Commons:Help desk/Archive/2024/03

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Delete File

Please delete the file, File:The Maldives Portal logo.svg i uploaded a wrong file MAL MALDIVE (talk) 11:45, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

@MAL MALDIVE: Done GMG ^talk 11:48, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Fandom Copyright Questions

I'm looking to upload an image to the page of w:Gege Akutami, and I found one at his fandom page. I was just wondering if the copyright guidelines of Fandom are the same as Commons', and I could put this image on his Wikipedia page.
Many thanks, Frostcrush Valari (talk) 15:09, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

At https://jujutsu-kaisen.fandom.com/wiki/Gege_Akutami?file=Gege_Akutami.png, if you hover over "Gege Akutami" it says the file is fair use, so we cannot have it on Commons. The English Wikipedia might accept it on a "fair use" basis. - Jmabel ! talk 17:08, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Got it, thanks for the help :)

Frostcrush Valari (talk) 17:20, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

APPS

My opera has no more apps — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 105.160.89.38 (talk) 15:16, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

If this is a question about Wikimedia Commons (the site you are on) I have no idea what the actual question is. - Jmabel ! talk 17:09, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Foto pubblicata da altro utente spacciandosi per autore

Buonasera, alla seguente pagina https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Piazza_prefettura_potenza.jpg&oldid=733961953 vedo che un utente ha pubblicato una foto spacciandosi per l'autore della stessa. L'autore della foto sono io (posso fornire le prove) pertanto vorrei cancellarla, come è possibile farlo?

Attendo vostre, grazie Giuseppe Flace (talk) 20:06, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

@Giuseppe Flace: (Utilizzando Google Translate qui) Quello che consiglio è: avvia una richiesta di cancellazione, come chiunque potrebbe fare per qualsiasi foto. (Per avviare una richiesta di eliminazione per quella particolare foto, fai clic qui.) Indica che sei l'autore e che l'autore del caricamento ha fatto una falsa dichiarazione di paternità. Se hai prove di paternità (ad esempio potresti fornire una versione ad alta risoluzione, o una con dati EXIF, o se hai pubblicato in una data precedente e puoi dimostrarlo), tutto ciò sarà molto più semplice. Probabilmente verrà eliminato entro una settimana dalla tua visualizzazione, anche se a volte procede più lentamente. - Jmabel ! talk 22:39, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Uploading map published in 1853 (outside of the United States)

Hello. A work from 1853 must be in the public domain in the USA and elsewhere, I have no doubt about it. But I'm selecting "Author has been deceased for more than 70 years" as option for PD, because no other matches the case, although I don't know the exact date of death of the map's authors (the map being published more than 170 years ago, we can be sure that they passed away more than 70 years ago). Please tell me if there's some more precise PD template that I could use. I miss an option like the "First published in the United States before 1929" one, but for works published outside of the United States (with whatever year is needed). Thanks. MGeog2022 (talk) 13:36, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

@MGeog2022: Template:PD-US-expired states the PD status in the U.S. and it can be used for all such works, irrespective of the country of publication. For any additional template, you did not tell what country. You can use the specific template for that country, if there is one, or Template:PD-old-70 or Template:PD-old-assumed, if applicable to that country. -- Asclepias (talk) 13:56, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

Sorry, I hadn't said it: the map was published in Spain. Yes, I used "Template:PD-old-70" (it's automatically used when selecting "Author has been deceased for more than 70 years" option). For this case it should be OK, because it's extremely unlikely (not to say impossible) that authors of a 1853 work were alive in 1954. But for works from, let's say, 1910, that wouldn't be the same. For works such as maps, it can be really difficult to know the author's death date. For US works, the 1929 date makes this very easy, but for works from other countries, it can be really confusing (perhaps a template for Spain does exist, but it isn't easy to find, and the upload wizard doesn't offer an option for that). I would appreciate any information in this regard, not so much for this 1853 map, where there is no need for it, but for other possible future uploads. MGeog2022 (talk) 14:11, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

For a summary of rules and a list of possible templates for a country, you can consult pages such as Commons:Copyright rules by territory/Spain (or, for other countries, other subpages of Commons:Copyright rules by territory). For Spain, note the precision about 80 years. So, on Commons, the two templates for your map are likely Template:PD-US-expired + Template:PD-old-80. -- Asclepias (talk) 14:42, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

OK, I'll use both of them, since it seems that for older works from Spain it's 80 years after death, and not 70 (again, 1944, for a 1853 work, whose autors would have been born in 1833 or earlier, I think that we could take it for granted). But I am amazed that, unlike for the United States, there is no limit by publication date, this leaves out works from around 1900, when you don't know the author's death date. In any case, thank you very much for your help. MGeog2022 (talk) 15:01, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

If author is unknown and there is no specific provision giving a shorter term, most countries consider 120 years after publication a safe bet, as do we for Commons. - Jmabel ! talk 18:00, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
@Jmabel, thanks, that's a good reference to know what works are safe to upload (it would be fine to have that option on Upload Wizard; this would have been a good proposal for the Technical Needs Survey, if it had not already been completed). In this case author isn't unknown, but authors aren't notable enough to easily know their death dates (maybe with proper research work they could be known, or maybe not). MGeog2022 (talk) 18:41, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
Yes, that death date thing is tricky when relatively obscure people are at issue. - Jmabel ! talk 21:59, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

How to proceed with a picture

Hello!I have found a picture which i want to use for a wiki page but i've ran into multiple issues regarding its possible uploading on Wikimedia Commons.

Firstly, the picture is around 12 years old, which itself isn't an issue. The issue arises that, after a reverse image search, this image only shows up on two french forums from the early 2010s. Neither of these forums have any mentions of an author, copyright, origins- not even a date. And, again, the only two instances where i was able to find this exact picture were just on that discussion page. How should i proceed here? It is also safe to assume the forum has been long dead since it hasn't been updated since 2012-ish.

Thank you! YoursTrulyKor (talk) 23:59, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

If it helps, it related to Ourasi (the race horse) which might explain why it is on two random french forums. And no, the other forum doesn't mention a photograph/author either- it was the same discussion hosted on a different server (an archive for the forums from what i was able to tell)

YoursTrulyKor (talk) 00:02, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

There's no way to use that picture, because it's still copyrighted and we cannot contact the author. We have some pictures of that horse in Category:Ourasi, though. --rimshot^talk 02:16, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

I did a bit more of digging and i was able to find a source, it belongs to AFP (Agence France-Presse), now im wondering- how do i identify other details like the type of Copyright? Thanks! YoursTrulyKor (talk) 14:28, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

See Commons:Copyright rules by territory/France. If the photographer is known, the copyright will be protected for 70 years after they die. If the photographer isn't known, the copyright will be protected for 70 years following publication. If the image is 12 years old, that means it will be protected by copyright until at least 2082 (or longer if the photographer is known and they were still alive after 2012). It is possible that AFP (or the photographer if they were a freelancer and retained copyright themselves) may choose to release the image under a free licence but it is highly unlikely. Press agencies like AFP make their money by selling the rights to use their images and releasing images under a free licence will hurt their profits. From Hill To Shore (talk) 15:10, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! Now i got another question. If i were to take a public recording of a race in which Ourasi participated in the 80s, stop at a certain frame, screenshot it and then crop it and maybe slightly restore it- would it that be considered copyrighted or an own creation? Thanks YoursTrulyKor (talk) 18:25, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

@YoursTrulyKor: Definitely not "own work". Which "public recording", exactly? See also COM:DW. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 19:21, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Televized recordings of Prix d'Amerique from 1989, 1990, etc. YoursTrulyKor (talk) 20:05, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

@YoursTrulyKor: How did such recordings escape copyright? France has been a member of the Berne Convention since 5 December 1887. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 00:34, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Ok so i was able to find out that these footages were captured by ina.fr

Maybe im making a mistake but i will continue researching into this. YoursTrulyKor (talk) 01:23, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

so i've read through ina.fr terms of use (Here) and theres a section which peaked my attention which reads the following:

"Le Site permet à l’Utilisateur, librement et gratuitement de :

-consulter les Contenus du Site, et notamment les Contributions publiées;

-partager les Contributions sur les réseaux sociaux"

Which roughfully translates to:

"The Site allows the User, freely and free of charge, to:

- consult the Content of the Site, and in particular the published Contributions;

- share the Contributions on social networks"

Contributions is also defined on the website as:

"Contribution(s)”: designates all Article(s), Reading Note(s), video modules, Statistics(s), created by an Author and distributed on the Site;"

So it states that all videos, images, notes, statistics, etc. which are present on the site are free to user and share anywhere on the internet.

So what does that mean? Is it a good sign? YoursTrulyKor (talk) 01:35, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi sir Google

Google maps page Rajbadhur singh (talk) 15:17, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

@Rajbadhur singh: do you have a question about Wikimedia Commons? Also, about your recent upload please read the message on your user talk page about Commons' scope. —Matrix(!) {user - talk? - contributions} 16:18, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

How do I publish my photo?

How do I publisho a photo on Wikipedia Mwjaffit (talk) 16:52, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

@Mwjaffit: Hi, and welcome. Please see en:H:PIC, and more specifically for your upload, the "image" parameter in en:Template:infobox person. How do you know David Meyer (South African actor)? — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 19:14, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Uploading picture

How can I upload my picture to wiki love Africa Asioscila (talk) 19:21, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

@Asioscila: Hi, and welcome. Please see the right column at Commons:Wiki Loves Africa 2024. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 19:32, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Uploading mp3 file disallowed

I attempted to upload an mp3 file but received this error: An automated filter has identified this edit as potentially unconstructive, and it has been disallowed. If this edit is constructive, please report this error."

