketch

I wouldile to know of it is possible to pay for or makeadonation to receive a reica of this piece As a gift for my husband who is Oneida from London Ontario. He loved with Louis for months at hisomghpise 

He was also present at Oka and Ganawagi(sorry for the spelling)

His name is Leonard, and was known both as "Boots" and "105".

Thank you so much for your time — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 2604:3D09:A37F:F400:18C3:399:6C9:CE1F (talk) 17:19, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Uploading stockphoto embed code

Hi - for Getty images, they allow free use of images if you use their embed code. I did search the helpdesk for how to use embed code or a photo, and it mentions mwEmbed (multimedia beta), as well as another gadget that's in beta. But I can not find either. How can I embed the embed code in the wikipedia article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by JoeRegroup (talk • contribs) 04:00, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Categories

Dear all, As a collective of students, teachers, museums and Leiden university, we are building a website on the basis of linked open data, using others' and our own uploads on wiki commons as the basis for our metadata on wiki data, which is then again used on our platform. In concreto, we are also adding media from creative commons institutes (most of them we work closely together with) to wiki commons and wiki data, and in this proces we add the category of that institute, and are also adding a category for our open platform (a platform that will also create new knowledge that we will then feed back to the wiki knowledge base). We just started, and at first I was so happy with the way that everyone is working together her to create a safe linked open data community. Today is the first time that someone is structurally removing all the category tags for our project (a project that will fall under a foundation starting next week). I read trough all rules in commons, adhering to the rules regarding copyright (I made two mistakes, but that is the way I learn), and also regarding the reusability, by which I mean that the things that we add to commons that are uniquely done for our project, I expressly consider if it is of use in future wiki-projects. My question is, what can I do / who can I approach to explain that our project (based at Leiden Univ right now) has just started and is deserving of a category, because it helps our content creators (mainly students) to locate the commons that we added. Thanks for any kind of help, Fresco — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fresco Sam-Sin (talk • contribs) 19:25, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Copyright Question

First, I have never uploaded an image to Wikipedia before. I would like to upload a PDF of a picture I have that visually depicts the expected natural history of mood swings in bipolar disorder in order to improve the Wikipedia bipolar disorder article. The source of the image is here: https://iacapap.org/content/uploads/E.2-Bipolar-2019.pdf. I did note at the bottom of the first page of this source it says this "This is an open-access publication under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial License. Use, distribution and reproduction in any medium are allowed without prior permission provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial."

When I click the CC attribution link, it appears to be CC 2.0 (no idea about the specifics of that), but that didn't seem to clearly be an accepted copyright when I was going through the upload wizard, which I found to be very confusing (since it says it's an open-access publication as long as it's not used for commercial use, which I don't believe this would be considered). I do have explicit email permission from the first author of the publication as well. Can I just forward that email to permissions@wikimedia.org or must it come directly from them to permissions? The process to upload an image feels very overwhelming and muddled... I can see why many users are discouraged from even attempting to do it when the barriers feel so high. TylerDurden8823 (talk) 21:54, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

  • @TylerDurden8823: As you seem already to be aware, we can't use an NC license here.
  • "it appears to be CC 2.0" doesn't make much sense: "CC" just means "Creative Commons", & it doesn't make sense to have a license version number with out a license name.
  • No one other than the OTRS team can tell you what the OTRS team will conclude about a forwarded email. Usually, they prefer emails to come directly from the person who granted rights. Does the email explicitly grant an open license that allows commercial use & derivatives? If so, I'd forward it to "permissions" and cc the original sender; OTRS can follow up with them if there are further questions, and I imagine they would do what is needful. If there is no such explicit grant in the email, then there's no point: the email would not have granted useful rights even if it had been sent directly to "permissions" and it doesn't somehow gain anything by being forwarded. - Jmabel ! talk 00:50, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
Jmabel, well, when I click the link at the bottom of the page where it discusses the copyright, it brings me to this link https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/. That is what I meant That links brings me to a page that says attribution non-commercial 2.0 generic. How do I get in touch with OTRS directly? And no, the email does not explicitly say commercial use and derivatives (are we considered commercial use?). TylerDurden8823 (talk) 00:56, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Hi @TylerDurden8823: . Hopefully I can clear some of this up for you:

  1. Wikimedia Commons does not accept any license that restricts commercial use (-NC) or restricted derivatives (-ND). The most restrictive license that Commons considers free is Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-BY-SA).
  2. I am an OTRS agent and I can confirm that OTRS longer accepts forwarded permissions - the permission must come from the copyright holder, preferably from their work address that has their name in it, for ease of verification (but this is not required).
  3. The release under a new license probably has to come from the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions, as the document's copyright appears to be held by that organization, not by the authors of the paper. However, it's possible that if what you're uploading is one of the diagrams, that diagram is actually owned by one of the authors. In that case, you'd need to find out which author created that diagram and get permission directly from them.
  4. The reason why this is so complicated is because there are legal implications. If we host works that aren't actually free, the person that owns the work can sue Commons for damages. If other people come to Commons, see that we've declared a work is free, and reuse it themselves, they can wind up getting sued as well. We have to be very, very careful about these things.

Cheers, The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 01:26, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Oh, I understand the reasons, it's just very discouraging since it really is very burdensome. I'll ask the author who owns the image to figure out the next step. Thank you for clarifying these points. TylerDurden8823 (talk) 01:40, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
So, I emailed the author back. If they email permissions@wikimedia.org, will someone notify me of that so I can upload the image or how does that piece work exactly? TylerDurden8823 (talk) 21:10, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
The copyright holder should inform you when they have sent the email. Then you may upload the image and add a template {{subst:OP}} to the file page. This can be put into the |permission= parameter of the description. De728631 (talk) 22:08, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
@TylerDurden8823: On a sidenote, please do not use the PDF format to upload pictures at Commons. PDF is suited for documents or books where there is a mix of images and text, but pictures should be uploaded in a graphic format like JPG or PNG. If it is a diagram of sorts, the SVG vector format would also be welcome. De728631 (talk) 22:53, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
It looked like PDF was among the accepted formats... so you may want to make that clearer in the policies/recommendations. Your average person who has never uploaded anything to Wikimedia before wouldn't generally make such assumptions. TylerDurden8823 (talk) 23:17, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

Language on Wikipedia website

Why does the wikipedia language selector not have the option for English. Whenever you click English it chooses American English. The options under the english label should be English, American English, Australian English, canadian english etc. The language Americans speak is not English, the ENGLISH and british speak English. Americans speak American English. The same problem occurs with the times selector. The time in England is not "Europe - London" Time, its GMT. — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 2A02:C7F:5802:100:58AA:7736:3158:F76F (talk) 20:43, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

  • I can't see what sort of practical help anyone can give you here, which is the purpose of this page.
  • This is Wikimedia Commons, not Wikipedia.
  • You are welcome to argue some place that British English is "English" and American English isn't, but this isn't the place. - Jmabel ! talk 02:09, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
  • Is this the language selector at https://wikipedia.org/, or the one at the top of the page in Commons? In either case, English just means English, it doesn't choose "American English". --ghouston (talk) 02:39, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
The English Wikipedia uses either the relevant variety if a topic has a strong connection to a country, or whatever the first editor used if not. Some are in American English, some are in British English, some are in Australian English, etc. If we were to have a seperate encyclopedia for each variety this would be a massive effort for what is a negligible gain. Rewriting 6 million pages to use slightly different grammar and spelling seems like a waste of time to me. ~~ Alex Noble - talk 07:52, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

File:Pietro_Faccini,_Il_Figiol_Prodigo_(copia_da_Annibale_Carracci).jpg

Dear help desk team,

I was wondering if and under which conditions I am aloowed to use the following file File:Pietro_Faccini,_Il_Figiol_Prodigo_(copia_da_Annibale_Carracci).jpg from you site in a youtube video for an Art Gallery in Germany.

Thanks a lot!

Laura Intern at Kunsthalle Bremen — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 79.201.173.78 (talk) 12:09, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

The image was first published in the 16th century, so is well out of copyright. You can do absolutely anything with the image - any copyright related provisions have well expired. There would be no need, or point really, of crediting us; we haven't really done any work other than storing the image.
There is no copyright protection given to the digitaliser, in the same way that scanning a document would give you no additional copyright - see http://doi.org/10.5334/jcms.1021217 which covers this. ~~ Alex Noble - talk 14:02, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

Hello,

I was hired to edit the page for Kayvan Khalatbari. This included edits such as updating the infobox to match the page content, adding new details about the organizations he is involved with, and verifying hyperlinks. I have no other relationship with Kayvan and the edits I made were purely factual based on external sources I linked to the page.

