Commons:Help desk/Archive/2023/11

Copyright help regarding File:C Sharp Logo 2023.svg

I don't know what license I should put, it's just the new logo of CSharp I got from the official Microsoft website --Cobaiahackers (talk) 14:54, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

@Cobaiahackers: That should be {{PD-textlogo}} and I've now marked it appropriately, but in the future please don't upload content when you do not specifically know that it is either in the public domain or free-licensed. - Jmabel ! talk 16:59, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

30 audio files of anthems as MOTD in the next 60 days

I am Ok, that there will be an OGG of a national anthem be the media of the day every other day until 2024. But I am wondering, how it came to that (canvassed at VP). C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 20:25, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

Can I get some help

Hi I'm Kylie I'm new here I have seen that there are some"bots" that edit around Wikipedia and they are really doing a great job. So i would want to know how to get my own. I know that i won't be able to edit probably cause I'm new, so that's why I'm in the need of using it.

Pls get back to me with an answer. Kylie (talk) 18:48, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

You made my day. Which programming language will you be using for coding your bot? --Achim55 (talk) 19:14, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

Bots can be written in almost any programming language. The choice of a language often depends on the experience of the bot writer, which languages they are familiar with, or on the availability of pre-developed libraries to perform the desired task. The following list includes several libraries to assist with bot tasks. Kylie (talk) 04:52, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

Photographing an old photo found in a book

Hello Everyone, I want to upload an old photo found in a book published in 1989. The photo is older, and the original author is anonymous. Could I share it? If so, which license shall be used? Bernardo de Claraval (talk) 04:54, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

@Bernardo de Claraval: Hi,

How older is the picture? If it was first published in 1989, it is probably not OK (unless it is really old, and the copyright expired long before). Yann (talk) 11:04, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

From my understanding, the picture was taken in the early 1970's, however the author has never surfaced, my best guess is that it was taken in a Studio that no longer exists. Bernardo de Claraval (talk) 17:01, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

Early 1970s photographs would be still in copyright in many jurisdictions. Abzeronow (talk) 17:03, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

I see now, thank you for the information. Bernardo de Claraval (talk) 17:13, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

Public transportation vehicles and their logos

Am I allowed to post my own photographs of public transportation vehicles such as trains, buses, ferries, etc. They do have logos that I do not own the rights to. I have already posted a picture under public domain, and it is of a ferry in Sydney, Australia. If I must take it down, I will.

Just a bit concerned. --KonlyandhisBeer (talk) 10:53, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

@KonlyandhisBeer: Hi,

It is OK if the picture is not focused on the logo, but on the whole vehicle. See Commons:Deletion requests/Pokemon Jet and other related DRs for similar cases. Yann (talk) 11:02, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

KonlyandhisBeer: If you are asking about File:Olive Cotton river-class ferry departing Barangaroo, F3 Parramatta line.png it looks totally fine. The logo is so tiny that de minimis does not even apply. BTW, for the future, it is better to use jpg format for photographs rather than png. You will see another editor has brightened your photo as it was very dark. Ww2censor (talk) 11:11, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

Thank you @Ww2censor and @Yann! My question may have been somewhat silly, but I was just thinking that the rules were most strict until proven otherwise. Whether my question were silly or not, thank you for helping me as a beginner! I may also take Ww2censor's advise to use a .jpg format for photographs.

Have a good day, --KonlyandhisBeer (talk) 19:54, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

How do I know if a Wikipedia page I created is being reviewed for Wikipedia?

I just created this page "Fitzpatrick, Mary Frances Linder (1861 - 1955)". How do I know that my submission actually exists somewhere within Wikipedia and is being reviewed? Wapsie Crossing (talk) 17:03, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

This is not Wikipedia but Wikimedia Commons. You created en:User:Wapsie Crossing/sandbox. --Achim55 (talk) 17:09, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

Your draft is not being reviewed, see [1] on how to make that happen. You also really need to improve your inline citations, see [2]. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 17:47, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

Forgot to ping @Wapsie Crossing. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 17:47, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

I don't understand. The page I want to create does not exist according to this Wikipedia page [3]. I've assembled biographies for seven of the women listed on the aforementioned page and would like to "create" a Wikipedia page for each. 50.233.194.34 17:57, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

First thing to understand is you are NOT asking this at Wikipedia. This is the sister project for images and media, Wikimedia Commons. You might try taking this to Wikipedia:Help_desk. Cheers, -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 18:22, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

Or perhaps better yet at en:Wikipedia:Teahouse. - Jmabel ! talk 19:41, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

@Wapsie Crossing: : It appears you might be asking about this English wikipedia page in one of your subpages at w:User:Wapsie Crossing/sandbox. Articles in your sandbox are not reviewed without being submitted for review. You should move it to draft space per the details here w:Wikipedia:Drafts#Creating and editing drafts and when it is ready you can submit it for review, but, while I am not a reviewer, there are several issues that will need fixing before it will be accepted such as how the references are done. Ww2censor (talk) 21:30, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

How to upload pictures

Uploading pictures Mc caps (talk) 20:04, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

Commons:First steps. - Jmabel ! talk 04:54, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

Regarding deleting my uploaded image

Recently I uploaded an image named BD_Clean_Logo.jpg. It has been deleted due to copyright violation. But I have taken the logo image with permission from the respective organization. Still, why would there be copyright violation? Iamsabbirhosen (talk) 21:35, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

If you upload something created by anyone other than yourself, you have to show why it is free licensed. If you have specific permission from the copyright holder to release it under a free license (see COM:LICENSE for details), you can have them confirm it, see COM:VRT for how to do that. Image can be undeleted if shown to be confirmed as free licensed. -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 22:21, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

@Iamsabbirhosen: and I see you uploaded it again (under a slightly different name) after it was deleted. This is a definite no-no, and if you do it again it will get you blocked. If you can get appropriate permission from the copyright-holder, then you can get it undeleted through Commons:Undeletion requests. If not, then please do not upload it a third time. - 04:59, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

Your other upload File:শাহ্‌ নুরুল কবীর শাহীন.jpg looks equally problematic. Only the holder of the copyright can issue a license. If you do not have at least a basic understanding of copyright law, I strongly suggest that you do not upload anything other than photos you took yourself (and that are not photos of other people's copyrighted work), or you are likely to get yourself in quite a bit of trouble. - Jmabel ! talk 05:02, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

How can I change an outdated company logo and replace it with the new logo?

The Metrovacesa company needs to change the logo, as many media are using this logo for publications and this logo is no longer correct, it was changed many years ago. Victoria Sampietro Tolosana (talk) 09:03, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

@Victoria Sampietro Tolosana: Hi,

It depends on the logo, so it would help if you specify which company and which logo. In brief, if the logo is very simple, upload it on Commons, and then change the logo on Wikipedia. Otherwise it will need to be uploaded as fair use on Wikipedia. Yann (talk) 09:54, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

And if uploading to Commons, upload to a distinct filename, because the old logo is still of historical interest. - Jmabel ! talk 20:17, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

uploading of photo

what is the minimum and maximum size is required for uploading of photographs. Aviphoto (talk) 10:20, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

@Aviphoto: Hi,

There is no real minimum and maximum sizes, but the larger, the better. Always upload the original image with EXIF data first, and then you can upload a crop if needed. Yann (talk) 10:50, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

@Aviphoto Before doing that, you should however take a look at the EXIF data, just in case it contains your name or the location or anything else you do not want to disclose. C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 11:43, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

Video game cover and copyright

Would uploading this - https://www.flickr.com/photos/farusantos/30920814516/ - be acceptable on Wikimedia Commons without breaking any kind of copyright or other rules or guidelines? The photo itself is placed under CC BY-SA 2.0 Deed so its usable for commercial use and mods are allowed, however I'm unsure if the cover art of the game would be under any copyright whereby it would violate any Wikimedia Commons guidelines to upload. Helper201 (talk) 23:42, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

@Helper201: I can't imagine how that cover art would not be copyrighted. When does it date from? What country? - Jmabel ! talk 01:08, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

@Jmabel: okay, thanks. The game was released in 2012/2013 (different dates depending on worldwide location), the specific box in the photo looks like it’s from Canada or France, given its also has French language text on it as well as English, though the publisher is a Japanese company. Helper201 (talk) 01:13, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

@Helper201: Yeah. Zero chance that isn't copyrighted, so the person who snapped the photo is in no position to license it without a release from whoever owns the copyright on the art. - Jmabel ! talk 01:39, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

The page was saved popup

Is there a way to switch off this popup notification? It blocks me from reading and or copying page title fast, because it overlaps it. Juandev (talk) 07:55, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

@Juandev: : Can you be more specific as to what you are referring to? Ww2censor (talk) 11:12, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

I guess they refer to the "Your edit was published." rectangle that appears near the top right of the screen for a fraction of second after an edit is saved. -- Asclepias (talk) 13:57, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

@Juandev: Hi, and welcome. We have a gadget that does this named HidePostEdit. To enable it, check the "HidePostEdit: Hide popup when saving your edits." checkbox under "Interface: Editing and uploads" on Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets and Save. Of course, your browser will need to accept our Custom Style Sheets (CSS).   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 04:11, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

Please received me

please received me Please don't block my account I request sar Ajitkumarsahu19world (talk) 13:12, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

Blocked.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 03:59, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

Logos de Alcaldias en Venezuela caducado

Buenas, se puede descargar logos de Alcaldias de la antigua gestión inspirados por otros qué fueron caducado, es necesario agregar el "PD-ineligible" o "PD-textlogo"?? AbchyZa22 (talk) 22:49, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

@AbchyZa22: Depende de la situación.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 03:58, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

@Jeff G.: Que osea "Depende de la situación", qué significa esto??

AbchyZa22 (talk) 06:20, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

@Jmabel: Hola,que opina de esto??

AbchyZa22 (talk) 17:59, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

Por supuesto, quieres decir "subir", no "descargar", ¿no? Y, según discusiones anteriores, supongo que estamos hablando de Venezuela.

No estoy familiarizado con la expresión "la antigua gestión" en el contexto venezolano. ¿Se refiere a la régimen antes de Hugo Chávez, o hay otra sentido? No entiendo que significa aquí ni "inspirado" (¿como? ¿En su órigen? ¿Como podemos saberlo?) ni "caducado" (¿Qué es caducado? ¿Los derechos del autor, o estás diciendo solamente que el antiguo logo ya no se usa, o qué?) En culaquier caso, yo no soy experto sobre las leyes de propiedad intelectual especificamente venezolanos. No respondí antes porque no sé la respuesta precisa, y porque (como Jeff) sospecho que la pregunta no es lo suficientemente específica como para tener una respuesta simple. - Jmabel ! talk 20:54, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

Getting message about block

I am a long time contributor and have uploaded many images. Issue is I have uploaded a lot of images where there is no freedom of panorama in 2018 and they are being deleted one by one. I got a message about my account may be going to be blocked. While this was not in my knowledge previously but in the current times I am little bit more educated regarding freedom of panorama and copyright stuff. What do you suggest. Shall I delete all the old images or anything specific. Jnanaranjan Sahu (ଜ୍ଞାନ) ^talk 06:35, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

@Jnanaranjan sahu: Hi,

Do not upload pictures not taken by you (e.g. File:Manakatha Janantu.pdf, File:Facbook username creation page.jpg). If you need help, please ask here, or on copyright-issues board. But seeing that most issues are indeed FoP-related, I removed the warning. Please archive your talk page. Thanks, Yann (talk) 09:42, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

Thank you @Yann.

Well I kind of know them. And those are old mistakes. I think all newbies do. I am more curious about the warning messages. Is there any warning system. I have never got one and suddenly last warning. Also my question was about the past uploads. Shall I take any action on them? Jnanaranjan Sahu (ଜ୍ଞାନ) ^talk 13:50, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

Wikiproject to upload fair use non-commercial images?

I have been involved in two dicussions from different countries where it would be allowed to upload images if they were not used commercially or used to inform. Is there some wikiproject where files can be uploaded that are only fair to use on wikipedia? Or does anyone know any other Wikimedia project for files and/or images? Paradise Chronicle (talk) 04:59, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

@Paradise Chronicle: I can't see how such a thing could possibly be done. And I think you may be confusing two (or more) issues.

"Fair use" is a provision in U.S. law, with parallels in some other countries, that allows certain uses of copyrighted material without a license, and which always depends on the context in which the material is used. That is, there is no such thing as an image that is inherently "fair use" or inherently not "fair use", it's always about the context in which the image is used.

Entirely separately from that, some images have licenses that allow non-commercial use, but do not allow commercial use ("NC" licenses). This is completely unrelated to the issue of "fair use".

Each Wikipedia has its own rules on fair use and on images that have only a non-commercial license.

As far as I know (correct me if I'm wrong) there is no Wikipedia that has different policies for NC licenses than for images that have no free license at all.

Policies for using images on a "fair use" basis vary among the different Wikipedias. For example:

• The German-language Wikipedia, does not allow this at al
• In the English-language Wikipedia, each such image requires an explicit statement of the rationale for using the image for each specific article where it is used, making it absolutely necessary to have a file page for the image in en-wiki so that there is a place to state that rationale.
• I'm not as familiar with the policies of the other Wikipedias, but these two alone would seem to be enough to preclude any possibility of a single central repository of such images.

Jmabel ! talk 05:59, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

You are right, I was not aware that "fair use" was an US law expression and that the German wikipedia does not allow this at all. Thanks for clearing that up. Paradise Chronicle (talk) 08:11, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

@Paradise Chronicle: For the reasons that licenses with restriction -nc- (no commercial use) are not usable by themselves for Wikimedia Commons, please see COM:LJ.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 13:47, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

@Paradise Chronicle: You might be interested in NC Commons, which I believe is run by a Wikimedia affiliate, the Wiki Project Med Foundation]. --bjh21 (talk) 13:16, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

@Jeff G.@Bjh21 thanks a lot for the helpful replies.Paradise Chronicle (talk) 23:21, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

@Paradise Chronicle: You're welcome.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 23:56, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

pregunta

como Generar una entrada en Wikipedia? Lenin Mora Aragón (talk) 09:25, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

@Lenin Mora Aragón: Buenas, veas al es:A:TPA. Tambien, esto no es Wikipedia y lamento informarle que ha activado Special:AbuseFilter/281 al intentar cargar un archivo pdf como nuevo usuario, y ​ un otro filtro. Este tipo de cargas de archivos pdf no están permitidas en absoluto. Indicaste que es tu propio trabajo. Por lo general, cuando alguien sube un archivo pdf como nuevo usuario, es una violación de derechos de autor tomado de la web o fuera de alcance. ¿Qué hay en el archivo? Si usted no fue el diseñador o fotógrafo del archivo original, es posible que esa persona deba obtener la licencia en su sitio web oficial o en las redes sociales, o enviarle el archivo y el permiso a través de VRT/es con una copia carbón. Si no puede obtener una licencia compatible, el archivo aún se puede cargar en Wikipedia en inglés (pero no en Wikipedia en español) de conformidad con en:WP:F.

Hi, and welcome, see es:A:TPA AKA en:WP:MFA. Also, this is not Wikipedia and I am sorry to inform you that you have triggered Special:AbuseFilter/281 by trying to upload a pdf file as a new user, and ​ another filter. Such uploads of pdf files are not allowed at all. You indicated it's your own work. Usually when someone uploads a pdf file as a new user, it's a copyright violation taken from the web or out of scope. What is in the file? If you were not the original file designer or photographer, that person may need to license it on their official website or social media, or send the file and permission via VRT with a carbon copy to you. If you can't get a compliant license, the file may still be uploaded to English Wikipedia (but not Spanish Wikipedia) in compliance with en:WP:F.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 13:34, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

Using Government Logos UK

Hi, I want to upload the logo of a government organisation (Government People Group, a group within the cabinet office) to wikimedia commons. The logo is under Crown Copyright (as all UK images are) but as it is an identifying media for a public facing and government organisation I think it may fall under fair use should the image not be distorted or misrepresented.

Please advise on what you think if you are knoweledgable on this. Thanks GPG Communications (talk) 10:58, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

How old is this logo? Ruslik (talk) 20:18, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

It was made in 2023, for a new civil service organisation. It is about 3 months old at most. Jack Parkinson Communications (talk) 09:54, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

Football Club Badge

Hi, I look after the website of Falmouth Town AFC. I am trying to update our badge on Wikipedia with the latest version, see our website. However I'm experiencing problems uploading it. Please can you help? Regards, Nigel. Nigel FTFC (talk) 09:55, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

@Nigel FTFC: Hi, and welcome. For multiple reasons at COM:OW, you should not overwrite it; instead, you should upload with a new name that incorporates the year it became official. See also en:WP:COI.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 10:14, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

Thanks Jeff. Nigel FTFC (talk) 12:45, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

Changing the operator for a WikiCommons collection of pics.

Hi there, we need to update some of the pictures that were uploaded many years ago. The original operator has left us and the project has ended. The images are all now out of date and we'd like to delete them to ensure no out of date pics are used by others.

Can you help please?

Thanks

P. Pgthorne01 (talk) 13:54, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

You may need to know a little bit about Wikipedia, Commons and free licenses. When you uploaded the pictures a few years ago, you gave it a free license. This license cannot be revoked. Trying to do that would be considered vandalism. As the pictures are online for a few years now, they are probably within the SCOPE of this project and can be used forever by everyone for everything (within the limits of the law). You can however upload new pictures and you can also ask at the individual Wiki projects to use the new one's instead of the old one's. If there is a good reason, this may be done. C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 14:01, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

I still need to remove access from an old colleague who's now left the organisation. How do we do that? Pgthorne01 (talk) 14:26, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

@Pgthorne01: Which account? Which access are you talking about? If you would provide more information, it may help understanding the situation. Yann (talk) 15:32, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

Copyright help regarding File:Tsumyoki1.jpg

Hi I want to know if the file I uploaded is fine to be used as for the artists image as he has requested to change it himself and I've used a photo which is freely available. Please let me know if its valid and can be used. Thanks !

