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Category:Free emulation software requires deletion of files containing copyright and PDs. Request investigation from A to Z.

In files in the free emulation software category,

Free_emulation_software (Category)

In 74 categories from A to Z,

Some files contain copyrights and PDs.

Copyright without the owner's permission and files with PD's permission

It's being left unattended.

The files are in Korean Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia, English Wikipedia, Chinese Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, Russian Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, and Italian Wikipedia.

In numerous documents, uploaded public files are being used without copyright discussion.

Here

Free emulation software (Category)

Subcategories This category has the following 74 subcategories, out of 74 total.

Free emulation software has 74 categories.

Duckstation, Joiplay, Redream, etc. that have been confirmed to be deleted.

Three needs to be deleted along with the category.

I think we need to consider whether to preserve or delete the remaining categories left empty.

Among these categories, it is important to check whether the uploaded files have copyrights and PDs.

There are dozens of files that need to be deleted and left unattended.

From 1964 (emulator) to ZSNES, we'll investigate everything in alphabetical order (A to Z)

All copyrighted and PD files must be deleted.

Out of the 74 categories,

Copyright and PD files without the owner's permission may be uploaded countless times.

End users should be prevented from uploading it.

Weki Media has copyrighted and strongly denied PDs.

There must be a means to solve this problem. 125.181.255.254 16:30, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

This user has posted the same message on multiple boards. To avoid splitting the discussion, I'd advise continuing the discussion at the Village Pump. I will mark this section as resolved. From Hill To Shore (talk) 17:02, 2 December 2021 (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. From Hill To Shore (talk) 16:53, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

Copyright help regarding File:ADA Cardano Logo.png

Hi Wiki Commons :)

I have adapted the logo of an already existing file. There is a notice that it may be deleted however I believe that this image is suitable to keep as it is a logo/ geometric shape.

This logo image consists only of simple geometric shapes or text. It does not meet the threshold of originality needed for copyright protection, and is therefore in the public domain. Although it is free of copyright restrictions, this image may still be subject to other restrictions. See WP:PD#Fonts and typefaces or Template talk:PD-textlogo for more information.

--Blockchainus Maximus (talk) 16:29, 8 December 2021 (UTC)

@Blockchainus Maximus: Hello. You are right that this is too simple to be copyrighted. I have updated the file description with a link to the original File:Cardano.svg and added a public domain rationale. The deletion notice appeared because not select a copyright licence, or waiver in this case, when you uploaded the file. De728631 (talk) 17:38, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
Hi there De728631 thank you very much for your quick response and your help :) Have a great day / evening / morning! Blockchainus Maximus (talk) 21:37, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
Courtesy link: File:ADA Cardano Logo.png.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 23:00, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by:   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 23:00, 8 December 2021 (UTC)

Modified or derivative photograhic images

Hello

This is probably quite a basic question but despite my spending time searching help and reading Commons:Derivative works I'm still unsure.

Would someone, preferably an administrator, please check whether I'm following the correct way of uploading an image I've altered based on a photograph on the Geograph website here: https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4833300

My derived or modified image is here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Michaels_Primary_School,_Highgate.jpg

I downloaded the original photograph then used an image processor to crop and enhance. Using the upload wizard I put myself as the creator even though I'm not the original photographer. Is this correct or should I have selected the not my own work button?

There's not a copyright issue as the original photo is licensed under CC-BY-SA-2.0 which I've disclosed and given attribution to the photographer.

--Rupples (talk) 03:30, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

@Rupples: It would be much simpler to upload the original with the obvious licensing, then use the crop tool to create your own derivative version under a distinct filename.
I wouldn't say that doing a crop makes the image your "own work". It's still the photographer's work. At most, add "cropped by User:Rupples" or some such. - Jmabel ! talk 03:55, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
Right. Wasn't aware there's a crop tool. Would you kindly point me in its direction? Rupples (talk) 04:06, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
@Rupples: Hi, and welcome. Please see COM:CropTool.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 04:19, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
Presumably the crop tool only crops the image and I often like to enhance. But I take your point that the original photographer still claims the copyright in the original work. Rupples (talk) 04:40, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

@Jeff G.: Thanks for the pointer. --Rupples (talk) 04:30, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

@Rupples: You're welcome.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 04:41, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

Copyright help regarding File:Toby Fox.jpg

Hi. I have a question. I uploaded an image of a famous person on Wikimedia Commons from the person on the public social network. This photo is also on third-party sites. The person who took this photo is not listed and is unknown. There are people in the background in this photo, but their faces are not visible. The man himself never objected to the use of his photographs (seemingly). Will this photo be removed, and if so, where (license, copyright, link to something that violates)? --Webokira (talk) 14:39, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

@Webokira: We need the formal written permission of the copyright holder for all content previously published elsewhere. Do not upload any image if you don't know who owns the copyright. Thanks, Yann (talk) 15:00, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

science competition

are drawings of something allowed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by MARSCREEPER1 (talk • contribs) 15:16, 1 December 2021‎ (UTC)

Issues with Rendering Colors on SVG Map

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. Bschutz11 (talk) 01:33, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Trying to update a photo on a musicians page

Hello all,

I'm trying to update a very old photo on Jack Harlow's wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Harlow. I have photos that were taken in house, we own the copyrights and have used it in other places. What is the process to get this done? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eodigimark (talk • contribs) 23:29, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

  • @Eodigimark: You say "we own the copyrights" but you aren't clear on who is "we".
  • Typically, in a situation like this, the easiest thing to do is to first place the image on a page or website that is obviously under control of you, the copyright holder, and indicate an appropriate free license there. I recommend
    w:en:Creative Commons

attribution share alike

This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.

, which is the most restrictive license that is compatible with Commons' required licensing. Then cite that as your source when you upload the photo.

  • If for some reason that is not possible, then use the approach outlined in COM:VRT. This will work, but it usually requires a few emails back and forth with the team that handle confidential correspondence, and they tend to be a bit backlogged, often by several weeks.
  • Also: please see COM:SIGN. - Jmabel ! talk 16:34, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

Mohin Talukdar

Assalamu Alaikum I Mohin Talukdar Joint General Secretary Comilla Upazila Bangabandhu Chhatra Parishad. General Secretary Daudkandi Upazila Bangabandhu Chhatra Parishad — Preceding unsigned comment added by MD Mainul Islam Mohin (talk • contribs) 00:27, 2 December 2021‎ (UTC)

Photo of a medicine bottle

Hello, I am wondering if someone can tell me; can I can upload a photograph that I took myself? The photos shows a medicine bottle with the name of the medicine. Bruxton (talk) 16:58, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

Shouldn't be a problem if there is no further creative artwork on the label. --Túrelio (talk) 17:04, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
Túrelio Thank you so much for the response. Bruxton (talk) 18:44, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

Screenshot of YouTube video

Hello, I have found a file called File:Janice Fitzgerald Media.png which I’ve found to have been taken from a YouTube video. The video has no information on being under a Creative Commons license, so is the screenshot copyrighted? The video is titled “December 1, 2021 COVID-19 Update” and is on the channel “GovNL”. Newfiebluejay (talk) 22:45, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

@Newfiebluejay: Yes, the screenshot is copyrighted, and a copyright violation, so I tagged it as such.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 22:58, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

Releasing designs on Commons

If I make a design and upload a picture of it to Commons, may I release the design under a different license than the picture? For example, can I a release a picture of a design under the CC Share-Alike 4.0 license and the design itself under the CC Share-Alike 3.0 license? (As far as I know, the licenses are functionally identical.) JulieMinkai (talk) 15:32, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

Theoretically, yes. Ruslik (talk) 16:26, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

New "States of the United States" box for cemeteries by county not linking to other entries

Hi all,

I've created a category called: Cemeteries in Washington (state) by county

The link-up with the other Cemeteries by county categories ( Category:Cemeteries in Tennessee by county , and Category:Cemeteries in Louisiana by parish, parish being the equivalent of a county) went well, but on the "States of the United States" box in my new entry for Washington (state) it doesn't show the other states, while Washington State has been updated on the "States of the United States" on the other entries.

So in essence, is there something I need to manually perform in order to display the "States of the United States" box for my new entry?

Thank you kindly for any help!

Ewkada (talk) 02:43, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Jmabel ! talk 19:05, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

Copyright help regarding File:Chess GIF from Lichess.gif

えりぼうしです。　このGIFは、Lichess で制作した画像をつなぎ合わせたものです。 lichessには、画像を自由に使用して良いと記載されています。 これには何か問題がありますでしょうか。

--えりぼうし (talk) 07:53, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

This is Eriboushi. This GIF is a combination of images created at Lichess.

The lichess states that you are free to use the images.

Is there anything wrong with this?
translator: Google Translate via   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 14:58, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
@えりぼうし: こんにちは、ようこそ。 https://lichess.org/は、「無料（本当に）、libre、広告なし、オープンソース」であると述べていますが、それ自体はライセンスを提供していません。 上記のhttps://lichess.org/featuresへのリンクの「本当に」。ライセンスについては触れられていません。 ただし、その行の最後にある「About Lichess ...」は、https：//lichess.org/aboutにリンクしています。これは、「free / libre、オープンソース」であると述べていますが、ライセンス自体も提供していません。 そこにある「GitHub」リンクは、https：//github.com/ornicar/lilaにリンクしています。https：//github.com/ornicar/lila/blob/master/LICENSEには、GNU Affero General PublicLicenseバージョン3が含まれています。 https://www.gnu.org/licenses/#AGPLで文書化されており、ここでは{{AGPL}}を介して受け入れて使用しています。 そのライセンスを[1]に追加しました。
Hi, and welcome. https://lichess.org/ says it is "free (really), libre, no-ads, open source", but provides no license per se. "really" in the above links to https://lichess.org/features , which does not mention licensing. However, "About Lichess..." at the end of that line links to https://lichess.org/about , which says it is "free/libre, open-source", but also provides no license per se. The "GitHub" link there links to https://github.com/ornicar/lila , which contains https://github.com/ornicar/lila/blob/master/LICENSE , which contains the GNU Affero General Public License version 3 documented at https://www.gnu.org/licenses/#AGPL , which we accept and use here via {{AGPL}}. I added that license for you in this edit.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 14:58, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: Jmabel ! talk 19:06, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

Copyright help regarding File:Babesdirectory-logo-dark.svg

Id like to use this file on its corresponding wikidata statement. What license should I use for a business logo? Thank you! JayK99 (talk) 09:18, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

--JayK99 (talk) 09:18, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

@JayK99: Hi, and welcome. The license to use would be abundantly clear if the logo was freely licensed or PD. I can find no evidence for that, thus I have tagged the logo as a copyright violation.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 14:05, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
This can be accepted with {{PD-textlogo}}, as it is a very simple logo. Regards, Yann (talk) 15:01, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
Hi, please let me how to do this.. The logo is used on a wikidata item and used as a source on many wiki projects... Thanks for your help! I asked this question on the discussion page too btw if its more suitable :) JayK99 (talk) 13:33, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
I think you added it already correct? Thank you JayK99 (talk) 13:35, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

удалили страницу артиста

я создал страницу артиста заполнил ее и удалили не понимаю почему... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Totsamyarti (talk • contribs) 10:21, 3 December 2021‎ (UTC)

Removed the artist page
I created the artist's page filled it and deleted I do not understand why ...
translator: Google Translate via   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 15:05, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
@Totsamyarti: Привет и добро пожаловать. Прочтите, пожалуйста, ru:Обсуждение участника:Totsamyarti#Akhmatov и ru:Википедия:Критерии быстрого удаления#О10. Pinging @Аведон, Drakosh как теггер и удаление Admin. См. Также COM:SIGN/ru.
Hi, and welcome. Please read ru:Обсуждение участника:Totsamyarti#Akhmatov and ru:Википедия:Критерии быстрого удаления#О10. Pinging @Аведон, Drakosh as tagger and deleting Admin. See also COM:SIGN.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 15:05, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
  • Я не удалял страницу Akhmatov и не выносил её на КБУ. Зачем было меня пинговать - не знаю. Автору статьи могу лишь сказать, что, статья заслужила удаление, именно поэтому ее и удалили по КБУ. Но подробности содержимого статьи мне неизвестны. И Викисклад не имеет никакого отношения к удалению статьи. Огромная просьба больше меня не пинговать насчет статьи ни на Викискладе, ни в Википедии. Аведон. PS: Как оказалось, я тут даже не залогинен автоматически.)) --87.117.58.129 19:25, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
    Translated from Russian using Google translate: I did not delete the Akhmatov page and did not submit it to the KBU. Why ping me - I don't know. I can only say to the author of the article that the article deserved to be deleted, which is why it was deleted by KBU. But the details of the content of the article are unknown to me. And Wikimedia Commons has nothing to do with deleting the article. Huge request not to ping me again about the article neither on Wikimedia Commons nor on Wikipedia. 'Avedon' . PS: As it turned out, I'm not even logged in here automatically. From Hill To Shore (talk) 19:53, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

Mark as prominent?