When I completed the work, a message about a potential violation was added to the top. I have added a "paid editor disclosure" to the talk page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Kayvan_Khalatbari, but the violation message is still on the wiki.

What else do I need to do to resolve this?

Thank you for your help, HilaryConstable (talk) 19:27, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

This is a wrong help desk. Please, ask on en:Wikipedia:Help_desk. Ruslik (talk) 20:41, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

Kérésre válasz.

A file that you have uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, File:Rábold Gusztáv (1873 - 1949) Kálvin fordító.jpg, is a derivative work, containing an "image within an image". Examples of such works would include a photograph of a sculpture, a scan of a magazine cover, or a map that has been altered from the original. In each of these cases, the rights of the creator of the original must be considered, as well as those of the creator of the derivative work. While the description page states who made this derivative work, it currently doesn't specify who created the original work, so the overall copyright status is unclear. If you did not create the original work depicted in this image, you will need to specify the owner of the copyright.

Please edit the file description and add the missing information, or the file may be deleted. If you created the original content yourself, enter this information as the source. If someone else created the content, the source should be the address to the web page where you found it, the name and ISBN of the book you scanned it from, or similar. You should also name the author, provide verifiable information to show that the content is in the public domain or has been published under a free license by its author, and add an appropriate template identifying the public domain or licensing status, if you have not already done so. Please add the required information for this and other files you have uploaded before adding more files. If you need assistance, please ask at the help desk. Thank you! JuTa 17:36, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

Nem tudom ki készítette a fényképet. A képek a családi képalbumból örökségként maradtak rám. A képek amiket felteszek nagyapám Rábold Gusztáv kiemelkedő magyar Kálvin -fordító, klasszika-filológus, református lelkész, gimnáziumi tanár látható. Nagyapámnak szerzői jogutódja vagyok, így joggal gondolom, hogy rendelkezem a szerzői jogokkal. A fényképek magán célból készültek, részben pedig közcélból. Régi, több mint hetven éves képek! Egyébként más közösségi portálokon semmi propléma nem merült fel képeimmel kapcsolatban. A Wikipédián minden lényeges információ megtalálható Rábold Gusztáv neve alatt. Köszönettel venném, ha segítenék, támogatnák törekvésemet, hogy nagyapám méltó módon szerepeljen az Önök oldalán. Sajnálatos módon egyesek az információk áramlásának mai világában nem kellő körültekintéssel eljárva, hivatkozva a formulára egyből a törlés jogával élnek. Adott esetben több bizalommal élhetnének. Eseteges szerzői jogsértés felmerülése kapcsán a jogtulajdonosok is vélhetően reklamálhatnak. Üdvözlettel Rábold Gusztáv, Rábold Gusztáv szerzői jogutódja. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rábold Gusztáv (talk • contribs) 08:25, 26 April 2020‎ (UTC)

The above appears to be a copy-paste of text from the user's talk page and a response in Hungarian, which I don't read. According to Google Translate, the response says:

I don't know who took the photo. The pictures from the family photo album remained a legacy to me. The pictures I put on can be seen by my grandfather Gusztáv Rábold, an outstanding Hungarian translator of Kálvin, a classical philologist, a Reformed pastor, and a grammar school teacher. I am the copyright successor to my grandfather, so I rightly think I have the copyright. The photographs were taken for private purposes and partly for public purposes. Old pictures over seventy years old! Otherwise, there was no problem with my images on other social portals. All relevant information can be found on Wikipedia under the name of Gusztáv Rábold. I would like to thank you for helping and supporting my efforts to have my grandfather on your side in a worthy way. Unfortunately, in today's world of information flow, some people, exercising due diligence by invoking the formula, immediately exercise the right to delete it. If necessary, they could live with more confidence. Rightsholders are also likely to file a claim for possible copyright infringement. Sincerely, Gusztáv Rábold, the copyright successor of Gusztáv Rábold.

Jmabel ! talk 17:07, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

@Rábold Gusztáv: Please correct me if I am wrong, but the picture appears to be of your grandfather (that is, it depicts your grandfather) rather than being taken by him. Copyright would reside with the photographer or their heirs, not with the heirs of the subject.
70 years is not such a long time: I myself have uploaded pictures here that I took over 50 years ago (I'm old, but not ancient), and ones that my father took even earlier, maybe as much as 70 years ago (I can't recall); the latter will still be in copyright in the U.S. until 2070, 70 years after his death in 2000.
The scan here looks probably half-toned. Is this really just scanned from a print of a photo, or was it something half-toned for publication and printing?
No one has "immediately exercise[d]" the right to delete it. They have raised a question about the copyright. If you want to respond, I strongly suggest that (rather than come to the Village Pump) on the file page, click where it offers that you may "challenge speed deletion". This will turn the speedy deletion request into a normal deletion request, with a page where you can raise your issues.
In any case, your claim on the file page that this is your "own work" is prima facie false. By your own admission above, you did not take this photo. - Jmabel ! talk 17:19, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

Az eredeti fénykép az én tulajdonom. Írtam, hogy a készítő ismeretlen, de vélhetően annak idején a munkáját kifizették. Ezek a fényképek itt vannak a szobában a szekrényem fiókjában, családi örökségként. Ezek tényében csináljanak amit akarnak. Viszontlátásra. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rábold Gusztáv (talk • contribs) 08:24, 27 April 2020 (UTC); and edit: — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rábold Gusztáv (talk • contribs) 08:41, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

  • Payment for a photo to be taken does not automatically transfer copyright.
  • Physical possession of the photo has nothing to do with copyright.
Jmabel ! talk 16:32, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

A rögeszméjét tartsa meg magának. Azt lép amit akar. Felejtsen el. A képek a tulajdonomat képezik. Több platformon már úgyis megjelentek nagyapám képe. Lesz egy hely ahol nem. Annyi baj legyen. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rábold Gusztáv (talk • contribs) 09:51, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

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Rename or upload again?

Hey! I happened to upload an image with the same name that already existed on an existing image. Unfortunately, this older image "disappeared" and was replaced by my new one. Strangely enough, the new image got the "old" description! How do I correct the mistake? For example rename the new image "Björn Ljung in 2016-2.jpg"? --LaFotisto (talk) 21:22, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

Thanks @Jmabel: ! Yes, UploadWizard didn´t give any warning! I followed your recommendation to the help page so I hope it works out. Once again thanks! 👍 /LaFotisto (talk) 00:07, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
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Photos from social media

Hello, Can we use Photos of Public Figures that are viral on social media platforms like facebook, pinterest, etc.? Kabirisgod (talk) 16:45, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

No we can't. Facebook, pinterest, Twitter etc. do not provide terms and conditions that allow for an automated free licencing of images. These images are copyrighted and non-free unless there is an explicit free licence like Creative Commons by attribution 4.0 or some such in the original description at the source page. De728631 (talk) 16:52, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
@De728631: then, can you suggest where can we find freely-licensed Images of Public Figures? Kabirisgod (talk) 17:02, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
You can try a Google image search or Flickr and use the filter functions there. You would have to limit the results to licences that allow commercial use and derivatives. Before that you should also check if there are already free pictures at Commons. De728631 (talk) 17:10, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
@Kabirisgod: See also Commons:Free media resources/Photography.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 17:13, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
okay, thanks. Kabirisgod (talk) 17:55, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

But, just to be clear, much of the time, a free-licensed photo of a given individual isn't out there. A lot of us put a lot of work into taking free-licensed pictures of notable people precisely because these are hard to come by, but now during the COVID pandemic, that is simply impossible. When things open up again: yes, we need a lot more people doing this. - Jmabel ! talk 01:05, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

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Uploading Photo

I have several photos to upload to Chris Ward (playwright) page however I have tried several times to upload and failed. I have used the wizard to copyright my own photographs and I'm still going wrong somewhere, is there step by step guide?

please reply perhaps by my email: [email redacted] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chris Wardwp (talk • contribs) 11:44, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