Regards, Vernon.

--Vernonsqr (talk) 17:41, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

No, this is not OK. You need the formal written permission from the author for a free license. If you have such a permission, please ask the copyright holder to send it via COM:VRT. Thanks, Yann (talk) 18:10, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

And it's not a selfie, so that copyright-holder would presumably be the photographer. - Jmabel ! talk 21:57, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

Why was the New York State Excelsior License Plate.jpg deleted?

I noticed the page for Vehicle registration plates of New York has a very low resolution picture for the most recent license plate. I figured it would be better to replace it with the high quality one from https://dmv.ny.gov/plates/excelsior-plates. Upon trying to upload that picture, it said that the image already existed and was deleted in the past. Is there any reason for this? It's a government image so does that count as free license? Alexanderhyperbeam (talk) 18:14, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

The State of New York doesn't release government works to the public domain like the U.S. federal government does. Abzeronow (talk) 18:24, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

local public memorial

Can I upload a photograph of a memorial in a public park if there is a sculpture in it? The sculpture was added in 1992. It is outdoors in the US and on permanent display. It is a local memorial, not connected to the federal government. Neville2023 (talk) 19:19, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

@Neville2023: , we'd need permission from the sculptor to host that here since it's from after 1989, in which works are automatically copyrighted, and unfortunately, there isn't FoP in the US for artwork. Abzeronow (talk) 19:46, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

Unhelpful algorithm for constructing the Descriptions displayed on Uploads pages

When I look at the photos I've uploaded (at https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListFiles/Misha_Wolf&ilshowall=1), the content of the table cells under the heading "Description" makes no sense. Text from fields I have supplied has been concatenated, with some other words thrown in, resulting in a strange word salad. Would it be possible to change the algorithm so that it produces helpful text? Many thanks. :) Misha Wolf (talk) 23:44, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

• The text in Special:ListFiles is a pretty naive dump. Basically, that page exists to give you visual access to your uploaded images, and also gives you a certain number of characters worth of the text you provided. It has no notion of formatting, no way to parse Wikitext, etc. I personally can't imagine investing into it: it's not really considered a "public-facing" page, it's an internal maintenance page provided for our convenience as editors. - Jmabel ! talk 04:04, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

@Misha Wolf: The template works pretty well if you provide a noun phrase like a URL as the source of the file: "Uploaded a work by SBS Radio from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYCjGfQJ4kw with UploadWizard" to take a recent example from my own upload history. Because you've provided a sentence instead, you've got something uglier. If you could come up with a template that would work for both, it might be possible to get it changed. I managed to do that for cross-wiki uploads a year or two ago. I can't currently work out where this setting would be changed, so that might be your second challenge. --bjh21 (talk) 13:10, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Problem with logging in (never seen that one yet)

I am Paradise Chronicle and when I try to login on commons I get the following message repeatedly:

There seems to be a problem with your login session; this action has been canceled as a precaution against session hijacking. Please resubmit the form.

There is no-one hijacking my account, at least not myself. I have tried to login from my cell phone as well as with my laptop and I got the same message. I have another account User451819913 with which I also edit sometimes in commons, mainly because with my Paradise Chronicle account I either can't use the Image Annotator and if, then only with a workaround; its all explained at both user pages of commons. The shifting between the two accounts worked fine until today. I have access to my Paradise Chronicle account in the different Wikipedia projects except for Commons and Meta and I also get the notifications in the other projects from Commons and Meta there. Also the Wikimedia email account works. Could someone help me with logging in? 212.51.132.55 17:58, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Hi, thanks to who ever fixed it.Paradise Chronicle (talk) 21:30, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Login it's impossible for me

Hi, I'm user:André Koehne and I don't speak English. My problem: I have a global account, which is logged in. But since yesterday I haven't been able to log in to Commons! Help me! I tried and tried, but I was unsucessful in logging in! Sorry my bad English, and thank you if you can help me. 168.90.217.241 22:48, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

The bug has been resolved. Thanks. André Koehne ^{TALK TO ME} 01:36, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

Descargar Logos qué ya no se usan

Buenas, se puede descargar logos qué ya no se usan (inspirados por otros), por ejemplo Logos de una Alcaldía en Venezuela desde 2014-2017?? AbchyZa22 (talk) 22:54, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

@AbchyZa22: No, por favor mira #Descargar sedes de Instituciones inspiradas por otros arriba y deja de preguntar.

No, please see #Descargar sedes de Instituciones inspirados por otros above and stop asking.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 11:10, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

I cannot upload 2nd version of a file

Hi.

I translated into Polish a file about mechanisms of self-harm (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mechanizmy_samookaleczania_(PL).png). Right now I realized authors are kinda different that I thought and I wanted to credit them in this file. When I try to upload 2nd version of file, with better credits, I still get the old version shown (the one that credits only Bkell - there should be 2 additional users). I dunno what is wrong - can somebody help me, please?

Best wishes

-- Kaworu1992 (talk) 23:10, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

PS. By "credits" i mean a little writing at the very bottom of the file, not some kinda metadata. Kaworu1992 (talk) 23:10, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

Convenience link: File:Mechanizmy samookaleczania (PL).png. - Jmabel ! talk 03:32, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

@Kaworu1992: according to the history you reverted yourself, so of course it is back to what you reverted to. - Jmabel ! talk 03:34, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

@Kaworu1992: See also COM:PURGE.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 02:11, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

Okay people, I see that the version I wanted to be is there and apparently - it shows the right thing. Still it is a mystery for me why oryginally the second version was not showing any changes. Maybe I should just have waited?

Or maybe it's some kinda "saved" picture in my browser...? And this is why it was shown as it was shown...?

Okay, anyway, thank you for the help, I will take care of things from here. Sorry for the commotion.

Best wishes --Kaworu1992 (talk) 00:53, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

Trying to upload an image for a videogame

Hi, this is my first time editing on wikipedia/media. I'm trying to upload the promotional art for a videogame article, whichi believe to be acceptable as other articles use simialr images. however, when uploading, i wasnt sure how to deal with the copyright. after uploading i have gotten a message saying the copyright information was insufficient and the file may be deleted within 7 days. how do i make it so this file is acceptable on wikimedia, like other videogame promotional artworks are? Remix Fantastica (talk) 10:02, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

@Remix Fantastica: such images are copyrighted and require permission from the holder of the copyright. You say "other articles use simialr [sic] images." Commons doesn't have articles. Can you point at what you would consider a similar image on Commons? - Jmabel ! talk 15:36, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

i meant other articles on wikipedia, sorry. i presumed the images used on wikipedia articles are hosted on wikimedia. this would be an example of an article tht uses a similar image as the one im trying to upload Remix Fantastica (talk) 22:57, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_Heroes forgot to put the link Remix Fantastica (talk) 22:58, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Images for wikipedia are hosted on commons with the exception of "fair use" images that are only allowed on projects that have a fair use rationale (like en.wikipedia.org). If you need help for fair use images you need to ask at the project, that has the applicable fair use raitonale. C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 00:15, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

@Remix Fantastica: the only image in the Sonic Heroes article that comes from Commons is File:Yuji Naka' - Magic - Monaco - 2015-03-21- P1030036 (cropped).jpg, which I presume you will agree is in no way comparable. They two that might be considered comparable are both hosted on en-wiki itself, with stated rationales for the non-free use. - Jmabel ! talk 03:41, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

I can’t upload the logo of the copyright holder company of which I am a representative in order to add it to our Wikipedia page

please help me! which license do I need to choose so that the file is not deleted again? KaterynaBolotnikova (talk) 09:32, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

@KaterynaBolotnikova Your company has an article, written about it on Wikipedia, but it is absolutely not your Wikipedia page.

Logos are copyright works. Very few logos are acceptable here. Yours appears to be on the wrong side of the border of complexity. You may have more success in uploading it to a local language version of Wikipedia and using the Fair Use rationale, a rationale not allowed on Wikimedia Commons 🇺🇦 Timtrent 🇺🇦 talk to me 🇺🇦 09:42, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

@KaterynaBolotnikova: See the canonical policy at en:WP:F or the Russian Wikipedia version at ru:ВП:КДИ. For uploading here to Commons, please send or indicate permission via VRT / VRT/ru.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 11:18, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

Information fields required when loading a cropped image (original one made by a different author)

I would like to upload a cropped and straightened version of an existing image (not mine), and in this special case I have a few doubts about how to correctly fill-in the following Information parameters :

1) date: Is it referred to the original image or to the modified one? 2) source: Is it me (the current user) or is it the source of the original image that has been modified? 3) author: Is it the current user who has modified the original image, or is it the author of the original image? 4) other versions: Is it best to use 'Extracted from' or 'Derivative versions'?

Many thanks and best regards Centoesettecento (talk) 12:44, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

@Centoesettecento: I assume you are talking about uploading a new version under a distinct filename, not overwriting with a cropped version. I strongly recommend that you do the crop with the CropTool, which will do this all correctly, but if you are going to do it manually:

1) date should be the date the photo was taken, so it does not change

2) source should not change

3) author normally unchanged, but you may add "cropped by" and your name.

4) other versions {{Extracted from}} is most correct, and add a reciprocal {{Image extracted}} to the original. - Jmabel ! talk 16:26, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

помогите

помогите help me plz 185.218.183.3 08:00, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

With what? 20 upper 08:52, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

media needing renaming

It would be really nice if the media needing renaming categories would autosort chronologically, and not alphabetically. Files with a name starting with "V" may never be renmamed, if new requests come in faster than renames are done. C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 13:32, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

@C.Suthorn: Welcome to the help desk. I'm not understanding how you want me to help, but I'll try. By selecting "move", then entering the new name, and providing a reason, you can ask to have the files renamed. Best, 20 upper 13:45, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

Nein, das war nicht hilfreich. Dateien, die umbenannt werden sollen, werden in eine der Service-Kategorien eingestellt. Für jede Move-Rationale gibt es eine eigene Kategorie, die sind verschieden voll von leer bis sehr voll. Aber die einzelnen Dateien werden dort nicht in chronologischer Reihenfolge einsortiert sondern in alphabetischer. Aber das schrieb ich ja bereits. Das Javascript, das hinter dem von Dir genannten "Move"-Menü werkelts könnte ohne weiteres ein [Category:move reason 1|datumtzeit] generieren anstelle von [Category:move reason 1] wie es derzeit der Fall ist. Wenn Du helfen möchtest, programmierst Du das eben schnell.

(Stört Dich mein Ton? Das könnte daran liegen, dass ich auf "Welcome to the help desk" nach zigtausend Uploads etwas genervt reagiere, weil ich hier nicht neu bin, wie Du zu unterstellen scheinst.) C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 17:51, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

Admins don't particularly take these up in alphabetical order (though I'm sure a few do). This isn't a task I particularly do, but when I do other tasks that are sorted alphabetically and have any time-sensitivity, I usually take them in a pseudo-random order. I suspect others do the same. - Jmabel ! talk 03:03, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

Ich habe nun ohne es zu wollen die entsprechenden Kategorien einige Zeit beobachtet, und die Abarbeitung (durch file mover, nicht admins) ist offensichtlich weitgehend alphabetisch. Das bedeutet natürlich auch dass kyrillische und CJK Dateinamen ganz besonders lange warten müssen. Und das ist dann ableistisch. C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 18:05, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

Agressive behaviour - random deletion

A user called CYBERWOLF deleted the acurate corrections and updates I legitimately did on "Roberto Cabot". The justification is that it is supposedly not relevant. A totally random affirmation that also came with agressive comments. How to get my work back online? How To avoid such destructive attitudes? Best Utunim (talk) 16:52, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

@Utunim: CyberWolf rightfully reverted your edits because most of your added text was uncited, and you made a complete mess of the reference section. Read policies and guidelines before making major changes. BTW, that's a en wiki problem. And what aggressive comments are you talking about? 20 upper 17:15, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

PS, you might want to have a look at en:WP:COI, since you claim to be editing on behalf of Roberto Cabot. 20 upper 17:22, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

I checked de COI info, it also says the deleter has to have reasonable proof to alert COI. Irrelevancy is subjective. There is wrong info, even absurd. And it is about art information. Sorry for the formatting problem which I would have corrected if I have had a chance. No COI there, as there is only professional info about public events and no judgement or privade info about anyone. And yes to say underectly that someone is stupid is insulting. 2A02:8440:B15D:C76D:B85B:C265:27BD:5CFF 17:51, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

I assume this is about en:Roberto Cabot. If that is correct, Pinging @Utunim, 20 upper, please do not argue en-wiki issues on Commons. If I am wrong, someone please point out the specific Commons edit that is being discussed. - Jmabel ! talk 03:06, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

I am the artist, you are not helping Wiki with that kind of attitude. I asked my assistent to introduce the information I selected for Wiki. It's not sure Wiki gets better by insulting people and brutally destroy hours of work. It would be more in the collaborative spirit to contact the person and, if necessary, help her. 2A02:8440:B15A:12E3:C170:BDE:E89D:1827 09:38, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

Note that there is a previous discussion on the user's talk page on the English Wikipedia (w:en:User talk:Utunim). Since this seems to be a dispute over edits on Wikipedia and not Wikimedia Commons, I'd suggest continuing this discussion on that talk page, or on the Wikipedia's discussion pages (two of which are already linked on the talk page). Anon126 (✉ ⚒) 10:09, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

Right, thank you. 2A02:8440:B15A:12E3:C170:BDE:E89D:1827 11:29, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

upload pdf

how do I upload or reference a pdf file that is from a magazine Pomfret watcher (talk) 17:39, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

Guidance on how to cite sources is at English Wikipedia w:Wikipedia:Citing sources. As for uploading .pdfs of magazines, the magazine content would either need to be in the public domain or explicitly under a free license such as Creative Commons-Attribution. Most magazines are not, so I'd be cautious there. Abzeronow (talk) 17:44, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

Foto emblema do clube

Estou a criar a uma pagina da wikipedia sobre o clube da minha terra. Visto que a fotografia do emblema ainda não estava na internet quero a colocar na pagina mas não estão aceitar Alveshaween (talk) 18:13, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

@Alveshaween: Aquí en la mesa de ayuda, tratamos de ayudar a los usuarios que necesitan ayuda con respecto a cómo funcionan las cosas aquí, dicho todo esto; No puedo ayudarte. 20 upper 19:40, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

@20 upper: if you haven't a clue, perhaps you could refrain from answering. - Jmabel ! talk 03:08, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

@Alveshaween: (Usando o Google Tradutor aqui, porque embora eu possa ler português e seus dialetos, não consigo escrevê-los.) Normalmente, um logotipo como este, a menos que seja muito simples ou muito antigo (por exemplo, com um século ou mais), é protegido por direitos autorais, então o Commons poderia hospedá-lo apenas se o proprietário desses direitos autorais conceder uma licença gratuita, o que é muito improvável.

Typically a logo like this, unless it is very simple or very old (e.g. a century or so), is copyrighted, so Commons could host it only if the owner of that copyright granted a free license, which is very unlikely. - Jmabel ! talk 03:15, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

How to get a redirected page's categories (using the API)?

Using Wikimedia's API, I can get the categories for an article, unless that article redirects to a different article. For example. this article https://stardewvalleywiki.com/10,000_Bundle (which is using the Wikimedia API and isn't different than normal wikipedia) redirects to this: https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Bundles#g10000_Bundle . How do I get the categories of the second article? Because the first one is a redirect page, it does not have a category. 3point1415 (talk) 22:33, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

• @3point1415: I'm not sure what (if anything) this question has to do with Wikimedia Commons, the site on which you are asking that. Could you please clarify? - Jmabel ! talk 03:16, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

MediaWiki (the software that site runs on) is different from Wikimedia (the organization that operates Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons [this site]). I'd suggest visiting the MediaWiki support desk page for help on using MediaWiki's APIs for a non-Wikimedia site. Anon126 (✉ ⚒) 10:13, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

@3point1415: Following the redirect, I see "Category: Gameplay".   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 13:43, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

"Derivative work" message, but it is a derivative of my own work

I received the following message on my Discussion page : "A file that you have uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, File:Carte prévisionnelle du Service express métropolitain de Rouen.webp, is a derivative work, containing an "image within an image". [...]".

The original work is here : File:Carte prévisionnelle du Service express métropolitain de Rouen.svg. It is mine. I just had to upload it in webp because the Wikimedia's SVG reader seems to work badly with text boundaries in SVG.

Source is set as "Own work" as intended, it isn't a derivative, it is a reupload using another file format. What should I do ? Aeris1One (talk) 16:52, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

@Aeris1One: Bonjour,

Ce fichier est effectivement une oeuvre dérivée du fond de carte. D'où provient celui-ci ? Yann (talk) 17:01, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

Ah ! Il s'agit d'un export d'OpenStreetMap, effectivement j'ai complètement oublié le crédit !

Merci beaucoup :) Aeris1One (talk) 17:34, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

الكرسي العلمي للبصمة الكربونية والاستدامة بالألكسو

ال دكتور مصطفى الشربيني (talk) 19:12, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

الكرسي العلمي للبصمة الكربونية والاستدامة بالألكسو - جامعة الدول العربية

الكرسي العلمي للبصمة الكربونية والاستدامة بالألكسو - جامعة الدول العربية برئاسة السفير مصطفي الشربيني الخبير الدولي في الاستدامة والمناخ File:Climate_Ambassador_Mostafa_Elsayed_Sherbiny.jpg دكتور مصطفى الشربيني (talk) 19:38, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

User blocked for self-promotion after warnings, and Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by دكتور مصطفى الشربيني‎. Yann (talk) 20:24, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

Remover la foto

Buenas, necesito que algún administrador nomine la foto (https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Logo_Alcald%C3%ADa_Tovar_22.jpg#mw-jump-to-license) para ser removido de la imagen por violación de derechos del autor por favor?? AbchyZa22 (talk) 22:51, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

Es la licensia no correcta? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 23:01, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

@Koavf: Buenas, Si esa es, esa imagen no tiene autorización.