How do I upload this file? The author has granted permission for anyone to use, copy, modify or sell it. Thank you. Hpage66 (talk) 21:25, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

@Hpage66: MP3 uploads are restricted to autopatrollers and above. Abzeronow (talk) 21:28, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

How do I upload this file? What is an autopatroller? Thank you. Hpage66 (talk) 22:40, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Commons:User_access_levels#Patrol_and_autopatrol —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:53, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Justin's link spells out what an autopatroller is. It's essentially a user that is trusted enough that their edits are automatically marked as "patrolled." For those of us who have the patroller status (and above), we can mark things as patrolled, meaning they have been checked for vandalism and the like. Abzeronow (talk) 19:47, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

@Hpage66: 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. In the meantime, please reencode that and other audio into Vorbis or Opus and uploading them with full documentation as .ogg files. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 00:38, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, JeffG, Well the author/performer has explicitly place all his works in the public domain. Do you need a link to the web page? Screen shot of his web page? What is Autopatrol ? What is COM:RFR? What are non-botlike edits? Thank you. Hpage66 (talk) 05:05, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Autopatrol is explained in the link Koavf gave above. - Jmabel ! talk 15:58, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

@Hpage66: Links to the webpage or screenshots would be helpful. Justin and I meant for you to click on the blue links. non-botlike edits are edits that require individual thought by a human (rather than edits done by robotic means). For instance, recategorization of 200 files in a category using Cat-a-lot counts as one edit in the minds of the Admins evaluating requests at COM:RFR. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 07:44, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Copyright

I am reaching out to ask what copyright should be attributed to this? Here is the thing, there was a scanned copy of this uploaded and deleted due to no copyright, although I do not see a copyright on the certificate. Anyone could obtain this copy if they go and purchase Wagyu beef. I do not see a need for a copyright, however since it was deleted I do not want it deleted again. The image was just like this one:

https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-d78e15c6cebda74d0a02fefd0a032dc8-lq Nolansfood (talk) 04:20, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

@Nolansfood: Hi, and welcome. Each of those certificates is copyrighted by Wagyu the moment it is fixed in a tangible medium of expression in Japan, as Japan has been a member of the Berne Convention since 15 July 1899 per COM:JAPAN. Of course, Wagyu can send permission for them via VRT. Please review COM:DW. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 07:50, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Inserção de figuras

Quero inserir uma figura. Ela consta de uma tese de doutorado, devidamente citada e referenciada. Como faço? Prof Daniel Neri (talk) 13:36, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Inserting figures

I want to insert a figure. It appears in a doctoral thesis, duly cited and referenced. How do I do?

translator: Google Translate via — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 13:55, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

@Prof Daniel Neri: Olá e seja bem-vindo. Consulte COM:FS/pt e depois pt:WP:IMAGEM.

Hi, and welcome. Please see COM:FS and then en:H:PIC. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 13:55, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

WWI aircraft images

I would like to upload scanned WWI aircraft images from a 1946 British book, it is original (not a reprint) and has no copyright notices. The images themselves are mostly credited to aircraft manufacturers and dated 1914-1918, all taken over 100 years ago. I believe that the book and images are public domain but am struggling to find the correct licensing template for this situation. Just need steering in the right direction, thanks. Nimbus227 (talk) 17:53, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

You can use {{PD-UK-unknown}} if the author is unknown. Ruslik (talk) 18:55, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

The authors are known (Owen G Thetford and E.J Riding) but I can't find any death dates (for the 70 year rule). I have read in one of the licensing sections here that old books with no copyright notices are not protected which seems to make sense. Nimbus227 (talk) 19:53, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

In cases where the author is known but the death date is not known, we'd have to wait 120 years after the creation of the photograph so it could be uploaded in 2039 (sooner if the year of creation is known to be before 1918). Abzeronow (talk) 20:17, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

@Nimbus227: I believe you may be referring to "Aircraft of the 1914-1918 War. Compiled by O.G. Thetford and E.J. Riding. Managing editor: D.A. Russe." The first contributor is almost certainly Owen Gordon Thetford (1923-1996). UK copyright on the work will last until at least 2066 (assuming the other contributors died earlier). However, the book is described as "compiled by," which suggests Thetford and Riding didn't take the photos. Does the book give any indication that other people may have taken the photographs? If so (and they aren't named) then {{PD-UK-unknown}} may apply to the photographs. However, if they were first published in 1946, the US copyright would have been restored in 1996 and won't expire until 2041. Unless you can find an earlier publication, it is unlikely that you will be able to upload these images for quite some time. From Hill To Shore (talk) 20:42, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Yes, right title, there's no mention of D.A Russe that I can see. Majority of images are credited to the Imperial War Museum with others credited to the manufacturing companies (Sopwith, Westland etc). It looks like I will have to upload the needed images as non-free on Wikipedia. Nimbus227 (talk) 20:52, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

The archive entry I found had the name cut off. Apparently it was edited by D. A. Russell,[1] the managing editor of "Aeromodeller." We also have a Wikidata entry for Owen Thetford (Q112564888). Ping me when you upload the images to Wikipedia; I'll be happy to look over them to see if we can craft a justification for them PD, or at least help establish when they are likely to become PD. From Hill To Shore (talk) 21:31, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Telangana

where is telangana state in map? — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 2405:201:5c1c:50f9:a1be:226a:a005:d522 (talk) 08:15, 5 March 2024‎ (UTC)

Hi, and welcome. I made this section for you (which you should have done). According to Telangana#Old Maps, you may see "Telengana shaded in white color" on File:Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.png, North and West of Andhra Pradesh. According to Category:Telangana, you may see that shading as part of a map of the districts in it with an inset showing the location in India (West of the middle of the East coast in Andhra Pradesh). There are locator maps of it in Category:Locator maps of Telangana. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 09:32, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

Updating a logo

I'm trying to update a logo for a non-profit organization that went through a rebrand last June. How do I do this? When uploading a file it says it can't be a logo, but the logo on the page currently is inaccurate. Froggheadd (talk) 16:03, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Hello Froggheadd, what you describe is from the start (how you seem to have planned it) not compatible with the way things work here. The old logo was once the right logo, right? (at least that seems to be the case from your text). The way things work here on Commons: If there is a new logo you want to upload, fine. Then make a completely new file with the file name (just a proposal): "Organization XYZ, Logo since Dec. 2023.jpg". The old logo site and file stays exactly as is, but you might e.g. add to that description text "old logo until 2023, replaced since ..." or the like. Pittigrilli (talk) 16:28, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

PS: If you want to make it perfect, you might afterwards the above initiate the renaming of the original (old) file name to have the addition "old logo until 2023" or so. But this is kind of an extra, and I would recommed that if you want to do that, you come back here and just ask for it. Pittigrilli (talk) 19:20, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

@Pittigrill: , Froggheadd doesn't say he was trying to overwrite, so I wouldn't presume that. The "can't be a logo" is more likely a warning in an upload tool, because most logos are copyrighted. We've been having a lot of back-and-forth with developers who've been much too inclined to try to filter out possibly infringing material early, without understanding that false negatives are just as much problem as false positives.

@Froggheadd: If the log is simple enough to be below the threshold of originality in its originating country, you can upload it to Commons under a new filename, then use {{PD-textlogo}} in lieu of a license. (Depending on what upload tool you are using, you might have to edit after uploading to get that in there.) Then switch the relevant Wikipedia article over to use the new logo.

If the logo is above the TOO, then the only way you can upload to Commons is if the company (or other copyright-holder) is willing to go through the COM:VRT process and offer a specific free license for the logo.

If it is just the English-language Wikipedia you are concerned with, they have an allowance for uploading low-resolution versions of non-free logos (but those uploads are specific to en-wiki and cannot be used on other WMF projects). See en:File:Dallas Sidekicks WISL logo.jpg for a decent example. - Jmabel ! talk 09:42, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

@Froggheadd: @Jmabel: I see - maybe we should then also tell Frogghead plain and clear "Do not use any upload tool (whatever it may come from), but use the "Upload file" link in the left column on this or the Commons start page almost at the top for uploading the new logo." - in order to avoid the "it can't be a logo" issue. Pittigrilli (talk) 10:08, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

Really not sure. These wordings are all in motion at the moment. At Commons talk:WMF support for Commons/Upload Wizard Improvements I (and others) have been trying to impress upon the developers that the goal is not to minimize the number of "bad" uploads (in terms of copyright/licensing/scope), the goal is to minimize the sum of "bad" uploads that are accepted and "good" uploads that are not. - Jmabel ! talk 12:49, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

@Froggheadd: Hi, and welcome. I am sorry to inform you that you have triggered Special:AbuseFilter/153 by trying to cross-wiki upload a png logo as a new user. Such uploads of png logos are not allowed at all. You indicated it's your own work. Usually when someone uploads a png logo, it's a copyright violation taken from the web. Please upload the full-size original of it per COM:HR, including any metadata, but it may be judged too complex to be under TOO in the country of origin, so you may need to license it on your official website or social media or send permission via VRT. 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 an svg or jpg version, too. If you can't get a compliant license, the logo 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. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 12:02, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

Blocked upload: new user + pdf file

I'm an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation and I'm trying to upload a copy of the Foundation's public comments in a regulatory proceeding to Commons. However, my upload was blocked by a bot because I'm a new user trying to upload a pdf. I wrote these comments as part of my job for the Foundation and was asked by the Foundation to upload them to commons, so neither copyright nor permissions should be a problem here. How should I proceed? SAdams-WMF (talk) 16:23, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi Stan, should work now. I tagged your account 'confirmed'. Achim55 (talk) 17:07, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, @Achim55! I was able to upload the comments and I greatly appreciate your help and speed! SAdams-WMF (talk) 18:31, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

i have same issue! please help NSHIMIRYAYO Ange1 (talk) 13:41, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

@NSHIMIRYAYO Ange1: Hi, and welcome. I am sorry to inform you that you have triggered Special:AbuseFilter/281. Please read Mediawiki:Abusefilter-disallowed-pdf-new-user-upload again. What is in the files? — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 15:01, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

HotCat tag

Why are category edits made here with HotCat tagged while on other wiki pages it appears in the edit summary that was made with HotCat? 190.242.115.101 19:05, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

If you really need to know, that might be better asked on the Village pump. I don't see anything there that would impede anyone's use of Commons. - Jmabel ! talk 12:32, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

Page deleted: Actuaries Institute - how can we represent this actuarial body?

Hi there,

I noticed that there's no page for the Actuaries Institute (actuarial body of Australia and globally for actuaries). I noticed all the other worldwide actuarial associations have one, but this one has been deleted due to unambiguous advertising or promotion and unambigous copyright infringement from their website in 2021.

I've reached out to the user who deleted the page to request it be reinstated (providing I edit it without any promotional tone, material and it being properly sourced). However, I'd love some guidance.

Is the page able to be restored, so I can edit it within the guidelines? Or, could I create a new page for Actuaries Institute, and it can be redirected from the old one? Could you please advise me of the right way forward?