  • @Chris Wardwp: Really, individual emails should not be published on a page this public. Assuming you gave an email when you created an account, you can easily be pinged.
  • You don't indicate what upload tool you are using, nor what error message you were getting, so it's hard for anyone to guess what went wrong.
  • I suggest you try Special:UploadWizard, generally Commons' best upload tool for beginners. If you were already using that, then please let us know more specifically what happened.
  • "I have used the wizard to copyright my own photographs"
      1. Hard to guess what wizard, there are a lot of them (including on various Wikipedias, as well as the one I just linked above here on Commons).
      2. "…to copyright my own photographs" makes no sense here. Presumably your photographs are already copyrighted, by you; you would use a wizard to describe, upload, and license them, not to copyright them.
  • Given that your name is the same as that of the article you are talking about: I hope you understand that copyright normally resides with the photographer, not the subject of a photograph. If other people took these pictures, then unless the copyright has been overtly transferred to you, you would not be in a position to grant a license. If these are taken by other people, and copyright has been transferred to you, then you will need to send evidence of that transfer, as described at COM:OTRS. If these are taken by other people, and copyright has not been transferred to you, then the photographer (or other rights-holder), not you, is the one who needs to grant a license. - Jmabel ! talk 21:07, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

Uploading Photo

I still need help uploading photo to Chris Ward (playwright) page. I fill in file name etc only to have it say that filename all ready exists so I give it a different name only to have it say a duplicate file all ready exists so I have no option....Perhaps either give me step by step or perhaps there is something I have to click on from the: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chris_Ward_2015.jpg

Please help — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chris Wardwp (talk • contribs) 15:50, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Your request is a bit unclear and you did not reply to the questions asked to you in the previous section you opened above. I assume though you would like to add File:Chris Ward 2015.jpg and other photos to the English Wikipedia article Chris Ward (playwright). Is that correct? To add files to an article, you need to edit the article page at Wikipedia and add a string of code like [[File:Chris Ward 2015.jpg|thumb|write your caption text here...]] Using the file upload link at Wikipedia does not add files to an article but is meant to upload new files that do not exist at Commons or Wikipedia. So once you have uploaded a file, you can add it to any Wikimedia page by just adding this type of code. There is also a tutorial at the English Wikipedia: Help:Pictures. As an example, I have now added this one picture to the article. Please see the difference in the source text of the article page: [7]. This is how images are added to a page once you have uploaded the digital file.
You may, however, also want to read the English Wikipedia guidelines about conflict of interest and autobiographies since editing articles about yourself is generally discouraged. De728631 (talk) 18:39, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Création d'un article et enregistrements des modifications

Bonjour,

Je tente d'enregistrer les modifications du brouillon Biographie Feue Madeleine Roesch Courtioux Chaudouët et j'ai un message d'erreur...??? Merci de me venir en aide. Cordialement Annick Chaudouët — Preceding unsigned comment added by Danserlavie (talk • contribs) 13:23, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

Shamanic music?

I have a question - a student wants to use some musical notation from an academic journal, specifically shamanic drumming patterns. Assuming that these are very old (ie, from long before 200 years ago) and the music notation is not specialized in any way (no artistic flourishes or interpretation, just the drum pattern), would it be possible for them to use this image?

Assuming that this is just a straightforward musical notation of old shamanic music that has been played for hundreds of years and not altered, is OK for them to post this image as long as they credit it properly? If not post the image, would they be able to just write their own musical notation of the traditional music? As I understand it, it would basically be something like this: File:Coltrane, Greensleeves, Africa Brass, bass line.png. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:22, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

@Shalor (Wiki Ed): Of course the music itself is not a copyright problem. I don't think the notation for the music would acquire an additional copyright as long as, as you say, it is only trying to accurately reproduce the music. I don't know if there is a precedent for that, though, so that is just my opinion. However, it would certainly be safe if your student notated the music themselves and applied a CC-BY license to their image. – BMacZero (🗩) 04:55, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

I want to submit a picture of a Youtuber. It is alright if I take screenshot of their face in one of their videos?

Will it be subjected to any sort of weird copyright law? Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Qerrassa (talk • contribs) 10:50, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Qerrassa, unless the video is licensed under a permitted license (YouTube allows upload with CC BY, but very few videos are), this would not be permitted without permission from the creator of the video. Additionally, as the YouTuber is likely not dead, this would not be permitted under fair use, on Wikis that permit fair use. ~~ Alex Noble - talk 14:59, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
Also: this is not "weird" copyright law, this is very normal copyright law. Their video on YouTube is copyrighted, so any stills from the video are copyrighted. - Jmabel ! talk

Клон Википедии, который ворует информацию с википедии и после удаляет страницы с википедии!

Ранее была мной создана страница Тарханова Александра Юрьевича - актера театра и кино. Обнаружили, что она удалена, после чего нашли сайт https://wiki-katalog.at.ua/ на котором размещено около 500 страниц сворованных с википедии. Теперь Википедия блокирует любое создание страницы и ссылается на нарушение авторского права. Просьба закрыть ресурс https://wiki-katalog.at.ua/ И перенести с него удаленную информацию в оригинальную Википедию. Так как это прямое нарушение и ваших прав как ресурса, так и тех людей, чья информация сворована. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vishnyakov85 (talk • contribs) 11:03, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

  • @Vishnyakov85: You've posted this on Wikimedia Commons. You might want to bring this up somewhere on the Wikipedia for the relevant language, which I'm guessing is the Russian-language Wikipedia (though maybe the English-language one, since an awful lot of people call that just "Wikipedia/Википедиа". (If anyone can translate my remark into Russian, please do.) - Jmabel ! talk 15:27, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Blocking Question

I have been blocked after asking for assistance the first time. I would appreciate if someone could call me at 201-320-9602.

I am a new user and not that familiar with Wikipedia. I have read instructions etc. All I want to accomplish is to setup a page for Risk Logic but for some reason it has been rejected and I have been blocked from editing. I am new to Wikipedia and am not advertising for money or getting paid to edit but to simply provide information of our company and services. I have researched other companies and they have published information just like we want to do and even have an external link to their website. Please reference Axis Capital on Wikipedia site. This is what we simply want to accomplish. Please advise and if someone can reach out to me directly my number is 201-320-9602. Thank you.

Margaret

I have sent this information to SandBox Doctor and received several abrupt responses and now am "Officially Blocked". I tried to go through the Appeal questionnaire but it is not going through as it is not accepting my email address. Can someone please contact me.

Thank you in advance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Risk Logic (talk • contribs) 15:33, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

  • @Risk Logic: Apparently your conduct on the English-language Wikipedia was bad enough that you have now been blocked even from editing your own talk page to discuss the matter. You are still welcome to contribute on Commons, but please do not forum-shop by coming over to Commons to discuss the en-wiki matter, or we will have to block you here as well. - Jmabel ! talk 00:01, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
  • I looked up the history of this. They have said that your username is unacceptable on their site. If you want to open a new account there (and indicate any possible conflicts of interest) that would presumably be welcome, but they were pretty clear with you that they do not consider "Risk Logic" an acceptable account name. - Jmabel ! talk 00:04, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

Hi all,

I am creating a wikipedia page for a New York State public agency where I work. I have permission to upload the agency's logo, but want to make sure I am doing it correctly. How would I upload the logo so I can include it in the infobox for the page?

Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dblu9494 (talk • contribs) 17:37, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Hi Dblu9494. There are a few steps to consider. 1) Uploads at Commons need to be free for anyone to use for any purpose, and not just for Wikipedia. So this permission would have to come with a free and irrevocable licence, e.g. a Creative Commons 4.0. See COM:Licensing for a selection of suitable licences to pick from. 2) Since your logo has supposedly been published before without a free licence, we need a confirmation be sent by email. At COM:OTRS there are instructions as well as a templated text for such emails to our volunteer team. 3) Once you have selected an appropriate licence, you may use the Upload Wizard to upload your file. Afterwards, please edit the file page and add a code string {{subst:OP}} on top of the page or where it says |permission=. This will mark your file as being in the process of being verified by the email team.
A faster way to verify your licence and authority over the logo would be granting a free licence for the logo at your agency's official website. In that case you may just upload your file here at Commons providing a weblink to the website where the logo licence is stated. You would then not need to go through the email process. De728631 (talk) 18:18, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

I ENTERED A CONTEST AND UPDLOADED ABT 300 PLUS PHOTOS- & I DON WIN ANYTING

THE PHOTOS & VIDEOS I UPLOADED UNDER COMPETITION TRANSPORT AFRICA HAS NOT WON ANYTHING???THE PHOTOS & VIDEOS WERE AWESOME..I AM IN DRC...THERE IS ONE VIDEO OF MAN DANCING WITH A DOLL. THERE WAS ALSO A REQUEST FROM WIKIPEDIA TO UPLOAD VARIOUS TYPES OF REGISTRATION PLATES OF DRC VEHICLES. I ALSO UPLOADED THAT STILL NOTHING..I SHOULD GET 2000 USD FOR BEST MEDIA AND BEST PHOTO. PLEASE LOOK INTO IT..I DIDN DO IT FOR FREE..YOU WANT MORE I NEED TO GET MONEY FOR WAT I GAVE TO KEEP ME INTERESTED. I CANT BELIEVE THIS. I WORKED SO HARD..MY HARD WORK DESERVES THE PRIZE OF 2000 USD. IF TRAVEL TO SOME OTHER PLACE IN AFRICA WHICH I DO COZ OF MY JOB IN SALES I WILL LOAD MORE..BUT THIS IS DISCOURAGING. I WONT LOAD MORE IF I DON WIN 2000 USD. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rahtilak123 (talk • contribs) 11:39, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Hello Rahtilak123. Thankyou for uploading photos to Commons and contributing to free media across the world as part of Wiki Loves Africa. I don't have any particular insight into that competition, but I have done judging for similar competitions before. The competition only closed six days ago, it will likely be several weeks before the winners are announced - it depends how long it takes to get the judges to review all the photos.
I wish you luck with it, but from what I can read you are unlikely to win $2000, simply because none of the prizes on offer is that large, and there will be many entrants.
Wikimedia contributors are not paid - we do it because we want to share our talents with others and contribute to the world's largest free knowledge work. All the photos you took were released under a free licence, which is perpetual and irrevocable, though I'm sure if you wanted your photos deleted we would be willing to perform a courtesy deletion if you did not understand the terms of the licence. -mattbuck (Talk) 12:06, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
Is this the newest variation of the Nigerian scam? Should I send this person my mother's maiden name and the last four digits of my Social Security number?RadioKAOS (talk) 11:56, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
That's unhelpful RadioKAOS, the user has uploaded many photos to the competition. -mattbuck (Talk) 12:06, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

@Rahtilak123: Is there someone in particular who told you there was a US$2000 cash prize for this? Or did you read that somewhere? Because, if so, someone was lying to you, and it might amount to fraud, so it would be useful to know who said this. - Jmabel ! talk 15:43, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

@Rahtilak123: Also, please stop writing in ALL CAPS. It's annoying. JIP (talk) 15:15, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

Wake Island

All I want to do is add some information. Wake island was also used as a transit point during the evacuation from the Philippines during the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in June 1991. The first group of evacuees were flown from Cebu to Guam and then to Wake Island before boarding a chartered flight to Honolulu. — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 120.29.104.81 (talk) 06:48, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

@120.29.104.81: Hello, you are now on Wikimedia Commons, the free media depository of the Wikimedia Foundation. Where do you want to add such information?廣九直通車 (talk) 07:21, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

Is there a way to add an Alt to images here on commons so it'll be automatically included in articles?

I add Alt text to article images when those images are trying to convey information that the caption alone doesn't, so that people using screen readers can understand what is being conveyed by the image. Is there a way to do this here on Commons rather than assuming all editors will recognize when an Alt is needed and provide an adequate one? There are a couple of examples at Orc, including this diagram

which gets a caption of something like Tolkien's moral geography of Middle Earth but needs an Alt of something like Tolkien's moral geography of Middle-earth, with good in the west, evil in the east, simple in the north, sophisticated in the south. The Shire is in the northwest (simple/good) quadrant, Gondor in the southwest, and Mordor in the southeast. in order for those with visual impairments to understand what the image is conveying. (The other is the propaganda poster, which I also added an alt to.) I went to each of the pages that Tolkien diagram is currently being used on and added the alt, but it would be so much easier if the alt could be added here so that every time that image is used, it'll include the alt, rather than requiring me to come back and check regularly whether the image has been . Valereee (talk) 15:35, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
I'm not aware of such a feature. Also, since Commons is multilingual, there would not just be one alt text for an image but multiple language-dependent versions. Commons:File captions could perhaps be extended to support this property, but they're quite a new tool and I daresay most files at Commons do not yet have captions. From a technical point of view I suppose it would also need a rework of the [[File:]] functionality. De728631 (talk) 17:32, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
Thanks, yes, I know it would need to have alts in other languages too. Just wondered if there were any spot in the current captions area that would allow an English alt to be attached to the English caption and so on Valereee (talk) 15:33, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
The structured data captions aren't appropriate for this, because they are short. - Jmabel ! talk 15:55, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

Editing File:PINEROLO NEL PASSATO.ogv (section) and File:TRASFORMAZIONI PIAZZA SAN DONATO.ogv

Hi, my name is Andrea Rostagno, i've upload the file :PINEROLO NEL PASSATO but it's my own realizzation the 3D and the video of my realizzation. I have problems understanding what type of copyright I would have violated since the file is entirely made and produced by me. Instead for the file: TRANSFORMATIONS PIAZZA SAN DONATO.ogv I used the photographs included in the book (present in the description). if so what should I enter to get a favorable consent? in the event that it is not possible to identify a solution, I would like to immediately delete the files made by me given the considerable difficulty of being able to publish your works on an open platform (in this case I would like to understand how to be able to delete all the files)

thank you for your availability Andrea — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andrea.rosta (talk • contribs) 07:12, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

Do Not Knock List

Dear Wikipedia, I would like to contribute a new page called Do Not Knock List. I was a candidate for San Diego City Council Woman 2020. While I ran my campaign, I came across many people like me who prefer not to be disturbed after a long day of work. I did the search and there is no such list but Do Not Call List. Then I started this movement: https://www.facebook.com/Do-Not-Knock-List-March-2020-104318051233802/ I reached out to Secretary of State in CA but no reply. I hope people will work with me and make this into a law that we, the voters, have choice to be leave along after long day at work. I am also working with homeless people (I am creating jobs) for them to help me with this project. Please let me know how I can get this done with the help of our wikipedians. Sincerely, Lily https://www.lilyzhoucitycouncil.com/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by LilyzhouLaJolla (talk • contribs) 18:50, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

Are trail markers/blazes OK to upload?

A student in one of my classes wants to create a map, but is having some trouble with locating exactly what they want. The instructor has pointed out a map on a trail marker that is close to what they're looking for. I've noticed that there are other trail markers/blazes on here, but wanted to double check that this is something that would be OK to upload regardless of the state or if they would only be considered uploadable if they were done on the national level. This is the specific marker (located in Florida), although since they didn't take the photograph they'd likely have to find a way to take their own or find a free image online. I'm also going to point them towards the resources here for maps in general, but it would be good to know about the trail markers in general. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:09, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

  • @Shalor (Wiki Ed): That's way too complicated to be public domain on the basis of being uncopyrightable -- just the text alone is clearly copyrightable -- so unless it is a lot older than it looks it is copyrighted by default. No freedom of panorama for this sort of thing in the U.S., so unless there is a license from whoever owns the copyright, we couldn't have that on Commons. - Jmabel ! talk 03:04, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

Downloadiing

How to download videos using Wikipedia — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kavipu (talk • contribs) 16:56, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

@Kavipu: To create a link that download the video, use [[:Media:"Name of the File"]] (for example: [[:Media:President Obama speaks on explosions in Boston (2013-04-15).ogv]] --> Media:President Obama speaks on explosions in Boston (2013-04-15).ogv). --段黎志寶talk 19:11, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
Can i download the videos now — Preceding unsigned comment added by Regomuditswe (talk • contribs) 10:19, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Yes. You can also download them directly in Commons. On the file description page click on “Original file”. — Speravir – 01:53, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

Facebook

How can i use Facebook — Preceding unsigned comment added by Regomuditswe (talk • contribs) 10:16, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

@Regomuditswe: Hi, and welcome. Please see https://www.facebook.com/help/   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 13:36, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

Why does my entry keep disappearing?