AbchyZa22 (talk) 23:12, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

Gracias, he la mercado por remover. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 23:50, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

Tomar fotos de un avión

Buenas, se puede tomar fotos (con mis derechos de autor) aviones con el Logo de una compañía (ej:American Airlines)?? AbchyZa22 (talk) 00:11, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

@AbchyZa22: Normalmente, sí si la foto es básicamente del avión, no si es más una foto del logo como tal. - Jmabel ! talk 02:21, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

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Is it ok to upload screenshots of figures from scientific articles without permission?

I have an article on wikipedia, and i want to add an image. Abdullah raji (talk) 04:53, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

That depends on the license of the original work. There's a lot of scholarship with acceptable licenses these days, but sadly, still a lot without. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:48, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

Uploading a new version of a non-over writable file?

Hi, and apologies if there's an obvious answer to this that I'm missing. I've got a slightly improved version of this file. but apparently 'you cannot overwrite this file'. Is there anything that can be done? TIA! Serial Number 54129 (talk) 14:06, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

Hi, Why exactly can't you overwrite the file? Are you trying to replace it with a different file type? Anyway, you can always upload a separate file. -- Asclepias (talk) 14:47, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

Thanks very much for replying Asclepias. It's very strange. I know I saw that instruction—I literally copied/pasted it here!—but now it's no longer there, and the link to 'Upload a new version of this file' is back! So strange! Anyway, seems OK now. Thanks again! Serial Number 54129 (talk) 14:58, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

how do i make a page banner

i Wikieditor3707 (talk) 15:45, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

• @Wikieditor3707: there is no really general answer to that. A page banner is just a wide, but not tall, image. Could you be more specific about what you are trying to do? Jmabel ! talk 04:26, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

Credit card charge

My new Mastercard statement lists $520.00 to Wikimedia on 10/15. I don't remember making a contribution. Please advise. -- Charles Ferguson C.fergus25 (talk) 17:24, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

@C.fergus25: I ma sorry, but you are on the wrong board. Here is Wikimedia Commons, and we don't manage donations. For that, you have to contact the Wikimedia Foundation. Regards, Yann (talk) 17:30, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

Photo from the 1800s is undated. What should I do?

I found a fair-use photo of Thomas Anderson (d. 1894), the namesake of Austin’s Anderson Mill neighborhood. I can’t find a date for it, but one is required. What should I do? Slamforeman (talk) 01:22, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

Put "late 1800s". —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 01:44, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

Ok! Will do. Thanks! Slamforeman (talk) 01:52, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

@Slamforeman: I'm sure you didn't mean to say "fair use" (which would be something that would not be allowed on Commons); you might want to read fair use to better understand that term. - 04:24, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

Resolved

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Slamforeman (talk • contribs) 03:23, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

Is it OK to upload a picture uploaded to a museum's website, depicting a person in a public place?

I'd like to upload this picture https://museosdebahia.gob.ar/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/COPPO-06.jpg, which is uploaded to a museum's website: https://museosdebahia.gob.ar/susana-coppo/ .

The museum exists and has its own place. I haven't gone to that museum to know if that picture is exhibited there. Ni.cero (talk) 14:38, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

@Ni.cero: Hi, and welcome. That website is "© 2023 Museums of Bahia". That photo seems to date from 1969, so per COM:ARGENTINA, we need a date of first publication to comply with {{PD-AR-Photo}}. See also COM:NETCOPYRIGHT.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 15:01, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

How to search for "good" pictures within a category and all its subcategories?

Hello,

I am looking for a better lead pic for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_Turkey

Is there a way to search for the "good" pictures in "Category:Agriculture_in_Turkey" and all its subcategories please?

And is there a way to search for the "featured" pictures in "Category:Agriculture_in_Turkey" and all its subcategories please? Chidgk1 (talk) 13:08, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

Hi @Chidgk1, yes there is sort of. Category:Agriculture in Turkey there you just hit the good pictures button on the top above the tool bar. Then there opens a top down selection of the best images. You have also the option to improve your search in another top down menu. Here are the good images from the category of Agriculture of Turkey. Enjoy. Paradise Chronicle (talk) 17:59, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

Oh so does that include the subcategories? I mean are there are only 37 good images including all the subcats? Chidgk1 (talk) 05:04, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

I believe so, as many of the Good images in Agriculture in Turkey are not in that category, but in a subcategory such as this one. This one is in the subcategory sheep in Turkey, which is a subcat of livestock in Turkey, which is a subcat of animal husbandry in Turkey, which is finally a subcategory of Agriculture in Turkey. Paradise Chronicle (talk) 10:00, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

But that is a "quality image" not a "good image". I removed Agriculture in Turkey from File:Thay997020.jpg and the number dropped to 36 despite that pic being in Category:Fruit of Turkey which is in Category:Agricultural products of Turkey which is in Category:Agriculture in Turkey. Should I report a bug and if so where? Chidgk1 (talk) 15:19, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

The help page for the gadget FastCCI says that the files in the subcategories are included. "Quality images" are included in the "good pictures", at least as defined by this gadget, as well as "featured pictures" and "valued images" (which are not necessarily good in the ordinary sense, but are suppposed good to illutrate a subject). What would be your inclusion criteria for "good images" in your question? 36 is the number of files currently in the category, not the number of "good pictures". The number of "good pictures" currently returned by the gadget is 58, including featured, quality and valued, in the category and its subcateries. You can use the option to include only one of those types of files. The gadget may not always work or it may take some time to work. If you see "connecting" near the top left of the page, it means it's trying to work but it is not showing the results yet. Of course, there are also a lot of very good images that do not have those labels. -- Asclepias (talk) 16:22, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

This is a screendump of the category. I don't see the "good pictures button". Where can I find it? Thanks. Wouter (talk) 10:45, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

For me that dropdown is near the top right to the left of "help". Tried both Vector skins and German and I can always see it unlike in your screenshot. Chidgk1 (talk) 15:02, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

Might you be using a non-Vector skin? Chidgk1 (talk) 15:20, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

@Wouter: That dropdown is displayed by the FastCCI gadget, which you can enable in your preferences. It never worked for me, so I had to disable it.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 15:37, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

I worked with Vector 2010. Changing to 2020 did not help but YES, enabling the FastCCI gadget worked. Thanks!! Wouter (talk) 15:53, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

@Wouter: You're welcome!!   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 17:31, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

Overwriting

Hi all. Recently I'm not able to overwrite images when using CropTool. I get the following message: "Upload failed! [api] Received error: abusefilter-disallowed : ⧼abusefilter-warning-file-overwriting⧽". Any ideas how this could be fixed? Many thanks in advance. ArturSik (talk) 14:55, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

@ArturSik: Hi, and welcome. You have triggered Special:AbuseFilter/290. Please read MediaWiki:abusefilter-warning-file-overwriting and Commons:Village pump/Proposals/Archive/2023/08#Limit file overwriting to users with autopatrol rights again, and request Autopatrol group membership at COM:RFR when you think you are ready (once you have made more than 500 useful non-botlike edits); having that should allow you to overwrite.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 15:04, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

@ArturSik: as Jeff says, we now restrict overwriting other people's files to those who have autopatrol rights and above. If the change you wish to make to the file is minor, you can request to be allowed to overwrite a particular file at Commons:Overwriting existing files/requests Abzeronow (talk) 17:29, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

Hi both. Thanks clearing this up. I was not aware these restrictions were introduced. ArturSik (talk) 17:52, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

Copyright help regarding File:Andrzej Dubas.jpg

This file was published on the University website: https://amu.edu.pl/wiadomosci/aktualnosci/pracownicy/prof.-dr-hab.-andrzej-dubas-na-konferencji-uniwersytety-w-poszukiwaniu-doskonalosci

--Ledowiczka (talk) 19:20, 12 November 2023 (UTC)Ledowiczka

I don't see a Creative Commons license or anything similar. Bottom of the page has "© Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu" so I don't think we can host the photograph on Commons. Abzeronow (talk) 19:32, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

https://www2.circleci.com/rs/485-ZMH-626/images/2022_SOS_Final.pdf?mkt_tok=NDg1LVpNSC02MjYAAAGPY-6ArL6Hs3JftSPgN0KmiNuy1BtRBcmL0k3vIQc_rhQY-BzEJhwZMdp1NXIXibY36DilrzYyltvBG9LUCefryFmti78jTKLA3BUmetAHQXX7 Buyzed (talk) 19:46, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

About an image from flickr

So this image was uploaded here from flickr some time ago legally, correct license etc. Thing is I wanted to use a cropped version (here) and while I did attribute the original flickr source and the first person who uploaded the image here, I forgot to provide the direct link to the flickr page, and as a result the bot FlickreviewR 2 flagged it with a big red x. I then added the link, and the checked the license (it's the same, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic). So my question is, is the cropped version I uploaded alright to use? Deiadameian (talk) 01:06, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

@Deiadameian: It is now.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 01:14, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

Thank you! Deiadameian (talk) 01:15, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

@Deiadameian: You're welcome!   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 01:16, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

Request for improving photo

• 
  ETH-BIB Emil Bührle - Ausschnitt von Com X-H065-08-02 (cropped).tif (the original)
• 
  ETH-BIB Emil Bührle - Ausschnitt von Com X-H065-08-02 (cropped).tif 2.jpg (from User:Paradise Chronicle)
• 
  ETH-BIB Emil Bührle - Ausschnitt von Com X-H065-08-02 (cropped, more contrast).jpg (from User:Jmabel).

I'm not able to improve this photo, which is used in several WP articles and Wikidata (its the only portrait of this person we have on WM Commons). I would be thankful if someone experienced would improve the quality and overwrite the bad one. The original is still available here https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ETH-BIB-_Hail%C3%A9_Selassie_und_Emil_B%C3%BChrle_-_Com_X-H065-08-02.tif Hadi (talk) 21:23, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

@Hadi: You might want to post this request to Commons:Graphic Lab/Photography workshop. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 00:13, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

Hi, I was able to make the image a bit more warm and "coming more to life", but I am not able to Overwrite it, so I uploaded it over the Upload Wizard. What you say of that one File:ETH-BIB Emil Bührle - Ausschnitt von Com X-H065-08-02 (cropped).tif 2.jpg? Paradise Chronicle (talk) 00:16, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

@Paradise Chronicle: very grainy, and it is certainly a good thing you didn't overwrite. I can see how some might prefer that version, but it is by no means an unambiguous improvement. And the two should certainly be linked with {{Derivative works}} / {{Derived from}} in their respective "other versions" sections. - Jmabel ! talk 01:36, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

Yeah, well I am not a specialist, but I believe my version was better than the original, specially for the suite, therefore making the image a bit a "bigger picture". In my opinion your version is better for the head, which of course is the prime focus of the picture. Paradise Chronicle (talk) 13:48, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

I've added my own, which is intermediate between the original and Paradise Chronicle's version. I think it remains a matter of taste which of the three is to be preferred. Unsurprisingly, I'd favor my own, but I leave the decision entirely to others. - Jmabel ! talk 01:54, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

Thank you, Paradise Chronicle and Jmabel! Maybe we can use now both versions in the different languages, because there is no best version. --Hadi (talk) 16:49, 18 November 2023 (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. Hadi (talk) 16:49, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

What can cause a PNG to look different to its SVG?

I'm having a big of trouble understanding why this flag image has a different png from svg. Here you see the png has no coat of arms. Open this image's Commons page and then click on the image again, which will show the svg. Why does it look different to the png?

Panamitsu (talk) 21:26, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Presumably some flaw in the SVG. - Jmabel ! talk 22:04, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

You both see a CoA in the svg? My browser doesn't show it. -- Asclepias (talk) 16:57, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

@Asclepias: I see it when I look at the SVG itself, but not the PNGs generated from the SVG. - Jmabel ! talk 03:00, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

Interesting. My system doesn't show it in the svg. Possibly for the same reason that the mediawiki system doesn't catch it when it generates the pngs. -- Asclepias (talk) 05:00, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

The flaw in the SVG was a bunch of undefined filter="url(#filter3791)". Fixed now! —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 06:28, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

Thank you! Panamitsu (talk) 02:54, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

How to Remove Morphed images from Wikimedia Commons

A page I am updating contained morphed images of a person. The image was removed from the page usage. I would like to know if the Image can be deleted from the server? Prasanth K P (talk) 17:45, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

• Let us know what image you're talking about. See Commons:Deletion requests for general information about listing images for deletion. -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 18:01, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
  • If you were overwriting, this may be a caching glitch (saving the old dimensions for the new image). - Jmabel ! talk 18:52, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

  I have a submitted a request to delete the said image. Thanks for the direction Prasanth K P (talk) 11:56, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

I'm wondering whether or not a band's logo is simple enough not to be considered a work of authorship.

I've been creating a userbox on Wikipedia about a band called The Cat Empire. I would like to know whether or not it is simple enough not to be considered a "work of authorship", as I would like to use it in the userbox's icon. I could also create a crude scrawling of the logo if that is necessary.

Here's a copy of the logo, found online: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a0/9a/43/a09a43c3f2c7fae41e87fd36490e3856.jpg

Thank you in advance. Sorry if this isn't the correct wiki. SupremeLordBagel (talk) 05:56, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

Template:PingSupremeLordBagel depends on the country (threshold varies). Where are they from? - Jmabel ! talk 22:23, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

Australia. SupremeLordBagel (talk) 03:50, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

No description or information about the important village of Phungar

No description or information about the important village of Phungar located near the town of Champawat in Uttarakhand state of India Sashank Lord (talk) 08:42, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

@Sashank Lord: Hi, and welcome. Phungar is not documented yet at en:Phungar. Please feel free to create Category:Phungar under Category:Populated places in Champawat district and populate it with properly licensed files. OTOH, en:Champawat already is documented and here we use Category:Champawat.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 11:04, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

how can I write my history/ diary up to today on this Wikipedia

my personals information Wakjeda girma (talk) 19:53, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

@Wakjeda girma: You can't. Wikipedia is not a social media, or a website to host your personal blog. Please read COM:SCOPE. Thanks, Yann (talk) 19:58, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

again: "Error when try to upload svg: file contains scriptcode"

Ich habe die file:Median_Empire-en.svg überarbeitet. Sie enthält ein <image xlink:href="data:image/png;base64,... " />-Tag. Der Upload der übersetzten Version schlägt fehl mit der Meldung: "Diese Datei enthält HTML- oder Scriptcode, der irrtümlich von einem Webbrowser ausgeführt werden könnte." Über diesen Fehler wurde bereits unter Commons:Forum/Archiv/2015/January#SVG-Fehlermeldung geschrieben. Vollbracht (talk) 01:26, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

I have reworked file:Median_Empire-en.svg. It contains a <image xlink:href="data:image/png;base64,... " />-Tag. Upload of the translated version failed with the erroneous message.--Vollbracht (talk) 01:32, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

@Vollbracht: Then it needs cleanup, as either {{Fakesvg}} or {{BadSVG}}.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 13:46, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

O.k. then - so how do I tag this file to be able to upload it? Vollbracht (talk) 17:55, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

@Vollbracht: I tagged it as {{SVG with raster elements}} (the target of {{BadSVG}} redirect).   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 18:22, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

Once more: how do I tag my svg file to be able to upload it? Vollbracht (talk) 17:16, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

I added this tag but sill upload fails with "Diese Datei enthält HTML- oder Scriptcode, der irrtümlich von einem Webbrowser ausgeführt werden könnte." ("This file contains html or script code which erroneously might be executed by a web browser.") It doesn't contain any script code though. Vollbracht (talk) 17:32, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

Is there a way to filter the search for images with the highest resolution available? for art particularly. Thanks

Is there a way to filter the search for images with the highest resolution available? for art particularly. Thanks Pacocresta (talk) 21:43, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

@Pacocresta: Certainly nothing at all routine. Someone might have a tool for this. I don't see any relevant functions in MediaWiki API help page, so I'm not sure there is a way to program such a thing. - Jmabel ! talk 01:43, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

Not quite "highest", but Special:MediaSearch has an "Image size" option that allows you to ask only for larger images. For more control, you can use the "file measures" feature on both Special:Search and Special:MediaSearch. For instance adding filewidth:>1920 to your query will get you files at least 1920 pixels wide. There is a way to ask for an explicit sort order, but sorting by resolution doesn't appear on the list. --bjh21 (talk) 10:48, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

Is it possible to track new subtitles added to files in a category?

Hello! The Basque Wikimedians User Group is developping the project called Ikusgela. There are a good amount of videos there, and some of them have subtitles. Now we are asking other people to add further subtitles, but we can't track if that happens. Is there a way to track new subtitles added to any file in that category? Thanks! Theklan (talk) 09:14, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

So, somehow it is possible using sparql and wikidata list. The code is available here: eu:Atari:Hezkuntza/Ikusgela/Azpitituluak. Thanks User:Nikki for the hard work. -Theklan (talk) 11:09, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

Adding image in black and white form

Is it possible to add an image to an article in black and white form when the original uploaded image is in colorized form, without uploading a separate black and white image for it? Lamba Chaura (talk) 10:20, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

@Lamba Chaura: Without overwriting the original (which would be a bad idea), that's a good question. In a quick look at mw:Help:Images and en:Wikipedia:Extended image syntax, I did not find an option to display an image with a b&w filter, but you may want to have a deeper look at those help pages. Anyway, uploading a separate file would be a good solution. -- Asclepias (talk) 16:01, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

Yup. I'd upload a derivative work under a new filename, and use that. - Jmabel ! talk 16:25, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

Thanks @Asclepias: and @Jmabel: , I guess the only way is to upload a separate file. Was hoping that there would be a image syntax to do so. Lamba Chaura (talk) 20:58, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

Unesco 2013 traveling photo exhibit "journeys to school"

Hello,

Could you please inform me if your database has the photo images of UNESCO 2013 publication, "Journeys to school" and how do I obtain them?