Hello. What does "Mark as prominent" do? Thanks! --Hulged (talk) 08:09, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

@Hulged As far as I can tell, it does exactly what it says: marks something as prominent. For an example of this, see my latest upload. It is a figure skating pair cropped to focus on one skater, but it also shows part of the other skater. So I have marked it as depicting both skaters, but only one of them prominently.
The real question is: What does "mark as prominent" do for claims other than "depicts"? I have not found any use for this. Brianjd (talk) 08:43, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
Brianjd, thank you for the response. --Hulged (talk) 11:35, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

özgeçmiş

Ben yazar Berrin ERGÜÇ özgeçmişim wikimedia yayınlanması için ne yapmam gerekir'

Translated via Google: "I am the author Berrin ERGÜÇ, what should I do for my CV to be published on wikimedia?"
@Ergüç: Hello and welcome. First of all, this is not Wikipedia but Wikimedia Commons where we collect free media. As to Wikipedia, it is strongly discouraged to write your own biography at Wikipedia because Wikipedia is an encyclopedia where ideally only notable topics are presented, and you will have a conflict of interest writing about yourself. When your work as an author is notable though, that is when your books and writings have gained national or international attention, there will be a time when someone else will write an article about you. So, the recommended way in such cases is to wait. De728631 (talk) 14:32, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

Cropping File:Haile Gebreselassie 2010 Interview.1.JPG

Please help me to crop File:Haile Gebreselassie 2010 Interview.1.JPG? The Supermind (talk) 18:34, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

How to add infoboxes when template doesn’t work

category:Ecchi Needs an infobox but the template didn’t want to work. Dronebogus (talk) 23:32, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

asking About Uploading

How About?

- Geometrical Shapes that With programs designed - Reintroducing Great Educational Artifacts, - photos for Introducing & Auto-Biography — Preceding unsigned comment added by Disciple8 (talk • contribs) 07:27, 5 December 2021‎ (UTC)

  • Sorry, that is a very unclear question, except for my being able to say "please, we don't want your autobiography". For the rest of it, please be more specific. - Jmabel ! talk 19:05, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

Have I uploaded my image correctly?

I've just uploaded an 800-year-old inscription but I'm not sure if I did it correctly. Would appreciate if someone could make some corrections if needed. ThanksKashKarti (talk) 13:53, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

@KashKarti: please categorize the images in the future. Otherwise it looks fine. MKFI (talk) 16:50, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

Map of Geocoded images

I once accessed a digital map with dots representing geocoded images, by clicking on the coordinates in a file page; Now, the map only has a marker representing the single picture's coordinates you click on to get there, with no other pictures. How do I get to the multi-image map? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Henrysz (talk • contribs) 14:03, 5 December 2021‎ (UTC)

@Henrysz: Well, it seems to work with the photo File:Mackey Auditorium - Colorado.jpg if you click on the text "View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap". (Note: only some markers on the map show a thumbnail photo but that may be due to a temporary server problem.) Thuresson (talk) 20:38, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

Profile upload

How do I upload my personal profile? — Preceding unsigned comment added by SeunbabaraAlabi (talk • contribs) 04:32, 5 December 2021‎ (UTC)

@SeunbabaraAlabi: Hi, and welcome. We don't have profiles, you must be thinking of social media sites. See also COM:SIGN and en:WP:AUTO.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 05:11, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
@SeunbabaraAlabi from what I understand, you can upload your picture after a significant number of contributions, say 100. Contributers2020Talk to me here 07:09, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

Upload Text File (Information)

How can I upload my details in the form of text? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dr Ashutosh.Misal (talk • contribs) 08:30, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello Dr Ashutosh.Misal. If you want to write about yourself, you can on your user page. Please see COM:SIGN as well. --Contributers2020Talk to me here 11:18, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

Uploading Images

I obtained an image form wikimedia. I trimmed it. Now I want to use it in a wikibook I am creating. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tlwolfe99 (talk • contribs)

If you found the image here on Commons you can re-user it however you wish, including uploading the modified version you've created. Beeblebrox (talk) 21:08, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
@Tlwolfe99: However, if (like most images here) it is copyrighted and licensed, you still need to follow the specific licensing specified for the image. Since you don't say what image or what license, I have no way to be more specific. - Jmabel ! talk 22:18, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

Photos taken of a public mural

Hello,

I'm writing about images used on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oaxaca_en_la_historia_y_en_el_mito

This is a new page. I am a newbie to writing Wikipedia articles.

In the early stages of the pages development, a question was raised about whether as the initial developer I could use the images. I think that it was just one person who raised that question. Some 50 changes were made to the first draft by various people, the revised draft was approved by David notMD. The article went live and I thought that everything was under control.

Today I received a message from JopkeB and it seems that they have nominated all my images for deletion.

The images I used are from photographs I took of a 40 year old public mural o Oaxaca, Mexico.

Is there a process by which I can get a stamp of approval that will go on my images? Is that the issue? How do I do that?

A quick scan of other muralists in wikipedia reveals that photos of murals are used. It must be feasible to use my images. How do i go about getting the required permissions?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oaxaca_en_la_historia_y_en_el_mito

ArbyBB — Preceding unsigned comment added by ArbyBB007 (talk • contribs) 18:11, 5 December 2021‎ (UTC)

@ArbyBB007 There is no "stamp of approval". Any user can nominate any image for deletion, but if your images are correctly tagged, they should not be deleted for copyright reasons. Brianjd (talk) 07:15, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
@ArbyBB007 I see that this account has no global contributions (except for creating this section). Are you ArbyBB? Every user should generally have just one account. Brianjd (talk) 07:18, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Deleting photos

Hi! I have uploaded several photos to wikimedia commons which I now want to remove from the site. How can this be done? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sandus06 (talk • contribs) 10:40, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello Sandus06, the 4 images of yours are really good and thus, I recommend you to think again before this. If you still want to delete it, as per criterion G7 of speedy deletion, you can nominate for deletion as they have crossed the 7 day mark in which they can be speedy deleted. Please also see COM:SIGN --Contributers2020Talk to me here 11:16, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
@Contributers2020 Actually, only one of the four images has crossed the 7 day mark (Oversiktsbilde Skjoldabukta April 2021.jpg). However, one of the other images (Skjold kirke bilde med noe snø på bakken.jpg) is in use at no:Skjold kirke (Bergen). The other two images remain eligible for criterion G7 speedy deletion. I also added a timestamp to the original post, allowing use of the reply tool. Brianjd (talk) 07:02, 7 December 2021 (UTC) edited 07:09, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
Sandus06 just to be clear, these are unlikely to be deleted. When you uploaded, you granted an irrevocable license. This site wouldn't work if people could routinely take back their licenses. - Jmabel ! talk 16:43, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
  • Can I ask, why do you want to delete these? What caused you to change your mind?
Was it, by any chance, the automated deletion request on this file: Commons:Deletion requests/File:Solnedgang over Nordåsvannet.jpg ? Andy Dingley (talk) 17:10, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
@Andy Dingley: in what sense "automated"? Doesn't look that way to me. And I, for one, can't work out what copyright was supposedly violated here. - Jmabel ! talk 22:17, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
Automated deletion warning on their user talk: page, although that does seem to be just a warning that's automatic and the deletion had been manual and erroneous (without even a comment at the then-open DR). Andy Dingley (talk) 23:15, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

Pubblicazione per fini commerciali di un libro con immagini di opere in musei e di libri antichi, nonché foto contemporanee di palazzi e statue presi da wikicommon-

Si possono pubblicare in un libro cartaceo che sarà messo in vendita foto di quadri conservati in Musei, parti di libri antichi o altre foto di palazzi scattate recentemente se queste sono presenti su wikicommons, o c'è il rischio di incorrere in una denuncia da parte dell'ente che custodisce il bene o anche del fotografo? Se è possibile pubblicare è possibile in tutto il mondo o vale solo per l'Italia? @87.3.181.91 and 02:38, 7 December 2021:

  • My Italian is weak, and I can't quite work out what you are asking. It probably doesn't help that this is posed in very general terms.
  • Could you be specific about what images you want to use, what you want to do with them, and what exactly you are concerned about? Italy has some very unusual laws on photographs of what it considers its historical patrimony, so the answer to this may be much trickier for Italy than it would be for most other countries.
  • (If someone with fluent Italian wants to take over helping this user, please do.) - Jmabel ! talk 05:25, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Editing picture for persons page

Good afternoon I am the Exec Assistant for a CEO who has now changed roles.

He has asked me to edit his Wiki page as well as change the image that is featured of him.

Can you please advise how I update the image? — Preceding unsigned comment added by UserLRC (talk • contribs) 04:30, 7 December 2021‎ (UTC)

  • @UserLRC: I assume that by "his Wiki page" you mean a page on Wikipedia. I'll venture that's the English-language Wikipedia since that is the language you are asking your question in. As his executive assistant you should not edit that page, please read the policy on conflicts of interest. You should clearly identify yourself and make a suggestion on the corresponding talk/discussion page, and if that doesn't get attention, you can escalate to en:Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard.
  • Here on Commons, there is less of an issue around conflicts of interest, so you might want to get the desired picture onto Commons before you work the Wikipedia end of this. Normally, copyright on a picture belongs to the photographer, not the subject. If a photographer has taken a picture and wishes to free-license it, either they can open an account here and upload the picture themselves, or (this is often more straightforward) on a site or web page that is clearly under their control, they can post the picture with a clear indication of the license they are granting. Then anyone can reference that as a source and upload the image to Commons.
  • Most other scenarios involve either a transfer of copyright or the copyright-holder authorizing someone else to upload on their behalf. Those pretty much require going through the process outlined at COM:VRT so that we know that the uploaded photo is not a violation of someone else's copyright. - Jmabel ! talk 05:35, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, I want to upload a logo of a public limited company, I have a jpeg file which is authentic Logo of the company. can I upload it? Thanks in advance --— Preceding unsigned comment added by Sohankowsar (talk • contribs)

@Sohankowsar: , please read "COM:TOO" and check the country where it may apply. If the logo is deemed too creative you should get VRTS permission. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 10:25, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Subject: Sheep in the snow by Jen Carfagno.

RE:- Jen Carfagno,

As a child of a farming family and at the age of 7 I was a sheepherder. Wintering sheep was a job that consisted of bringing the flock back the barns and tending them while they had their lambs and needed protection from the predators, mainly wolves. We had very deep snowfalls in central Minnesota of over 4 feet and sheep are not able to move and forage in such an environment. Moving the herd to the barns was done in October and made me question the Christmas story and what it said in Luke2:8. This is the practice around the world where Goats and sheep are kept and managed in herds. A search of "Wintering Sheep" will give you a lot of answers to your question you asked during you December 7 broadcast.

If you have any questions about this part of the Christmas Story, you can contact me at ivanc.565@gmail.com . I will only give you the results of my study of this subject. I am not out to end the Story of Jesus as I am a believer. I just think that someone embellished parts of it. The Book has it all laid out if someone wants to do a study on their own.