Hello Administrator I have entered my name a few times in the list 'Theoretical Physicists' and it keeps getting deleted. Is it another member removing me? The last time I entered it, it appeared in red font. Regards, Lee Looby — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dr. Looby (talk • contribs) 12:08, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

Dr. Looby, your only edit on Commons is the one you made here at the help desk, and there are no deleted ones. You do however have a number of edits at the English Wikipedia article List of theoretical physicists. Your name was removed on the grounds that your editing about yourself is a conflict of interest, and because you have not demonstrated that you meet the notability requirements. -mattbuck (Talk) 12:33, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

Copyright help regarding File:JANiNA.jpg

Hello! 

Yhis picture was taken by Hilde Kristine Hugsand, she is a good friend of me and Nina Grobstok Lunderby.

The picture was taken of me, Jan Møinichen and Nina Grobstok Lunderby to help us promote our new music projekt Janina. I need help to get the copyright and the permission ho use our picture on wikipedia.

Jan Møinichen --Jan Møinichen (talk) 12:32, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

Jan Møinichen, welcome to Commons. The fact that a photo is of you does not mean you hold the copyright of that image. The copyright would, barring a legal declaration, rest automatically with the photographer. You would need to have Hilde Kristine Hugsand to send an email to our OTRS team confirming that she is the author and that she agrees to release the image under a free licence, in the knowledge that this means anyone can use the image for any purpose they want, including commercial or derivative uses. -mattbuck (Talk) 12:36, 25 April 2020 (UTC)


Ok thanks for the reply!

I will be sure to pass on the information to Hilde. Is there any way we/she can relaease it without giving other companies etc the right to use them? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jan Møinichen (talk • contribs) 13:11, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

@Jan Møinichen: Yes, you can upload it to the appropriate Wikipedia in compliance with en:WP:FU or local equivalent.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 13:32, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
@Jan Møinichen: You cannot upload an image to Commons unless anyone can use it. If there are personality rights issues, tag it with {{Personality rights}}: that's a non-copyright restriction that we accept. But we cannot accept it on Commons if you say, basically, "This is a free license but we don't want X or Y or Z using it."
Also, while User:Jeff G. suggests a fair-use approach on the English-language Wikipedia: the English-language Wikipedia does not generally allow fair use for images of living people, except for certain images of historical importance.
If you do want to release free-license this and have it on Commons, either the person who actually took the photo can create an account and upload (that would have been simplest in the first place) or, given that it has already been uploaded, the person who actually took the photo can follow the process laid out at COM:OTRS to grant a license. - Jmabel ! talk 18:31, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

О значимости

Добрый день! Прошу пояснить как указать значимость статьи, я сделал ссылки на патенты и изобретения, указал подтверждение докторской степени личности, но по -прежнему "Значимость предмета статьи поставлена под сомнение.". Что нужно еще сделать, чтобы эту значимость подтвердить?Алексей Судаков (talk) 21:40, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

С уважением, Алексей С.

Алексей Судаков, please ask again in Commons:Форум. — Speravir – 01:56, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

Upload free files in commons

If I upload a free file on Commons And is a portrait of a person who is still alive If I were to upload a free file on Commons In the process of publishing rights Which button should be pressed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by อิกคิวซัง (talk • contribs) 06:21, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

@อิกคิวซัง: I don't understand your question. Parsing it apart:
  • "If I upload a free file on Commons ": I assume this means the file is either your [1] own work you want to free-license, [2] already free-licensed, or [3] in the public domain. If it means something else, you will need to clarify.
  • "And is a portrait of a person who is still alive"; two possibilities here:
    • It is some sort of privacy violation -- e.g. a picture taken of someone in a situation where they had a reasonable expectation of privacy, and they did not give permission -- in which case you should not upload the photo.
    • It is not a privacy violation, and the fact that the person is alive has almost no relevance. At most, for some photos, e.g. of a performer on stage, it might call for adding {{Personality rights}}
  • "If I were to upload a free file on Commons" seems to just repeat what you said before.
  • "In the process of publishing rights": this doesn't make much sense, could you clarify?
  • "Which button should be pressed?" I have no idea: you don't even say what tool you are using. Is this about Special:UploadWizard or something else? What are the choices you are trying to decide between?
Jmabel ! talk 17:01, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

Upload MP3

I have trouble with uploading MP3 because of COPYRIGHT. But this audio is mine and I am the composer of it. Please help me upload my own. — Preceding unsigned comment added by محمد پارسا خسروی (talk • contribs) 07:00, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

@محمد پارسا خسروی: MP3 uploading is only limited to those who have autopatrol (trusted users). You can either wait for an admin to grant you autopatrol, or convert the MP3 to OGG and upload it. Thanks, pandakekok9 07:08, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

Mass-switch over from one map to another

Hello all- I would like to get this map off Wikipedia mainspace ([8]) and replace it with this one ([9]). Is there a way to do this en masse instead of page by page? I gave the reasons for doing this on the File:Kashmir_map_big.jpg page. --Geographyinitiative (talk) 10:15, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

Commons has no authority over the content of the various Wikipedias other than removing links to deleted files, and there is also no single Wikipedia mainspace, but all Wikipedia projects are independent and may have slightly different rules when it comes to the use of bots. So I'm afraid you will have to replace the map page by page. De728631 (talk) 17:34, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

@De728631 and Geographyinitiative: Convenience links:

  • With reference to File:Kashmir map big.jpg, are you disputing that this is an accurate representation of the 2002 CIA map (if it is not that, then it should probably be deleted) or just stating that the CIA map is inaccurate? If the latter, are you saying it was inaccurate when created in 2002, or just that the facts on the ground have changed? Whatever you mean, you should spell it out. If this is a genuine CIA map and does accurately represent the situation in 2002, please remove {{Inaccurate}}. Historical maps are not inaccurate, they are simply historical. Also, if it's genuine, but mildly inaccurate, please cite for the inaccuracies. In any case, please address this before proceeding.
  • Assuming that the first map was accurate for 2002 or has only minor issues, then before switching this in a given Wikipedia article, I would think you would want to know how it is used in that article. That is, if the caption indicates that it represents the situation in 2002, it should not simply be replaced by a 2019 map. If it says that it represents the current situation, then it is likely that it should be replaced. Still, understand that in doing a global replacement, you will be making an editorial decision for the Wikipedias that use the first map. If you think there is likely to be controversy over that, then a global replacement is probably not the way to do this.
  • I believe first you need to get consensus about the replacement. I would certainly ping relevant talk pages, leave a message in whatever is the most appropriate language you have (English if you don't have anything particularly appropriate), and point these to a central discussion on File talk:Kashmir map big.jpg. Give it a week. With luck, no one will object.
  • Once you have established consensus, you can use {{Universal replace}} on User talk:CommonsDelinker/commands to do the actual replacement. - Jmabel ! talk 17:42, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
    • That's interesting. I didn't know that universal replace was available for this kind of task, but with consensus from each Wikipedia affected by the replacement, this would make sense. De728631 (talk) 17:47, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

@De728631: you seem to be saying {{Universal replace}} on User talk:CommonsDelinker/commands should never be used. I believe you are not right about that, but maybe I'm the one who is confused, could you elaborate? - Jmabel ! talk 17:46, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

Meh, I think I just confused Template:Universal replace with a bot script like Commons Delinker because Geographyinitiative asked for an "en masse" solution. But it is of course just a template asking for a global replacement of one file whenever a user comes across it. So that's not a problem. De728631 (talk) 17:54, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
"just stating that the CIA map is inaccurate? If the latter, are you saying it was inaccurate when created in 2002, or just that the facts on the ground have changed?" It is my understanding (at this time) that the Demchok area in southeast Kashmir (now Ladakh) has always been claimed by China and has always been administered by India during the later part of the 20th century and early 21st century. Therefore, the File talk:Kashmir map big.jpg 'missed' one of the claims that the more up-to-date and high quality File:Kashmir Region November 2019.jpg includes. That's my understanding; however, I don't really have enough evidence to be 100% certain of what I'm saying here. I think the change may be needed if what I'm saying is correct. Geographyinitiative (talk) 22:09, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

Strona do usuniecia dlaczego tam ta wiadomosc przy moim PDF

Hello Nie rozumiem dlaczego przy moim pliku pdf "Ewangelia w Skrocie" mam informacje ze jest "zgłoszona do usunięcia". Sprawdzałem prawa autorskie i takie informacje znalazłem

This work is a translation and has a separate copyright status to the applicable copyright protections of the original content.

This work was published before January 1, 1925, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1925.