Thanks, Weiming Gorman Wdyao (talk) 13:07, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

@Wdyao: I don't think those are public-domain or free-licensed. Do you have any evidence that they are? - Jmabel ! talk 16:31, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

Thanks. I just found out that UNECO digital library has a copy. 74.109.196.227 16:53, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

How long does a speedy deletion take? How can I make sure a picture is removed?

I believe I have requested a speedy deletion on a really unfortunate picture. The picture is of a friend and was uploaded a while ago. Unfortunately this picture is causing great troubles for him at work and may cost him his job. I am not experienced in editing wikimedia pages, but desperateley hope this picture can be removed as soon as possible. Any tips? Benniderprofi (talk) 16:52, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

 Done. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 17:13, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

@Benniderprofi: I hope you meant File:Jaspa.png.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 02:05, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

Add an image from your PC

Hi, I would like to add an image that I created personally for a Wikipedia page, but every time I try to upload it I get this message:

"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. The content must be freely licensed. Do not copy files illegally (in violation of copyright) from other websites. If you believe that the file meets our licensing standards: Upload the file again or click "Retry failed uploads"/"Submit modified file description"."

What can I do to solve the problem? Thanks and best regards. Il Grande Aukan (talk) 20:41, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

@Il Grande Aukan: Hi, and welcome. I am sorry to inform you that you have triggered Special:AbuseFilter/153 by trying to cross-wiki upload png and smaller (<50,000 bytes or <2,000,000 pixels) jpg images as a new user. 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 or smaller jpg 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 license it on their official website or social media or send permission via VRT with a carbon copy to you. Also, any png image will look fuzzy when scaled down (due to design decisions discussed in phab:T192744) or jaggy when scaled up, so you may want to upload svg or jpg versions, too. If you can't get a compliant license, the image may still be uploaded to English Wikipedia in compliance with en:WP:F because we don't allow Fair Use here. If you use our Upload Wizard instead, you should be able to avoid that filter. You have also triggered Special:AbuseFilter/156 by trying to upload smaller (<50,000 bytes) jpg images as a new user.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 01:55, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

Przesyłanie starych fotografi

Czy stare zdjęcia wykonane ponad 100 lat temu przez nie znanego autora mogą być przesłane na Wikimedia Commons? Can i publish old photos taken more than 100 years ago by unknown author? Rycerzdobrzynski (talk) 17:36, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

@Rycerzdobrzynski: Probably; please read {{PD-Poland}} to be sure.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 02:03, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

thank you Rycerzdobrzynski (talk) 07:24, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

why someone wrote something somewhere about me "This is not a real user" ??

fdfds TestingName (talk) 18:06, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

@TestingName: Hi, and welcome. Please be specific about which "someone" wrote, which "somewhere" it was, and when.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 02:00, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

Nothing anyone else has written appears on Commons to link to your username so, yes, I'd also be intrigued to know who & where. - Jmabel ! talk 05:30, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

Image

I would like to download an image of Jesus knocking at the door, but the image shows the watermark of Sul Art. I thought that the image is in the public domain. Can I still use the image for my YouTube channel? Mariaalgarin (talk) 18:49, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

@Mariaalgarin: Hi, and welcome. What image, exactly?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 01:58, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

And why do you think it is in the public domain? - Jmabel ! talk 05:31, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

What to do if I do not want to put any files on my account yet but it will not let me finish the making my account without doing it

It will not let me finish making my account without me uploading files onto it AKawesome28 (talk) 19:05, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

@AKawesome28: Hi, and welcome. Please start with COM:First steps. What "will not let me finish the making my account without" uploading? Please be specific.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 01:57, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

You clearly have an account, since you are posting from it. - Jmabel ! talk 05:32, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

Billing

I need to talk to someone about the billing thing , please have someone 🙏 send me an email at richard.collins32@yahoo.ca 70.65.182.157 01:05, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

Hi, and welcome. What billing thing?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 01:53, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

There is nothing where Wikimedia Commons (this site) would ever have sent you (or anyone) a bill. What entity billed you? Might it be the Wikimedia Foundation? - Jmabel ! talk 05:34, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

Were you asked to donate while browsing Wikipedia? If so, please e-mail donate@wikimedia.org for any questions. The Wikimedia Foundation is the organization that collects those donations and uses them to operate Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. However, it is separate from the community of volunteers that provides assistance here. Anon126 (✉ ⚒) 06:34, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

It has almost certainly nothing to do with this website. You're not telling billing by whom and for what. I doubt that anyone can help with something vague as "the billing thing". Also, posting your e-mail is a good way to receive unwanted stuff, including possibly fake bills. -- Asclepias (talk) 15:32, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

Adding a PDF to an article.

What is the process of adding a PDF to an article as verification. In this example, I'm referring to a degree received. Thank you. VictorEdgar (talk) 02:20, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

You could upload a scan, screenshot or photograph of the degree. You can follow the instruction given at the Upload Wizard. Paradise Chronicle (talk) 03:08, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

@VictorEdgar: but more to the point, assuming you are talking about a Wikipedia article, there is normally no need to upload a PDF anywhere to cite its contents. If the PDF in question is already online somewhere, cite the copy already online. If it is not, then it is presumably a scan of a printed source, which may be cited. Citations to not need to be even to materials that are on line, only to materials that are, at least in principle, available to be viewed by another person. E.g. look at the citations and references for Abraham Goldfaden. - Jmabel ! talk

Contrast enhanced ISS images

Am I doing this right? Does this look OK? I have another 16 of these ready to upload. I downloaded the digital negatives from NASA and adjusted them in darktable. The bottom right corner ends up a bit dark, because I'm subtracting the haze uniformly across the whole image, which exaggerates a slight vignetting in the source image.

original	my image

Tim Starling (talk) 11:41, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

@Tim Starling: You are doing fine. I wouldn't worry about your image not being in all ways better, that's exactly why we don't overwrite. Offhand the only things I'd do differently are:

1. be overt about the retouching, something like "white-balancing by Tim Starling".
2. assuming it is your intent to release the white-balancing into the public domain, be overt about releasing your enhancement with a {{CC-0}} tag or other similar means of waiving rights.
3. Use {{Derivative versions}} on the original file page to link to your retouched version. - Jmabel ! talk 20:34, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

Thanks Jmabel. I used {{Retouched}} to describe the modifications, and {{PD-retouched-user}} for the license. -- Tim Starling (talk) 22:17, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

That'll do. - Jmabel ! talk 22:58, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

Transfert d'une image vers Wikidata

J'ai créé la page Thomas W. Benoist sur le Wiki FR et souhaiterais en illustrer l'infobox avec la photo située à: https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fayl:Tomas_Benoist.jpg

Je ne comprends pas l'azéri mais il semble qu'elle soit déclarée comme libre (GNU version 1.2 ou ultérieure).

1 - Quelqu'un peut-il le confirmer

2 - J'ignore comment on importe un fichier du Wiki AZ vers Wikidata. Ça m'intéresse si quelqu'un peut me l'expliquer (ou, au pire, faire le job à ma place...)

Merci d'avance

Éléphant volant (talk) 18:29, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

@Éléphant volant: Bonjour, Vu l'absence d'information sur cette copie sur az.wp, ce n'est pas une bonne source. La licence qui y prétendue est presque certainement une fausseté. La photographie est des années 1910. La copie de la même photo sur en.wp fournit l'information requise, la source immédiate étant la State Historical Society of Missouri (image), avec mention que l'original provient de The Reinhardt N. Ausmus Collection, Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center. Il vous faut copier le fichier sur Commons. Vous pouvez le faire facilement depuis la page de en.wp, en utilisant la fonction «Export to Wikimedia Commons». Ensuite, vous pouvez afficher l'image directement dans l'article de fr.wp ou indirectement en l'insérant dans la page de Wikidata. -- Asclepias (talk) 19:47, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

Merci Asclepias Éléphant volant (talk) 10:40, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

Updating/replacing a deletion request with no permission template?

I have nominated File:Mohd_Sany_Hamzan_sedang_berswafoto.jpg for deletion here. I am aware that missing EXIF data is not sole grounds for deletion and apologise for that. However, it is highly likely that this is not the uploader's own work as claimed on the page because it is a selfie of the subject. Should I remove the nomination request and replace it with {{subst:npd}}? HejTuWou (talk) 02:51, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

@HejTuWou: Hi, and welcome. You may not remove DR subpage Commons:Deletion requests/File:Mohd Sany Hamzan sedang berswafoto.jpg.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 09:24, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

Ok, I can let it be. So, is {{subst:npd}} unnnecessary? Do I just put that this is a selfie of the subject that he has not given permission to upload to Wikipedia? HejTuWou (talk) 09:33, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

@HejTuWou: Yes, but you forgot to ping me.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 09:41, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

Help with uploading educational videos

I can't seem to upload my videos Hornystar (talk) 10:24, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

I don't think we need more porn videos. Yann (talk) 10:26, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

@Hornystar: Hi, and welcome. Please see COM:FT#Video and COM:Video.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 10:41, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

Requests by Wrock

Why was my upload not accepted? Wrock (talk) 11:31, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

@Wrock: Hi, You have no deleted files on Commons, so can you explain a bit more? Yann (talk) 11:43, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

@Wrock: Hi, and welcome. You were able to upload File:Loé3.jpg. Where should it have been accepted? Who wrote it (certainly not you in 1895)?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 14:35, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

I used https://historicalmapchart.net/ to make a map, can I still upload it?

I used https://historicalmapchart.net/ to make a map, can I still upload it? NecromancerOfEnchanting (talk) 20:57, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

They say that the created maps are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, which is compatible with Commons, so yes, you can. Be sure to use {{Cc-by-sa-4.0}} as a license and credit the website. --rimshot^talk 21:46, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by NecromancerOfEnchanting (talk • contribs) 16:30, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

Uploading photographs of my grandfather and his art, 2 part question

Hello, my grandfather passed away in 1999 and more recently my grandmother passed away this year. There is a wikipedia page for my grandfather and I thought I would upload some photos of his art that he took himself before he passed. My father is the sole heir to everything they owned, and I'm the 2nd in line for inheritance. My father gave me permission and is encouraging me to upload these things. I just wanted to verify that there wouldn't be any issues with that.

There is also a headshot that my grandfather had professionally shot back when he was doing art shows in the 1950s that I would like to use as the picture of him for the wikipedia page. The headshot doesn't have any information attached on which studio took the picture, or if copies were ever made. I believe it is the only copy, though, as it was the only one he had in his possession. I would also like to know if that is safe to upload and use as well. Thank you for your time! Elroz Briggs (talk) 23:57, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

@Elroz Briggs: Hi, and welcome. I'm sorry for your losses. Headshots are made to be shown and sent. Both actions count as publication (at least in the US). In what country were these photos made?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 00:10, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

They were made in the US, so you have answered my question! Thank you! Elroz Briggs (talk) 00:34, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

@Elroz Briggs: You're welcome!   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 13:15, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by:   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 13:15, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

Image created by me but based on an historic image provided by the British Library

I obtained some images of pages of a book printed in 1650 from the British Library's Imaging Service. These I edited so I could use them to create a single folio image for my own purposes. The result is therefore my own work, based on copies from a 1650 book which is obviously out of copyright. Can I submit it to Wikimedia? Can the terms of the BL Imaging Service affect this? (I can't check it just at the moment as their website is inaccessible.) Ceperman (talk) 18:15, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

@Ceperman: if these are faithful copies at each step of the way, then as far as Commons is concerned these are simply uncreative photos of a two-dimensional work in the public domain, and may be uploaded as such ({{PD-old-100}} or similar tag). Neither you nor the British Library has any copyright involved here.

Note that UK law may view this differently: there is a so-called "sweat-of-brow" doctrine in UK copyright law if it took a lot of work to make the clean copy. I believe (though I could be wrong, User:Clindberg might know) that it has never been tested in a courtroom. Commons pretty much ignores it. - 22:40, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

Any "sweat-of-brow" here would be mine, as I cleaned up the copy, and I'm happy to give up any copyright claim. Does this make it OK just to submit it as my work? Ceperman (talk) 18:45, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

@Ceperman: There is also the sweat of an employee of the British Library's Imaging Service.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 18:58, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

As I said, Commons really doesn't recognize the "sweat of the brow" claim. The only concession that I'm aware we've made to it is that there are some UK GLAMs who freely provide us with reasonably high-res content on the basis that we don't host their super-high-res versions of the same content. - Jmabel ! talk 19:44, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

The original reply only mentioned "sweat-of-brow" in relation to cleaning up the image, which I did. But hey, if this isn't an issue for Wikimedia then that's good enough for me. Ceperman (talk) 14:44, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

Why does this svg appear different than when it is converted to a png?

For some reason this image appears differently as a png and svg. Here is the png, if you open the svg (open the image onto Commons, then click on it), the yellow background shrinks in size, leaving a large portion of the background white. Why does this do that? Can I have some help fixing it? Panamitsu (talk) 02:58, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

@Panamitsu: This is an impressively messed-up file! I've fixed the issue where the style definitions were

<style type="text/css"><![CDATA[
	.fil1 {fill:#A2260B}
	.fil0 {fill:#FFDF00}
	]]></style>

and the issue where the contents of the image were 100000 times as tall/wide as the ostensible height and width. I'm not sure why the only shapes that display are the rectangle background and the three stars, but hopefully someone else can help with that. I'm looking forward to finding out what's going on there! Also, you might want to put future requests for help with SVGs at Commons:Graphic Lab/Illustration workshop. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 06:44, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

@Panamitsu: I posted about this image at Commons:Graphic Lab/Illustration workshop#Fix display issues with File:Flag of Chuvashia.svg. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 05:27, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

Oh yes thank you! Panamitsu (talk) 09:55, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

Error Message

I am trying to create a page for our school on Wikipedia however it will not allow me to upload our school logo DelanoAcademyCanada (talk) 19:25, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

@DelanoAcademyCanada: Hi, and welcome. What error message did you get? What tool were you trying to use? I can see no record of what you describe.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 19:38, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

@DelanoAcademyCanada: is your school logo in the public domain? If not, is it free-licensed? - Jmabel ! talk 19:46, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

Did I create the logo? No but I am part of a school trying to make a Wikipedia page for our school. It is extremely difficult to do and not very user friendly. Is there any other way of making a page? I have also tried to put coordinates in my article but it won't show on the map.

The error -

We could not determine whether this file is suitable for Wikimedia Commons.

The following problems have been automatically detected:

• You have tagged this logo as being your "Own work" and stated that it is licensed under a Creative Commons license. Unless you are the copyright holder and/or there has been an explicit release under a free license, this file will be deleted.

Do not copy files illegally (in violation of copyright) from other websites.

If you believe that the file meets our licensing standards: Upload the file again or click "Retry failed uploads"/"Submit modified file description". DelanoAcademyCanada (talk) 15:43, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

@DelanoAcademyCanada: I'm guessing we are talking about the coat-of-arms-style logo at the upper left of https://www.delanoacademy.com/. That is almost certainly copyrighted (and trademarked). To host that on Commons, we would need a the copyright-holder to go through the process described at COM:VRT to offer a free license to use the image. That copyright-holder will be either the designer of the image or the academy itself (in the latter case we would need a representative of the academy to do the COM:VRT thing). Once you know that is moving forward, you can upload the image with Special:UploadWIzard, making sure to mark it with the appropriate authorship plus three tags: the relevant license (probably {{CC-BY-SA-4.0}}, {{Trademarked}}, and {{subst:PP}}.

If you cannot get the relevant permission, and you want the logo for an article on en-wiki, you can take advantage of their policy for limited non-free content. You would use en:Template:Non-free logo. Note that this approach does not involve Commons at all: you would upload to en-wiki, and the file you upload would not be accessible to Commons or the other sister wikis. - Jmabel ! talk 18:29, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

Copyright help regarding File:Canadian Baseball Network black logo.png

This is the logo of the Canadian Baseball Network, the page of which I am in the process of creating on Wikipedia. However, I don't know what the copyright rules are for uploading photos of logos. I took this one directly from the website (here). I would appreciate the help. Thank you.

--Omnis Scientia (talk) 08:30, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

@Omnis Scientia: That website is "Copyright 1995-2023" per the bottom line. Also, per the Berne Convention and COM:Canada, since 10 April 1928 every copyrightable work created in Canada has been automatically copyrighted the moment it was fixed in a tangible medium of expression, so that logo is still copyrighted (at least since the website design in 1995). What led you to believe that the logo was either free-licensed or under COM:TOO Canada?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 11:42, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

A misunderstanding. I'm still trying to figure things out here. Given how many logos are available on Wikimedia, I wrongly assumed this one must be too. My apologies; I will remove it.

Thank you for your help. Omnis Scientia (talk) 11:56, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

@Omnis Scientia: You're welcome.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 12:01, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

Review BMW Z4 (21803780309-background modified)

Hello, I probably did a mistake when uploaded the named file.

My version has never been at flicker, but the original File:BMW Z4 (21803780309).jpg. But this has a positive flicker review. Could you please put in the correct necessary information into my file. Thank you ver much in advance. Kind regards, Wikisympathisant (talk) 15:02, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

@Wikisympathisant: So that you can do it right yourself next time, see https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BMW_Z4_(21803780309).jpg and https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:BMW_Z4_(21803780309-background_modified)_by_Wikisympathisant.jpg&diff=prev&oldid=822716976. - Jmabel ! talk 18:35, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

Thank you & KR, Wikisympathisant (talk) 18:37, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

Copyright help regarding File:PLEXUS 4 covers 1980 to 1985.png

I'm drafting a page for Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:PLEXUS_West_Coast_Women’s_Press)

I found these old photos of old (1980s) front pages from a now defunct newspaper, on a site called LibraryThing, which describes itself as free and open.