Ivan Collver

Flickr image

Hello there, I want to upload an image from Flickr website. But how can I determine this image was captured by the author, it is not copyrighted file. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Spotanus (talk • contribs) 07:07, 8 December 2021‎ (UTC)

Hi Spotanus, that's a difficult question to answer generally, but if you can post a link to the image in question here, someone might be able to help you. --El Grafo (talk) 08:52, 8 December 2021 (UTC)

Copyright help regarding File:Centris analis nest.png

Hello, I have been making a wikipedia page for a bee species and I reached out to the authors of a scientific paper asking if I could use their figures in the article. They said yes but now I am unsure how to label the copyright information so that I do not get in trouble for having it in the article.--TNFreeman23 (talk) 07:46, 8 December 2021 (UTC)

@TNFreeman23 the authors will need to decide for a license that's compatible with COM:L. If I were you, I'd propose something like CC-BY-SA 4.0 or CC-BY 4.0, as that is something they are likely to be familiar with from en:Open access publishing. For proper documentation of the permission, follow the instructions at COM:VRT (section "If you are NOT the copyright holder"). Feel free to ask here if you need further assistence. El Grafo (talk) 09:02, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
@TNFreeman23: Please note also that such requests for reuse from Apidologie may not be handled by the authors themselves, but need to go through the publisher's office in the first place. See the journal's copyright and permission policy. De728631 (talk) 09:16, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
Ugh, yes, very true, unfortunately! Depending on the conditions of the contract, even the authors may not be able to use their own work elsewhere without getting asking the publisher for permission. Given that the authors agreed, I was assuming that they did retain the necessary rights to grant that permission. But it is entirely possible (and not even all that unlikely) that they transferred all their rights to the publisher without even realizing. El Grafo (talk) 12:56, 8 December 2021 (UTC)

Upload

How can I upload files? — Preceding unsigned comment added by BCumberatch (talk • contribs) 11:39, 8 December 2021‎ (UTC)

@BCumberatch: Please see Special:Upload. There is also a link "Upload file" in the menu on the left edge. Please note also that we are required to sign our contributions to discussion boards and talk pages like this one by typing four tilde characters: ~~~~ This will add a timestamp and your username for reference. De728631 (talk) 12:22, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
@BCumberatch: As a beginner, you may find Special:UploadWizard simpler. - Jmabel ! talk 15:45, 8 December 2021 (UTC)

Copyright help regarding File:Ezhava Temple.png

This temple in Chakki, near Trivandrum, was for Goddess Kali and was run by Ezhavas. I got this picture from a book by The Rev. Samuel Mateer F.L.S The name of the book is NATIVE LIFE IN TRAVANCORE Published on 9 August 1883

I don't know which information is missing.

--Malayalee0121 (talk) 11:56, 8 December 2021 (UTC)

@Malayalee0121: I added the licenses {{PD-India}} and {{PD-US-expired}}. Could you please add information about the book publisher and where it was published. And also categories. Thanks, Yann (talk) 12:12, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
Thank you, it was published in London. I am not sure what category. New to Wikipedia editing. Malayalee0121 (talk) 12:16, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
Then I changed the license to {{PD-old-assumed}}. Not knowing if Samuel Mateer is the author of the drawing, or if it was made by unknown artist (quite plausible). Yann (talk) 12:22, 8 December 2021 (UTC)

Can I be able to upload a Parag Agrawal (Twitter CEO) potrait?

I want to upload this picture of Parag Agrawal onto Wikipedia, but can I?

Where the picture is from: https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/opinion/twitter-ceo-parag-agrawal-bad-news-free-speech

Uploading a YouTube video

Hi helper,
I would like to upload these public domain videos from YouTube to Commons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4Xky6tlFyY and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VOb_10JCkI. I tried using the upload wizard, but with no luck. Any help is appreciated. Interstellarity (talk) 14:44, 8 December 2021 (UTC)

Question on file usage of Commons files by external web pages

After years I realized only now that Commons is structured such that (as a special use case) external web pages may include images (or other files) directly without any detour like downloading and hosting the images on their own web server - which is, by directly including the web adress of the image in the HTML code of the external web page. Suddenly, I finally understand why there are several different resolutions provided, down to only some 100 pix length and width, below each Commons image. Now my question: Is there any possibility to get statistics on how often a specific file is used in that way? Is there an internal counter? And does an external page impression/access of the pic, which is generated in that way from an external web page, add to the access count displayed for each day in the pageviews tool on the toolserver? Pittigrilli (talk) 01:00, 8 December 2021 (UTC)

@Pittigrilli: It looks like you can use the "Referer" control on the pageviews tool to determine whether it counts views of the file on Wikimedia sites (Internal) or on others (External). That would suggest that it counts both. --bjh21 (talk) 19:12, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

Picture copy right

Hi there, I am writing an article about plastic upcycling, which includes a chemical upcycling section that talks about recent studies that has potential to recycle plastic more efficiently. However, I am trying to upload a picture that was snipped from the original article, in which it describes the way an enzyme is used in the process. I am wondering if I could upload it directly or if I need to obtain permission — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hnaz24 (talk • contribs) 08:38, 8 December 2021‎ (UTC)

@Hnaz24 That's difficult to answer without knowing what exactly the source of your figure is. If you're talking about an article from a scientific journal, there's a chance that it might have been published en:Open access under a free license that's compatible with COM:L. Otherwise you will most likely obtain a written permission (see COM:VRT) from the copyright holder (probably the publisher). If the article is available online, maybe just post a link here so one of us can have a look ... El Grafo (talk) 08:49, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
1. Tennakoon, A.; Wu, X.; Paterson, A.L.; Patnaik, S.; Pei, Y.; LaPointe, A.M.; Ammal, S.C.; Hackler, R.A.; Heyden, A.; Slowing, I.I.; Coates, G.W.; Delferro, M.; Peters, B.; Huang, W.Y.*; Sadow, A.*; Perras, F.A.* " Catalytic Upcycling of High Density Polyethylene via a Processive Mechanism." Nat. Catal., 2020. DOI:10.1038/s41929-020-00519-4
Here's the article and the picture is on the 3rd page Hnaz24 (talk) 06:47, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
@Hnaz24: unfortunately, in that case, you would need to obtain permission from the publisher (not the authors) – which is unlikely to happen.
For most scientific & journalistic purposes, that process would be easy and painless: Springer Nature have a nifty link for that on the bottom of the article page in the "Right and permissions" section. But there is no option available on that site that is compatible with our licensing requirements. It would probably be easier to find someone who can re-draw the figure in a way that does not infringe on any copyrights. --El Grafo (talk) 08:21, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

???

@Orizan: Why all my icons are suddenly marked as "not self-created"? Where's the proof?

link 1, link 2

I started uploading 2 months ago so this is an absolute bite. I am absolutely quitting commons and telling all my friends not to use commons if you're gonna delete all my icons for not being my work with NO PROOF.

Sorry if this doesn't fit the help desk. I'm not sure I should put this in the copyright village pump or orizan's talk page...which isn't gonna get noticed

And sorry for my edits being so sprinkledAnpang01 (talk) 03:04, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

Anpang01, I am not sure what Orizan's uploads and their number of edits has to do with this. Please contact the Orizan directly on their talk page or raise your concerns on the deletion discussion page. Thanks, --Hulged (talk) 05:33, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
Thank you! Anpang01 (talk) 07:05, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

Clarification

Please I will like to know whether or not edited pictures are allowed. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Just Arts (talk • contribs) 20:21, 9 December 2021‎ (UTC)

@Just Arts: Hello. I'm afraid there is no general answer to your question. It depends on a number of circumstances, e.g. who was the original author, where and when was the picture first published, is there a free licence at the source, and, if you meant "edit" as in changing or improving an original picture, the question is who performed which kind of digital edit. So, please be a bit more specific and provide an example of what you meant with "edited pictures". De728631 (talk) 22:10, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

May I upload photograph with copyright indication where photographer has given permission?

May I upload photograph with copyright indication where photographer has given permission?

Kent Miles wrotes:

You can use this email as verification that you have permission to use the portrait attached (Jack Newell, 2006) for your Wikipedia page. Let me know if you need anything else.

Cheers,

kent

-- Kent Miles Creative Director - Photographer Milestone Documentary Portraits & Projects 578 G Street, Salt Lake City, UT. 84103 801.631.7034 kent@kentmiles.com / www.kentmiles.com

Commissioned Portraits and Projects in a Classic Documentary Style Visual Communication - Fine Art Prints Consulting - Workshops - Seminars - Lectures — Preceding unsigned comment added by MDHume (talk • contribs) 22:53, 9 December 2021‎ (UTC)

@MDHume: I wish it were that simple, but it isn't. Two major issues:
1. "permission to use the portrait … for your Wikipedia page" is not enough. Commons requires the grant of a specific free license, which must be free enough to allow derivative works and commercial re-use (limited by the personality rights of the person portrayed, which is a non-copyright restriction). I personally recommend the {{CC-BY-SA-4.0}} license.
2. We can't accept a forwarded email, etc. as evidence of permission. If the copyright-holder is not the uploader, we need one of two things. The first is quicker, but not always possible:
2a. The copyright-holder can state the permission on a page or site that is clearly theirs. Typically this is done be creating a page on their website specifically for that purpose, that can then be referenced as the source of the photo.
2b. The copyright-holder can write a permission email from an account that is clearly theirs, as described at COM:VRT. THe VRT team handles confidential correspondence. This is a bit slower, often has a bit of a backlog, and sometimes requires a few emails back and forth to ascertain the emailer's identity. - Jmabel ! talk 23:58, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

How to categorize this file?

File:Kit shorts verona2122T.png

Thanks. Orizan (talk) 23:00, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

@Orizan: It can be placed into Category:Association football kit shorts --Minorax«¦talk¦» 01:50, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
Plus if there is an appropriate category for the particular team, or at least for association football in the relevant country. - Jmabel ! talk 02:16, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Wrong image: Jongen verlaat ouderlijk huis, Het kind gaat op een ambacht

Hi,

I wanted to use an image for my presentation, and stumbled on a drawing of "Jongen verlaat het ouderlijk huis Het Kind gaat op een Ambacht" from creator Jan Luyken(1712). I think it has the wrong image, according to my literature and i am not allowed to change this and want to ask someone to check this request and change as necessary.


This is the website i found the CC image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jongen_verlaat_het_ouderlijk_huis_Het_Kind_gaat_op_een_Ambacht,_RP-P-1896-A-19368-2911.jpg


I think this is the original: http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.147720 Rijks museum, Amsterdam The Netherlands. Owner of the original

Anyone who could fact check my question and change as needed thank you. For I am not able to do this.