Thank you! EricaSatur (talk) 05:59, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

See User talk:EricaSatur, good guidance there. That is Wikipedia, this is Commons, a separate site/project (basically where Wikipedia keeps the pictures). Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:27, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

Photo uploaded but not sure if uploaded successfully

Photo uploaded but not sure if uploaded successfully Abhya2022 (talk) 08:17, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

@Abhya2022: Hi, and welcome. You have successfully uploaded nine photos. Checking the first one, it was successfully submitted to the Commons:Wiki Loves Folklore 2024 in India contest, and currently has three categories related to that. The categories and the number of them may change as the contest proceeds. Your uploads specifically are listed at Special:ListFiles/Abhya2022; anyone can find their own uploads at Special:MyUploads. Your upload log, linked from "upload log" on that page, is here. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 10:07, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

rural economy is lucking research in concerned sectors

rural economy is dominated by activities including but not limitted to Agriculture, rearing animals, mining(in some parts) and handcrafts. the agriculture is the one that is practiced at large scale. however, the production is highly subsistence due to the fact that research was not carried out to inform policy makers and implementers at local level. the question is for how long and in what way rural economy will be self sustaining? NSHIMIRYAYO Ange1 (talk) 13:18, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

@NSHIMIRYAYO Ange1: What does this have to do with Wikimedia Commons? — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 15:03, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

Photographs from the IWM archive

The Imperial War Museum publishes historic photographs online and allows them to be downloaded on a non-commercial licence, the terms of which are here. Is this the "Non-Commercial Government Licence", which Commons:Copyright rules by territory/United Kingdom says is incompatible with Wikimedia Commons? I would like to copy and upload to Commons two photographs in the IWM archive that a German official photographer took in 1918, and which the IWM copied from the Reichs-Marine-Sammlung.

Can the IWM impose its own copyright restrictions on German official photographs that were taken 106 years ago? Or should German law be applied to decide whether they can be uploaded to Commons? The two photographs in which I am interested are Q 51036 and Q 53081. Thankyou, Motacilla (talk) 10:14, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

I have no idea how IWM can possibly claim to own copyright on those photographs: how would the copyright from official German photos have made its way to them? They might not be PD, though. Imagine if they were taken by someone 25 years old at the time. They would only have been 61 in 1954, so they could easily have lived that long, and if they did then their heirs would still own a copyright. I believe that under German law (which Commons would defer to here) if the images were truly anonymous they would long since have lost copyright, but it is possible that there is a known author more specific than "German official photographer", and the IWM just doesn't happen to know who took them. - Jmabel ! talk 17:03, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Thankyou Jmabel: your thoughts are similar to mine. Frankly, the UK may have looted the photos from a German archive. However, we do not know which "German official photographer(s)" took these two photographs, and she/he/they could easily have lived until 1954 or later.

I tried a reverse image search to see if any German online archive offers the same two photos under more helpful copyright terms. I found no such archive. What I found instead was Alamy trying to pass off a sepia version of Q 51036 as their own, and charge £15 for a licence to use it!

I am no lawyer. I feel out of my depth in copyright matters. Is "German official photographer" a legal entity in German law? If a photograph is thus attributed, does it in a sense cease to be the work of the actual human who took the photograph, and become the work of the German state? Motacilla (talk) 19:58, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Spoils of war are not "looted". Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:28, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

The Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive) has one of them, see [2], but they don't name a photographer as well ("o. Ang.", "ohne Angabe", not indicated), and it's also not the among the Bundesarchiv images that were uploaded here under a free license in 2008. The way German copyright works, even if these were photographs taken by official military photographers, they are not automatically in the public domain (like in the US on the federal level) or under some kind of Crown Copyright (like in the UK), but protected 70 years pma, for the lifetime of the photographer and then an additional 70 years; they're also not "anonymous" if the name of the photographer became known somewhere. So without further details about photographer, first publication etc., those would be ok for Wikimedia Commons only after 120 years (with {{PD-old-assumed}}); in 2039 in this case. They're old enough for local upload to en.wp though (from before 1929), and de.wp would also accept them as local uploads since they are older than 100 years. --Rosenzweig τ 13:38, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

Unfortunately, the IWM have a long and ignoble record of making bogus claims of copyright in reproductions of works that are out-of-copyright (aka Copyfraud), so we usually need to ignore what they say and make a judgement based on the facts of each individual case. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:28, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

How do you know if a picture is copyrighted when it doesn’t mention it? And what are some websites that have non copyrighted material?

How do you know if a picture is copyrighted when it doesn’t mention it? And what are some websites that have non copyrighted material? Vintagemi (talk) 18:01, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

All photographs after 1989 are presumed to be copyrighted. Please read COM:L. Abzeronow (talk) 18:19, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Thank you!!! Vintagemi (talk) 19:07, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

@Vintagemi: See also en:Wikipedia:Finding images tutorial. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 19:34, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

@Vintagemi: and adding to what Abzeronow said: "All photographs after 1989 …and many before that." Some photographs as late as the late 19th century are still copyrighted and (due to various quirks), a very small number even older than that. - Jmabel ! talk 21:34, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Not all photographs after 1989 are presumed to be copyrighted; although most are. The works of the US government, for example, are not. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:17, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

That is correct, but US government works are for the most part clearly marked as such. And of course, Jmabel is correct too. Abzeronow (talk) 17:39, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

Village Government Seals

Hi, Is this allowed for wikipedia like adding village goverment seals without the permission of the village? Jxvvv (talk) 12:47, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

@Jxvvv: Hi, and welcome. Generally not here, we need permission from the copyright holders. For Wikipedia, see en:WP:F. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 13:05, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

@Jxvvv: We need permission from the copyright holder, if any. That may or may not be the village's governing authority. Or it could be the artist who made them. Or they could be so simple, or so old, that there is no copyright. We need more details (and perhaps a web page showing the image), not least the country concerned, to be able to give a definitive answer. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:12, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

LANGUAGE

I want to write in my mother tongue language , so tell me may I write in my local language or not? Parmjitkaler (talk) 03:52, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

@Parmjitkaler: Hi, and welcome. Yes, Commons is multilingual, you may write in your mother tongue, the name of which you may find near the top of Commons:Welcome or near the bottom of Commons:Community portal. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 09:51, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

@Parmjitkaler:If you are doing this in category descriptions or file descriptions, do use a language tag. E.g.

{{en|Picture of a cat.}} produces:

English: Picture of a cat.

{{es|Imágen de un gato.}} produces:

Español: Imágen de un gato.

Jmabel ! talk 12:38, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

@Parmjitkaler: If you tell us what that language is, we can direct you to our resources and community pages in that language (if they exist; if not, we can show you where to start some!). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:05, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

Help with an article I'm writing

Hello! I am writing an article on an internet celebrity and I need assistance in editing the hyper links as well as formatting the page so it passes wikipedias guidelines. The draft is Draft:Kawaiiconic. Thank you! Kawaiiconic (talk) 22:53, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

@Kawaiiconic: Hi, and welcome. Please use internal links like en:Draft:Kawaiiconic. Also, 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. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 05:55, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

Also, for help on en-wiki, you will probably want to ask at en:WP:Teahouse. This page is part of Wikimedia Commons, which is a sister project to Wikipedia, but distinct. - Jmabel ! talk 08:08, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

Getting a press pass

Hi. I live in Iceland and recently there has been a lot of volcano activity in Reykjanes. During the eruptions only press is allowed in. I was wondering if there was a way for photographers to get credentials from Commons. I know Wikinews has "Accreditation requests", but I'm not active there so I'm not elegable. I would love to be able to get great photos during the next eruption. Steinn inn ♨ 05:19, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

The rules are very country specific and therefore there is no process on Commons for this. Normally you would ask your local chapter but Iceland does not have one. I think the only way would be to explain what you do yourself and hope that they accept this. GPSLeo (talk) 06:56, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

@Steinninn Da Du Deutsch sprichst und Bilder hochgeladen hast (die ja auch für die deutschsprachige Wikipedia relevant sind) könntest Du versuchen, ob Du von WMDE eine Mail-Adresse + Visitenkarte bekommst. Das ist kein Presseausweis, aber die Visitenkarte hat mir schon geholfen, bei Demos, bei denen die Polizei zwei Gruppen mit gegenteiligem Demointeresse auseinanderhält, die Polizeisperre zu passieren und auf beiden Seiten zu fotografieren. Siehe: de:Wikipedia:Förderung/E-Mail-Adressen_und_Visitenkarten C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 19:27, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

Are uploading screenshots of a software allowed?

These types of screenshots are including but not limited to software. NoVaEarthWiki11 (talk) 14:26, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

@NoVaEarthWiki11: Only if the software and its user interface elements are available under the terms of a Commons-compatible free license. See Commons:Screenshots for details. —RP88 (talk) 14:42, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

how do i delete a photo that i have uploaded?

I'd like to delete a photo that i have uploaded. How is this done? T3ldv (talk) 16:57, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

@T3ldv: On the description page of the image, you can click "Nominate for deletion" and indicate the reason for deletion. -- Asclepias (talk) 17:07, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

If it is a recent upload you can just mark it with {{G7}} (at the top of the file page). We allow about a week's grace period for people to change their minds about their uploads. No need for a DR process. - Jmabel ! talk 17:57, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

If you are talking about File:LDV MAXUS.jpg, it's been on Commons too long for speedy deletion. You'd need to list a deletion request for it, including a reason for deletion. It is currently in use in multiple projects and has been on Commons for more than 10 years - in such cases, the uploader asking many years later is not generally considered a reason to delete without a specific explanation of why it needs to be deleted. -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 18:33, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

I make tropical cyclone track maps, but I see that every time I upload a file, "{{int:filedesc}}" gets added to the top. This is unwanted in the track map descriptions, as {{WPTC track map}} already includes the section header for "Summary". How can I upload a file without the tag getting automatically added? 2003 LN 6 20:37, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

Requesting additional content in an article

I recently read the article on Ethylenediaminetetraaceticacid. I am interested in the history of the compound’s development/discovery. What is the appropriate method for requesting such content? Tsember (talk) 16:36, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

@Tsember: This is Wikimedia Commons, a media repository. If you read the article on the English-language Wikipedia, try asking en:WP:Help desk; see also en:WP:Be bold. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:17, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Senhores, coloquei a biografia resumida da bailarina e professora Eliana Caminada e meu artigo foi vetado.