The author died in 1939, so this work is also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. This work may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.'


Robie to pierwszy raz i dlatego nie wiem i nie rozumiem co mam dalej zrobić i czy mój teks jest usunięty czy nie.

Z gory dziękuje za pomoc.

Z poszanowaniem Janusz Twarowski 519-641-0989 London, Ont. Canada — Preceding unsigned comment added by Janusz1292 (talk • contribs) 17:18, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

  • This appears to be about File:EWANGELIA W SKRÓCIE 1.pdf. - Jmabel ! talk 17:49, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
  • @Janusz1292: You claim on File:EWANGELIA W SKRÓCIE 1.pdf that this is your own work, that you are the copyright-holder of this work, and that you are granting a free license (which you can do only if you are the copyright-holder). Clearly none of that it is true. This may be salvageable, but go back and describe the situation accurately. You've also made the inaccurate claim in structure data that this PDF document "depicts Jesus Christ".
  • It is also not clear to me that this is in Commons's scope. It looks to me like it's just a PDF of text, and that it has no particular interest as media; that is, for example it is not a scan of some particular published book. Straight-out text normally does not belong on Commons. So User:EugeneZelenko is probably correct that this should be deleted. - Jmabel ! talk 17:55, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

Copyright help regarding File:AirTag logo.png

I am not clear if this file can be uploaded here. If it cannot, please delete. Note the sourcing and the notes I made regarding it.

--XavierItzm (talk) 11:21, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

I should add I have never before uploaded a file. I am a first-timer. Thanks XavierItzm (talk) 11:24, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
Looking around, it looks like this won't be accepted! Apparently "fair use" does not exist outside countries under common law. My apologies for venturing out of my comfort zone. Is there a way for me to delete the file I uploaded to Commons? I've gone ahead and uploaded the file to WP:en and I am no longer using the one I uploaded here in commons. XavierItzm (talk) 11:57, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
@XavierItzm: This logo may fall under Template:PD-logo. I'm also fairly new to commons, but I believe it depends on where it originates from as that's where the copyright would be registered (someone can correct me on this if I'm wrong). See Commons:Copyright_rules_by_subject_matter#Trademarks and Commons:Threshold_of_originality for more information. --SilentSpike (talk) 12:07, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
Thank you! That's a great out. Nonetheless, I would have to cut the ping shopping tag, I think, to meet the criteria. Let's see what the admins come up with. XavierItzm (talk) 13:50, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
XavierItzm, we don't accept fair use files (although the English Wikipedia does accept them uploaded locally). However, the image is likely too simple for copyright protection, so I've marked it as such. ~~ Alex Noble - talk 14:34, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
XavierItzm: Also, in addition, the image part of the logo is also too simple, so can stay. ~~ Alex Noble - talk 14:36, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
XavierItzm, I made some cosmetic changes (and noticed the first time, that an empty description field will be filled with the structured data file caption …), but a source is needed. Where do you have the logo image from? — Speravir – 15:08, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello, Speravir. Yes, I had included information on the origin of the file, but unfortunately it got wiped out when Alex Noble most kindly cleaned up the data, license, etc. At any rate, I found the logo here:
https://duckduckgo.com/i/b429f77a.png
In case you are wondering, that's a duckduckgo cache of a Wikipedia article that used to exist, and no longer exists. The article was called "Airtag". I suppose the cache will disappear sooner or later, but it still exists as of this post. Thanks and please let me know if you need anything else! XavierItzm (talk) 23:32, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
Oooh, this is really an inappropriate source! Do you by any chance know the link of the deleted enwiki page, XavierItzm? Was ist en:Airtag? It was by the way a bad decision to upload the file to enwiki, too (en:File:AirTag-logo.png) without waiting for decisions her in Commons. De728631, as enwiki admin, can you find a valid link in deleted revisions of this file (or the deleted article) and do cleanup for the logo? I think the enwiki copy should be deleted. — Speravir – 23:10, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello Speravir, my apologies if I have done anything wrong. I tried to read through the policies and I don't think I read that Duckduckgo caches are forbidden. Yes, the original article cached to Duckduckgo was en:Airtag. I did not realize that uploading to enwiki was a bad choice, either. On the contrary, on the enwiki it says that logos are "fair use", so I thought it was OK and announced it above on 28 April. My apologies, again, and yes, anything improper should be deleted. XavierItzm (talk) 08:19, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
@XavierItzm and Speravir: I have replaced the DuckDuckGo link with an archived snapshot of Airtag's original website. While there is no explicit policy that forbids the use of DuckDuckGo caches, we need to have links to verifiable sources that are likely to last longer than the cache of a search engine. Also, please do not use the direct image link as a source, but always link to the full website where you found the image (i.e. where you would rightclick the image to view it in your browser). This is so we can have some more context for the publication of the image and may verify any possible licences. I have also deleted the fair use image at the English WP since this is no longer needed. While it is true that the English Wikipedia accepts fair use images, you should have waited for the final outcome here at Commons as we don't want to have to identical files hosted at Wikipedia and Commons. Anyhow, I think the file can now stay here at Commons. De728631 (talk) 14:38, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
Wow, thank you, De728631! For your action AND your words. BTW: There are sometimes cases, where one by default cannot simply copy an image from a website. For these I find it useful to insert additionally (!) the direct image link. — Speravir – 18:26, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
Welcome, Speravir. And yes, this additional image link may come in handy under certain circumstances. De728631 (talk) 16:12, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
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Image sourcing from a book

Hi, I am expanding an article on Wikipedia about an architect and painter. The article is about Ted Kautzky. There is a book about the subject, titled 'Ted Kautzky, master of pencil and watercolor' by Charles R. Kinghan, which includes a number of pictures I would like to include in the article. As per HathiTrust Digital Library, where the book can be found, it is in the public domain.

Most of the pictures are from the subject's personal collection left with his wife. The subject died in 1953, the book was published in 1959. As per my understanding, the book was not renewed for a copyright license, and as per Category:PD US not renewed, its contents can be used for the article.

Can you please confirm if the pictures from this book can be used for the article? NawJee (talk) 23:59, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

  • @NawJee: I don't think failure to renew copyright on the book changes the copyright status of Kautzky's works (which are presumably still in copyright, if they ever were in copyright). The text in the book would be out of copyright through non-renewal, but materials in the book that were presumably used only by permission? I would guess not. I just don't see that you should be able to lose someone else their copyright by using their work by permission and then not renewing your own copyright. But I'm not sure. (& of course in those pre-Berne Convention days, it's possible that Kautzky never established copyright.) Probably better to ask at Commons:Village pump/Copyright, where you will find more expertise on this sort of thing. - Jmabel ! talk 01:19, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi @Jmabel: , thanks for the guidance. It makes sense, I've been juggling with the same dilemma. I'll ask the experts to look into the files and see what they have to say. NawJee (talk) 02:33, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
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File:Heraclio Fournier 6 Espadas.jpg

I'm trying to use commons more these days. I came across this recently uploaded file: File:Heraclio Fournier 6 Espadas.jpg. There a couple of these with more intricate designs, for instance: File:Heraclio Fournier 1 Espadas.jpg. I suspect that the uploader likely didn't make the cards. Should these be deleted? Sam-2727 (talk) 15:24, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

  • Hard to say. Those are really traditional designs. It wouldn't surprise me if nothing there is eligible for copyright. But the claim that it is the uploader's original work and that the uploader is offering a license is ridiculous. - Jmabel ! talk 22:05, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
And I apologize for all the questions but I want to make sure I'm doing this right. One last thing is if File:Ederhof logo.jpg should also be deleted. The file is a logo of a company. Not sure if the laws about threshold of originality apply here though. Sam-2727 (talk) 15:58, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

You should feel as free as anyone else to propose these be deleted. May I presume you know how to do that? - Jmabel ! talk 22:05, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