Kind regards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 145.118.93.93 (talk • contribs) 11:07, 3 December 2021‎ (UTC)

Correct, this has been imported wrongly (ping @Mr.Nostalgic: as uploader).
The text snippet reads: "Deugden-praal ter intrede van Z.K.M. George 1, Koning v. Gr. Britanje & c. in London. 1 okt. 1714". It is a parade of some kind for His Royal Highness King George 1, King of Great Brittain, in London. Ciell (talk) 19:49, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
L.S. If you follow the source, it clearly shows the same title as i have uploaded and it clearly is wrong. :) I have requested the Rijksmuseum to correct this and as soon as this is done i will change the title. Unless someone else wants do do it upfront. Thanks for noticing. Regards Mr.Nostalgic (talk) 09:59, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
@Mr.Nostalgic: I can easily change the title, but then the whole description with the image would be wrong? Was the right image from 1712 somewhere in your set, is it somewhere else on Commons already - maybe under a wrong title as well? Ciell (talk) 10:38, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
Hi Ciel, i really don't know. I copied all available images 30.000+ including descriptions from their website to commons. If they respond to my question then we can quickly find out.
Regards Mr.Nostalgic (talk) 15:46, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
Just to be clear: you requested the correction by the Rijksmuseum today? Ciell (talk) 15:55, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
Sorry for the late response.
Yes i did. I already got a reply and they are going to change it and they also provided me with the data, so i will change it now!
Regards, Mr.Nostalgic (talk) 20:16, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
It is not yet clear if they will update the page this link revers to or the page with this link:https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/RP-P-1896-A-19368-2411, but they hope to do it quickly.
So i will monitor it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mr.Nostalgic (talk • contribs) 20:37, 10 December 2021‎ (UTC)

How to upload duplicate images

How to upload duplicate images on wikipedia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alotorus (talk • contribs) 06:20, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Why would you want to do that? --rimshottalk 07:50, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Clarification

Please I asked a question and I was also asked to be specific. So my question here is: Assuming I took a picture myself, can I edit it myself or probably add some filters and upload it or not? Just Arts (talk) 07:52, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Yes, if you took the image yourself and you never published the original or edited version before, please feel free to upload it here. If you published the original version before though, e.g. at Facebook or Flickr, you would have to provide evidence that you are in fact the same user here and at those other online galleries. De728631 (talk) 14:04, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Delete my file

Please delete my file https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/Kotleopold140_logo2.png — Preceding unsigned comment added by AlexanderMomentov (talk • contribs) 10:07, 10 December 2021‎ (UTC)

@AlexanderMomentov: You uploaded this file in 2017 and granted an irrevocable free licence for it. We usually only grant deletion requests by the original uploader within a week or two after the file was uploaded. De728631 (talk) 14:01, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
Convenience link: File:Kotleopold140 logo2.png. @AlexanderMomentov and De728631: Poorly focused photo of a housecat, I can't see much reason to keep it. Then again, Alexander, you still have it linked from your own user page! - Jmabel ! talk 16:32, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
I suggest first removing the photo from your user page, then listing it for deletion (see Commons:Deletion_requests#Starting_requests for details), with reason "blurry, unused, uploader request" or something similar. -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 16:58, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

I'm an experienced Wikipedia editor: user:Allreet. I have received a request from a public radio station to change the logo on their Wikipedia page. They have provided a png file of the logo. Can I upload this to the Commons if I have their permission? And if so. is there anything I need to do in particular? I am not being paid for this, but I am a volunteer deejay for the station. Thanks Allreet (talk) 16:10, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

  • @Allreet: Needs to be under a new filename (don't overwrite the old logo).
  • What license do they intend to provide for it (or is is so simple it can't be copyrighted)?
  • Assuming it needs a license: they have to provide a specific license, and we can't just take your word that they have permission. Either they should indicate the license on their own web site (and then you can use that as a source) or we need them to go thrugh the COM:VRT process.
  • OR... assuming this is for the English-language Wikipedia, you can leave Commons out of this entirely and use en:Template:Non-free_logo to put it in en-wiki on a fair use basis. - Jmabel ! talk 16:38, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
@Jmabel, thanks for the reply. It is for the English-language Wikipedia, so I'll use the template. I doubt the station wants to "freely license" their logo, but for sure they're open to fair use. I'll give that a shot. Allreet (talk) 18:00, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Israeli photos

Dear Wikimedia,

Congratulations on recently releasing hundreds of photographs by Beno Rothenberg and Boris Carmi, hitherto poorly represented on-line. I'm researching this area and would be grateful if you could put me in touch with one of your colleagues who was involved in the release of this valuable material.

Roger Hardy University of Oxford

rghardy2014@gmail.com

10 December 2021 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2a00:23c8:318a:c001:fd2a:e998:a19b:478c (talk • contribs) 18:11, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

  • These come from the Meitar Collection / National Library of Israel / The Pritzker Family National Photography Collection. You'd have to contact them. - Jmabel ! talk 18:39, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Photograph of a medallion

I have a medallion of David Lloyd George by Frank Bowcher for Spink & Sons, from 1917. Bowcher, a British artist and sculptor, died in 1938. Can I upload photographs of it to Commons, and are there any specific things I should do if I can? Thanks, DuncanHill (talk) 13:56, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

If you take the photograph, that should be ok. (Someone else's photo of any 3-d object can have it's own copyright.) Note the artist's date of death, which would make the original object {{PD-Old-70}}, as well as whatever free license you want to put on your photo of it. -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 15:47, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
@Infrogmation: Thank you, that's what I thought but not being very experienced here I thought it best to ask beforehand. DuncanHill (talk) 15:54, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

"The time allocated for running scripts "

appearing several times at Alte_Pinakothek/Rooms_16_to_23_(ground_floor)#Room_19 (and further on). Guess, that a WD invoke has gone wrong. Please help to fix it. Thank you very much! --Mateus2019 (talk) 14:19, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

Can I upload a photo from a U.S. Government publication?

Hello,

I am creating a Wikipedia page for the Moyaone Reserve, a community on the U.S. Register of National Historic Places. Given that designation, several books written about the community, several newspaper and magazine articles written about the community and it's architecture, and some academic work about the community as a model of historic and nature preservation, I am not too worried about notability.

I am wondering though about images. I was thinking about using some photos associated with a publication of the National Park Service: https://www.nps.gov/CRMJournal/winter2008/article3.html

In particular I was hoping to use one of these images:

As you can see from the URLs, these are on a U.S. Government website, so I am imagining in the public domain. You can also see a PDF of a publication that clearly indicates it was a National Park Service publication, had a National Park Service address, etc. Example: http://npshistory.com/newsletters/crm/journal-v3n2.pdf

Would one of these images be ok?

Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sorendayton (talk • contribs) 21:52, 12 December 2021‎ (UTC)

  • @Sorendayton: article3E says, "Courtesy of the Mount Vernon Ladies Association" and there is no indication of when it dates from, so it would be very hard to guess copyright status. article3A.jpg is clearly from the Washington Post so their copyright would apply (or that of the entity that placed the ad). Whether that was renewed or not, I couldn't tell you. I would guess it wasn't, and that you could use {{PD-US-not renewed}}, but I'd suggest bringing this up at COM:Village pump/Copyright where you are more likely to find an expert.
  • In general: when a U.S. government agency reprints someone else's copyrighted work, that does not change its copyright status. - Jmabel ! talk 02:01, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Bulk upload of Global Carbon Project svg files

Hello,

I uploaded one from https://robbieandrew.github.io/GCB2021/ but as there are almost a hundred is there an easy way to upload all the svg at once? Or is someone already doing this? I looked at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Upload_tools but don't really have any idea what to do.

Chidgk1 (talk) 13:54, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Copyright help regarding File:Banco de Mexico G $20.png

I'm currently working on fixing the [Peso] article on the English Wikipedia. I'm currently trying to use an official scan from the Bank of Mexico as its the only current source for the brand new series of banknotes (series G).

I may also add that under Mexican Law, it is illegal for me to scan banknotes as that would count as counterfeiting.

--Makumatic (talk) 11:12, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

@Makumatic: Hi, and welcome. Please see COM:CUR Mexico. Also, if you can't get compliant licenses, the images may still be uploaded to English Wikipedia in compliance with en:WP:F because we don't allow Fair Use here.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 15:36, 14 December 2021 (UTC)
Sorry, all banknotes of Mexico from July 1928 on are under copyright, and cannot be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 15:50, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

Yacht? Ferry?

In the Sun Moon Lake area, a yacht is used as a ferry to carry passengers, is it a ferry? Could someone explain to me the difference between "yacht" and "ferry" and give examples of each.--Kai3952 (talk) 13:11, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

@Kai3952: Yachts are generally far more luxurious and have sleeping quarters for guests, while ferries generally have room for large concentrations of passengers on benches or standing, and sometimes vehicles.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 15:33, 14 December 2021 (UTC)
I'd say a ferry is any boat with a fixed route between two (or more) points, which carries passengers (and nowadays usually vehicles) between those points on a regular schedule. Any type of boat or ship (raft, canoe, sailboat, yacht, cruise ship etc.) can in principle be used as a ferry. —Mahāgaja · talk 15:37, 14 December 2021 (UTC)
Indeed, according to these infos there are regular ferry services on the Sun Moon Lake and the vessels used to carry passengers and goods across the lake on regular schedules are ferries. While most ferries have been specifically built for this purpose, this is not a requirement. --AFBorchert (talk) 15:50, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

Uploading a screenshot of a plan from 1667 published in a public domain...

Hello Help Desk, Today it was denied (by Wikimedia) to upload a screenshot I took from a plan (drawn 1667) and published in a public domain: http://www.ub.edu/geocrit/sn/sn-437.htm#_edn14.

I am collecting data regarding an architect ... and this plan is quite remarkable. Obviously he died long ago. How can I upload his plan /my screenshot?

Regards --Don Roberto GyDel (talk) 13:12, 14 December 2021 (UTC)Don Roberto GyDel

@Don Roberto GyDel: Hi, and welcome. I am sorry to inform you that you have triggered Special:AbuseFilter/153 by trying to cross-wiki upload png images as a new user while leaving the summary intact. Such uploads of png images are not allowed at all. The following applies to each image. You indicated it's your own work. Usually when someone uploads a png image, it's a copyright violation taken from the web. Please upload the full-size original of it per COM:HR, including any metadata, but if you were not the original image designer or photographer, that person may need to post permission on their official website or social media, or send it via OTRS with a carbon copy to you. Also, it will look fuzzy when scaled down (due to design decisions discussed in phab:T192744), so you may want to upload a jpg or svg version, too. If you can't get compliant licenses, the images may still be uploaded to English Wikipedia in compliance with en:WP:F because we don't allow Fair Use here. If you change the summary or use our Upload Wizard instead, you should be able to avoid that filter. Further, regarding File:J B Balfagon-Plano Puerto de Cartagena-1667.png, it would have been better to upload directly from source http://www.ub.edu/geocrit/sn/sn-437_archivos/image003.jpg because it is a jpg file so it would display more crisply, and it doesn't contain the Spanish language text and resizing effects from screenshotting.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 15:24, 14 December 2021 (UTC)
Unfortunately, both of those files contain a watermark with a probably fraudulent copyright claim from Ministerio de Cultura Archivos Estatales. Ideally the image uploaded here would have no such watermark. —Mahāgaja · talk 15:33, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

Move request: File:𡦂-order.gif

File:𡦂-order.gif -> File:𫳘-order.gif

Obvious error. 24.246.118.194 15:03, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done thanks to Mahagaja.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 15:27, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

Solicitud de edicion

Muy buenos dias. Mi nombre es Oscar Leandro Jaramillo alzate. actualmente he sido calificado por la Institución Mensa con un coeficiente intelectual IQ136. he intentado realizar esta edición en el listado de miembros del Mensa pero al dia siguiente. es borrado, agradezco información que me brinde solución a esta situación . adjunto certificado de de IQ 136 de Mensa y Diploma de la condecoración Orden de la democracia Simon Bolivar. maxima condecoración de cruz de caballero entregada por el presidente del congreso el Dr CArlos Alberto Cuenca Chaux. si desean que les envie pruebas de lo que aca manifiesto. estaré atento a su respuesta. muchas gracias y excelente dia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fruver84 (talk • contribs) 15:30, 14 December 2021‎ (UTC)

@Fruver84: Lo siento, no necesitamos esta informacion aqui, sigue ayuda en COM:VP/es o es:WP:C/A.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 15:53, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

Image upload not working

Hi! I'm trying to upload an image for the science photo competition, but it always gives an error "Our servers are currently under maintenance or experiencing a technical problem. Please try again in a few minutes."

Tried different images, different browsers, nothing seems to work.