The source was a search like this: https://www.librarything.com/search.php?search=PLEXUS+West+Coast+Women’s+Press&searchtype=newwork_titles&sortchoice=0

I get that this is less concrete than an image marked with an explicit modern CC license. But I'd like to know if the images will suddenly disappear from my Wikipedia article.

I have a similar concern with an image (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PLEXUS_Nexus.png) on my draft Wikipedia page. It is taken from the archive of the Berkeley Barb newspaper on JSTOR. The source for that is (https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.28033489?seq=5). That page is clearly marked in the upper left corner as OPEN ACCESS.

--BananaSlug (talk) 19:32, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

Descargar papeletas electorales (Venezuela)

Buenas,se puede descargar Papeletas electorales (Ballot papers) en Venezuela,inspirados por otros?? AbchyZa22 (talk) 12:56, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

AbchyZa22 ¿puedes describir, con claridad, cuál es tu duda? Lo que has escrito es agramatical e ininteligible. Strakhov (talk) 22:39, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

@Strakhov: Buenas, lamento la demora, por ejemplo si descargo uno como este (https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tarjeton_Electoral.jpeg#mw-jump-to-license), Wikimedia lo acepta??

) AbchyZa22 (talk) 16:04, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

AbchyZa22: empiezo a tener serias dudas de si conoces la diferencia entre las palabras «descargar» (download) y «subir» (upload). ¿Por descargar te refieres a guardar la imagen en tu computadora o celular? Efectivamente, no hay ningún problema con eso. "Wikimedia" de forma general nunca te va a poner pegas a descargar una imagen ya existente en Wikimedia Commons. Si te estás refiriendo, en un mal uso de la palabra 'descargar', a que si puedes "subir" a Wikimedia Commons imágenes de papeletas electorales porque otros lo han hecho, te diría que el que enlazaste es un mal ejemplo del que tomar 'inspiración': es improbable que se trate de un "trabajo propio" de quien subió la imagen y habría que establecer, por tanto, motivos por los que dicha imagen podría considerarse en dominio público (pueden existir, pero yo los desconozco). Saludos. Strakhov (talk) 12:33, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

@Strakhov:Osea si subó una imagen como esa (https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tarjeton_Electoral.jpeg#mw-jump-to-license) Wikimedia lo acepta?? AbchyZa22 (talk) 12:54, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

AbchyZa22: ya te he dicho que, dado que no es una creación tuya, tienes que especificar algún motivo por el que la papeleta estaría en dominio público. ¿Carecen las papeletas electorales de Venezuela de derechos de autor por alguna ley venezolana? ¿existe algún otro motivo por el que podría considerarse en dominio público (de minimis, umbral de originalidad o algo así)?: lo desconozco, ni soy venezolano, ni soy experto en papeletas electorales, ni he manejado muchos casos de minimis u originalidad). Con la información que has proporcionado te diría que no subas la imagen, pero es posible que obtengas opiniones más cualificadas que la mía en COM:VP/C (aunque te recomiendo que te expreses con más claridad, cuesta entender lo que escribes incluso a un hispanoparlante, y allí se prefiere el inglés). Saludos. Strakhov (talk) 13:03, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

My Last Upload

Hello where can i see the last image i upload,I am confused whether i uploaded already or not, Turwaq (talk) 14:59, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

Special:ListFiles/Turwaq —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 15:54, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

Look at the “contribs” link that usually lurks near your username: Special:Contributions/CalendulaAsteraceae

It has a chronological list of all of your contributions. BananaSlug (talk) 00:54, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

@Turwaq: In more detail: a link to your contributions page (Special:Contributions/Turwaq), which has all your edits, is next to the "Log out" button in the top toolbar, and you can also get there with the keyboard shortcut Control+Option+Y [⌃⌥y]. You can also go to your user page and click "User uploads" (Special:ListFiles/Turwaq) in the left toolbar, in the "Tools" section. (The toolbar may be on the right in the layout for RTL languages; I haven't checked.) And as @BananaSlug notes, you could, if you wish, edit your signature to link to either or both of these pages! I did this, by going to Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-personal, checking the "Treat signature as wikitext (without an automatic link to your user page)" box, and typing in the wikitext I wanted for my signature.

Regarding your original question, it does look like you've uploaded two very similar images, but I'm not sure if these are the images you were wondering about. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 03:11, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

Urheberrecht File:118d P90358889 highRes the-all-new-bmw-1-se (1crop).jpg

Hallo,

auf meiner Benutzerseite wurde mir aufgrund o.g. Crop eine Sperrung angedroht. Ich habe bei der Diskussion diese files schon erwähnt, dass ich lediglich ein Crop von einem File, was mit CreativeCommons-Lizenz ausgezeichnet war, gemacht habe, und ich denke, dass ich als normaler User diesem auch vertrauen können sollte. Bitte diesen Verstoß enstprechend bewerten, mich aus der Verstoßliste nehmen und mir bitte Rückmeldung geben. Danke Euch schon mal! Viele Grüße, Wikisympathisant (talk) 15:43, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

Hello, Unfortunately, some people upload non-free files with fake licences. Hundreds of files must be deleted every day. If you happen to make, although in good faith, a cropped version of a copyvio, unfortunately the result will still be a copyvio. Files on Wikimedia must be free for any use. "Free for editorial use" is not equivalent to a free licence and is not a CC licence. -- Asclepias (talk) 16:56, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your reply . I see and understand, that such files are deleted, that is not the problem. First the original pict. had CC on it. From my point of view that means that the commons-user can not trust in the CC-licence the file shows? 2nd is: So I'm now on a list and it is possible I cannot work here any longer? Please let me know. Thank you again. Regards to Canada, Wikisympathisant (talk) 17:25, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

@Wikisympathisant: "So I'm now on a list and it is possible I cannot work here any longer?" I see no indication of that anywhere. Could you please link to what you are referring to. - Jmabel ! talk 18:38, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

Convenience link File:118d P90358889 highRes the-all-new-bmw-1-se (1crop).jpg. (deleted file, but linking for the benefit of admins) - Jmabel ! talk 18:39, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

See also Commons:Deletion requests/File:118d P90358889 highRes the-all-new-bmw-1-se (1crop).jpg. That file derived from File:P90358889 highRes the-all-new-bmw-1-se (1).jpg, which was also deleted as a copyvio. - Jmabel ! talk 18:46, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

@Wikisympathisant: Obviously, we cannot always identify promptly that an uploader has lied about a license. I'd guess that at any given moment between 0.5% and 1% of files on Commons have some sort of licensing problem, which is to say between 500,000 and 1 million of the 100 million files here. That's not easily fixed, but I think it is actually about the lowest percentage of any even vaguely comparable site on the Internet. Flickr probably runs over 10% copyright violations, and they are not even close to the worst offender. - Jmabel ! talk 18:46, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

The biggest difference is that commons is proactive when it comes to copyrigh while Flickr is reactive Trade (talk) 22:38, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

Ok, I refer to this lines on my disc.-page (there in German ...) The file you added has been deleted. If you have written permission from the copyright holder, please have them send us a free license release via COM:VRT. If you believe that the deletion was not in accordance with policy, you may request undeletion. (It is not necessary to request undeletion if using VRT; the file will be automatically restored at the conclusion of the process.) Warning: Wikimedia Commons takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. From this I guessed, there must be a list of the violators ... respectively I'm seen know as "mis-user" of commons. KR, Wikisympathisant (talk) 18:54, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

That's a boilerplate warning when a file has been tagged as a copyright violation. You're not on a list that I, as an administrator, are aware of. As Jmabel says, we cannot always identify quickly when an uploader has lied about a license. Abzeronow (talk) 19:31, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

Oh thank you for this clarification, I'm feeling much better after your information Best regards, Wikisympathisant (talk) 19:56, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

@Wikisympathisant however, you are right with "can not trust in the CC-license". This is the case for every media at every platform: Whatever the description says can be wrong and copyright law everywhere says, the user of a media file is responsible for copyright infringements even if them had no way to know, that it is a copyright infringement. That is different from all other areas of law. If for example you bought a car and had reason to beleive it was legal but only find out that the seller had stolen it after you owned it for some year it is stil legally yours. With copyright it is the other way around: If your family has owned a piece of artwork for 50 years and than find out it was stolen you have to return it to the original owner. With copyright you are ever only on the save side if you created a work yourself or know the creator personally. C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 07:14, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for your remarks. Regards, Wikisympathisant (talk) 13:19, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

How to internationalize signature

This section was archived on a request by: —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 22:57, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

Inspired by a discussion above, I want to internationalize my signature. I went to Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-personal, checked the "Treat signature as wikitext" box, and edited my signature to

—[[User:CalendulaAsteraceae|CalendulaAsteraceae]] ([[User talk:CalendulaAsteraceae|{{int:talkpagelinktext}}]] • [[Special:Contributions/CalendulaAsteraceae|{{int:contribslink}}]])

but when I clicked Save, it turned into

—[[User:CalendulaAsteraceae|CalendulaAsteraceae]] ([[User talk:CalendulaAsteraceae|{{SUBST:int:talkpagelinktext}}]] • [[Special:Contributions/CalendulaAsteraceae|{{SUBST:int:contribslink}}]])

so when I sign, the text is just converted to English. I've seen other users' signatures include {{int:talkpagelinktext}}. Is there something I should be doing differently here? —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 03:36, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

Hmm, the box at meta:Special:Preferences says

Wikitext signature (if unchecked, the contents of the box has to be plain text, treated as your nickname linked automatically to your user page; if checked, the contents should be source code, including all links; templates etc., images, and external links are not allowed)

so it seems like the the automatic substitution is probably to prevent people from using templates in their signatures? In which case I'm not sure where I should be asking for an exception w.r.t. internationalized text, but it sounds like it's probably a pan-wiki thing. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 21:25, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

Moved to mw:Help talk:Signatures. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 07:57, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

Need for Full Name Attribution Option in the new Photo Upload Form

In the new photo upload form, there is a missing option to enter one's own first and last name. I publish photos under the Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution license. I should have the ability to specify how I am credited under these photos. I, Jakub Hałun, am the author of these photographs, not 'jakubhal,' which is a technical and arbitrary account name for me. -- Jakubhal 14:02, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

The link from upload form redirected me here, but I have also open a thread at village pump which I think is better place to discuss that change. -- Jakubhal 14:10, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

Uploading files whose copyrights belong to my acquaintances（私の知り合いが著作権を持つファイルをアップロードする方法）

私がアップロードして削除された写真は、著作権者から使ってほしいと希望されてアップロードしたものばかりです。もちろん著作権に対する考え方がお互いに乏しいためにこのような問題が起こっていることは承知していますが、どのように著作権者からの承諾をえたものをエビデンスとして添付したらよいのかわかりません。どうか方法を教えてください。 The files I uploaded, which are deleted from wikipedia commons are the ones which were requested to use for wilipedia pages from copyright holders. As I understood that these deletions were happened due to our poor knowledge about the copyright, can you please advise me how can I do it such as the way to prove authorization or put the evidences on uploading the files. グリーンベレー (talk) 14:22, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

 Comment I blocked this user for a week for reuploading copyright violations after warning. Yann (talk) 19:00, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

@グリーンベレー: three ways to do this legitimately. (1) The copyright-holder can open an account here and do their own uploads. (2) The copyright-holder can publish the photo and offer the relevant license on any web site that is clearly under their control (e.g. on Flickr, or on a public-facing social media page) and you can cite that page as the source when uploading. (3) The copyright-holder can write to COM:VRT either to release the relevant license for a specific image or images, or to give a general authorization that they trust you to upload and indicate licenses for materials for which they hold copyright. Note that in that last approach, they should be clear in stating that they understand that you will be posting and indicating irrevocable licenses; they can revoke their permission for you to post for them beyond a given date, but they cannot retroactively take back licenses that you have indicated on their behalf while you were their authorized representative.

Sorry you got blocked before this got sorted out. If it were a longer block I'd try to work with you to get the block removed, but given that it is only a week I'd suggest you just sit tight now and try to do things correctly after the block expires. - Jmabel ! talk 19:21, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

How to upload something under fair use

I don’t know how to upload something under fair use, so I need to know how to. Newtatoryd222 (talk) 21:21, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

@Newtatoryd222: Hi, and welcome. Such thing may 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}🇺🇦 22:26, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

Nevermind.

I figured it out. Newtatoryd222 (talk) 22:32, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

@Newtatoryd222: Congrats!   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 22:33, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

Old Wikipedia Padlocks

I wonder if there is a way to use the shiny older padlock icons for protected pages without the icons. Zkskks (talk) 05:07, 19 November 2023 (UTC)

Logos con los colores de la Bandera

Buenas, se puede subir fotos de logos de una Alcaldía inspirados por otros (con los colores de la Bandera de Venezuela, esta en el Dominio Público), Wikimedia lo acepta?? AbchyZa22 (talk) 00:38, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

@AbchyZa22: Como Strakhov dijo arriba, tu uso de "inspirar" es incomprensible. Por favor, ¿Ppuedes expresarlo de otra manera que aclare tu significado? - Jmabel ! talk 01:30, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

Photo novelist

Hello, I want to post the photo found on several websites of a novelist that I like after having created her page on wikidata. It's possible ? Thanks in advance. Aurel78700 (talk) 01:32, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

@Aurel78700: most likely not. Most of what you find on the Internet is copyrighted material without any free license. Do you have any reason to think the image is either in the public domain or free-licensed? - Jmabel ! talk 04:40, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

I was blocked and need help

This is Mugojja edward bernes,with google account: [EMAIL ADDRESS SUPPRESSED] I was blocked and inbox can't re open to check my massege so i need your help. Mob. [PHONE NUMBER SUPPRESSED] Thank you for ur response. — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 41.210.145.73 (talk) 06:48, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

1. I've hidden your email address and phone number. Please don't publish those here!
2. We don't have an account called User:Mugojja edward bernes or User:Mugojja. Are you sure you are on the correct site?
3. If you were blocked, then the only place that you can dispute that is your user talk page. You should not be editing other pages, even from an IP address, while blocked. If you were blocked from using even your user talk page, it was presumably because you abused the privilege of accessing your talk page while blocked.
4. If somehow you are both blocked and something is wrong with your login (an unusual combination, but I guess it could happen) you still should be able to access your user talk page without logging in.
5. You don't really have an "inbox" here on Commons: the wiki pages are publicly visible.
6. If when you say you were "blocked" you actually meant something other than that your account here has been blocked, please explain more precisely. If it is easier for you to use a language other than English, go ahead (or try writing it in both that language and English). - Jmabel ! talk 07:06, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

Picture

I am looking for a picture for the Morrisite War, I have found three pictures but I do not think any of them can be used. The first one you are able to buy but I do not know if wikipedia is allowed to do that. I do not know the copyright laws for the second one. I do not know how accurate the first two are as there was no report of a "massacre of the Morrisite" as government forces entered the area and arrested the leaders. The last one was a political cartoon but I also do not know the rules for the political cartoon. Overall if none of them are usable what is the best thing to do? If I know a few artist can they just make their own painting? LuxembourgLover (talk) 17:38, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

@LuxembourgLover: The first one is from a book published in 1870 [4]. It's in the public domain and it's ok to upload a copy to Commons. There are copies on several websites. Upload preferably the best copy you can find. A use in Wikipedia depends if it's useful there. You can evaluate that with other interested editors on Wikipedia. -- Asclepias (talk) 18:39, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

The third one is clearly recent, so presumably copyrighted. The second one: if the 1890 date is correct, it should be in the public domain in the U.S. It's clearly something that would have been made for publication, and promptly published. Any text or image published in the U.S. before 1928 is {{PD-US-expired}}. (Sound recordings are trickier.) - Jmabel ! talk 23:59, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

Newbie's general question

Hey, I came here from Polish wiki (editor). I'm not ready to upload or manage photos yet, and I understand that editor's duties are different here, so I checked out other tasks, notably management of Galleries. If I understand correctly they run parallel to "normal" Categories we know from wiki? Can I help in managing them right now without special user roles? And lastly, are they actually useful for Commons visitors? No sarcasm intended, some wiki stuff tends to be more or less practical. Tried to ask on IRC but... I didn't touch a client in years and failed miserably :) Grateful for your time spent on my silly questions! InternetowyGołąb (talk) 20:28, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

Galleries in the main namespace (not the galleries in the user namespace) are like Wikipedia articles: their usefulness may differ depending on various criteria, the topics, their state, the interests of different users, and you, and any other user, can edit them. Good galleries have a sound logic to them and use representative files. One example of a good gallery, IMHO, is Rosa. Other good galleries may have a chronology logic, different from the associated category, etc. Bad galleries pick files subjectively without logic or promote a particular user's photos. I assume that you have read Commons:Galleries, but if not, please do. It links to examples. -- Asclepias (talk) 21:27, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

Yes I did, but looks like not deeply enough :) This was intended as less-formal conversation between editors.

Indeed, the gallery you mentioned not only is well maintained, but also have useful interwiki. I would definitely like to work with such ones one day.