Não existe nada, no texto, associado a Direitos Autorais. Todos os dados foram confirmados com a própria artista e se trata do resumo do seu trabalho ao longo da sua vida. ELIANA "MARIA" CAMINADA (talk) 00:34, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi @ELIANA "MARIA" CAMINADA, this is commons and here we do not create articles, but work on files. I have seen you received a message at your talk page in the Portuguese wikipedia. Does this help? If not, you might also contact the help desk in the Portuguese wikipedia.Paradise Chronicle (talk) 13:54, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

Photo of ancestor

I have a photo of George McDermot, taken in about 1900, that was sent to me by the Paulist order in New York, where he was a priest. I would like to use the photo on the Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_McDermot, which I created. When asked (by George McDermot's great-great nephew) for any information they had about him, the Paulists just sent the photo and said he could have it. Is this sufficient for copyright purposes, and if so what licence is appropriate?

Many thanks in advance. I have tried to find a similar case in the FAQ for image uploading, but cannot see one.

Regards John Gallagher Jpg496 (talk) 14:50, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

You say it is from "about 1900". There are certain circumstances under which a U.S. photo from that date could still be copyrighted, but it would be unusual. If it's from before 1904 and has never been published, or if it was first published in 2003 or later, then {{PD-US-unpublished}} works. If it was published in 1928 or earlier, {{PD-US-expired}} works. If it was first published in between those dates (1929-2002, inclusive) things can get trickier, and it just might still be copyrighted. Do you know which of these cases applies? - Jmabel ! talk 15:43, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick reply. As far as I know the full photo itself has not been published, though a similar photo (cropped) appears on George McDermot's entry on https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/95846462/george-mcdermott. This was created by the Paulists (who gave us the photo) in 2012. Jpg496 (talk) 16:07, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Any publication in 2003 or later is not a problem, because starting then publication of old unpublished works did not extend their U.S. copyright, so you can use .{{PD-US-unpublished}} if it is from before 1904 (120 years). - Jmabel ! talk 21:33, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Thank you. Jpg496 (talk) 07:41, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

Ballad of The Brooklyn

When I was a young boy one of my aunts who lived in New York and her sisters used to go to the USO and dated sailors. She used to sing a song or ballad about The Brooklyn or the mighty B. Have you ever heard of it? Magicalballoonguy (talk) 21:37, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

No, but consider trying Wikipedia:Reference desk/Entertainment Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 10:18, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

edit file name

I have uploaded an image file, but the wrong file name is listed. How do I change it to the correct one? I do not see a way to edit it. Please help. Mastecker (talk) 23:06, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

@Mastecker If you're on a laptop or in desktop view on your device, see the "More" dropdown to the left of the search-box at for example File:Lake McDonald Montana at dawn.jpg. In that dropdown, choose "Move" to request a change. Hope this helps. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 10:16, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

False "own work"

This file says the uploader owns the work but it isn't, what actions should be done? Dentsinhere43 (talk) 12:29, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

File is deleted. - Jmabel ! talk 17:46, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Jmabel ! talk 17:46, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

Uploading a SVG with an embedded public domain true type font, that I made myself???

So, I’ve been working on the image referenced in this post Commons talk:Overwriting existing files/Requests#c-Asclepias-20240224141300-Linux dr-20240224000500 which ended up here:

File:English pattern playing cards deck PLUS CC0.svg

and realized the text really SHOULD be embedded so it can be edited/translated/searched, etc. and went through a week long escapade creating a font, realizing SVG Fonts are obsolete, converting to TTF, figuring out how to embed that in an SVG, and use it within InkScape… replaced all path text with text objects (or clones there of) so it’s “easy” to edit or translate… it was such a pain in the butt that I wrote a monster change log message to upload the file:

TL;DR: This should be visually identical to previous versions, but changed “SVG Path text” to “Embedded SVG text objects” and embedded all characters used into a custom (still CC0) embedded TrueTypeFont
This turned out to be a ‘much more ambitious’ change than I realized. Rest assured, the rendered artwork should be indistinguishable from the original. I was combing through the MetaData trying to finalize it and realized that all the included characters were “SVG Path text”, and I noticed Inkscape included a “SVG Font Editor” tool (that I didn’t realize was obsolete. (Excluding suites that I hadn’t considered yet), the file included 10 digits, AJQK for Ace, Jack, Queen and King, plus OER to complete the word “Joker”… Realizing any font without a complete latin alphabet would be useless I added the remaining 19 capital letters for a total of 36 characters. Then I realized that SVG fonts had been removed from the SVG 2.0 candidate spec in 2016 and were legacy in the few places they were supported. Making a long story… umm less long, I used FontForge to convert these to TrueType Fonts, I also decided to add the 4 card suite characters for use ‘all over’ the cards. (I contemplated, and after research, dismissed the idea of including Tarrot card suit symbols also.) This gave me a font with 40 real characters, space, and a “unmatched character” I was able to manually include this into the SVG file with a text editor but Inkscape was unable to use it. So I installed it into the system as a font, but with the limited character set Inkscape still refused to let me use it. To allow me to edit the image in Inkscape, I took another public domain font (Tuffy @ Fonts 4 Free) and grafted in my 40 characters after scaling the font accordingly. This finally allowed me to edit the SVG file in InkScape with the 21 of my 40 custom characters I was using. I finally then propagated all the path text characters in the image and to text objects (or clones of text objects, then integrated them into each card one by one. After all this, I went back in with my text editor and included my 40 character TTF font in a <style> tag as a base64 binary blob, and replaced all references to “Tuffy” with my custom font name: “Cc0PlayingCardTypeStaresque”… TypeStarEsque is a reference to the closest font I found with WhatTheFont which was called FF TypeStar. It’s significantly different, so I’m sure there is not copyright violation, but it’s close enough that “TypeStarEsque” seemed at least descriptive. I haven’t finished updating all the metadata yet, but now I can claim, accurately that all text characters are embedded text that can be edited for localization purposes, and since the custom font is included, it should render the same everywhere. The vertical text rendering of “JOKER” I wanted to include as a font setting, but it turns out that vertical text isn’t officially supported in SVG until SVG 2.0 that has yet to be ratified, so I just used a multiline string with newline chars between each line (less cool, maybe, but more universally compatible.)
If you actually read this far, you must be a masochist like me.

I uploaded the file and get these errors:

If you do not provide suitable license and source information, your upload will be deleted without further notice. Thank you for your understanding.
Found unsafe CSS in the style element of uploaded SVG file.

NOW WHAT??? Linux dr (talk) 22:59, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

Since there I tried posting the TrueTypeFont by itself on Wikimedia Commons, that for some reason doesn't support TTF files... so then I tried to get the font hosted externally, and posted it here: https://www.fontspace.com/get/family/jd83w, and had my newest version of the SVG file reference the external URL, and got the same error. (that was a bit of a long shot.) any other ideas? Linux dr (talk) 01:58, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

In SVG on Commons (or any WMF project) you can only use Fonts (ttf or other format) that are installed in the MW software as webfonts. The number of webfonts of MW is very limited, they are basically only there to ensure that every Unicode codepoint can be displayed on any device that is used to display MW pages. Therefore it is unlikely, that another font will be added. But you can try to lobby for your font to be added to the available webfonts of MW. For first is needs to be free and for second it will need to offer a benefit in providing WMF's mission to bring free knowledge and education to all the world. I do not know is there is a process for adding webfonts, but probably you would start a feature request at Phab:. C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 09:42, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

If this is the case, this is simply my misunderstanding WMF’s attitude/policy toward fonts, [edit: and/or path text ] etc… The only thing “special” about the font in question, is that it came from the SVG image I was working on. (Imagine extracting the font from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell's_Soup_Cans to reconstruct it as a “searchable” SVG with the original font.) Perhaps a standard annotation for pointing out path text already in an image would make more sense. I remember seeing a recommendation somewhere that “path text” be accompanied by embedded text that is 100% transparent. Has this been standardized anywhere? Would this make more sense? Thanks again for your quick response. Linux dr (talk) 19:44, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

Uploading a photo

It's very similar to this photo. It's a buidling that shows a South Korean branch of a Japanese Shinto-based new religion on the 3rd floor. Unlike the previously-mentioned image, my photo doesn't have any faces of people and license plants of automobiles, but there are phone numbers of businesses. Is it still OK to upload this image? Komitsuki (talk) 13:49, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

And also there are tiny logos for businesses in the photo. So, I don't think the photo I took would be Creative Commons when it comes to the license. Komitsuki (talk) 13:59, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

Without seeing the photo, really all anyone can say is "probably OK". If the logos are de minimis, it will be fine. - Jmabel ! talk 17:27, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

I'll post the photo I took here and I'll delete this photo in 2 days. Here is the link. I don't know how to do photoshop to make the image appropriate for Wikimedia Commons. Komitsuki (talk) 17:40, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

I don't see anything about the image that is at all obviously inappropriate for Wikimedia Commons. I really don't see what you are concerned about. I could just barely imagine the rightmost sign being a possible issue, but it seems to me to be de mininis. - Jmabel ! talk 18:36, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

GENDER SYMBOLS

There is a male symbol as well as a neutered male symbol available in ASCII characters. there is also a female symbol, but i cannot find a neutered female symbol. The female symbol is a circle mounted on a cross. I am trying to find a suitable NEUTERED FEMALE symbol for use in veterinary records. I imagine this might have a cross in the circle or a second line through the cross below the circle (rather like the neutered male symbol). Does anyone have any idea where i can find (or make) this combination, ideally as an asciii symbol. Tim Harris <redacted> 24.114.81.197 13:53, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

I am not aware of a single Gender Symbol in ASCII. There are however many Gender Symbols in Unicode (and I do not know, why you would use ASCII instead of Unicode?). You will find selections of Gender Symbols at https://nonbinary.wiki/wiki/Gender_symbols or at https://unicode.org/charts/nameslist/n_2600.html. You will find more at the Unicode site. However you should only use symbols from Unicode (and not from the private use areas of Unicode) for best interoperability. You can create more Gender Symbols with the Unicode combining marks, that allow to combine two or more Unicode codepoints into a single Glyph. C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 14:58, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

I regret I am no expert on the subject, but just sharing my general knowledge and brief research. I’ve been a life-long dog owner, and never heard of a “neutered female”. The term I always heard was “spaid female”. A brief amount of research turned up

that many vets tattoo spaid/neutered dogs and cats. Traditionally this is supposedly a green or blue line at or near the incision site, and is most common when the surgery is performed in shelters. Its most noted benefit is to prevent the need for later exploratory surgeries. I have seen photos of some dogs tattooed with more elaborate spay or neuter symbol which is (based on the photos) the male or female symbol “struck through” the middle of the circles, and perpendicular to the arrow or plus in males or females. I have no idea WHY such elaborate tattoos were created, but they sound like they may be the symbology you’re looking for.

references:

https://www.whole-dog-journal.com/rescue/dog-spay-neuter-tattoos/

https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/2kf4wo/what_is_this_symbol_tattooed_on_my_friends_dogs/ Linux dr (talk) 00:02, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

YouTube Video Screenshot

Hello - New user here!