Example case: Request from - via cp3060.esams.wmnet, ATS/8.0.8 Error: 502, Next Hop Connection Failed at 2021-12-14 20:10:51 GMT — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ouroboros66 (talk • contribs) 20:26, 14 December 2021‎ (UTC)

@Ouroboros66: Hi, and welcome. Special:NewFiles is showing plenty of newly uploaded files, please try again or give more details, and see COM:SIGN.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 22:00, 14 December 2021 (UTC)
I wonder if bypassing the browser cache might help? Beeblebrox (talk) 22:01, 14 December 2021 (UTC)
Right now I solved it by uploading to flickr and linking from there. Ouroboros66 (talk) 22:04, 14 December 2021 (UTC) - Ouroboros66 (talk) 22:04, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

.png and preview incorrectly generated from .svg

I recently uploaded some maps in .svg format (created in QGIS). When I am opening these maps, .svg and thumbnail of these files seems to be shown correctly (at least on my screen), but .png and preview distorts some texts so they overlap the map. For example this file. Any idea what is the problem? Grtek (talk) 23:52, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

@Grtek: Hi. Have you reviewed COM:SVG?   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 01:11, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

blog upload

Hi team,

Can upload my general personal content on this blog — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sairamdgr8 (talk • contribs) 01:16, 15 December 2021‎ (UTC)

@Sairamdgr8: Hi, and welcome. No, you may not do that unless what you upload is within our Project Scope. Also, this is not a blog, and please see COM:SIGN.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 01:29, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

Не могу найти созданную страницу

Вечером 14.12.21. создавал страницу "Чаплюк, Алексий Семенович". Не могу ее найти. Как быть?

А Вы случайно не перепутали проект? В русской Википедии есть w:ru:Чаплюк Алексий Семенович. Кстати, обратите внимание на название статей о персоналиях, принятый там: после фамилии ставиться запятая. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 15:43, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

Copyright help regarding File:Boulia Camel Races 2021.jpg

I have been contracted to upload this image from an event onto the event's relevant wikipedia page on behalf of the event organisers, who have received the image through paid-hire of an event photographer. The images are available to view on the event's own website page. I am unclear of the copyright surrounding the use of this image and wether I am free to upload it on behalf of the event organisers?

--Reddusty4000 (talk) 22:57, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

Images uploaded to Commons must be released under a free license. The copyright holders will need to contact Commons:Volunteer Response Team via permissions-commons@wikimedia.org to verify that they release all rights to the images. Beeblebrox (talk) 02:24, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
@Reddusty4000 and Beeblebrox: They just have to license the copyright, not "release all rights".   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:23, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
More precisely, they will have to provide a specific license acceptable to Commons. I recommend {{CC-BY-SA-4.0}}. - Jmabel ! talk 16:22, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

اريد نشر هذه الرسالة

اريد نشر هذه الرسالة حتى تعم الفائدة

I'm afraid I've felt it necessary to nominate this user's one upload for deletion as being out of scope. There is no actual question here, machine translation is something like "I want to spread this message," the message presumably being related to "The mediating role of transactional leadership in the relationship between human resource management practices and the sustainability of excellence" which is the title of the 96-page PDF they uploaded. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:37, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

Image copyright opinion

I am working on expanding a referendum article and I'd like to add an image to spice it up. The image in question is a simple ballot paper.

I'd assume that since it is just text with no visible logos it would be fine to upload but I am not so sure. I'd like any opinions I can get on the matter.

Image

Thank you. ProjectHorizons (talk) 08:43, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

@ProjectHorizons: Hi, and welcome. Regardless of the status of the ballot paper, for the photo we would need permission from the photographer or an authorized official of idel-ural.org - see COM:DW and COM:VRT for more info.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:30, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
@ProjectHorizons and Jeff G.: If it's a faithful reproduction of a 2-dimensional object (the ballot paper) then the photographer's permission doesn't enter into it. And if it's a typical ballot without logos, then it is probably not copyrightable. I'd suggest you upload it, link it here, use {{PD-ineligible}} as the license tag, and let us see if it's OK before adding it to the article. I suspect it will be OK. - Jmabel ! talk 16:26, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
@Jmabel: Done. Cheers. ProjectHorizons (talk) 18:48, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
@ProjectHorizons: My sense is that is, indeed, ineligible for copyright and should be fine. @Jeff G.: do you agree, or should we perhaps ask about this at COM:Village pump/Copyright? - Jmabel ! talk
@ProjectHorizons and Jmabel: It doesn't look 2D to me due to the creases from folding.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 23:15, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
@Jeff G.: we don't concern ourselves with similar blemishes when dealing with (for example) a scan of a print of a 19th-century photograph. - Jmabel ! talk 01:11, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
@Jmabel: Ok, then I agree.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 08:08, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

How can I figure out the file url in the upload server?

For example, in the following page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:En-us-comment.ogg the actual media file url states as: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/En-us-comment.ogg the directory "b/b3" seems to be a little random -- I can't figure out how it was assigned. So I cannot generate the actual media file url, even if I know the file name En-us-comment.ogg. Anyone can help me on this? I could not find any article discussing this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alanguonz (talk • contribs) 13:08, 16 December 2021‎ (UTC)

@Alanguonz: Hi, and welcome. Might https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Media:En-us-comment.ogg or Media:En-us-comment.ogg help? See also COM:SIGN.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 13:50, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
@Alanguonz: Special:FilePath can generate the url. Special:FilePath/File:En-us-comment.ogg will take you directly to the uploaded file. You can call this also as https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Redirect/file&wpvalue=File:En-us-comment.ogg (note that Special:FilePath is an alias to Special:Redirect for files). MKFI (talk) 07:11, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
This is very helpful. Thanks. Let me play with this solution bit and revert any further comments. Regards, Alan Alanguonz (talk) 08:45, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

Approval of pictures created by JhilmarLora

Dear Wikimedia. User:JhilmarLora has been trying to get me blocked for trying to tell about some pictures that this user uploaded. Unfortunetely, this user keeps uploading pictures stolen from such user's IG which is somehow need to be reviewed. I have 3 pictures need to be approved which title Khaby. Do you mine please check these pictures and should these pictures be deleted or not? JTommyZ (talk) 16:26, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

N.B. I've seen Sysops called Librarians on other wikis, vs. Admins here and on enwiki and meta.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 23:38, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
Absolutely. And if this user kept re-uploading same pictures like those deleted one. Should this user be blocked from uploading? JTommyZ (talk) 01:13, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
@JTommyZ: Maybe, but a COM:AN subforum might be best for such a request. In any case, a (red)link to the file description page of the deleted picture with the threat would be helpful (or at least a link to the deletion log entry for it).   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 08:12, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

How to upload files on Commons

Can you tell us how to upload files? I don't really know how to. Mlik point (talk) 08:20, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

@Mlik point: Hi, and welcome. Yes, but you should start with COM:FS.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 08:31, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

Rate limit on uploading files

I was uploading files relating to the JFK assassination, with over 1400 files available. However, I hit a rate limit and have not uploaded them for a while. Is there a way to ignore that and let me finish? Curlyrnd (talk) 21:30, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

Commons:Upload tools has a number of tools that can help with this. Beeblebrox (talk) 23:35, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

Creative Commons

Dozens of my images posted to Wiki Commons have been summarily removed by your Editors. No effort has been made to preserve them. Creative Commons is not responding. --Lord Such&Such (talk) 18:54, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

It appears from the many notifications on your talk page that the issue is that you have been uploading images without proper licensing. This discussion of the many images that were just deleted was open for over a month, yet you did not participate. As was noted there, the proper place to contest these deletions is Commons:Undeletion requests. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:00, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
@Lord Such&Such: If you keep uploading such copyright violations and ignoring what is posted on User talk:Lord Such&Such, your account will be blocked.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:30, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

Remove image from page

Im trying to understand how to remove an Image from a page. I tried to upload a replacement but this was changed back.


This image has NOTHING to do with the band Army of Lovers. This is just some awful fanwork that looks nothing like any of the bands album cover logos. This image is an insult to the band. Please remove. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Army_of_Lovers.png Description English: Wordmark of The Beatles, originally painted on cover of music album "The Gods of Earth and Heaven" (by AoL) Author: Makakaaaa — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andreasnorlen (talk • contribs) 18:55, 17 December 2021‎ (UTC)

The image description is obviously flawed, but this is clearly derived from this album cover [2]. And it is in use on quite a number of projects, so it will almost certainly not be deleted here. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:05, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
@Andreasnorlen: If you still want to have File:Army of Lovers.png deleted, please see COM:DP. See also COM:SIGN.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:23, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

Question about wikidata

Is it allowed to put your email address in a wikidata item? The user has only made four total edits. Thanks, Krok6kola (talk) 01:22, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

@Krok6kola: User name? Yann (talk) 11:51, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
@Yann: User name is a red link. File I am concerned about: File:Dave Cobb Sugar Daddy Santa.jpg and its Wikidata items. Created claim: illustrator (P110): Elcobbola (Q108841013) and Santa Claus (Q315796), depicts (P180) as well as American and German photographer claims. Also has a Facebook ID and an email address in a Wikidata item. I removed the image from Category:Santa Claus. Sorry if I am not very good at explaining the Wikidata issues. Thanks, Krok6kola (talk) 12:32, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
Addendum: If you look at User talk:Dave Cobb from Germany and then look at his contributions. Krok6kola (talk) 13:05, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
✓ Done File deleted, user warned, and WD item deletion requested. Yann (talk) 16:04, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

I've let Wikidata know. - Jmabel ! talk 18:46, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

What is Transcode status?

I uploaded this file File:Annual orbital launches of USA counter.webm and it has a section "Transcode status" - what is the purpose of that section? Can you add info about it in the FAQ? Can I show in Wikipedia pages a lower resolution version of the video? For example the "WebM 240P". -- Barecode (talk) 02:59, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

@Barecode: Hi, and welcome. In order to best serve our videos to the public, we transcode (shrink and re-encode) them into VP9 and WebM files with smaller resolutions and thus smaller filesizes with lower bitrates. Due to a failure, I reset the transcode for that video's WebM 360P resolution at 36 kilobits per second, which Completed 10:57, 18 December 2021 (UTC). You may control the width of the window used to present it on enwiki via the help at en:H:PIC. See also COM:VIDEO, especially COM:VIDEO#Video usage.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:08, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

Video player feedback

Where can I ask questions, report bugs and make suggestions about the video player? The seek bar covers the bottom part of the video, I would like to suggest moving it, and I have other suggestions too. -- Barecode (talk) 04:17, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

@Barecode: At phab:. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:19, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
@Koavf: - Should I use Cortado-User-Interface tag? -- Barecode (talk) 04:34, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
I'm not 100% on that. :/ —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:44, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

How to create a article using Commons

We need to create a article, but it's not here on Commons. Can you answer that? Thanks. Mlik point (talk) 06:16, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

@Mlik point: Commons doesn't include running text like articles, except in the form of scans of works with filetypes like DJVU or PDF. See Commons:Scope. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 08:08, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
@Mlik point: We don't host encyclopedia articles per COM:NOT. English Wikipedia does that, but you are indefinitely blocked from there. Who is "We"?   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 10:55, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

Can I upload a photo published in a newspaper?