Once again thank you. I think this help-case might be considered solved. InternetowyGołąb (talk) 22:17, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

@InternetowyGołąb: the examples in Commons:Galleries are all also worth a look: quite varied, all good. - Jmabel ! talk 23:54, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

Uploading NewJeans McDonalds.jpg

Hello, sir/mdm. This is my first time uploading a free image of my own work since last year. I am inexperienced on this free image upload, so I have a couple of questions to ask. I took a photo of the standee of NewJeans recently at a McDonalds outlet in Singapore's Changi City Point, and thus uploaded the image since it is my own picture, but i received a message that it may not fit the criteria. I wish to seek help because I might not be able to edit it the way as what the writer in my talk page want me to do, including the whatever license it should be. Thanks a lot. --NelsonLee20042020 (talk) 01:29, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NewJeans_McDonalds.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:NelsonLee20042020#c-Syunsyunminmin-20231120165900-Source_of_derivative_work_is_not_properly_indicated%3A_File%3ANewJeans_McDonalds.jpg NelsonLee20042020 (talk) 01:29, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

Convenience links:

• File:NewJeans McDonalds.jpg
• User_talk:NelsonLee20042020#c-Syunsyunminmin-20231120165900-Source_of_derivative_work_is_not_properly_indicated:_File:NewJeans_McDonalds.jpg

Jmabel ! talk 03:02, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

@NelsonLee20042020: I have no idea of the status of Freedom of panorama in Singapore. Do you have some reason to believe you are allowed to photograph other people's copyrighted works like this in public places in Singapore and publish them as your own work? Relatively few countries allow this (especially indoors, and where the copyrighted work is the main subject of the photo), but some do. - Jmabel ! talk 03:06, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

@Jmabel and NelsonLee20042020: COM:FOP Singapore says "* Not OK for … photographs", so it has to go; thus Commons:Deletion requests/File:NewJeans McDonalds.jpg.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 03:26, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

Renaming a category when the new title already exists

Hi, I want to rename Category:Endopterygota to Category:Holometabola, but the latter already exists as a redirect with history to the former. What's the best thing to do here? Monster Iestyn (talk) 12:13, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

• @Monster Iestyn: Done. Requires an admin to delete the target before the move, and there's some other trickiness.
• I hope there was consensus to do this. Only afterward did I notice you were moving this away from the name used in en-wiki. - Jmabel ! talk 19:11, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

  @Jmabel: Thanks, though actually the en-wiki article has been renamed, the link to en-wiki's "Endopterygota" you're seeing on the sidebar is now a redirect, and the new title "Holometabola" is on a separate item (basically it's complications from wikidata, this turns out to be my fault as I linked the former Holometabola redirect to the second item earlier this year) Monster Iestyn (talk) 20:26, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

Images across wikis

The would like to use the files https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/fi/0/0d/Etel%C3%A4-Tapiolan_lukio_logo.svg and https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Etis.jpg/1600px-Etis.jpg in my proposed english language version of the article Etelä-Tapiolan lukio. How can I movethem to/use them on english wikipedia? Thanks! InRRainbows (talk) 13:31, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

@InRRainbows: If the copyright warning is correct for the file fi:Tiedosto:Etelä-Tapiolan lukio logo.svg, then you need to make a copy of that file and upload it directly to en.wikipedia under the Non-free content policy. You can use the "Upload a non free file option". The other file, File:Etis.jpg is on Commons, so it can already be used without uploading another copy. For instructions on how to display images on en.wikipedia, see the help page en:Help:Pictures. Before you put too much work into the proposed article, make sure that the topic meets the notability criteria of en.wikipedia. -- Asclepias (talk) 15:02, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

I can’t login paypal

I want to login to paypal 62.201.242.63 15:43, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

That is not PayPal, but Wikimedia commons. Here you go to PayPal. Paradise Chronicle (talk) 15:49, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

Marcelo Bucossi

¿Còmo subo un archivo de word que està en mi ordenador ? Marcelo Bucossi (talk) 22:44, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

• No aceptamos archivos de Word. Favor de leer Commons:Alcance del proyecto. - Jmabel ! talk 23:57, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

Is this image below the threshold of originality?

Link: https://www.microsoft.com/content/dam/microsoft/final/en-us/microsoft-brand/logo/Logo_365%20Sales_scalable.png, pulled from microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics-365. (Note the image link will download the .png). The enwiki page for Microsoft Dynamics 365 has an outdated logo in the infobox. BhamBoi (talk) 06:57, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

Similarly, is microsoft.com/content/dam/microsoft/final/en-us/microsoft-product-and-services/power-platform/PPL-Power Platform logo.svg from microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/ also below the ToI? BhamBoi (talk) 07:01, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

Your first link (Sales_scalable.png) gives "We are sorry, the page you requested cannot be found." I tried a few variants on the URL, but couldn't make it work. On your second link, I can't tell what image you might be talking about.

The third one (PPL-Power_Platform_logo.svg) is probably below the TOO (I assume that is what you mean, I don't know what TOI would be). It seems comparable to the Bing logo, and we consider that to be below the U.S. TOO. - Jmabel ! talk 07:14, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

Hey there, thanks for the reply. Yes, I did mean ToO, not ToI. And the url template messed with the encoding of the first link, which I’ve now fixed—feel free to take a look! BhamBoi (talk) 08:09, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

@BhamBoi: that one is way below TOO for the U.S. Not even a maybe. - Jmabel ! talk 23:56, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

It would be great if you or another experienced user could upload those, as I don't know how to upload ToO images with the proper attributions... BhamBoi (talk) 19:13, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

@BhamBoi: Please see File:Microsoft Dynamics 365 logo.png and File:Microsoft Power Platform logo.svg.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 08:22, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

Utilizzo immagini caricate

Ho caricato una immagine di San Simonino (Simon of Trent) dipinta da Alvise de Donati ed ho cercato di inserirla tra quelle presenti in coda alla voce inglese Simon of Trent. L’immagine è risultata leggermente più grossa delle altre e mi aspettavo che fosse eventualmente ridimensionata da un amministratore ma è stata invece brutalmente cancellata con motivazioni offensive. L’immagine è una mia fotografia di un dipinto pochissimo conosciuto fatto da un pittore di buon livello del rinascimento. Alessandro Ornaghi File:San Simonino.jpg Alessandro Ornaghi (talk) 14:39, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

This is not about Commons. It is about Wikipedia. A proper place to discuss an editorial disagreement about the contents of a Wikipedia article is its talk page on Wikipedia. The edit comment that the other editor wrote to remove that file from the article was not because it was misplaced, but because the article has many files already. -- Asclepias (talk) 15:20, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

@Alessandro Ornaghi: , ho visto che hai lasciato un messaggio pure sulla mia pagina discussione. Come ti ha detto @Asclepias: , non è una questione che riguardi Commons, ma en.wiki. Se ritieni che ci siano ragioni per cui la tua foto debba stare in quella voce, devi discuterne lì, non qui. -- Blackcat 19:31, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

auteursrechthebbende

Mij is niet duidelijk hoe ik onderstaande auteursrechtverklaring kan insturen. daarom bij deze:

Ik verklaar hierbij dat ik de auteur van de exclusieve auteursrechten ben op https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nieuwe_Groninger_Encyclopedie en https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedie_van_Drenthe (hierna: het werk) Ik verklaar hierbij het werk te publiceren onder de CC BY-SA 3.0 licentie (hierna: de licentie. Ik verklaar dat ik eenieder het recht geef om het werk te bewerken, gebruiken en verspreiden onder de voorwaarden zoals gesteld in de licentie. Ik ben me ervan bewust dat: eenieder het werk mag gebruiken, op commerciële of enigerlei andere wijze zolang zij de voorwaarden zoals gesteld in de licentie en de toepasselijke wettelijke voorwaarden in acht nemen. deze overeenkomst ook geldig is buiten Wikipedia en andere gerelateerde sites ik, en/of mijn werkgever het auteursrecht op het werk behoud. ik, en/of mijn werkgever het recht behoud op naamsvermelding in overeenstemming met de licentie deze verklaring niet in kan worden getrokken, en dat deze tekst permanent kan worden bewaard op een Wikimedia-project. Paul Brood Auteursrechthebbende 22 november 2023 22Herehof (talk) 13:09, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

@22Herehof: You may be looking for nl:Wikipedia:Contactpunt. -- Asclepias (talk) 14:18, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

@Asclepias: More likely would be VRT/nl.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 15:36, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

The comment seems about works mentioned in nl.wikipedia. The VRT page of nl.wikipedia covers all types of cases, with specific instructions for each. The VRT page of Commons is more focused on Commons media files. -- Asclepias (talk) 15:53, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

Deleting a picture file

Hello guys i want a ridicilous picture of me deleted and its on my account but i dont know how to Leon luke mori (talk) 22:40, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

DR already created by user. C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 23:00, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

Deleted per Commons:Deletion requests/File:0R5A0246 re (2).jpg. - Jmabel ! talk 23:14, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

Is this picture copyvio

I uploaded this file from a scrrenshot of the website of the original publisher, the al-Qassam Brigades of Hamas. Since other media outlets shared the picture I assumed it was released so that it is shared by others, but I couldn't locate the lisesnce on the website. Is that considered copyvio, because on the bottom of the site they have the general statement "all rights reserved" without further clarification. Moazfargal (talk) 23:06, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

• That would be a copyvio, then. @Moazfargal: may I consider this a request from you as uploader to delete the file, so that we do not have to wait seven days to determine whether an appropriate license is forthcoming? - Jmabel ! talk 23:18, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

  @Jmabel: Sure, I will. Kindl tell me how. Moazfargal (talk) 23:21, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

  • @Moazfargal: you just did! - Jmabel ! talk 23:33, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

    Weird because I didn't do anything, but I guess it's fine. Moazfargal (talk) 23:36, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

    • @Moazfargal: Right here, on this thread, by saying "Sure". - Jmabel ! talk 01:23, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

Expired Patents of MP3

Hello. I wonder why MP3 loadings are still unwanted. I wonder this, because MP3 patents are expired. EN Wikipedia says this. And, there is my reason to want load MP3's: MP3 is more widely supported than OGG, OPUS, and etc; so it will be more compatible with for example old browsers. I know WAW is more compatible than MP3, but WAV files are generally bigger because it does not use compression. I think MP3 is a good compromise between size and compatibility. Why MP3 uploads are still unwanted while its patents expired, and how can i upload a 22050Hz 40kbps mono MP3 file? RuzDD (talk) 10:07, 23 November 2023 (UTC)`

Hi, MP3 files are accepted by trusted users only, as we get too many copyrighted sounds. Yann (talk) 10:28, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

Okay, so i am going to upload a PCM. It will be 8bit if i can. RuzDD (talk) 10:36, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

rename a file

The file "Cephalophyllum alstonii PICT2736.jpg" should be renamed to the correct "Malephora crocea PICT2736.jpg" With kind regards 2A01:C22:BCA1:5100:2CE8:C512:1F3A:44F 11:28, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

It was renamed to its present name in 2017. We should be careful not to have to do multiple renames. Pinging Thiotrix and AnRo0002, who contributed to the choice of the present name. -- Asclepias (talk) 12:19, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

hmmm, this file is used in some wikipedia pages as Cephalophyllum but I do not see a significant difference to Malephora. are there at least two taxa for the same species? anro (talk) 12:39, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

Uploading an audio file

Why I can't upload an audio file with a music made by myself? JoanFelix104 (talk) 13:10, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

@JoanFelix104 Does Commons:Audio help any? More details may be helpful for people trying to provide an answer. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 13:44, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

@JoanFelix104: Hi, and welcome. I am sorry to inform you that you have triggered Special:AbuseFilter/192 by trying to upload an mp3 file with insufficient rights. Too many people try to upload audio files that are still copyrighted by the authors, performers, recorders, publishing companies, etc. without proper licenses from those people. Please document fully the sources and licenses of your audio uploads, and request Autopatrol group membership at COM:RFR when you think you are ready (once you have made more than 500 useful non-botlike edits); having that should allow you to upload mp3 files. Until then, you may reencode the audio into Vorbis or Opus and upload it with full documentation as an .ogg or .oga file (or use any other format accepted per COM:FT#Sound).   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 14:07, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

Copyright help regarding File:Portrait of Dulguun Odkhuu.jpg

how do i provide copyrights of this photo? I personally asked the owner permission and she said gave me her permission. Since its on her personal social account, how do i get copyright otherwise? Should i give you screenshot of our conversation on wikipedia or what?

--Gologmine (talk) 13:38, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

@Gologmine The copyrightholder, which is usually the photographer, needs to release it under an acceptable license (Commons:Licensing#Well-known_licenses). Unless the image is clearly marked as such on social media/webpage (rarely the case but it can be done), the copyright holder can mail a confirmation of licensing to Commons, instructions on that at COM:VRT. The COM:VRT/CONSENT may be of use. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 13:51, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

Redundancy

Category:Carl Gustaf Boberg 1859 is redundant to Category:Carl Boberg. DaizY (talk) 13:39, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

@DaizY: Hi, and welcome. Please see COM:RAC.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 14:05, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

Thank you. I hope I did it right. I hope I met the explanations , expectations. --DaizY (talk) 14:37, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

@DaizY: You're welcome. It looks good.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 14:39, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

time

Hello how much time can take my article to appear ??? Josemedinaracing (talk) 14:38, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

@Josemedinaracing: Hi, and welcome. That would take forever, as we don't have articles here on Wikimedia Commons per COM:NOT. Re your attempted article on Spanish Wikipedia, please see this edit and es:A:TPA.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 14:43, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

Automatic Transcode

Hello. I asked to this help desk today for same file, and now i have another problem. Commons automaticaly creates two transcodes, and they have unsuitable values. It creates a MP3, and its sample rate is 44100Hz, but it should be 22050Hz. OGG transcode contains the same problem. Also, they have very high bitrates, for example MP3 is 116kbps VBR but it should be maximum 80kbps CBR. Also, another problem: MP3 and original file are stereo, but OGG is mono. They should either be all stereo or all mono. What can i do to solve this problem?

RuzDD (talk) 14:52, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

@RuzDD: You may make a new task that mentions audio at phabricator. See also mw:Extension:TimedMediaHandler.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 15:02, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

Added multiple photos to Historic Register listings but only one photo shows up

I have uploaded multiple photos to Historic Register listings but only one photo shows up for some of the listings.

These are the listings: Douglas County, Nebraska Stephenson and Williams Livery Clifton Hill Commercial Historic District Union State Bank Building Firestone Tire and Rubber Building

Barton County, Kansas Wolf Park Band Shell

Ellsworth County, Kansas Ira E Lloyd Stock Farm

Shawnee County, Kansas Ritchie Cemetery Park Plaza Apartments Charles and Dorothy Kouns House

Please let me know how I can get these photos to show up with a "More Images" link on the listing.

Thanks! }}}} SharonPapierdreams (talk) 16:59, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

@SharonPapierdreams If the files are not in your uploads then you may have aborted before the end of the upload. 🇺🇦 Timtrent 🇺🇦 talk to me 🇺🇦 18:43, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

The uploads are on Wikicommons.

{{{{ SharonPapierdreams (talk) 18:48, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

@SharonPapierdreams Unless I am missing something obvious, this is Wikimedia Commons, (I searched for Wikicommons). If the files are not in your uploads then you have not succeeded in uploading them. An alternative is that you were logged in to a different account. 🇺🇦 Timtrent 🇺🇦 talk to me 🇺🇦 18:54, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

Sorry, I am not familiar with all the terms.

But I did upload the photos. They are just not showing up under the Historic Register listing.

}}}} SharonPapierdreams (talk) 19:26, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

@SharonPapierdreams: Shows up where, exactly?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 19:02, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

If you go to this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Douglas_County,_Nebraska,

you will only see one photo for the Clifton Hill Historic District.

But I uploaded all these photos: Category:Clifton Hill Commercial Historic District

Usually someone categorizes them for me and they will show up on the listing under More Images.

{{{{ SharonPapierdreams (talk) 19:24, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

@SharonPapierdreams: It took me some time to figure out what you were talking about. It seems you are talking about some list articles in the English-language Wikipedia. There's always only one image displayed for each entry there. When a related category on Commons also exists, it can be linked. To take one example: In en:National Register of Historic Places listings in Ellsworth County, Kansas, if we look at the edit box, we see that some entries are linked to the Commons categories by the addition of a parameter "|commonscat=" followed by the name of the category. So, to the entry "Ira E Lloyd Stock Farm", if we add the line "|commonscat=Ira E. Lloyd Stock Farm (Ellsworth County, Kansas)", that adds a link below the image, like this. -- Asclepias (talk) 19:36, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

Yes, that's exactly what I'm trying to do! Thank you.

Just not sure where to put this information correctly.

{{{{ SharonPapierdreams (talk) 19:41, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

To be added as a new line in the relevant entry, as in the diff I linked above. -- Asclepias (talk) 19:55, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

@Asclepias Well spotted. I couldn't get past the "But they are not here!" part. 🇺🇦 Timtrent 🇺🇦 talk to me 🇺🇦 22:21, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

Review an image

Rather than a deletion discussion, is there a place to request an expert review of an image? We may have a hoax image based on the discussion at File talk:Mills darden.jpg. ☾Loriendrew☽ ☏(talk) 21:00, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

@Loriendrew: Right here is OK, though the Village pump would in the future probably be better, or one of the Administrators' noticeboards if you think it amounts to vandalism or a hoax. - Jmabel ! talk 22:02, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

File:工藤慶一 お独り様会提供（非営利に限り著作権フリー）.jpg　の著作権について

上の画像をウィキメディアにアップロードしました。早速、ボットが検知し、著作権情報が不十分である。7日以内に削除します、と通告がありました。ただし、この画像の出所であるサイトには、以下のような著作権情報が公開されています。

https://ohitorisama.site/about-copyright/#index_id0　

著作権について ‐ お独り様会

弊社が提供する情報・画像・その他一切のものを、権利者の許可なく営利目的で複製、転用など二次利用することを固く禁じます。情報の利用などが必要な時は、必ずご相談下さい。非営利目的でご利用の際は、情報の出所が「お独り様会」であることを明示してご使用ください。事前の許諾申請などは特に必要ありません。

Wikipediaは非営利目的で運用されていますので、この場合、著作権者に事前の許諾申請などすることなく、画像を利用することができます。

ただ私は、ウィキメディアにおいて、そのことを、上手く、反映することができません。

その方法を教えてもらえませんか？

よろしくお願いいたします。 遠藤進之助 (talk) 21:50, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

(Using Google Translate to make sense of the above.) Then the file should certainly be deleted. While Commons is not itself commercial, we accept only content that may be reused commercially. ("Commercially" here does not mean "in an advertisement," where personality rights would be an issue, but does mean for example that you can use it in a newspaper story, or in a book for sale.) - Jmabel ! talk 22:35, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

A supposed inaccuracy in my map

Depsite the fact that I based my map :

my map

on two actual maps, this user @M.Bitton still claim that my map is original research I tried to reach out with him on the issue, he responded with closed eyes, ignoring all tge argumenrs I gave and dismissing my arguments in a such biased way, Sources=BS for some reason. Well, I reach out the community then for settling this issue As I said to him before, I think the tag should be removed for the following reason

His First claim: "first, contrary to what is claimed, this map is not based on any actual map" it is based on actual maps two actually that I just showed below, so this point is absurd. You will say it do not show thr battle, well I added Al Istiqsa and page number+just check wikipedia article about maghrebi war I just mimcked what is written there in a map and the article is well sourced His second claim " it has no reliable source" bruh I literally added new one and remade the map, plus again if you think gallica bnf is BS that is your problem. Plus do you know french or arabic the sources I added are in these languages so how could you judge on them?