Am I allowed to upload a screenshot from a YouTube video to the Wikimedia Commons? Or is this against the TOS/Copyright Laws?

Thank you! Cheeseburgahhh (talk) 23:05, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

Only if the video is licensed under Creative Commons license and the creator holds the rights to the content Trade (talk) 01:05, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

Or if the video is under some other compatible licence. Or is of a work whose copyright has expired, or is a work by the US government, or.... We cant give a definitive answer without knowing the source, or at least the circumstances. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:55, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

FlickrReview bot

The FlickrReview bot seems to have stopped, about four days now. Ron Clausen (talk) 05:23, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Pinging @Zhuyifei1999 as operator of FlickreviewR 2. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 10:50, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

@Jeff G.: Discussed at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Flickr_Review_Bot_has_broken_down , looks like long term, this bot probably needs a new maintainer that understands how the bot works. Abzeronow (talk) 17:19, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Are religious symbols/logos copyrighted?

Apologies for this ridiculous question. Just asking a question about this because I uploaded a photo with the symbol/logo of a Japanese religious establishment, Zenrinkyo, in a very tiny part of it. It looks like a Christian cross surrounded by a flower. I have extra photos for the plaques of the symbol/logo and I want to upload them if they are permitted. Because it's difficult for me to search for the answer, what is Wikimedia Commons' policy on photos that have religious logos/symbol? Komitsuki (talk) 15:52, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

I'm a little bit concerned as I imposed the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication to that photo. Komitsuki (talk) 16:24, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

@Komitsuki: it's de minimis in the photograph so it's fine. To answer your larger question, yes, religious logos and symbols can be copyrighted, but they would have to be above the threshold of originality in the country of origin to be copyrightable. Abzeronow (talk) 17:24, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Proper use of images of executives

I'm looking to add headshots/images for different companies. Doing so seems like a good way to enhance different pages.

That said, I'd like clarity on proper usage. Take Satya Nadella's page, for instance. The image appears to be from a professional photographer, but it's listed under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-SA 4.0). How can you be sure you have permission? Was this given in a way that isn't obvious to anyone but this inside Wikipedia?

On a related note, if you were able to take an image from a firm's site and source it to that site in a clear, obvious way, would that be OK?

MS-Exec-Nadella-Satya-2017-08-31-22 (cropped) - Satya Nadella - Wikipedia KjOKheyhey (talk) 17:49, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Convenience links: Satya Nadella, File:MS-Exec-Nadella-Satya-2017-08-31-22 (cropped).jpg. - Jmabel ! talk 17:55, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Link for convenience: File:MS-Exec-Nadella-Satya-2017-08-31-22 (cropped).jpg. Note that the source page explicitly says that it has an appropriate license and that's from Microsoft's website: https://news.microsoft.com/exec/satya-nadella/ It seems like they want the photo shared. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:58, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

(cross-posted) @KjOKheyhey: why would we doubt a license granted on an official page on Microsoft's site? - Jmabel ! talk 17:59, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

@KjOKheyhey: added a license review so it's incredibly obvious that this is properly licensed. Abzeronow (talk) 18:03, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

To everyone that responded: My apologies. I didn't see that part at the bottom. That makes it crystal clear. KjOKheyhey (talk) 18:25, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

More clarification on image use

Here's a better example of what's prompting me to ask these questions.

I looked at the page for the CEO of Reddit, Steve Huffman. It has an image and the sourcing is clear. It takes you to a flickr account. But how is permission established? It has a CC label, but where does it say that on the flickr site?

If you find an image on a site that makes the source obvious and then use it - taking the image of Ford CEO Jim Farley from the company site, and clearly marking the source as Ford, for instance - does that work?

https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/people/james-d--farley--jr-.html#

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Web_Summit_2017_-_Centre_Stage_Day_2_CG1_7885_(38232183112)_(cropped).jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Huffman KjOKheyhey (talk) 18:55, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

@KjOKheyhey On the Flickr page for the file, https://flickr.com/photos/74711243@N06/38232183112, there's a link below the picture on the right-hand side that says "Some rights reserved". That's a link to the CC BY 2.0 licence and is what marks the picture as having been released under that licence. You might find Commons:Where is the license on various sites? useful. Your Ford example doesn't seem to have a free licence, so wouldn't be acceptable on Commons. --bjh21 (talk) 20:39, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Broken link to National Park Service File - Can I upload a copy to Wikimedia Commons?

aANew York State hosted online a 30 page PDF copy of an OMB 1024-0018 NPS (National Park Service) form documenting a historic church in Saratoga County that was linked by the Wikipedia article on the church stood. 9 photos included in the PDF are also linked. The old links to a New York State website no longer function and the document isn't found on the Wayback machine. Searching I found a reference to the document the National Park Service website as "The PDF file for this National Register record has not yet been digitized.". I downloaded a copy of the PDF from the NY webpages prior to it the link being broken. The church was torn down not long after being put on the register of historic places. The PDF has 9 photos documenting the structure.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 0MB NO. 1024-0018, NPS FORM NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES REGISTRATION FORM

My question is can I upload the PDF to Wikimedia commons? Could the photos be copied out of the document and used to illustrate the Wikipedia page? Thanks. HareHereHare (talk) 23:59, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

@HareHereHare: Hi, and welcome. Who filled out the form and added the photos? — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 00:09, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

Signed by a Deputy Commissioner for Historic Preservation, and a "signature of Keeper". The form was prepared by a Program Analyst with NYS OPRHP DHP Field Seryices.

The form is stamped in a number of places as "RECEIVED 413 DEC 12 1994 INTERAGENCY RESOURCES DIVISION NATIONAL PARK SERVICE" HareHereHare (talk) 00:19, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

The photographs include scans of the reverse that show the name of the photographer (the NYS OPRHP DHP Field Services analyst) and location of the negatives (NYS OPRHP DHP Field Services). HareHereHare (talk) 00:26, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

Noodling around the NPS website I found a copyright disclaimer on an asset they actually have linked: "Copyright Information:

Permission must be secured from the individual copyright owners to reproduce any copyrighted materials contained within this website." HareHereHare (talk) 00:47, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

@HareHereHare: Thanks, so we need the NYS OPRHP DHP Field Services analyst to send permission via VRT, either with the PDF file or with a link to it, preferably with a carbon copy to you. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 01:45, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Can't upload a new version of an svg file

I made my own modifications to File:Emblem of Yemen.svg, and I just can't proceed,

It prompts me that "If you do not provide suitable license and source information, your upload will be deleted without further notice. Thank you for your understanding." I modified the file myself.
It also prompts me that "Found scriptable element "script" in the uploaded SVG file." which I tried to remove by modifying the .svg file but the message didn't go away regardless.

Mkfreal (talk) 20:36, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

@Mkfreal: Hi, and welcome. For the first prompt, please read COM:EVID. Any modification of that file needs to be {{PD-self}}. For the second prompt, please see COM:SVG. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 01:37, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Understood, thanks a lot. Mkfreal (talk) 11:21, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

@Mkfreal: I added the template to the svg per your request at COM:OWR. Abzeronow (talk) 17:28, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

@Abzeronow: Thanks! @Mkfreal: You're welcome. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 01:29, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Removal of my photo!

i found my photo on your website without my consent. I would like you to deleted it right away. File:Leane Edouard.jpg there is the file so you can do it . 2A02:8440:3108:2ADD:650B:4C78:58DC:D27F 14:43, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

I see no obvious reason [3] why we should have this image. @Jmabel, what's the "rule" here? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 14:58, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

Speedy deletion requested. F10 and G3. -- Asclepias (talk) 15:35, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

I fulfilled the speedy deletion request. —RP88 (talk) 15:38, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

¿EN QUÉ FORMATO SE PUEDEN SUBIR ARCHIVOS DE TEXTO?

¿EN QUÉ FORMATO SE PUEDEN SUBIR ARCHIVOS DE TEXTO? Californidad (talk) 17:52, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

@Californidad: Por favor no escribas todo en mayúsculas. Para archivos de texto, lea Commons:Alcance del proyecto (via google translate). Abzeronow (talk) 17:55, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

¿Cual es su intención? Commons es un archivo multimedia. No almanecemos archivos de texto. - Jmabel ! talk 18:10, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

Kindly keep my artworks

Hi

Greetings, my name is R. Gopakumar The following images are my own artworks that I uploaded. They will be deleted soon. I would appreciate it if you could resolve this issue. My own works and images are shown below. The username I use is "Editani". I uploaded these images because I need to create a gallery on my Wikipedia it version https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopakumar_R.

Regards R. Gopakumar Editani (talk) 05:32, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

@Editani: Hi, and welcome. Please send permission for them via VRT. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 06:05, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

@Editani: As far as Commons is concerned, I agree with Jeff, but it looks like you are violating it:Wikipedia:Conflitto di interessi. It's not my role here to enforce the rules of the Italian Wikipedia, but I suggest you try to get in line with that rule or you are likely to have your account there blocked. - Jmabel ! talk 06:48, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

@Aeron10 and Ruthven: FYI. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 11:21, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

@Editani Besides the COI declaration, mandatory on it.wiki (see it:WP:CSC), the source for some files, e.g. R-Gopakumar-Mind-Scape.jpg is a website published with not free license. This is no compliant with Commons' guidelines. Ruthven (msg) 15:50, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi, Thanks for your guidence.