I want to upload this photo (https://static.toiimg.com/photo/imgsize-68908,msid-88356780/88356780.jpg) in Wikimedia common published in - https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/ganga-expressway-pm-modi-launches-construction-of-indias-longest-e-way-in-ups-shahjahanpur-key-points/articleshow/88355591.cms? I will add the URL of the news in reference. If the answer is yes, what are the rules I should follow to do that? — Preceding unsigned comment added by P.Shiladitya (talk • contribs) 12:32, 18 December 2021‎ (UTC)

  • In general, no.
This content, like most newspaper content, is the copyright of the newspaper publisher (or sometimes an original photographer). To use material on Commons, it has to be freely licensed, see COM:LICENSING.
You might claim, "But this is important news! Information demands to be free!" and you might have a point. So you might (within tight restrictions) be able to use such content on Wikipedia, claiming what's called "fair use". But Commons doesn't do fair use, or the "this is so important it outweighs copyright" argument. Andy Dingley (talk) 13:47, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
@P.Shiladitya: Not for 60 years per COM:INDIA. Why would you think differently? See COM:L and COM:SIGN.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 13:49, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
P.Shiladitya: While you can't use that newspaper image, this seems like a simple enough map that a similar one could be created without infringing the original's copyright. You could make a request at our Map workshop and see if someone there can help you. They can probably use one of the maps in this category as a basis for a new one. Ww2censor (talk) 18:14, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

The recent edit made on December 9th, 2021

I got email today saying there was a recent edit on December 9, 2021. Now I did not make any edits or changes to whatever was edited or changed that I recall. — Preceding unsigned comment added by KRISTINAZ040579 (talk • contribs) 01:17, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

@KRISTINAZ040579, you have only one edit and that is on COM:HD. It may be something on your watchlist... Contributers2020Talk to me here 17:00, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

File:Classic Cars in Tenerife 2021 060.jpg

Any idea why this image isn't appearing on the file page? I've tried re-uploading it, with no success. It seems to work fine as a thumbnail though. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 13:59, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

I can see the image clearly at all resolutions. If it wasn't a temporary glitch, it is probably something on your own system that is stopping you from seeing it. You may want to force-refresh your browser to see if that clears it up. From Hill To Shore (talk) 15:20, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
Odd, thanks for having a look. I've now checked it in another browser, and it appears fine there, but I can't get Firefox to show it at all - very odd! Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 15:46, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

Deleting uploads

I am wondering how you delete uploaded content. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ChristianDraken (talk • contribs) 10:32, 20 December 2021 (UTC) (UTC)

@ChristianDraken: Your files are derivative works. Please read this before uploading anything else. Thanks, Yann (talk) 10:32, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
@ChristianDraken: Hi, and welcome. Please see also COM:SIGN.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 12:39, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
@ChristianDraken: Most users cannot delete content. The tool for deletion is reserved to adminstrative users. However you can request deletion and then an administrator can accept the request and delete the content. For more information, you can consult the page Help:Nominate for deletion. -- Asclepias (talk) 15:10, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

quick question

hello anybody reading this,

are we allowed to take a picture of a merchandise figure from a game? (ex: a Mario ammibo)

Thank You! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Idount (talk • contribs) 14:18, 20 December 2021‎ (UTC)

@Idount: Hi, and welcome. Generally you may not upload such a picture per COM:PACKAGING or COM:TOYS. See also COM:SIGN.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 15:21, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

uploads from Flickr

  • Can I request a reviewer or autopatroller right so that I can upload more than 4 images at a time from Flickr? All of my photos on Flickr are currently licensed as Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike, and as an astrophotographer, I have a number of unique photos available that would benefit the Wikimedia projects, such as Comet 4P/Faye [3] and the recent selenelionic Lunar/Solar eclipses of 2021 [4] [5]. Nicole Sharp (talk) 08:24, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
  • @Ser Amantio di Nicolao: has already been kind enough to upload some of my Flickr albums to Wikimedia Commons, but unfortunately all of the filenames were changed. I posted several requests for this already without any response, but if possible, I would like to have those uploads deleted and then re-uploaded under the correct filenames. I can only do this myself though if I have the reviewer or autopatroller right, though I think an admin would still be needed to delete the original uploads (I cannot upload under a new file name if the file already exists). With the wrong filenames as they are now, there is no way to trace attribution to the original photo if my Flickr Pro account is discontinued, which I would consider integral to the "attribution" requirement of the Creative Commons license (attribution to the original file, as well as attribution to the original author). Nicole Sharp (talk) 08:24, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
    • @Nicole Sharp: Hi, and welcome. You may request Autopatrol at COM:RFR#Autopatrol or License Reviewer at COM:LRR. You may also use {{Rename}} or our RenameLink gadget, or edit the file description pages to reflect the OriginalFileNames, perhaps in the source fields (so for example in File:M&M chocolate chip cookies on a neon pink plate 05.jpg you could change "|source=https://www.flickr.com/photos/92761690@N03/51483215798/" to "|source=[https://www.flickr.com/photos/92761690@N03/51483215798/ IMG_0234]" to form "|source=IMG_0234").   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 08:30, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
      • I don't think there is any way to rename the files without deleting and re-uploading. I think the Flickr Upload Wizard defaults to "OriginalFileName (FlickrID)" but if the uploader removes both the original filename and the Flickr ID for the filename used on Wikimedia Commons, the Flickr ID can be recovered from the Flickr URL, but if the Flickr URL becomes invalid (for example if I move my photos from Flickr Pro to Piwigo), then there is no way to recover the original filename (the file on Wikimedia Commons is orphaned with regard to the file attribution history, which is why I find it problematic for a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license). Nicole Sharp (talk) 08:41, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
        • Yes, files on Commons can be renamed; details at Commons:File renaming - in short it can be done at will only by admins, stewards, and users pre-approved as file renamers. All other users can request renaming with the {{Rename}} template. Files transferred from Flickr can have their names changed individually while uploading just by editing that field rather than going with mechanical default (which often has unhelpful numerals added to file names). -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 23:26, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
        • Even if there was a batch renamer (which I don't think there is) it will not work to recover the original file names if they were changed when being uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. Each file needs to be renamed to include the original file name, which is available on Flickr but not on Wikimedia Commons (all of the Flickr URLs are still valid). A script would be needed to rename each image on Wikimedia Commons as "OriginalFileName (FlickrID)" but it would have to be able to extract the strings "OriginalFileName" and "FlickrID" from the Flickr URL. The simpler solution seems to be to delete and then re-upload the images with the correct file names? @Ser Amantio di Nicolao: uploaded hundreds of photos, so it would be extremely impractical to try to tag and rename each photo individually. Nicole Sharp (talk) 03:18, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

How to get a MP3 transcoded file for a ogg file

I noticed for the dictionary, not all ogg files have MP3 transcoded file ready. I don't know how it works and how can I request a file to be transcoded? Or I have to wait for someone to upload a transcoded version? For example: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:En-us-again.ogg this is a very common word but it does not have a MP3 transcoded file ready yet. Any light to this issue? thanks! Now since iOS does not support the ogg codec wiki is using, I think the MP3 transcode becomes more important issue....

Click on "Reset transcode" to force the transcoding. I just did that for your example. --Magnus (talk) 10:32, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
I see. Thanks! Is there a way to do it programatically? It seems a user has to login to be able to see "Reset transcode"? Alanguonz (talk) 10:34, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
I meant is there a URL to trigger (better without login so that it can be done in an easier way programmatically Alanguonz (talk) 10:37, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
The only way to reset transcodes is using the API, you need to be logged in. Dylsss (talk) 16:58, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

How to replace a wrong image

The Category:Petrosaviales contains File:Meliosma veitchorum1.jpg but the depicted species belongs to the Proteales, not to the Petrosaviales. I do not see any code that invokes the file that occurs. It could be corrected by using File:Japonolirion osense 1.JPG, depicting a species that does belong to the Petrosaviales. I would like to restrict my work to editing wikipedia and uploading images to wiki commons. Could someone please correct this error. Thanks in advance, Dwergenpaartje (talk) 13:29, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

You can change the image in Wikidata (d:Q653782). It's also used in d:Q1208129, d:Q2216144 and d:Q2720030. --Magnus (talk) 13:44, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
On the other wikidata pages you mentioned, the image of Meliosma is correct. I've replaced it on d:Q653782 now. Thank you for the assistance. Dwergenpaartje (talk) 14:39, 29 December 2021 (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. Dwergenpaartje (talk) 14:39, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

Category for former eastern territories of Germany

Should File:ID003665 B099 Artushof.jpg be in Category:Postcards of buildings in Germany or in Category:Postcards of buildings in Russia? Or anywhere else? --2A02:810D:6C0:2FB0:99A6:2CE3:B66D:232A 11:07, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

Category:German Democratic Republic exists, and is categorized in Category:Former countries in Germany, so in my opinion either putting the file in Category:Postcards of buildings in Germany or creating Category:Postcards of buildings in the German Democratic Republic as a subcategory of Category:Postcards of buildings in Germany and Category:Photographs of German Democratic Republic would be fine. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk | contribs) 22:07, 14 December 2021 (UTC)
Except that the issue is not the DDR, it is Imperial Germany before World War I.
I would put it in Category:Postcards of Königsberg and avoid the tricky parsing of history. - Jmabel ! talk 22:39, 14 December 2021 (UTC)
It is already in that category. --2A02:810D:6C0:2FB0:F9D5:9BB5:6DA2:72F7 17:22, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
The problem not only affects this picture but many in Category:Postcards of buildings in Germany. --2A02:810D:6C0:2FB0:F9D5:9BB5:6DA2:72F7 17:25, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
I created Category:Postcards of buildings in Königsberg. Neutral. Without country. If somebody knows what country pass to this please refine! - - Globetrotter19 (talk) 17:50, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

Авторское право

Беспокоит московская кинокомпания, мы готовим серию исторических короткометражек по Русской истории и хотели бы воспользоваться изображениями из Викимедиа, которые перешли в разряд национального достояния. Подскажите, с кем можно связаться по вопросу получения письменного разрешения на безвозмездное использование данных изображений или заключить договор и оформить лицензию? с ув. редактор

Смотрите Commons:Reusing content outside Wikimedia. Письменные разрешения не нужны. Но имейте ввиду, что некоторые пользователи могут быть недобросовестными и загружать не свои работы или давать неправильные данные о них. В контексте РФ и других пост-советских стран не стоит забывать о Commons:Freedom of panorama (здесь нарушения часты из-ха элементарного незнания законов). --EugeneZelenko (talk) 16:01, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

Uploading a film poster

What if I want to upload a film poster, but I can't since it's not my original work and I need permission to upload it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Red4Smash (talk • contribs)

A moved category left as ghost, files display conflicting data

I noticed that the category Category:Argent, or, azure, carnation, gules in heraldry had an inconsistent order of words for the heraldry categories, so I attempted to make a move action to Category:Argent, azure, gules, or, carnation in heraldry, and move the files with Cat-A-Lot to the corrected category.
What happened was that after the category move, Cat-A-Lot said that it cannot move the files, since the old category is not found. I attempted the same procedure with different methods, and somehow I got the files batch-edited into the new category.
But now I can see the files in both categories. Furthermore, the file page displays the old category in the footer, but its source contains only the newer one.
Also, the redirection header in the old category displays the link of the new category as red, like it would not exist. —Nelg (talk, contribs) 15:13, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

@Nelg: I think your primary problem is that you haven't updated the automatic categorisation system to match your change to the categories. As an example, File:Blason Charles d'Albert (1578-1621) orn ext.svg includes tincture=a/o/b/c/g, which gets passed to {{Tincture}}, which passes it to {{Tincture/cat0}}. {{Tincture/cat0}} believes that a/o/b/c/g is a valid tincture combination, so passes it on to {{Tincture/cat2}}, which constructs the category name Category:Argent, or, azure, carnation, gules in heraldry out of it. So if you want to change the category name, you also need to update those templates to accept the new order and either have them convert the old one into the new one or update all the files to have the new tincture=. The tincture templates seem to be mostly maintained by Sarang so he may be able to help. --bjh21 (talk) 17:16, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
@Nelg: As by an old consent the sequence of Tinctures should be: argent, or, and then all the other colors in alphabetcal order.
Your attempt to change it is against that consent!
This category (a/o/b/c/g) is one of the tincture categories which follows that consent; but many categories don't, they have other orders, in most cases the "o" between "g" and "p" by treating it also alphabetically. It is still in discussion whether it is useful at all to categorize by tincture colors; so a great category correction (to the sequence a - A - o - b - B - c - C - g - n - p - s - t - v) has not yet be done, instead an inbetween-template (cat2) leads to the wrong-named categories.
Many different (and contradicting) systems can be found to arrange the sequence of color names. The categorization you are intending does not follow a recognizeable rule, and I cannot see any advantage in it.
It would be useful (but quite a lot of work) to change all the categories, several hundreds, to one sequence order; preferably the mentioned one. But please do not introduce new categories with new sequence orders! In no case without a wide range consent. In no case update the templates to your own ideas! The best will be to undo your changes. Merry Xmas -- sarang♥사랑 08:22, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
@Sarang: Thanks for undoing the changes. I was not aware of the old custom of listing metals before colors. As you said, there are several categories where or comes after azure and gules, and as I researched for the correct sequence from several categories, eg. in Four-colored heraldic shields, I saw that those categories were in the majority, and assumed that was the custom. —Nelg (talk, contribs) 16:31, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
It seems that everybody made categories without any system. Not good for retrieval of commons categories -- sarang♥사랑 17:58, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
I made a helper template Tinc which, inserted into category descriptions, shows the 'correct' category name. When a consent will prefere another system, the template can then show that names. -- sarang♥사랑 11:08, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

I uploaded a map that used a shapefile from elsewhere as a basis, how do I cite it?