His third claim "Secondly it does not mirror maps of that era" absolute no-sense because I just showed two maps of this supposed era+one is even from for 1707 and other in that era two, the first one show Moroccan control over touat the other show in french"Roy Alchandora dependant du roi du Maroc" which locate in present day Mauritania, plus I used another Science po university map All this, I believe the community can settle this Remember I am novice, I do not know very much about tagging and stuff,so be comprehemsive شادي (talk) 18:43, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

Please don't ping me again. M.Bitton (talk) 18:45, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

The community will decide the accuracy of my map, You are not directly concerned, just need to give community context. شادي (talk) 18:48, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

That's not the job of the community and your map is both 100% baseless original research and contradicted by RS. M.Bitton (talk) 18:51, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

As you must see community, he still refuse any attempt of real arguing insisting that my image should stay tagged

He even suppressed the discussion I did, showing how weak his argument is, after he kept saying This original research without explaining why, depsite I showed him images and sources that show how my map is indeed confirmed by actual maps and sources say

And he keep saying my map is baseless contradicted without refuting directly my arguments

This clearly a dogmatic approach, so All my hopes are in the community. شادي (talk) 18:53, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

@شادي: it looks to me like you've cited your sources, and if someone disagrees with you they should be able to say exactly where you've gone wrong. If the other user thinks your sources are "BS", then he probably should indicate exactly which of these sources he thinks are erroneous, irrelevant, etc. instead of leveling a blanket accusation.

It's up to the individual Wikipedias (and any other possible reusers) to decide whether or not to use a particular map. Unless someone presents specific evidence that absolutely invalidates a map (e.g. shows that it misrepresents the data in its claimed sources, or the uploader cannot provide any sources to back up their map and we have a strong consensus that the map is wrong, misleading, or inappropriately tendentious), we almost never delete a map from Commons. Someone who disagrees is welcome to upload their own alternative map (including a derivative version, which they may link) and site their sources. So, really, there is nothing here that needs to be resolved. The person who disagrees with you has basically said, "I think this is wrong," and not presented any substantive argument. Their remark stays; I'd trust reusers to be able to determine about what it is worth; and nothing prevents anyone from using your map.

For the record the other party in this dispute asked above not to be pinged; otherwise I would of course ping him. - Jmabel ! talk 20:20, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

@Jmabel Finally a comprehensive response, thank you for your understanding and clarifying what the tag really mean. شادي (talk) 20:24, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

The tag means what I wrote (that map is not based on any published map and is contradicted by RS, that's all). Check the English Wikipedia for the various reliably sourced maps that we use and then compare them to one that you made up. If despite what's written in the tag someone wants to use somewhere, they're welcome to it. I would also like to highlight the fact that you added sources to a map that was uploaded by someone else years ago (maybe someone here can explain to you why we don't do that). M.Bitton (talk) 20:31, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

If you object to something, it's really your responsibility to say why it shouldn't be done.--Prosfilaes (talk) 21:42, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

I already did: the map in question is not based on any published map and is contradicted by other maps of the period. Basically, they took a map from Commons, manipulated it a bit and added sources to it (none of which actually looks anything like the map that they uploaded). They also added some sources to a map that was uploaded by someone else years ago. M.Bitton (talk) 22:04, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

"the map in question is not based on any published map and is contradicted by other maps of the period",Sorry to say this but you clearly suffer a serious of selective "blindness", I showed you two maps of that period and you still say that, funny indeed. شادي (talk) 22:20, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for confirming what I said. M.Bitton (talk) 22:24, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

@M.Bitton Serious case of selective blindness indeed, you see just what you like, go on bro you take confirmation bias to a level unprecendented level.

If you read clearly my comment I responded to you BS argument but whatsoever, the dispute settled. شادي (talk) 22:29, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

STOP PINGING ME! M.Bitton (talk) 22:32, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

you saw I thought you would not as you have not seen the two actual maps I sent you, and the second half of my message before.Interesting indeed.

PS: Whatsoever just keep my map alone, it is well sourced and based. شادي (talk) 22:35, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

Why does his response stay? It's written in omniscient mode without cites; it should be written as an opinion or at least cited, and be as untendacious as possible.--Prosfilaes (talk) 21:41, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

@Prosfilaes: I presume(s) that any Wikipedia editor who sees it can evaluate it for what it's worth. Personally, if I thought a map was bad but couldn't be bothered to get into the specifics, I'd stick to (at most) making a remark to that effect on the talk page. We probably don't have as tight a rule as we should as to exactly when {{Fact disputed}} can be used. - Jmabel ! talk 22:00, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

I have seen properly sourced maps (unlike this one) that are tagged as disputed. That's what the tag is for and I don't see how one is supposed to cite something that proves that the image in question is not based on any of the cited sources. M.Bitton (talk) 22:04, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

My map is properly sourced though, if you do not see them it is not my problem.

It is based on many cited sources two maps and two books. شادي (talk) 12:53, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

I noticed that you removed the tag: please explain what kind of sources do you expect when someone is saying that the map is not based on the cited sources? M.Bitton (talk) 22:07, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

I have duplicated the borders of the actual maps I showed you before, using data from two books too.

So my map is based on cited souces

if you think otherwise, tell me what you exactly find inaccurate and I am 100% ready to correct it, stop saying vague statement and be more precise. شادي (talk) 12:57, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

@Prosfilaes The problem that I reached him to ask him WHAT EXACTLY WRONG WITH MY MAP, he kept saying it does not match other maps of that era.

I gave two actual maps and historical accounts of that era, he simply ignored them and I really asked him to just tell me what borders I did wrong he kept repeating what he said now, when I gave him arguments guess what he supressed my section in the discussion as you see here, idk but This might be illegal to supress discussion without archiving them (It is the case in my wiki) and that show how weak is his argument istead of responding by real arguments شادي (talk) 22:26, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

As you see [5] he just supressed my discussion when he have not found any argument. شادي (talk) 22:32, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

Template needs an archive link

Regarding {{Cc-pd}}

I'll just copy the request I made on the template's talk page:

{{Edit request}}

I noticed that Creative Commons recently redesigned their website, so now all the license pages look different. Apparently, somewhere in this process, their page for the CC Public Domain Dedication became a deadlink. I'm guessing they assumed they didn't need it anymore since it's been deprecated and its function has been superseded by {{Cc-zero}}. However, a link to the page is still necessary for older files.

Ergo, could someone please replace the link currently in use in the template with this archive link?: https://web.archive.org/web/20230926203737/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/

I made this request several weeks ago and it has yet to be done or responded to. Could someone with template editing privileges please make this change?

Thanks. — Toast for Teddy (talk) 02:40, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

@Toast for Teddy:  Done.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 13:21, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

Chequear la imagen

Buenas, necesito que algún administrador de Wikimedia chequea (https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PGC-1_alpha_and_Exercise_cross-talk.jpg#mw-jump-to-license) si la imagen es valida (LicenseReview) por favor?? AbchyZa22 (talk) 22:44, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

@AbchyZa22: He corregido la licencia. ¿En qué se basa para atribuirlo sólo a Christoph Handschin y no también a Regula Furrer? - Jmabel ! talk 23:55, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

@Jmabel: Buenas,ya corregí agregué Regula Furrer en esta foto ,pero pregunto esta foto esta OK,porque tiene licencia??

AbchyZa22 (talk) 12:44, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

• Done - Jmabel ! talk 18:35, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

False claim of ownership

On the page "Hypertext" there is a diagram which is claimed by a certain Andreariverac. However, the diagram is a jpeg from a work that is in fact mine and I used it in various forms to explain the www in 1992. A photo of a printed CERN document from 1992 clearly shows one of those forms and the date. The original file of that document was made on a NeXT computer, which no longer exists. How can this be corrected? [6]https://www.cailliau.org/IMG_20231124_230228.jpg RobertCailliau (talk) 22:11, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

• If the false information can be corrected by editing the image page, please do so. If the original was not actually free licensed by the original copyright holder, it can be tagged {{Copyvio}} as a copyright violation to be deleted. Thanks. -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 22:31, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
• I'm guessing you're talking about File:Sistema hipertextual.jpg - it seems to be the only upload by that user. Very unfortunate that it has been on Commons for years with false claims. -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 22:34, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
  • @RobertCailliau: just to be clear, are you asking for a corrected credit or a deletion? - Jmabel ! talk 00:22, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

    Well, both: (1) the image in itself is bad quality, it should be replaced by an SVG (which I can easily make) and then (2) it should be credited to me.

    I could not find anything else by or about the other user, so I presume he/she put that image there bona-fide as illustration.

    So, I'll make an SVG (the original PostScript is lost as far as I can go back in my files, and I don't have those from the NeXT machine).

    But then what precisely are the steps to replace the existing one?

    Thanks! RobertCailliau (talk) 08:56, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

    @RobertCailliau: Once you have uploaded the svg file, someone allowed to use justReplace (filemover or Admin) can use it to replace the jpg file, and then you can ask for the jpg file to be deleted.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 13:03, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

Copyright help regarding File:Aviation Week 1938-11-01 page 45.jpg

Hello,

Am not sure the copyright status for this image. It's sourced from a 1938 issue of "Aviation" magazine, which is a McGraw-Hill publication. Would like to make use of the image, as it's the best one I've found showing the variable-wingspan aspect to the plane's design. Any help to determine status would be appreciated. THanks.

--Aerohydro (talk) 02:32, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

@Aerohydro: the only possible basis on which that would be OK is if it's fallen into the public domain. Under current law it will certainly be public domain after January 1, 2034, but (assuming that is the original publication of the photo) the only way it would be public domain now is if the copyright on that magazine was not renewed. You could check the 1965-1966 copyright renewals (1938 + 28 years, and sometimes people renewed a little early) to see if McGraw-Hill renewed this (most likely they were either renewing all of their magazine copyrights, or none). The relevant documents are online here. If it isn't there, then it's safe to say {{PD-US-not renewed}}. - Jmabel ! talk 03:09, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

@Jmabel: Thanks for the info. Having checked the copyright entries for the mid-60s, McGraw-Hill definitely registered their contemporary publications, but as far as I can tell, didn't do any renewals. Which is good! 04:05, 25 November 2023 (UTC) Aerohydro (talk) 04:05, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

how do i upload images?

j Hueyline (talk) 09:28, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

@Hueyline: Hi, and welcome. Please see COM:FS.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 12:53, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

Content loading issues

Hello! I am having problems viewing videos from Wikipedia Commons; when I try to view something and my browser tries to load it, it stays in the loading screen indefinitely. Any suggestions?

Thanks, Shadestar474 (talk) 21:20, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

@Shadestar474: Hi, and welcome. Have you tried viewing File:Test.ogv, or a video from another service like YouTube or Vimeo?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 22:57, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

I tried viewing the Test.ogv file, and it worked, but when I view other videos, such as File:Snowball fight in France, 1896 - Lumiere brothers.webm, it doesn’t work. Shadestar474 (talk) 23:25, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

@Shadestar474: All of the transcodes for that file have now been reset, please try again.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 10:30, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

It still does not work; it stays in the loading screen with the gray semi circles going around each other. Shadestar474 (talk) 17:15, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

Add image

I am having a difficult adding an image to an artile. I began the process, then left the page. I can't star over or resume? Pageedit123 (talk) 14:27, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

@Pageedit123: Hi, and welcome. You have successfully uploaded File:Peter Jarvis recording on Buddy Rich's drum set.jpg, but in almost your singular focus on en:Peter Jarvis over the past 10 years, you have not edited that page since 24 February 2022. So yes, you may start over using the syntax at en:H:PIC, but how do you know Peter Jarvis? Please pay more attention to your spelling.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 17:43, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

Looks like my brand-new author icon may finally be coming here

...thanks to one "BluTheLion" at RDT; again, recall Commons:Help desk/Archive/2023/08#Uploading my brand-new author icon to Commons for our first attempt that ultimately went nowhere. And again, his work on my tanuki avatar should be just what I need for my Miraheze sidebar logo/Wikimedia portrait badge. And before you ask, @Jmabel: /@Jeff G.: I reminded him about the VRT process and how much easier it is to state the license on the original RDT post--lessons learned this time. (Sadly, attempts to contact our last guest ["LeoTheFloofyDragon"] re: choosing his license have borne almost no fruit, so his take might as well be staying on his RDT/DeviantART profiles for the foreseeable future.)

As before, any further advice? --Slgrandson (talk) 04:35, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Urheberrecht Foto

In welcher Form muss eine ausdrückliche Genehmigung eines Fotografen vorliegen, wenn man das von ihm erworbene Foto auf Wikipedia hochladen möchte? Dasolejo (talk) 09:59, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Copyright photo

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In what form do you have to have express permission from a photographer if you want to upload the photo you purchased to Wikipedia?

translator: Google Translate via   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 11:43, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

@Dasolejo: Hallo und herzlich willkommen. Bitte sehen Sie sich VRT/de an.

Hi, and welcome. Please see VRT.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 11:43, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Logos de los derechos de autor fallecido

Buenas ,que pasa si el logo (Logo de una Alcaldia en Venezuela) creado por el autor fallecido,el logo estará en el “Dominio Publico” (PD-VenezuelaGov)?? AbchyZa22 (talk) 10:20, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

@AbchyZa22: por favor, no pregunte la misma cosa en dos lugares. Discusión a User_talk:Infrogmation#Logos de los derechos de autor fallecidos. - Jmabel ! talk 20:43, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Request to be added to site

I have been included in an article in Wikimedia as one of the primary actors on Searchlight Pictures film The Supremes at Earl's All You Can Eat. I currently do not show as having a wikimedia page and would like to have one. I have created an account. I can be located on IMDB and have had costar or guest star roles in Stranger Things, Dopesick, Echoes and more. Please let me know what I need to do to be included on your site so my name will connect with my IMDB site. Thank you! https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8381477/

The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat Directed by Tina Mabry Screenplay by Tina Mabry Gina Prince-Bythewood Based on The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat by Edward Kelsey Moore

Three best friends who call themselves "The Supremes" have experienced life together through the good and bad, and are now finding their friendship tested. Cast Uzo Aduba Aunjanue Ellis Sanaa Lathan Russell Hornsby Mekhi Phifer Julian McMahon Vondie Curtis-Hall Kyanna Simone Tati Gabrielle Abigail Achiri Dijon Means Xavier Mills Cleveland Berto Ryan Paynter Raymond Greene-Joyner Jason Turner Ryanpaynter (talk) 16:11, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

This site is not Wikipedia. You need https://en.wikipedia.org Ruslik (talk) 19:33, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Most particularly, read en:Wikipedia:AUTOBIOGRAPHY and en:Wikipedia:COI. - Jmabel ! talk 20:46, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Як додати статтю про людину в Вікіпедію

Доброго дня! В мене э готовий файл про відому людину з фотографіями. Я не можу зрозуміти, як розмістити цю статтю у Вікіпедії. Допоможіть, будь-ласка., надайте інструкцію, як діяти.

Всього найкращого, Наталія Soboleva Natalia (talk) 21:35, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

(Using Google Translate) @Soboleva Natalia: Ви не вказуєте, якою мовою Вікіпедія, але це Вікісховище, а не Вікіпедія. Можливо uk:Довідка:Ознайомлення. - Jmabel ! talk 23:46, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Fazer pergunta sobre perfil falso

Recebi convite de amizade por vários nomes diferentes com suas fotos. O que devo fazer? Gostaria muito de conversar com vc! Aguardo resposta. Obrigada. 179.189.93.66 22:12, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Isso é algo relacionado a este site (Wikimedia Commons)? Em caso afirmativo, você pode ser mais específico sobre o que recebeu e de quem? - Jmabel ! talk 23:51, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Family photos

If you have a photo taken by one of your immediate family which you almost know would give you permission to upload the photo to Commons, what would be the release rights? A westman (talk) 18:17, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

Are they alive? If so, seek their overt permission (COM:VRT, for example), just like you would any other third party. If not…

Are you the heir to their intellectual property? If so, you can use an "heirs" license tag like {{Cc-0-heirs}} or {{Cc-by-sa-4.0-heirs}}. If not…

Find out who is the heir to their intellectual property and seek their overt permission (COM:VRT, for example), just like you would any other third party.