Kindly fix this issue. It was the same issue for my following image, then that fixed. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linguistics_River.jpg

Please fix the same way my all images which I uploaded. Editani (talk) 04:55, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

@Editani: Please have R. Gopakumar send or post permission similar to that sent in Ticket:2024011310001052. Why do you need multiple accounts? — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 14:35, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Uploading photos which appear as rotated

I'm in the process of uploading more than 20 images, scanned from negatives, and a few of them have uploaded rotated (either upside down, or rotated through 90 degrees). Can I fix this at this stage (without having to re-enter all of the descriptions) or should I delete the rotated ones and try to upload them later? Ginigee (talk) 21:05, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

@Ginigee: Once you've finished uploading them, there's an option on each file's page (under the list of versions of the file) to "Upload a new version of this file". You can use that to overwrite the file while keeping the description intact. Commons has recently instituted some restrictions on overwriting files, but I don;'t think there's any problem with overwriting files you've uploaded yourself. --bjh21 (talk) 21:31, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

@Gingee: but better than that, if it's just a matter of rotation, tag them with {{Rotate}} (using the appropriate number of degrees, e.g. {{rotate|90}}) and a bot will deal with that. - Jmabel ! talk 10:47, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

I keep trying to upload a file I select add then nothing I don’t know if it’s attached Wkare227 (talk) 10:13, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

@Wkare227: is this about Ginigee's rotation issue, or should this be in a new section? - Jmabel ! talk 10:45, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Upload

How can I upload my things may I ask Elonathi (talk) 17:53, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Ok thanks for your help 🥰

🥰🥰 Elonathi (talk) 18:01, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

@Elonathi: Hi,

What do you want to upload? Please read COM:SCOPE and COM:L before uploading anything. Thanks, Yann (talk) 19:07, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

User created "gallery" of ogg files

Would somebody be willing to look at a "gallery" of ogg files and see if Commons would like to host it? On other wikis I create a page by doing a search and hitting the return button. My guess is that on Commons we write the page in userspace and request a page move. That is fine with me, but I am currently writing a "gallery" of ogg files, and don't know if I should write it for Commons, Wikipedia, or Wikiversity. Where it should go depends in how I write it (especially because Wikiversity and Wikipedia have different template structures.) The gallery is a full performance of Mozart's Magic Flute. To my (questionable) ear, the performance ogg file seem pretty good. A version of the "gallery" is under construction at w:User:Guy vandegrift/sandbox/sandbox. Guy vandegrift (talk) 17:55, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

BTW, there is a reasonable chance this gallery would get visits. I make lots of image files, but over 50 have been placed on wikis other that Wikiversity. See v:User:Guy vandegrift/Images on other wikis--Guy vandegrift (talk) 18:51, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Galleries here go in the main space. Die Zauberflöte would be an appropriate location, and put it in Category:Die Zauberflöte. If someone also wanted to add appropriate images, all the better. - Jmabel ! talk 20:31, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Picture Sources

A few months ago I got in hot water after I uploaded several driver photos that were from external sources. I wanna know all the ways that I can get a picture of said driver to upload and use on Wikipedia without getting copyright claimed, since I don't know any of them. DualSkream 14:55 March 13, 2024 (EST) DualSkream (talk) 18:55, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

@DualSkream: you are probably out of luck, unless you happen to run across free-licensed images you can use. You can't just magically make copyright disappear, or make a license appear. - Jmabel ! talk 20:33, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Removal of my photo

I am Anahid sarkissian....One of my ancient students has posted this photo without my concent!!! I dont want this photo of mine in wikimedia's files!! I have the right to ask you to remove this photo!! I have asked once, but was refused!!! and I am not satisfied at all, at all!!! its my RIGHT!!! He has posted without my information and permission!!! I will continue pursuing!!! if I am refused once more, I will search other ways!!! it's my right!!!

Category:Anahid Sarkissian 2A01:E0A:414:DF00:81DE:A60D:FDC6:10F8 14:24, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

For the interested, previous discussion at Commons:Deletion requests/File:Anahid Sarkissian (2014).jpg. Personally, I think a courtesy deletion would be ok, not used in any WP-articles. If this was en-WP, I'd argue WP:BLPKIND Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 14:42, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

It's a pretty bad photo. I'd certainly agree to delete it if we had any other photo of the person in question, but we do not, so for the moment I am neutral on this.

Ms. Sarkissian, the simplest solution to this would certainly be for you to arrange to free-license a better photo of yourself, in which case I am sure there would be agreement to delete this one. - Jmabel ! talk 18:07, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

"not used in any WP-articles" It is used on Wikidata. That's no less significant than use on Wikipedia. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:41, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

I think it is, but that opinion is probably off-topic. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 10:27, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

œuvre d'art

comment télécharger un tableau par exemple "ceci n'est pas une pipe" de Magritte? Agamnis (talk) 09:28, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

You would download this exactly the same way you download any other image file on the web. Since you don't say what browser or OS, there is probably nothing more than that anyone can say. - Jmabel ! talk 21:18, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

@Agamnis: Les oeuvres de René Magritte ne seront pas dans le domaine public en Belgique avant 3038, et donc pas sur Commons avant cette date.

Works by René Magritte won't be in the public domain in Belgium before 2038, so they won't be on Commons before that date. Yann (talk) 21:24, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

I'm trying to upload a image of Zhwe with Breve for my draft but the filename is wrong?

I have a picture of Zhwe with breve and have tried names like: Zhwe With Breve and ZhweBreve but an error saying "The filename is not allowed" keeps popping up. Why is this happening??? D:> Eggs111 (talk) 18:20, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

@Eggs111: What type of file are you trying to upload, and what exactly is the filename (with extension) that is getting rejected? - Jmabel ! talk 21:16, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

Actress Mia Marvin

Miss Marvin's Wikipedia entry has no photo of her and there are none available exhaustively searching the Internet. Is there a way to get authorization from the owner the film "The Public Enemy" by Warner Bros. 1931 (ranked #8 on AFI's top 10 gangster films) to use a screenshot from the movie? I successfully had her added to the IMDB database some years back to be included as an uncredited actor in the film. It seems disrespectful of her brief film legacy to not acknowledge and honor what she looked like. TomDiRensselaer (talk) 18:25, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

@TomDiRensselaer: You can try asking the rights owner, if you can figure out who they are. But for the article on the English-language Wikipedia, en:WP:FAIRUSE may be a more practical solution. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:01, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

File Requested correction

I found a picture file in the Category:Images requiring perspective correction

(1956_Fiat_Multipla_Minivan_-_Deutsches_Museum_Verkehrszentrum_München)

I corrected the file the best I could using Gimp. What am I supposed to do with the corrected file? I tried overwriting the original file. It didn't work. I got an error message saying I was not the creator of the file and so could not overwrite it. Lars A (talk) 11:34, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

@Lars A: Hi, and welcome. I am sorry to inform you that you have triggered Special:AbuseFilter/290. The proposal to "Limit file overwriting to users with autopatrol rights" was accepted with many supports and one weak oppose 15:19, 23 September 2023 (UTC). After an implementation problem in phab:T345896 and testing, Special:AbuseFilter/290 went live with the Disallow action 09:35, 28 October 2023 (UTC). Please read MediaWiki:abusefilter-warning-file-overwriting. You may request COM:AP 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🇺🇦 14:30, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

I understand. Thanks! Lars A (talk) 17:49, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Convenience link: File:1956 Fiat Multipla Minivan - Deutsches Museum Verkehrszentrum München.JPG.

@Lars A: That looks like a very difficult file on which to do a good perspective correction, and anything that you come up with should almost certainly be uploaded under a distinct filename. - Jmabel ! talk 20:27, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for replying. Now I tried to correct another file:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AUT_%E2%80%94_K%C3%A4rnten_%E2%80%94_Bezirk_Spittal_an_der_Drau_%E2%80%94_Baldramsdorf_%E2%80%94_Unterhaus_18_(Schloss_Ortenburg)_2021.jpg

Then I uploaded it with a new name.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_version_AUT_%E2%80%94_K%C3%A4rnten_%E2%80%94_Bezirk_Spittal_an_der_Drau_%E2%80%94_Baldramsdorf_%E2%80%94_Unterhaus_18_(Schloss_Ortenburg)_2021.jpg

Is this how you meant for me to do? Lars A (talk) 05:55, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

@Lars A: Probably, but please use internal links like File:AUT — Kärnten — Bezirk Spittal an der Drau — Baldramsdorf — Unterhaus 18 (Schloss Ortenburg) 2021.jpg and File:New version AUT — Kärnten — Bezirk Spittal an der Drau — Baldramsdorf — Unterhaus 18 (Schloss Ortenburg) 2021.jpg, and link the files using {{Extracted from}} and {{Image extracted}} or dFX to preserve source links. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 08:05, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

OK, thanks! I understand. Lars A (talk) 10:34, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

@Lars A: Your new upload should indicate that it is a derivative of the original file. You can {{Retouched picture}}. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:53, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

Now I tried following both of your advice. Thanks! Lars A (talk) 00:18, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

Experienced editor

Hello

I'm trying to translate a page to another language, but I have to create another language first. I can create a language and translate it but I can't press OK to continue. When I press OK I get an error message that I am not an experienced editor.

My question now is: How do you become an experienced editor so you can publish the translations?

Thanks in advance, I look forward to an answer. Ben Kenens Promocioeconomicalajonquera (talk) 09:00, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

@Promocioeconomicalajonquera: Could you please be more specific than "a page" and "another language"? And certainly you don't mean "create a language" (I think you mean create a page in a language, but I'm not sure). I suspect the "my question now" question is based on a misunderstanding. If you say what page you are trying to translate into what language, someone can probably help you get started. - Jmabel ! talk 17:25, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

PDF/Vorschau JPG-Auflösung

Hallo,

ich habe ein Buch als PDF hochgeladen. Man kann sich jede Seite auch als JPG anzeigen lassen. Unter dem Vorschaubild steht: Größe der JPG-Vorschau dieser PDF-Datei: 439 × 599 Pixel. Weitere Auflösungen: 176 × 240 Pixel | 352 × 480 Pixel.

Warum wird keine größere Auflösung angeboten, wenn die PDF-Originaldatei eigentlich 800 × 1.091 Pixel hat? Es geht um folgende Datei: file:Список дворян Киевской губернии, 1906 г.pdf. Danke für jede Hilfe. Angel Miklashevsky (talk) 15:58, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Den Link zur vollen Auflösung findest Du (vielleicht wenig intuitiv) in der nächsten Zeile als "Originaldatei ‎(800 × 1.091 Pixel [...]" Windharp (talk) 09:56, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

Hey, danke für deine Antwort.