I just uploaded an election map I made. I initially flagged it as my own work, but I then realized I used a shapefile from here. What should I put for the credit line?

I think you should use the MIT license by putting {{MIT}} on the file page and the author mentioned on the bottom of the website you mentioned. Ellywa (talk) 09:11, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

Help with deleting uploads

Hello,

How do I get this deletion request in the right place? It should be in Commons:Deletion requests/2021/12/23. It is in Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Uploads by Matlin/temp. Thanks, Krok6kola (talk) 17:15, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

On captions

Under what curcumstances would it be unnecessary to add a caption to a file? 184.19.98.82 19:22, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

Hi, and welcome. All circumstances. Unless you WANT to CC0 license your captions. You are not legally allowed to license someone else's CC-BY-SA-3.0 description as CC0.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 01:43, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

Musopen

I'm attempting to upload this work (the "6 Pieces for Piano - VI. Intermezzo-Serenata") from Musopen. It is a public domain recording, but the abuse filter blocks my upload. Any advice? Cheers - Wretchskull (talk) 13:04, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

@Wretchskull: Hi, Only some users can upload MP3 files. Others should upload OGG files, or request the permission. Regards, Yann (talk) 16:58, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

Дэльвин Павел Илларионович

Пытался на странице где размещена информация о моём дедушке Дельвине Павле Илларионовиче, разместить его фотографию. Но почему то, эту фотографию опубликовать не возможно. — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 87.117.185.173 (talk) 18:35, 25 December 2021‎ (UTC)

Delvin Pavel Illarionovich
I tried to post his photo on the page where information about my grandfather Delvin Pavel Illarionovich was posted. But for some reason, this photo cannot be published.
translator: Google Translate via   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 19:43, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
@Валерий Сёмин (talk • contribs • block log • filter log): Привет и добро пожаловать. Я предполагаю, что это вы, но, пожалуйста, войдите. С сожалением сообщаю вам, что вы активировали Special:AbuseFilter/153, пытаясь загрузить через вики-страницу меньшую (<50 000 байт или <2 000 000 пикселей) фотографию в формате jpg в качестве нового пользователя, оставив при этом сводку без изменений. Фотография, которую вы пытались загрузить, меньше размером, и вы указали, что это ваша собственная работа. Обычно, когда кто-то загружает фото меньшего размера, это нарушение авторских прав из Интернета. Если вы сделали фотографию самостоятельно, загрузите ее полноразмерный оригинал по COM:HR/ru, включая метаданные EXIF. Если вы не сделали снимок, см. Commons:Licensing/ru, чтобы узнать, почему мы не можем принять его как есть, и попросите фотографа опубликовать соответствующее разрешение Commons: Licensing на такую ​​работу на своем веб-сайте или в социальных сетях или отправьте вам фотографию и разрешение через VRT/ru с копией. Если вы не можете получить соответствующую лицензию, фотография все равно может быть загружена в английскую Википедию в соответствии с en:WP:F, потому что здесь запрещено добросовестное использование. Если вы измените сводку или вместо этого воспользуетесь наш Мастер загрузки, вы сможете избежать этого фильтра. См. Также COM:SIGN/ru.
Hi, and welcome. I guess this is you, but please login. I am sorry to inform you that you have triggered Special:AbuseFilter/153 by trying to cross-wiki upload a smaller (<50,000 bytes or <2,000,000 pixels) 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 per COM:HR, including EXIF metadata. If you did not take the photo, please see Commons:Licensing for why we can't accept it as-is, and have the photographer post Commons:Licensing compliant permission for such work on their website or social media presence or send the photo and permission via VRT with a carbon copy to you. If you can't get a compliant license, the photo may still be uploaded to English Wikipedia in compliance with en:WP:F because we don't allow Fair Use here. If you change the summary or use our Upload Wizard instead, you should be able to avoid that filter. See also COM:SIGN.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 19:43, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

Changement de l'orthographe d'un titre

Bonjour, Je vous contacte pour vous demander comment modifier l'orthographe d'un titre sur wiki commons, car je n'arrive à modifier que la description ?

Bien cordialement Joyeux Noël --Sébastien dionne cohen (talk) 16:45, 25 December 2021 (UTC)Sébastien

@Sébastien dionne cohen: Seuls certains utilisateur peuvent renommer des fichiers. Pour les autres, il faut utiliser le modèle {{Rename}}. Cordialement, Yann (talk) 16:50, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
Merci pour votre réponse. Sébastien dionne cohen (talk) 17:50, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

Artwork

As a new member of Wikimedia Commons I would like to know if I may upload one of my paintings and I will include the discussion on the painting for educational purposes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Laura Kaye (talk • contribs) 16:55, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

@Laura Kaye: Hi, and welcome. Are you the painter and photographer?   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 17:47, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

Islamic female dress

Since Category:Hijabs have a 's' at the end i assume the same applies to Category:Burqa and Category:Niqab? --Trade (talk) 00:46, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

@Trade: Yes, all categories not based on formal names should be plural.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 01:14, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

Translating file descriptions

Is there any template that I can add to a file description to auto translate the file description into English? Gbawden (talk) 09:25, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

@Gbawden: I wish there was.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 09:31, 26 December 2021 (UTC)
Thanks Jeff. Worth a try. Compliments of the season Gbawden (talk) 09:33, 26 December 2021 (UTC)
@Gbawden: You're welcome. The same to you.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 09:49, 26 December 2021 (UTC)
What do you mean by that? Something that starts a machine translation software and than adds the result to the file description, or a button, that the user can press to send the file description to a MT software for the user to live view the translation? Thre second more or less exixts for windows: Install the deepl-windows-app locally. Then you can mark the text you want translated with the mouse and press ctrl-c twice. The Deepl-software will pop up with the english translation. --C.Suthorn (talk) 11:33, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
I use in Firefox the addon "To Google Translate". On this page is explained that "This extension creates a context menu item in the browser, when you click on ... the previously selected text is sent to Google Translate. You can also setup default language in the option page." Very easy and fast. Wouter (talk) 19:30, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

Can I upload pictures of paintings owned by myself but painted by (late) artists

I have (oil on canvas) paintings from the 20th century, done by known (late) Finnish artists. I would like to upload pictures of the paintings on Wikipedia/Wikimedia commons. Is it fair and OK? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aigle1967 (talk • contribs) 16:51, 27 December 2021‎ (UTC)

  • @Aigle1967: Typically, no. Purchase of a physical work of art does not normally include a transfer of copyright. The copyright would go to the artist's heirs, and is valid for 70 years after the artist's death. So, if they died in 1950 or earlier (1951 next week, when the year ticks over), they are in the public domain, but otherwise, almost certainly no. - Jmabel ! talk 19:36, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

Haller György

Tisztelt Szerkesztő! Törlésre került a Haller György életét bemutató oldalról az ő festményeit bemutató fotók közül a Kereszt a kálvárián és törlésre van jelölve a Matild portréja. Segítséget kérek abban, hogy miként tudom igazolni a jogosultságomat a fotók használatára. Haller György a nagyapám volt, ezért készítettem a rövid életrajzát a wikipediára. Az általa festett képek az ő lányának, az én édesanyámnak a tulajdonában vannak, tehát azok használatára a jogosultság ezen alapszik, mint ahogy ezen alapszik az általam készített és gondozott www.hallergyorgy.hu honlap és az ott megjelentett képek is. Köszönöm: Koncz Klára — Preceding unsigned comment added by Konczklara (talk • contribs) 21:49, 19 December 2021‎ (UTC)

György Haller

Dear Editor! The Cross on Calvary has been deleted from the photos of his paintings on the page about the life of György Haller and the portrait of Matild has been deleted. I'm asking for help on how I can verify my permission to use the photos. György Haller was my grandfather, so I made his short biography for wikipedia. The pictures she painted are owned by her daughter, my mother, so the right to use them is based on this, as is the website www.hallergyorgy.hu and the pictures published there.

Thank you: Klára Koncz
translator: Google Translate via   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 12:38, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
@Konczklara: Szia, és üdvözöllek. Kérjük, küldje el az engedélyt a VRT-on keresztül. Lásd még: COM:SIGN.
Hi, and welcome. Please send permission via VRT. See also COM:SIGN.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 12:38, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

Tisztelt Szerkesztő! Ismét kérdezem, milyen engedély mutassak be arról, hogy az öröklés útján saját tulajdonban lévő festmények fotóját közzétehessem? Az alkotó nem él. Az öröklés családi leszármazottként (unokája vagyok) érint engem. Ezt miként kell igazolnom? Mire van még szükség? Üdvözlettel: Koncz Klára (anyja neve: Haller Mária) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Konczklara (talk • contribs) 11:04, 28 December 2021‎ (UTC)

Dear Editor! Again, what permission do I have to show that I can publish a photo of my own paintings by inheritance? The creator does not live. Inheritance affects me as a family descendant (I am a granddaughter). How do I prove this? What else is needed? Sincerely, Klára Koncz (mother's name: Mária Haller)
translator: Google Translate via   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 12:12, 28 December 2021 (UTC)
@Konczklara: Kérjük, e-mailben tüntesse fel mind a festő, mind a fotós kilétét. Részletes választ fog kapni. Kérjük, válaszoljon is az alján, és írja alá hozzászólásait.
Please specify in your email message the identities of both the painter and photographer. You will get a detailed reply. Please also reply at the bottom and sign your posts.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 12:12, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

How do I upload an image

How do i upload an image — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kevinkats padilla (talk • contribs) 22:07, 28 December 2021 (UTC) (UTC)

On the sidebar on the left-hand side of every page is a section labeled "participate" and in that section is a link you can click that says "upload file" that will take you to the Upload wizard, which will walk you through the process. Beeblebrox (talk) 22:10, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

Copyright help regarding File:Ramzi Nafi Agha.jpg

Unbekannter bzw. Anonymer Fotograf, vor über 70 Jahren veröffentlichtes Werk in Irak, Bild zeigt eine Person des öffentlichen Lebens. Ist das Bild nun Urheberrechtlich geschützt oder Gemeindefrei/ public domain? --KurdishMede (talk) 23:23, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

No se ve la vista previa de la imagen

He subido esta archivo .svg y no se ve la vista previa. ¿podéis solucionarlo o en su defecto, lo podéis borrar? Gracias.