@Jmabel: , yep, I just did. How are licensing issues like the first situation typically dealt with? Are they just nominated for deletion? I nominated the second one for deletion, but just want to double check on the first. Thanks for your help. Sam-2727 (talk) 02:57, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
@Sam-2727: I see a nomination only for the third (not for either of the two playing cards). Looks like what you did for that was fine, except for not spelling out that if it is below COM:TOO it should of course be kept with the appropriate PD tag. - Jmabel ! talk 03:46, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
Jmabel, I didn't nominate the first two because I didn't know if it was only a licensing issue, they should be nominated for deletion (i.e. if they don't meet the threshold of originality, the license can just be changed). I'll clarify the wording on the discussion. On commons, when there is a licensing issue, are the files typically nominated for deletion and then if the license is determined to be incorrect it is changed? Or is there some licensing issue process that I should nominate the first two instead (FYI there are a bunch of those card pictures, those two are just examples). Sam-2727 (talk) 03:57, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
@Sam-2727: Presumably, you don't know in advance the outcome on any of these, that's why it's a nomination for a discussion about possible deletion, not a {{Speedy}} or {{Npd}} or such. On the first two: did you take an alternative action (e.g. contact the uploader to discuss)? That would also potentially move things forward. But, really, the help desk typically isn't going to be where we can sort this out, especially without pinging the uploader and/or other concerned parties, if any. To be clear: good that you started a discussion, and this is partly me guiding you through what you can do with these things. - Jmabel ! talk 15:05, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
Jmabel thanks for the helpful advice. I'll leave a note on the uploader's talk page and if they don't respond nominate for deletion. Here, I was just asking for advice on how to best move forward in general, as I've seen files with situations similar to these. Sam-2727 (talk) 18:44, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: Speravir 03:34, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

Creating a business page

Hi, I tried creating a business page and find some difficulties in improving it. Can you let me know about how to add the info box and to improve the article . — Preceding unsigned comment added by Webdesignexpert01 (talk • contribs) 03:58, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

@Webdesignexpert01: Hello, and welcome to Wikimedia Commons, the free media depository of the Wikimedia Foundation, and not Wikipedia. Please direct your question to w:WP:HD, regards.廣九直通車 (talk) 12:24, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

Upload Issue

iam having Pic to Upload In the Commons wikimedia — Preceding unsigned comment added by Abdul Abraham (talk • contribs) 06:50, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

@Abdul Abraham: With accordance to COM:PSS, we do not accept random selfies of yourself. Please stop uploading selfies without educational purposes.廣九直通車 (talk) 12:29, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

How to create a page for your company on wikimedia?

helo every one. Please tell me how to create a page for your company on wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by WP.IMPK (talk • contribs) 08:28, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

You don't. We very strongly discourage businesses creating articles about themselves. To have an article, a subject needs to have received significant coverage in reliable sources, something most businesses haven't received. Additionally, we are creating a neutrally written encyclopedia, not a collection of advertisements, and most businesses are only going to write about themselves in a positive manner.
Also, this is the Commons, the media store for the wikimedia projects', help desk. Your question would be better answered at the English Wikipedia's teahouse.
~~ Alex Noble - talk 11:16, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

Carlo Masi-Ruggero freddi photo

hallo, this picture: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ruggero_Freddi.jpg was taken from here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/188146761@N05/49826675387/in/photolist-DZtLh-6Em6Ch-9T599o-9T2na6-9n5TvN-52Soij-9T59Lw-4ZBJ44-ohYp1-4ZQZic-54jQy5-5nDrvr-aPksrX-54fB3g-6nNhCo-2kFxHT-26WVeJK-gsSNM-apwb74-odwbDB-hpgHi-52N8fx-owexTj-2iV1JE8-DaKqAD can someone tell me why I can not use it? thank you --AlejandroLeloirRey (talk) 18:30, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

Read Commons:Deletion requests/File:Ruggero Freddi.jpg. You even answered there. Which part of this do you not understand? — Speravir – 22:15, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

An email about a photo

I received the following message:

‪:Vycl1994‬ left a message on your talk page in "‪File:Photo of zymunt haas.jpg‬".

File:Photo of zymunt haas.jpg has been marked as a possible copyright violation. Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content—that is, images and ot...
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But this photo was taken by myself. Although I posted it on my other web site (professional web site), it is my own photo and taken by myself. Thus there should not be an issue with copyright.

Please advise what to do to keep the photo.

Thank you! Zzjhaas — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zzjhaas (talk • contribs) 21:59, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

Hi Zzjhaas. Judging by the grain on the image and lack of metadata, ‪File:Photo of zymunt haas.jpg is a scan of a printed photo - you claim to be the photographer, but judging by your username you are the subject, and this looks like a professional photo rather than an obvious self-portrait. I would suggest that using our OTRS system to confirm the copyright status would be the sensible way forward.
Pinging Vycl1994. -mattbuck (Talk) 23:09, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Zzjhaas, Mattbuck is correct in their assessment of the reason behind the nomination for deletion of ‪File:Photo of zymunt haas.jpg. Because a free license is not apparent here, I presumed, as the notice says, that unless noted otherwise, everything you find on the web is copyrighted and not permitted here. If you wish to keep this photograph, please abide by the process outlined at Commons:OTRS. I note that File:Dr. Zygmunt. J. Haas photo.jpg has already been uploaded, includes metatdata linked to a specific camera model, does not appear to have been published elsewhere, and now adequately illustrates the article en:Zygmunt Haas. Vycl1994 (talk) 05:56, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

Uploading image I don't own but give credit?

I would like to upload the official logo of the International School of Kenya on their wikipedia page. However there are no versions of it on wikimedia commons as of now. Keep in mind I am extremely new to the page editing process. I wanted to upload their logo to wikimedia but I'm unsure whether I am allowed to or not. If I understand the rules correctly, I am allowed to do so as long as I cite the origin of the image and give credit to the school for the image. Help me out here, Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mortex08 (talk • contribs) 10:46, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

If you speak of the International School of Kenya (enwiki article), then the logo is above TOO in my opinion and can therefore not uploaded to Commons – also a cropped version without text (because the lion’s head is the “issue” here), but used in Wikipedias with fair use rules. — Speravir – 15:23, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
  • @Mortex08: No, because you cannot provide a license to use what you don't own. Otherwis, anyone could upload anyone else's copyrighted material here!
  • As Speravir remarks, the logo is too complex to be inherently in the public domain and judging by its style it is certainly not old enough to have fallen out of copyright. Has the school (or other copyright holder) provided an appropriate free license? In that case you can link to evidence of that free license and upload under that license.
  • Otherwise, the only way you can upload is for the copyright holder to provide a license; either they can document that online on their website and you can link that, or you can go through the process described at COM:OTRS. - Jmabel ! talk 15:29, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

fichier audio

Bonjour, j'aurais besoin d'aide pour importer mon fichier audio: une lecture d'un article, svp. --Shadeau guinati (talk) 12:50, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

help my topic

This is my topic ([10]) not appear wikipedia translate to english. So i request to Wiki community to help my topic.Mro(Mru) people (talk) 12:35, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

Small syntax fixes in posting by Speravir – 15:26, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation

My article is being deleted — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 117.224.139.32 (talk) 19:24, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

You are asking in a wrong place. Please, ask this question on en:Help desk. Ruslik (talk) 20:52, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

COVID 19 IN SA

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Vusi vilanculos (talk • contribs) 19:27, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

How to request an image be rotated

Hi!

File:Hampi architecture 0131.jpg needs to be rotated, but I don't see a way to request it. How do I do this? Thanks, Kalbbes (talk) 17:10, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

Kalbbes, I've requested the bot rotate it. I don't know if this is a script I have or something, but I have a link to do this - see File:Rotate button example.png. ~~ Alex Noble - talk 17:57, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Alex Noble Thanks. Usually there is a rotation button in an image but I guess older ones don't, or something. I wonder if there is template I could add to an image to request a rotation if the choice isn't there. Kalbbes (talk) 18:33, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
I just now removed the rotation request. This file needs manual rotation. I will deal with it later. — Speravir – 19:03, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Kalbbes, there is The RotateLink gadget which is by default active for all users. Check, whether you have it disabled. This said also ping @Alex Noble: This image is that heavily rotated that a rectangular crop would cut off the top of this tower. I will only upload the 90 degrees rotation (the one that had been requested to be done by bot), for an upright tower this image needs some more manipulation. Do you want tou use the image, Kalbbes? — Speravir – 21:06, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Haha, Nightflyer. Wie hast Du das gemacht? Rotiert, unten abgeschnitten und dann die fehlenden Teile am Himmel retuschiert? So hab ich es nämlich getan, aber das Bild nicht hochgeladen (wollte ich separat tun, weil da noch an den Farben und der Schärfe rumgeschraubt wurde). Dein GIMP is toooootal veraltet!!!11elf ;-) — Speravir – 15:36, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
Moin Speravir, erst den Himmel ergänzt, dann gedreht... Mein Gimp ist zwar alt, aber ich komm damit zurecht. Ich hatte mal ne Version 2.10, die Oberfläche hat mir aber nicht gefallen... Gruss --Nightflyer (talk) 18:08, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
Nightflyer, aha, und wie hast du zuerst etwas ergänzt und woher wusstest Du, wieviel? Beim 2.10er GIMP kann man das alte Design in den Einstellungen im Wesentlichen wiederherstellen (oder wie ich das neue farbige Thema nutzen). — Speravir – 21:53, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
Moin Speravir, => Filter, Dekoration, Rahmen hinzufügen. Dann speichern und neu laden und den Rahmen übermalen. Mach den Rahmen so gross, wie du willst. In diesem Fall war es ja nur unstrukturierter blauer Himmel, Gruss --Nightflyer (talk) 22:07, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello, Kalbbes? Do you need the image? Regarding your template question: It’s {{Rotate}}, this will also be inserted with a proper value by the gadget. — Speravir – 23:15, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

Uploading a photo.