Allerdings möchte ich nicht die Originaldatei (PDF) öffnen, sondern nur, dass ein JPG-Bild als Vorschau angezeigt wird.

Schau mal hier z.B. File:Памятная книжка Ставропольской губернии 1893 г.pdf. Das ist ebenfalls ein PDF und dadrunter steht: Größe der JPG-Vorschau dieser PDF-Datei: 406 × 600 Pixel. Weitere Auflösungen: 162 × 240 Pixel | 325 × 480 Pixel | 956 × 1.412 Pixel.

Wieso steht das bei der o.g. Daten nicht? Liglioto (talk) 11:44, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

Vorschaubilder werden nur in einer Reihe genormter Größen automatisch generiert. Da Deine PDF nur eine Größe vonm 800x1091 Pixel hat, wird auch kein größeres Vorschaubild generiert und die größte Vorschau ist das nächstkleinere Standard-Vorschau-Format. Du könntest versuchen in deinen Präferenzen die maximale Größe von Vorschaubildern zu ändern, vielleicht wird dir dann ein größerers Vorschaubild angezeigt. Oder du kannst mit der Maus auf einen der Vorschaulinks rechts klicken, um die URL zu erhalten. Darin steht dann irgendwo .../329px-... Diesen Wert passt Du dann an und kopierst ihn in die URL-Zeile des Web-Browsers. Dann wird ein entsprechendes Vorschaubild generiert. Kann sein, dass es einen Timeout gibt, dann einfach nochmal laden. C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 12:39, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

@C.Suthorn Hey, danke für Deine Antwort! Das klingt plausibel; daran wird es liegen. Danke! :) Liglioto (talk) 09:06, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

legal-reports@wikimedia.org

Is four hours a normal time to go without any response? Starting pinging an admin might be the only way to get the image removed Trade (talk) 23:56, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

This e-mail is not for routine image deletion requests. You should use Commons:speedy deletion. Ruslik (talk) 14:22, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

@Ruslik0: It wasn't a "routine image deletion request". It was a probably non-consensual upskirt photo of a probably underaged girl. I deleted it, but of course I can't hard-delete. Trade's question is entirely reasonable. - Jmabel ! talk 19:15, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

Did you got a reply back from them Jmabel? Not the automated one i mean Trade (talk) 12:14, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

Nope. - Jmabel ! talk 19:25, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

Photo Credit

Can I upload a photo to be used on wikipedia and require that all uses provide a photo credit? Eyetosee (talk) 17:17, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

@Eyetosee: Meaning you want to be explicitly credited in Wikipedia, rather than just having the photo link to the file page? If so, no. - Jmabel ! talk 17:27, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

Yes, a CC-by-sa licence would do that. See COMMONS:LICENSING and https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

However do you mean 'a photo credit' broadly, or (as Jmabel describes) a credit on the Wikipedia page ? In which case, no. Andy Dingley (talk) 17:55, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

Yes. I mean, whenever or where ever the image gets used a credit is given. Eyetosee (talk) 22:23, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

Again: no, it is not possible to require that an actual written credit be given on the pages where it is used, and in particular this will not happen in Wikipedia.

If you license with {{CC-BY-SA-4.0}} then that requires that to conform there must be a credit in some form, but for online use it is permitted to have a situation where the user has to click on the picture to see the credit (and that is what will be done in Wikipedia). If that is not acceptable to you, then please do not upload your files to Commons. - Jmabel ! talk 10:22, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

How to upload images to wiki

With Respect: How do I move uncategorized Wikipedia Commons files https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Alan_E._Freedman? The uncategorized files are https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1923_Fox_Folks_Lab_History_1.jpg through https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1923_Fox_Folks_Lab_History_20.jpg. I uploaded both the uncategorized files as well as the categorized ones and clearly did not do so properly. Please help. Regards, Mbarrach Mbarrach (talk) 20:14, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

@Mbarrach: Convenience links (please use internal links, which work correctly for both PC and mobile/tablet, and which will show in red if the page in question does not exist; in edit mode, note the colon after the initial square brackets, which says I am mentioning the category of file, not applying the category to the present page, or displaying the file on the present page): Category:Alan E. Freedman, File:1923 Fox Folks Lab History 1.jpg, File:1923 Fox Folks Lab History 20.jpg.

I am not sure I understand your question. You seem to be asking how to put all 20 of these pages in Category:Alan E. Freedman, which seems an odd thing to do. Surely if we have 20+ pages for Fox Folks it deserves a category of its own.

Have you read Commons:Categories? If not, you should at least skim it.

To add category "A" to an image "B" (or as a parent to a child category "B") you just edit the page for "B" and at the bottom (near other categories if they are already there) add the category (in this case [[Category:Alan E. Freedman]] if that is the category you mean to add).

I hope that answers your question. - Jmabel ! talk 10:34, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

Other deletion reasoning for image

An image that I had uploaded has been tagged for copyright. I don't think the copyright violation is valid, however after some consideration, I do think the image I had uploaded is non-educational, and is thus OOS. I believe that the image should be deleted, but not for copyright reasons. What should I do, if anything? Thanks, WhoAteMyButter (talk) 06:02, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

@WhoAteMyButter: If it's on its way to deletion anyway, I wouldn't worry too much about the grounds. Or, if it's something you uploaded in the last 7 days, you can speed things along by replacing the current rationale with {{SD|G7}}, as explained at Template:My bad upload. - Jmabel ! talk 10:38, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

@WhoAteMyButter: You can remove the coyvio tag and start a normal deletion request explaining why the file is not a copyvio and why you think it is out of scope. On the description page of the file, below the scary red copyvio tag, there is a button labeled "challenge speedy deletion". You can click it. Or alternatively, you can click the "nominate for deletion" link in the "tools" column. If the whole thing is indeed CC-BY 4.0, screen captures are probably fine. Files are automatically considered in scope if they are in use in Wikipedia. The user who nominated for copyvio the file mentioned on your talk page nominated also another file without warning you on your talk page. It's the file still in use in your draft. If you want to keep it, you must act quickly to challenge the speedy deletion. -- Asclepias (talk) 14:08, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

Wo kann ich nachträglich eine Lizenz eintragen?

Lizenzvergabe bei einem Bild vergessen Frank John-Lorenz (talk) 07:17, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

@Frank John-Lorenz: Fügen Sie einfach die richtige Vorlage ("Template") auf der Dateiseite hinzu. Zum Beispiel, {{self|CC-BY-SA-4.0}}. - Jmabel ! talk 10:40, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

JPG preview of TIF files?

All TIF files like this one have JPG previews of multiple resolutions up to the maximum pixels of the original file. The example I am using also has a JPG version as a separate file as well but it is a scaled down version.

Is it safe to assume that the largest JPG preview of the TIF file has as good or even better quality to if I convert the TIF file to JPG in a converter? StellarHalo (talk) 10:07, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

No. If you use a converter, it is your choice to set the jpeg-quality to any value you want from 0 to 100%. The Wiki preview comes with a jpeg quality that has been decided on by the wiki developers. C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 18:56, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

Reseña autobiográfica

Hola, me gustaría preguntar si es posible y, en su caso, cómo incluir una reseña personal autobiográfica. He sido empresario durante toda una vida y escritor de varios libros. En la actualidad soy Presidente Provincial de la Asociación Española Contra el Cáncer en Málaga. Me pregunto si es posible colgar una reseña profesional en wikipedia y si alguien me puede ayudar a colgarlo. Saludos cordiales. Joaquín Morales Rubio (talk) 10:58, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

@Joaquín Morales Rubio: es casi seguro que la respuesta sea "no." No hay ningunos artículos aquí en Commons (el sitio de web donde preguntó). Wikipedia no permite que una persona escriba sobre su mismo, ni en la Wikipedia inglés (WP:COI), ni la español (es:Wikipedia:Conflicto de interés). - Jmabel ! talk 19:33, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

Sobre datos biográficos.

Desearía escribir mis datos biográficos. Jorge Mario Nista (talk) 11:45, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

Recomendo [[4]]. Pero, por favor, los proyectos de WMF no son lugares para escribir sobre su mismo. La sola excepción es que participantes activos en los proyectos pueden escribir algo sobre su mismo en sus páginas respectivas de usario (en su caso, aquí en Commons, User:Jorge Mario Nista). - 19:39, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

What is the origin of this orchid?

Ph Odettechikel (talk) 13:40, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

@Odettechikel: You don't say which orchid, but in any case, this page is for asking for help using Wikimedia Commons. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:20, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

Help

I have been blocked and I do not understand why. I own a business called Johnson Woolen Mills and maybe I wasn't supposed to set up a WIKI account with that name? Maybe that's why I'm blocked? But we purchased this business last year and you have a logo listed as the previous owners and not ours and also the history is incorrect and I have sources to site. I need help please. Johnsonwoolenmills (talk) 19:05, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

You were blocked not here (on Commons) but in English Wikipedia. See en:User_talk:Johnsonwoolenmills for details. Ruslik (talk) 19:11, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

@Johnsonwoolenmills Company names are not allowed as account names at english wikipedia. Here at commons you can upload any logo of any company including your own company provided the logo is either below ToO and PD, or it has a free license. If neither is the case the logo must not be uploaded. C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 17:46, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

Please don't use jargon like "ToO" and "PD" on this page without explaining them, or at least linking to relevant pages, in this case Com:ToO and Com:PD. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:46, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

CHEF.HANI.RFATI

Photos of Chef Hani Rafati Azayem (talk) 02:48, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

What about them? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 08:53, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

Seems to relate to ar:هاني الرفاتي Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:43, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

Unsure if what I have downloaded is in the public domain

Hi, I have uploaded File:The battle of the Trebbia (1799) map.jpg
Map from 1837, the rights have expired as I know, but on the website page at the bottom left where I got this image from (see image source) there is a copyright mark. Does this refer to the image, can I clarify? Kolya Muratov (talk) 11:49, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

Hey @Kolya Muratov: Pretty much anything that old is going to be public domain. There are a few very strange exceptions, mostly having to do with royal families just declaring that they own copyright in perpetuity. But if you slip up on that, nobody's gonna hold it against you. Since Friedrich Rudolf von Rothenburg seems to have lived in Germany before there was a Germany, I'm guessing you're okay. GMG ^talk 11:55, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

Good, thanks. Kolya Muratov (talk) 12:04, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

How do I upload my family history story

I have written my family history story to share for the community to enjoy reading about life events of my family in a real community. Rick Hawkeye (talk) 13:11, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

@Rick Hawkeye: It almost certainly does not belong on Commons, Wikipedia, or any other WMF site. Even if your family is notable enough to merit coverage in an encyclopedia, a family history written by a family member, unless first published by a reputable publisher, would almost certainly fall foul of the policies on conflicts of interest, e.g. WP:COI.