This is quite odd. I can't see it either, but if I click on the thumb on the description page, I can totally see it. [6] Weird. Beeblebrox (talk) 22:06, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

  • Strange, indeed. Does anyone understand what is going on here? File is [[:]]. - Jmabel ! talk 04:11, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
    • I'm going to post a pointer to this discussion at Commons:Village pump/Technical, there may be folks there who know what this is about. Beeblebrox (talk) 23:12, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
      I don’t know what’s going on, but in any case, this is not a vector image, it’s a PNG embedded in an SVG file. This may or may not be the cause of the incorrect rendering (the software seems to render the thumbnail as a fully transparent image), but even if it was rendered correctly, an .svg file gives the impression that it can be infinitely zoomed, which is not the case, and probably even the correct rendering was of lower quality than of a file uploaded as PNG. If you openin Firefox (Chrome doesn’t seem to support this), you can right-click the image, select “Open Image in New Tab”, save the PNG with Ctrl+S, and then upload that to Commons. (Or you can convert the SVG into a truly vector image, which is better, but also a lot more work.) —Tacsipacsi (talk) 23:33, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

SDC

Hello there! Why i have to always add a structured data whenever i upload something to Commons like images, videos, and sounds? Vitaium (talk) 01:20, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

  • @Vitaium: In what sense do you "have to" do this? As far as I know that is entirely optional. - Jmabel ! talk 04:14, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
    I meant SDC Copyright status and Copyright license Vitaium (talk) 04:23, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
    • @Vitaium: I'm still confuseed. I mean, obviously we need a license (or a PD declaration with basis) for every file, but in what sense do you have to add an SDC version of that? I don't believe I've ever done that, and I've uploaded tens of thousands of images. Eventually a bot adds the structured-data licensing information. What tool are you using to upload? Does the tool in question require you to provide this information separately for SDC, and refuse to proceed if you don't? Or are you saying something else? (FWIW, I use Special:Upload.) - Jmabel ! talk 16:09, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

Wrong File Name

In entering the Wiki Science Competition 2021 in the United States, I accidentally misnamed a file. The filename shows as "09012009-158-VR.jpg." It should be "Leptothrix discophora Film with Iron-Oxide-Encrusted Sheaths in the Vermilion River." Please, how can I make the correction? — Preceding unsigned comment added by StarStuff3 (talk • contribs) 22:17, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

Click here. --Achim55 (talk) 22:24, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

How to see the license for a photo already on Wikimedia Commons?

Greetings!

Brevity is the soul of wit: how to see the license for a photo already on Wikimedia Commons?

I had this image particularly on mind, and I am planning to upload a cropped version of it containing only the Roman historian Tacitus. However, I'd need to know the very license in order to proceed... :-F

Anyway, a thousand thanks in advance for your kind help! :-) Cheers! Jayaguru-Shishya (talk) 13:34, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

@Jayaguru-Shishya: Hi, and welcome. Please use "{{PD-scan|Anonymous-EU}}".   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 13:59, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
Thanks a lot, @Jeff G.: ! :-) Jayaguru-Shishya (talk) 14:14, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
@Jayaguru-Shishya: If you use the Crop Tool built into Commons, you can choose to upload the crop as a new image. The new image will copy the existing description, licensing and categories and also link the old and new images as versions of each other. Using this tool you only need to update the description and categories to reflect the details in your cropped image. From Hill To Shore (talk) 14:56, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
@Jayaguru-Shishya: You're welcome. There is no need for the extra blank lines when we use the colons, and {{U}} would have been a better choice.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 15:08, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Hi i hope you can help me

In 1990 my Dad Emmanuel Hand R.I.P worked at cornet of horse pub, Lavender Gardens sw11 i cant find any pictures of it, only 1981 prior. Is there any pics of it and what it looked like inside at all please — Preceding unsigned comment added by MrsG1309 (talk • contribs) 16:46, 30 December 2021‎ (UTC)

@MrsG1309: Hello there. I checked Category:Pubs in Lavender Hill and lots of individual photos, but I'm afraid we don't seem to have any original images from that pub. There is one photo of 49 Lavender Gardens from 2008 but that's all I could find. De728631 (talk) 20:57, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Uploading an image as a screenshot of a video on commons

Hello all! For context, I recently created an article on the English Wikipedia for Taichi Ichikawa, who has a category on commons with a video of him (the video in question is File:市川太一さん撮り下ろしコメント動画【numan】沼落ち5秒前！－声優編第29回－.webm, which while it is nominated for deletion, it is nominated due to out of scope, not a copyright violation. I checked the source and the license appears to be legit). Anyways, what I want to do is take a screenshot from that video (which should be permitted by the license) to use on the page I just created as an image of the person. What I want to know is if there is an easy way I can upload the image and tag it as a screenshot of this video. Apologies if this is a dumb question, but I am fairly inexperienced in commons, so any help will be much appreciated. Regards, Link20XX (talk) 04:06, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

@Link20XX: In Firefox, you can pause the video at Commons at any given time, right-click on it and then select "take snapshot". When you upload this here, please refer to the original YouTube video as a source though, since the video at Commons might get deleted soon. De728631 (talk) 21:09, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
I just took a screenshot and uploaded it like a standard YouTube upload. Thanks for the reply, now I just have to wait 6 months for the license review. Link20XX (talk) 05:00, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

image usage 75001030

can I use a modified version of this image for book cover 75001030 Respond to: LyLasmom@sbcglobal.net — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:8000:3f00:9914:8049:8bce:e80c:6e9e (talk • contribs) 02:08, 31 December 2021‎ (UTC)

Areas with and without maps

Hi,

I have been able to add maps on to pages such as [Upper Beeding parish] and [Brighton and Hove] using the wiki link template, but I don't understand why some wiki data area items are connected to maps and some are not.

I am now trying to use the same method to add a map for [Southwick], but it doesn't seem to have a map associated with it. I am guessing that is because it is of a different governmental organisational level. Is that correct?

I am therefore look for an area with a map. It might be that I will have to use the map of the entire [Adur District], but I don't think so as [Coombes], [Lancing] and [Sompting] all have maps associated with them and they are in the same District.

It could be that I should use the [Shoreham-by-Sea] map but this map (below) doesn't look correct (you will need to copy this map template into your sandbox). It might be correct but I assume not, and if its not what should I do about it?

{{maplink|frame=yes|text=Notable areas around Shoreham-by-Sea|frame-align=left|type1=shape-inverse|id1=Q770599|frame-width=200|frame-height=200|frame-coord={{coord|50.8329|-0.275}}|zoom=14|stroke-color1=#AA1205| stroke-opacity1=0.3|stroke-width1=4 }}

Can anyone help me with this or explain it to me? If there is one-on-one help for the maplink template that would be great. Riparia riparia (talk) 11:00, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

Is this a good enough copyright release for commons?

  • The Library of Congress states that the artist dedicated "to the public all my intellectual property rights, including copyrights throughout the world, in the Collection; however, I reserve to myself all rights, title, and interest I may have in and to all of the intellectual property associated with the Collection for my lifetime."
  • It says he is deceased and that "Privacy and publicity rights may apply."
I think this will be okay as its effect is similar to PD. However, we may need a bespoke licence template as PD won't come into effect here for many years. Editors may argue that the dedication is so similar to PD that we can use the PD tags but that may need consensus.
Does anyone know if we have other examples of posthumous dedication of copyright that we can use as an example? From Hill To Shore (talk) 11:54, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
I came across File:Edmund_S._Valtman,_What_you_need_is_a_revolution_like_mine_ppmsca.02969.jpg, so I will use the formatting used here.--Epiphyllumlover (talk) 03:53, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

Adding a photo to an item results with an error which does not offer a solution

Hi,

I try to add a picture to an item (later i will make a change request for the picture with a picture inside the item). I wrote the details on upload section and hit upload. By the way it is a calligraphy which i created completely. After i click upload i receive the error mesaage below:

We could not determine whether this file is suitable for Wikimedia Commons. Please only upload photos that you took yourself with your camera, or see what else is acceptable. See the guide to make sure the file is acceptable and learn how to upload it on Wikimedia Commons.

Because i have crated it, it is not agains and copyright or similar issue.

Looking for your help. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.145.107.146 (talk • contribs) 08:09, 29 December 2021‎ (UTC)

  • You have to be logged in to upload. No one is going to be able to look for logs corresponding to your upload without knowing what account you did this on, but you asked your question here without being logged in.
  • That said: usually this sort of thing happens when people upload small files cross-wiki (e.g. you were uploading from the English-language Wikipedia, not from within Commons itself). Could you try again using Special:UploadWizard here within Commons? Thanks. - Jmabel ! talk 16:14, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
    This fixed my problem, posted in a question below. I'm deleting my question. This should be in the FAQ IMHO. Thanks! Rbrightwell (talk) 04:46, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

Password reset --please

Unable to remember my password----request PW change, but never get email to authorize

name: Tommyboymee PW: ? Username: tommyboymee Email address: (address removed to protect privacy) —Preceding unsigned comment was added by 97.102.96.212 (talk) 07:26, 30 December 2021‎‎‎ (UTC)

Oh no, that's my account. Please send a temp pw to anotheruser@example.com. ← Just to demonstrate that it doesn't work this way. You didn't assign an email address to User:Tommyboymee, so there is no way to revive access to your account. Create a new one and add a reference to your old account, for example using {{User Alternate Acct}} or the like. --Achim55 (talk) 09:29, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
I have removed the email address from the above comment to protect the user's privacy. We can't provide any help here but leaving the email address in an open comment will increase risk of the user receiving spam. From Hill To Shore (talk) 09:52, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by:   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 12:16, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Public Domain

Hello, I’m working on Draft:Jean Vigoureux (submitted for afc Dec 14) and editor Rusalkii informed me that “own work” was an incorrect designation on at least 3 of the photos: the family photos from 1915, 1920 and 1925. When I was uploading photos I was so afraid of making mistakes that I did what I thought was the “safe” option, ironically because Commons doesn’t allow you to change it after it’s uploaded. Is there a way to change those three to Public Domain? I believe the others (the pictures of the drawings) are my own work because I stitched scans of the drawings in my 2009 version of Photoshop, and try as I might, I could not get a correct crop on any of them. The pictures “stitched” well but the outside edges simply did not line up. JHVfan (talk) 17:52, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Generally scanning drawings and stitching them (though you have not linked to any specific images) do not create any new copyrightable work. So, if the underlying works are in public domain, so are the scans. Therefore you should change them to public domain. Ruslik (talk) 20:28, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
Hi, @Ruslik, thanks for responding to me. Well, this is the part that confuses me. These drawings were in a folder in my house for decades, some were put away since the 1930’s, not having seen the light of day. I guess it’s the word “public.” Also, assuming they are public, how do I change it to that? Do I have to ask the Administrator or is there a way I can do it myself? Also, some drawings were copyrighted in a portfolio in 1943, but the copyright has expired. Is that “public” too? Thanks. JHVfan (talk) 22:16, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
@JHVfan: I strongly suggest that you read en:Public domain. I get the strong feeling that you misunderstand the term. - Jmabel ! talk 03:10, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

@Ruslik and @Jmabel, Hi, I’m very happy to report that I found tags and was able to make changes already. For the three photos I put {{PD-France}} Public domain because the author(s) died more than 70 years ago and {{PD-US}} in the licensing section, Then I put {{PD-Old}} and {{PD-US}} in the Summary section instead of “own work”. For the drawings I have {{PD-US-no notice}} (US work published in the US between 1926 and 1978 but without a copyright notice). Also learning about other tags, such as {{PD-Art}} and {{PD-US-not renewed}} which apply to other aspects of my scans. Thank you both so much for your suggestions and advice! JHVfan (talk) 08:28, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

@JHVfan: Almost right. Those tags should normally be used in the licensing section only (though some editors like to place them in the "permissions=" section instead). For the "source=" section you need to say where you found the image; if you made the image then you should say "own work" but otherwise you should provide a link to the website or details of the book or archive from where you obtained the image. In the "author=" section you should name the creator of the image or say {{unknown|author}} if the name is unknown. From Hill To Shore (talk) 09:19, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
@From Hill To ShoreThank you very much for your advice. You were right about not putting PD in the source section. It got me in a mountain of trouble. An editor (or Administrator) put tags on all 11 or so of my photos that said I would be deleted in 7 days if I didn’t fix it. But I had only messed up four of them. Well, I fixed them and added PDs but I erased a couple of his tags on the ones that had tags and he got really angry and nominated me for deletion. (I knew I should have listened to my intuition when it said: “don’t do that!”) So I tried to fix more things and then he said I needed Permissions. So, I’ll read about that later today. I apologized to him profusely so I hope he forgives me. The good news is I’m learning a lot as I go along. Thank you again for your help.JHVfan (talk) 07:26, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
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