Jmabel ! talk 19:25, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

I gained their overt permission. A westman (talk) 22:56, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

@A westman: so are they using the COM:VRT approach, or what? - Jmabel ! talk 23:43, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

? I got it in-person A westman (talk) 00:55, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

@A westman: What exactly did they agree to? Have you read VRT yet?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 02:53, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

The person agreed to realease all rights. A westman (talk) 02:56, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

That's nice and all, but your saying so means nothing legally. If it is their intention to release all rights, then they (not you) can go through the process described at COM:VRT to send an email licensing these as CC-zero. - Jmabel ! talk 04:45, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

copyright

I want to check if I can use an image.... and/or what copyright things may stop me.....and/or how I should attribute it BoppIttybop (talk) 00:24, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

@BoppIttybop: The image should have a license tag that tells you how you can use it and what attribution, if any, you need to provide. For example, File:Erbium-doped fiber with green light.jpg is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license, and there is a license tag below the image description that explains what you have to do to be allowed to use the image. Commons:Reusing content outside Wikimedia and Commons:Credit line might be helpful here. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 01:44, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

CalendulaAsteraceae is assuming here that you are wanting to reuse an image that is currently on Commons. If that isn't what meant then, indeed, the information about reuse should be on the specific file page. If that isn't what you meant, you'll need to as a clearer question as to just what you are trying to do. - Jmabel ! talk 04:48, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

photo orientation

The photos I submitted to your contest are oriented wrong. How can I change? Clsherwood (talk) 12:11, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

I don't see any that obviously need rotation, but Template:Rotate will help. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 12:22, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

@Clsherwood: Hi, and welcome. I agree with Justin. Sadly, the Upload Wizard's preview can often have the wrong orientation, different from the resulting file. You are welcome to forge ahead and continue uploading, as well as reviewing {{Rotate}}, Help:RotateLink, and Commons:Rotation for cases of wrong rotation in resulting files.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 12:26, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

After being granted permission to use copyrighted images

I was wondering, if you are granted permission by a copyright holder to use their photo on Wikipedia, what happens next? Do they, say, email Commons personally and let them know? Or does the uploader have to provide some sort of textual proof themselves? And if the copyright holder sends an email to Commons, does the uploader have automatic access to use it on Wiki articles? 1ykke1il (talk) 14:08, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

@1ykke1il: Hi, and welcome. Please read VRT and en:H:PIC, and come back with any further questions.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 14:21, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

tôi cần một trang nói về họ Tường

xin chào bộ phận " trợ giúp", tôi là ATHEMIANAR ARSTOZKA. thì hiện tại tôi vẫn để ý trong Wiki thiếu một trang về "Họ Tường" vì vậy tôi có thể làm một trang về nó và cấp phép được không các bạn? ATHEMIANAR ARSTOZKA (talk) 14:39, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

• @ATHEMIANAR ARSTOZKA: this is Wikimedia Commons, not Wikipedia, so we can't help you with that here. To get started on the English-language Wikipedia, see en:Help:Introduction. To get started on the Vietnamese-language Wikipedia, see vi:Wikipedia:Chào mừng người mới đến. Để bắt đầu trên Wikipedia tiếng Việt, hãy xem vi:Wikipedia:Chào mừng người mới đến. Jmabel ! talk 20:45, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Changing photos in Commons with a better one.

Hello.

I snapped a photo of the patch used by the Arystan unit in Kazakhstan back in 2022. I saw a similar one was made in 2019. Not sure if it's worth changing it (aka getting rid of the other image that's small maybe).

For comparison, this is the first image from 2019 and this is the one I took in 2022. Ominae (talk) 15:28, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

You are free to exchange the images in the wikis in which they are used. But I'd keep both for the moment as the first one seems to be sewn on fabric and the second one is on stone. Paradise Chronicle (talk) 16:35, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

I just placed the second one on a table so that I can take the picture. LOL. On the back, it has velcro on it. Ominae (talk) 02:53, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

Copyright help regarding File:Rag Mayur.jpg

I tried uploading the pic, which was published in a news paper, I have mentioned it clearly. If you think if it is not appropriate you can delete it or you can guide me. Thank you.

--Herodyswaroop (talk) 08:48, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

@Herodyswaroop, hello! Rule of thumb: almost all pics you find online are under some sort of copyright and you can't upload them to Commons. If you check the link you gave it says "Copyright - newindianexpress.com 2023. All rights reserved." Case closed. This pic will get deleted fairly soon, you don't have to do anything.

You can upload a pic of Rag Mayur if you took it yourself with your own camera, and so can other people. Including him. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 09:39, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

@Herodyswaroop: See also COM:NETC.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 12:05, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Oh okie, then you can delete the picture, Herodyswaroop (talk) 10:44, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

General question about deleting or moving files

Can I move files? How do I delete something? Just new here & wanted to know about deleting files? Can I use tools for it? I want to also focus on colorizing images. How? —The Industrial Me 1563 (talk) 21:30, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

@The Industrial Me 1563: Hi,

Only people with the file mover right can move files. Please use the {{Rename}} template.

Only admins can delete files. Please create a deletion request after having read COM:DR. Thanks, Yann (talk) 21:43, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

@The Industrial Me 1563: In addition to what Yann wrote, you may colorize on your own device and then upload with a new filename per COM:OW, linking the two files in the other_versions section of {{Information}}.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 03:16, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

Deletion request

Buenas,como hacer deletion request a File:Nuevo emblema de Caracas.svg para ver si es una licencia libre o Dominio Público?? AbchyZa22 (talk) 09:06, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

@AbchyZa22: Para realizar una solicitud de eliminación de ese archivo, simplemente vaya a la página del archivo, mire el menú de la izquierda, en la sección "herramientas", presione "Nominar para eliminación". Después de todo, proporcione un motivo para nominar la imagen y todas las ediciones necesarias se generarán automáticamente con solo hacer clic en un botón. Si quieres saber si la imagen es gratuita o no, puedes buscar la imagen en línea o leer esta página para ver si es "trabajo propio". 20 upper 09:33, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

Album Art

I am making wiki pages for bands, and I want to upload an image of the album art? Is this allowed? Metalbro (talk) 11:10, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

@Metalbro: On Commons, all files must be under a free license or in the public domain, so you are not allowed to upload album covers unless you have a formal written permission from the copyright holder. On some language Wikipedias (notably English), these can be uploaded under a fair use rationale. Yann (talk) 11:20, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

@Metalbro In short, on en-WP, you can upload a non-free album-cover in an article about the album, not an article about the band. en:Stay Hungry (album) etc. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 12:40, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

Toki Pona book covers

I want to upload images of the two official Toki Pona books, avaialble on Sonja Lang's wesbite, but I'm unsure about copyright in the perspective on Commons. When asked about it, Lang, on the ma pona pi toki pona Discord server, has said "you can use the covers of my books for any purpose." (source). JnpoJuwan (talk) 14:44, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

@JnpoJuwan: Loginwall detected. Please see VRT.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 14:54, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

Copyright help regarding File:TRAIN S USA SOUTHERN PACIFIC CAB FORWARD CLASS AC-05 4-8-8-2 ARTICULATED OIL BURNING LOCO DESIGN - BUILT BY BALDWIN LOCO WORKS - ENGINE NUMBER 4114.jpg

Hello. I found this image on Flickr that was listed as public domain by the uploader. I've noticed that other public domain images have been uploaded on here from flickr and I think I screwed up during the upload process. How I set this image to public domain on here so that it wont get deleted or have I messed up the upload for this image completely?

--LostplanetKD73 (talk) 21:37, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

The Flickr source has Public Domain Mark 1.0 on it, which would accept if the flickr user is the photographer. This looks like a historic photograph though so determining whether it actually is public domain is trickier. Abzeronow (talk) 21:47, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

@LostplanetKD73: I'd say there is absolutely no way to know the copyright status of that unless the account owner of the Flickr account is more forthcoming about why they believe that to be public domain. Their page gives no provenance for the photo. Unless we know more, we probably have to delete it. - Jmabel ! talk 23:49, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

This file looks like an upscaled version of the image at railarchive, which looks like a well documented website. The non-free textual description is the same and it is probably the work of the railarchive website. It describes the photo as a builders photo, i.e. taken for the company after the locomotive is completed. This would then be a 1929 photo, probably anonymous. The flickr account should probably be avoided. It copies works from various publications and tags everything public domain although it is clear that many images are not in the public domain. -- Asclepias (talk) 00:42, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Ok thanks for the information. So I guess the bast course of action is just to wait and see what happens in the next few days since this image may not really be 100% in the public domain for at least another 5-6 years. I'll try to ascertain more info from an uploader in the future if I ever come across anymore old locomotive images that claim to be in public domain. LostplanetKD73 (talk) 04:58, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

@LostplanetKD73 if it was published in the U.S. in 1929, then it will definitely be in the public domain January 1, 1925. More likely, copyright was not renewed and it is already PD. - Jmabel ! talk 06:06, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

Ok so for future reference if the image is taken before 1925 it technically counts as public domain? LostplanetKD73 (talk) 17:10, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

Published before 1928 or taken before 1903 and unpublished until after 2002. If a pre-1978 photograph (even very old ones) were published from 1978 to 2002, they wouldn't be public domain until at least 2048, see COM:Hirtle. Yes, U.S. copyright is complicated. Abzeronow (talk) 17:15, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

@Abzeronow: Lobbyists want it so, and congresscritters comply.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 17:29, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

Yeah, Congress hasn't exactly made it more simple. In just over 1 month, U.S. copyright will expire for 1928 published works (except sound recordings), 1923 sound recordings, unpublished works of authors who died in 1953 and unpublished works with unknown authors created in 1903. Abzeronow (talk) 17:34, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

Subir archivo que tengo en word

Hola. por favor quiero publicar un contenido de un manual que explica cómo trabajar en la aplicación Global#. Ahora lo tengo en extensión docx, pero entiendo que no es aceptada por la plataforma. ¿Qué debo hacer? JC Gascon (talk) 22:53, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

@JC Gascon: No creo que un manual de ese tipo estaría en el alcance de Commons. Estoy seguro que no acemptamos archivos doc o docx, formatos proprietarios de Microsoft. - Jmabel ! talk 23:59, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

@JC Gascon: Estoy de acuerdo, por favor mira COM:FT/es#Formatos de archivos propietarios y COM:NOT/es.

I agree, please see COM:FT#Nonfree file formats and COM:NOT.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 11:33, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

How would I go about writing a script that affects video?

Hi, I'm still fairly new to Wikimedia commons, so let me know if this question should be moved to a better place, like a place for discussing scripts and stuff.

How would i go about writing a script that affects the video that appears when you click on a video to play it? Like make it so the time display at the bottom left corner also shows the milliseconds? insne (talk) 23:16, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

@Insnesnakos: This is a fine place to ask your question, but you might want to go to Commons:Village pump/Technical in future. A script to affect video playback sounds like something you could put in your common.js page, or put in another JavaScript subpage of your user page and then load at common.js if you think you might want to share it with other people. I'm not super experienced with JavaScript, but User:CalendulaAsteraceae/common.js does have some code that adds a link to the toolbar, and my JS page at Wikisource (s:en:User:CalendulaAsteraceae/common.js) has some more complicated code, including code that loads someone else's script. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 03:42, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

@CalendulaAsteraceae Ok, thanks for the links, i'll check the links and ask the village pump:technical if I have any other questions. insne (talk) 16:00, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

Commons:Deletion requests/File:Flag of Caracas (2022).svg

Buenas administradores, por favor esta imagen debería ser removida (deleted) o quedarse (kept)?? AbchyZa22 (talk) 11:47, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

Image file size limit on initial upload different from the limit on photo update

Hey, I uploaded a photograph to Wikimedia which is larger than 100MB, and then when trying to send an updated version, I got blocked by the 100MB limit. And at this point I cannot update the image or delete it -- all is left is to upload a completely new image, which is not great.

Are we aware of this discrepancy between initial upload and update?  podstawko  ●talk  18:55, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

@Podstawko: Hi, and welcome. I suggest you try using User:Rillke/bigChunkedUpload.js (doc at User talk:Rillke/bigChunkedUpload.js and help at Help:Chunked upload).   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 19:25, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

Thank you @Jeff G., I will read the docs and try this.  podstawko  ●talk  22:38, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

@Podstawko: You're welcome, and good luck! I like to narrow down the window size to one that will let me see something is still happening, yet not impede throughput too badly.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 00:54, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

It worked very nicely for a 150M+ file, so I'll keep using the tool and, again, thank you @Jeff G. :)  podstawko  ●talk  03:17, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

@Podstawko: You're welcome. When uploading the 1.68 GB File:J Class World Championship - Newport Shipyard by D Ramey Logan.webm, with 'Chunk size: 20480 KiB with "use stash and async (recommended for large videos and photos)" dimly checked', the chunk size was a little large for my liking, YMMV.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 03:44, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

I need my images that I did not upload to Wikipedia removed.

Wikimedia has my images that I didn't upload, and I need them removed. One of your volunteers, Ser Amantio di Nicolao (talk | contribs) took photos off of my Flickr account that I have long since removed from Flickr upon request of the subject. I did not receive a message that this was occurring. The person in these images wants them off of the Internet. Can you remove them? They are a collection that includes 44753796905, 45668230991, 31795826948, 43850099670, 44753794225, 45668235631, 44753794725, 31795832538, 30726978607, 45668232681, 31795823418, 44753797315, 45668233201, 45668235631, 44753799625, and all similar images from that date and location. Thank you, Tracie Hall Tracie Hall (talk) 21:48, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

@Tracie Hall and Ser Amantio di Nicolao: as you probably know, cc-by-sa 2.0 licenses are not revocable, so what you are asking for amounts to a courtesy deletion. You are not exactly making them easy to find by giving Flickr photo IDs rather than links here on Commons to what you would like deleted, though I assume we are talking about the photos of [NAME REDACTED]. I'll do my best to set up a deletion request, but I can't guarantee finding all of the images in question. - Jmabel ! talk 22:16, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

Thanks again Jmabel. I didn't see you had two entries here. I didn't give the pictures those long parenthetical numbers, so thought you all did, and that if you found a few, it would find the folder for you. Because this is published, I didn't want to mention the subject's name that would bring them all up at once. After finding a page in Wikipedia on how to delete, I made requests from each photo, and then finally read the linked note at the bottom about checking the conversation and it looked like you'd already found them all. Excuse the duplication, but yes, the subjects had not given permission for me to post, and the primary subject had requested they be removed a few years ago. She has asked again that I remove all of the photos. I hadn't realized they had been taken up by Wikimedia. I will now be going through all of my Flickr pages looking for images of strangers that might not appreciate being picked up by Wikimedia and changing the permissions, or perhaps the viewers, or deleting them. I hadn't realized so many of my images had been picked up when a year or so ago I created an account and uploaded a few for your contests. Thank you for recommending they be deleted. Tracie Hall (talk) 23:03, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

Deletion request created: Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Los Angeles Harbor College. - Jmabel ! talk 22:23, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

Thanks Jmabel for creating my request. Tracie Hall (talk) 22:50, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

@Tracie Hall: As you can imagine, setting up a separate discussion for each photo was probably not a good way to do this. I would like to close all of those nominations as being superseded by the one central discussion (which is going to be tedious to execute, but not nearly as tedious as carrying on 40 or so separate discussions). I will give at least 3 hours for Tracie or anyone else to object to that; I realize I am going "out of process" here. - Jmabel ! talk 23:48, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

@Jmabel: Better to inconvenience one person than a whole lot of people. Thanks for volunteering.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 00:50, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

Starting the cleanup. - Jmabel ! talk 03:07, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

Cleanup done. My apologies if I may have slightly messed up an edit summary or two in this process: I was trying to go quickly through this. I believe everything is now acceptable in terms of the files, and that there is now a single place for this discussion: Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Los Angeles Harbor College. Jmabel ! talk 03:55, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

Apologies, I thought I was helping you find each one, but apparently I made it worse. Apparently your database system is completely different from the basic library databases I've worked with, combined with, perhaps, a different organization that involves needing multiple people to agree on the removal action.

I'm afraid I really have no understanding of how things work there, so this question is likely to be irritating as well, but am I right that all of the work you've done, so far, was to remove my individual requests, so as to be able to revert to this initial request and get the files into a group where one decision could be made for the entire "folder" of pictures (speaking in Google Drive terms, probably not yours)? So, we're at a recommended stage now? (Perhaps where we would have been before I was "helpful") Where the next stage would be multiple people decide whether to agree on the courtesy deletions? Tracie Hall (talk) 16:11, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

@Tracie Hall: Hi, Deletion requests are usually closed after a week. There is no opposition to your request so far, so I expect it to be closed next week. Yann (talk) 16:18, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for the estimation!!! Apologies for my ignorance when loading those to Flickr. I had taken the photos for the young lady in question, but should have just handed her a card with all of the photos on it, rather than posting them. I didn't realize at the time that, first, she would later wish they were not on the Internet, or 2nd that an external entity might collect them. I wasn't aware of the existence of Wikimedia at the time, but I do think it's a wonderful service, and I appreciate that any of my images were deemed worthy of it. Tracie Hall (talk) 16:43, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

@Tracie Hall: these have all now been deleted. There was a clear consensus to do so, and some danger of the Streisand effect, so I saw no point to leaving it open for a week. - Jmabel ! talk 20:56, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

@Tracie Hall: FWIW, administrators on Commons have certain technical capabilities that other users don't have, but for the most part we are simply empowered to honestly carry out community decisions, not to make potentially controversial decisions ourselves. While there is a clear, standing community consensus to delete (for example) copyright violations, courtesy deletions of anything that is more than a week old is always subject to some discussion. Someone might say, "hey, that's legally licensed, and I'm using it in such-and-such place," and that is going to win out over granting a courtesy. Also, to be honest, when people claim (falsely) that they have a legal right to revoke a license they granted, someone else is likely to turn it into a matter of principle and stand by keeping the image so that we don't end up with a bad precedent of being bullied. In this case, it looks like there were no such issues, and that's great. - Jmabel ! talk 21:01, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

THANK YOU tremendously. Well, lesson learned! I hope I didn't traumatize Ser Amantio di Nicolao.

I don't see anything else in my files here likely to cause anyone panic, so no worries that you'll have to decline any future requests. I am going through my Flickr stream to prevent future issues. I don't consider myself a good portrait photographer so there are very few, but still worth the time to go through and delete. I get it that if they've been picked up by anyone already they had my permission- I just want to prevent future pickups of anything I might regret having shared for any reason. In general, I love sharing my pictures so will only be changing permissions on the rare image that I don't want to delete, but don't want used.

Thanks again to all involved.

Best,

Tracie Tracie Hall (talk) 18:45, 2 December 2023 (UTC)