The person who leads the politician’s Facebook page sent me a photo file to be uploaded to the politician’s page asking me to indicate the name of the photographer. What is needed to uploaded this photo and use it on Wikipedia? All persons mentioned above are Israeli citizens. The photo of the politician is published on his Facebook page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sasha1506 (talk • contribs) 10:40, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

  • @Sasha1506: Does the Facebook page indicate what free license the photo is released under, and who owns the copyright (most likely the photographer) and granted that license? That would be simplest: then you can just cite that as your source.
  • If that is not the case, and they cannot make it so, then they will need to go through the process described at COM:OTRS. - Jmabel ! talk 14:59, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

Added Picture but it did not go to where it was suppose to

I down loaded a picture of my home built Thatcher CX-4 airplane and it did not go to the Wikimedia common search or to the subject matter. Thank you. VR. Mr. McCollum — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hmccollum (talk • contribs) 12:07, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

copyright

just want to review the file Shiris please review if it violets copyright or not — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ssapkota23 (talk • contribs) 15:35, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

Ssapkota23; it is unlikely to be valid here. I can't see any mention of a free license on the homepage of the website, and unless stated otherwise, all content on the internet should be assumed copyrighted. ~~ Alex Noble - talk 17:35, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
Alex Noble, would you please look at other uploads by OP, especially, File:Shirish.devkota.jpg and File:Pashupati sharma.jpg? Usedtobecool (talk) 19:47, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

Конкурс

Добрый день! У прошла регистрацию. И хотела принять участие в Конкурсы/Останься дома с Википедией‎ →‎Номинация 2 «Социальное дистанцирование...→‎Номинация 3 «Иллюстрации». Но, не могу понять являюсь ли я участником конкурса и номинаций. Так как не вижу себя в таблицы. Помогите разобраться. — Preceding unsigned comment added by М.Д.-55. (talk • contribs) 16:33, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

Задавайте, пожалуйста, ваши вопросы на странице обсуждения проекта: wmru:Обсуждение:Конкурсы/Останься_дома_с_Википедией. Ruslik (talk) 20:33, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

How to upload file

How to upload file — Preceding unsigned comment added by FIZZY DE BIGLIGHT (talk • contribs) 07:51, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

@FIZZY DE BIGLIGHT: Special:UploadWizard. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 08:05, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
Perhaps read Commons:First steps/Uploading files before. — Speravir – 18:42, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

About porn

How will apload videos — Preceding unsigned comment added by Navajeevan kumar (talk • contribs) 09:48, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

@Navajeevan kumar: First, only upload videos you have made yourself, not ones you appear in. Second, make sure that they do realistically have an educational purpose not covered by existing videos here. That, I would guess, would be unlikely. Thanks. Rodhullandemu (talk) 09:55, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

/* Michael C. Chorlton */ can i use/upload pictures that are news clippings from an old magazine if i credit the magazine name and issue date along with the clipping

i have several questions regarding the use of images:

can i use/upload pictures that are news clippings from an old magazine if i credit the magazine name and issue date along with the clipping

Can i use pictures that were taken by a personal family member, such as my mother, even though she is deceased and i have no legal method of proving she actually took the pictures?

Can i use pictures that have the photographers name/studio printed on the reverse if i credit the name/studio along with the picture?

If i have pictures with photographers name/studio but they no longer exist can i use them if i credit them?

In all cases i am referring to pictures taken in the years 1947 - 1951

thanks you — Preceding unsigned comment added by MCBugatti (talk • contribs) 12:11, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

  • @MCBugatti: News clippings, professional photographers: if they are out of copyright, yes, otherwise, no. For 1947-1951, rules will be different for different countries (and in some countries quite complicated), so please be more specific.
  • Your mother: are you the heir to her intellectual property? If so, you can license these with, for example, {{Cc-by-sa-4.0-heirs}} or other "heirs" templates. Otherwise, the license would need to come from the heir to her intellectual property. We'd generally assume good faith if you say the pictures are take by your mother, but if they are the sort of thing where this would be likely to be contested (e.g. photo of a head of state, picture from the opposite side of the world from where you lived) it would probably be good to go through the COM:OTRS process to establish your identity and explain how she came to take these. - Jmabel ! talk 15:12, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

16 Horsepower

Hello, My name is Jean Yves Tola. I am a member of the band 16 horsepower. I was wondering how I could create my own Wikipedia page that would feature my own info, separate from the band page. Let me know if this is something I can do myself, or not. Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Maintale1 (talk • contribs) 14:48, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

Quality Images rules

I'm new to Quality Image submissions. I nominated one of my pictures. Though a person requested I make a change and I did, there has been no support or oppose review. The rules seem to say your submission must be reviewed in 2 days and if no one reviews it you cannot ask that someone review it. It looks like the rules say if someone opposes promotion you can ask for a reclama but if it is not reviewed at all, you can't. Do I understand this correctly? Jim Evans (talk) 15:53, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

Anne Gamble Kennedy

When I authored the Wikipedia page for my mother, Anne Gamble Kennedy, I was not permitted to upload the photograph that she used for her publicity that was taken around 1950. I am asking that you reconsider using the photograph as the celebration of her 100th birthday is approaching. As the sole heir of her estate, I own the rights to the photograph. The photographer is long deceased and any letter granting permission to use the photograph cannot be found as the estate was closed in 2001. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nina07011960 (talk • contribs) 19:34, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

According to the copyright law the rights for this photo belong to the photographer and their heirs, but to your mother's estate. I suppose that a heir of the photographer can provide necessary permissions. Ruslik (talk) 20:05, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
@Ruslik0: May I presume "but" => "not" in the above? (Feel free to fix your comment & delete my remark.) - Jmabel ! talk 01:12, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
Yes, it should be "but not". Ruslik (talk) 20:31, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

Photo

Hi! I wanted to insert a photo from wikipedia to the same article in an other language. I'm stuck. If I want to do that, I have to say it is my own picture. That is false. But does it really matter. Because the real problem is the license and this photo has it already. So? How can I do it? Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TijuanaTierraYLibertad (talk • contribs) 16:39, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

@TijuanaTierraYLibertad: Hi, and welcome. What photo do you mean, exactly?   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 17:05, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
It seems like you are trying to upload the image again. If there is already a photo at Wikipedia, there is a good chance that you don't need to upload it here again. Most images you see in Wikipedia are actually hosted here at Commons and can be linked to any Wikipedia by a string like [[File:Useful_file.jpg|thumb|description here]]. Can you tell us the filename you would like to use and the Wikipedia article where you found it? Without knowing the file, we can't check if there are any possible restrictions that would not let the file be here at Commons. De728631 (talk) 17:08, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

Hi, I want to put this image "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/50/Emilio_Alvarez_Montalv%C3%A1n.JPG" on the french page of Emilio Álvarez Montalván. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TijuanaTierraYLibertad (talk • contribs) 15:12, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

@TijuanaTierraYLibertad: I imported File:Emilio Alvarez Montalván.JPG for you, you should now be able to use it there.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 15:29, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TijuanaTierraYLibertad (talk • contribs) 16:59, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

Resolved
I think that this question was replied to adequately based on the supplied information. If you have anything to add or a follow-up question please feel free to replace this box with your comment. This section will be archived after two days. 廣九直通車 (talk) 12:38, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
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