There are, of course, many places on the web (including a site of your own) where you could publish such a thing, but WMF projects are almost certainly not the right places. - Jmabel ! talk 17:50, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

@Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ): , since they might able to help this user off-wiki. Abzeronow (talk) 18:16, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

@Rick Hawkeye: See also en:Wikipedia:Alternative outlets. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:36, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

You can add a Wiki style biography of each family member at Familypedia (via Fandom), it was started by the same guy that started Wikipedia but pays for itself with ads. You can add deceased family members to Wikidata, and Wikidata has links to the other genealogy sites. See for example: Anton Julius Winblad where I link to his entry in Geni, Familysearch, Findagrave, and Wikitree. I copy and paste the same biography to each of the websites. Wikidata also links to Category:Anton_Julius_Winblad where we are now. You can load historical images of family members at Commons if they are in the public domain or a family member took the image and you have inherited the copyrights. You can also load historical public domain news articles to Commons and and link the names in the article to people in Wikidata. See for example: File:Patrick J. Norton (1856-1905) and John Norton (1861-1905) in a fist fight as reported in the Jersey Journal on Tuesday, May 19, 1891.png where my great-grandfather got into a drunken brawl in 1891. I transcribed the article and added it to Wikisource:Jersey_Journal/1893/Trying_to_Refresh_Conboy's_Memory and also created a Wikidata entry for the news article here: Trying to Refresh Conboy's Memory. --RAN (talk) 20:51, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

Uploading a new version of File:Wikimania - The Wikimentary.webm

Hello, Recently, I have uploaded File:Wikimania - The Wikimentary - Edited.webm, a cropped-down version of File:Wikimania - the Wikimentary.webm. But actually, perhaps I should've just updated the latter rather than creating a new file... My project being that the former replaces the latter everywhere it is used.

The problem with File:Wikimania - the Wikimentary.webm, as you can see if you watch the video, is that it starts over regularly to the beginning - so the visionner of the video has to speed up to where it cut off last in order to enjoy the full length. The full video, no interruption, thus begins at 25'40 . My edit aims to show only the useful length (so starting at 25'40 ) .

If I were to update directly File:Wikimania - the Wikimentary.webm, I would edit again my own edit: right now, i repet several times that my edit shortens the original publication, and that I do not own the credit, blah, blah... Looking back, on it, it's not so necessary.

What do you think? Can I Overwrite the current video, File:Wikimania - the Wikimentary.webm ? Thank you for your advice,
Blocktomo (talk) 21:25, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

@Blocktomo: I tagged this file with {{Allow Overwriting}} for you. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 06:02, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

Now, I can't upload a decent new version because I'm limited to 100 mb... Blocktomo (talk) 16:17, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

@Blocktomo: Try with User talk:Rillke/bigChunkedUpload.js. Yann (talk) 16:37, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

Wow thanks! I'll post an update when I do it. Blocktomo (talk) 10:19, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Okay, done! thank you @Jeff G. and @Yann !

I had however read somewhere that only auto-patrol members were aloud to use bigChunkedUploads ... Have I been breaking the rules? I mean, I believe my edit was useful, so I'm glad I did it, but it's worth asking, as that can help me better understand the conventions of Wikimedia Commons. Blocktomo (talk) 11:39, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

@Blocktomo: You're welcome. Autopatrol is not mentioned on that page or on Help:Chunked upload. It goes without saying that only users confident in adding to their js files may do so. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 01:40, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Err... what kind of dangers can adding bigChunkedUpload to my js files pose to my computer? Or do you mean, "confident in finding where the js files actually are"? Blocktomo (talk) 20:24, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

@Blocktomo: Running someone else's code carries inherent risks. OTOH, I've been using this code for years, without incidents due to this code (the servers have occasionally had problems with my uploads that I have reported in phab:). — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 08:14, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

But no risk can be hidden, right? I mean, the "virus" would a part of the code? A skilled programmer (such as not myself) could detect it in the code?

Thanks, Blocktomo (talk) 09:54, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

@Blocktomo: Yes, but both the host and the set of Admins can change it after review. We have had a rogue Admin. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 22:12, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

Anfänger-Probleme

Ich habe gleich viele Fragen: 1. Ist es Pflicht im Benutzerraum etwas über seine Person zu schreiben? 2. Ist Benutzerraum und Benutzernamensraum dasselbe? 3. Wie kann ich meinen Text im Benutzerraum speichern? Ich sehe dafür keine Funktion... Oder muss ich meinen Text woanders eingeben? 4. Warum werden meine Bilder, die ich von meinem PC hochlade, nicht angenommen? Acbar2001 (talk) 14:44, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

Hallo @Acbar2001:

vorab: Wenn du auf Deutsch schreiben willst, wirst du im Commons:Forum mehr Erfolg haben, auf dieser Seite hier ist eher Englisch üblich.

Zu den Fragen:

Nein.
Benutzernamensraum sind üblicherweise alle Unterseiten der Haupt-Benutzerseite eines Benutzers. Deine Haupt-Benutzerseite hier auf Wikimedia Commons ist User:Acbar2001. Unterseiten werden davon mit Schrägstrich / abgetrennt. Eine mögliche Unterseite wäre User:Acbar2001/Testseite. Statt Testseite kannst du die auch beliebig anders nennen.
Zum Beispiel, indem du auf der noch leeren Seite User:Acbar2001 (oder einer Unterseite) etwas schreibst und dann unten die Schaltfläche (Button) Seite veröffentlichen klickst.
Um das beantworten zu können, braucht es mehr Details; du solltest beschreiben, was du machst und was dann passiert oder eben nicht passiert, ob es Fehlermeldungen gibt und wenn ja wie diese lauten usw.

Gruß --Rosenzweig τ 16:17, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

Vielen Dank! Beim Hochladen eines Fotos kommt dieser Text: "Wir konnten nicht feststellen, ob diese Datei für Wikimedia Commons geeignet ist. Bitte nur Fotos hochladen, die Du selbst mit Deiner Kamera aufgenommen hast, oder lies, was sonst noch akzeptabel ist. Siehe den Leitfaden um sicherzustellen, dass die Datei akzeptabel ist, und lerne, wie man sie auf Wikimedia Commons hochlädt. - . " Ich kann mit dieser Auskunft nix anfangen. Und die weiterführenden links helfen mir nicht. Es geht um das Portraitfoto eines Arztes, über den ich schreibe. Acbar2001 (talk) 14:45, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

@Acbar2001: Sorry, hat ein paar Tage gedauert mit der Antwort. Du scheinst mit dem Hochlade-Assistent hochzuladen; den kenne ich nicht so gut. Die Fehlermeldung sagt mir auch nichts, ich kann nur vermuten, dass du irgendwann beim Hochladeprozess eine Auswahl vorgenommen hast, die dazu führt. Ich kann versuchen, das nachzuvollziehen, dazu müsstest du mir aber sämtliche deiner Schritte beim Hochladen beschreiben und auch sagen, wer dieses Foto gemacht hat, wo du es her hast, mit welcher Urheberrechts-Lizenz du es hochladen willst usw. Oder du versuchst es doch nochmals direkt im Commons:Forum, da sind erfahrungsgemäß auch Benutzer, die mit solchen Hochlade-Problemen mehr Erfahrung haben. Gruß --Rosenzweig τ 20:54, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

PS: Ich sehe, du hast es mittlerweile geschafft, die Dateien direkt aus der dt. Wikipedia hochzuladen. War die beschriebene Fehlermeldung womöglich eine der Wikipedia? Dann hätte sie mit dem Hochlade-Assistenten von Wikimedia Commons nichts zu tun. Jedenfalls, die hochgeladenen Dateien sind so allesamt problematisch. Du scheinst die alle als "eigenes Werk" mit Creative-Commons-Lizenz hochgeladen zu haben, obwohl den Beschreibungen nach du bei keinem einzigen der Fotograf bzw. Zeichner bist. Das macht Probleme mit dem Urheberrecht, womöglich werden bis auf ein oder zwei Dateien alle wieder gelöscht. Gruß --Rosenzweig τ 21:02, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Oft kommt die Fehlermeldung, wenn Bilder zu klein sind. Kamera-Bilder bitte immer in Originalauflösung hochladen und nicht vorher runterskalieren. Ansonsten siehe mein Vorredner :-) Windharp (talk) 09:54, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

Siehe auch COM:HR/de.

See also COM:HR. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 22:19, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

How do you create a new category?

Commons:Categories#Creating a new category says to just search for it, and when it isn't found some red lettered item will show up and to just click on it to create it. I searched for Category: 1876 paintings by Auguste Toulmouche, and all I got was a box that said

We didn't find any results Try more general terms or check your spelling

I know you didn't find it; that's why I'm trying to create it. (I deleted what I meant to include about what I think). How do I create a new category?Mabrndt (talk) 03:56, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

I usually do it one of two ways:

1) If there is an item I want to add to the category, just add the category to the item which creates a red link you can click on.

2) Edit a similiar category, and change the URL to the new category name which then opens the edit window of the new category. This has the advantage that you can easily copy & paste the content from the existing category to the new one. Windharp (talk) 09:47, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

As far as I know, 1) no longer works (at least I couldn't get/see any red link to click on). But, 2) did work and I was able to create the category. Thanks!!Mabrndt (talk) 14:33, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

@Mabrndt: It still works, see for example Category:Graffiti_in_Landkreis_Reutlingen which has a red category between all the blue ones. Works the same with pictures, that was just the first example I found :-) Windharp (talk) 15:57, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

I guess I wasn't specific enough. I meant searching (for me anyway) didn't return anything red to click on; the next reply probably explains why.

@Mabrndt: After searching, use "Switch to Special:Search" in the top right (on desktop). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:10, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll try to remember that the next time I need it. I've successfully created the category using 2) above.Mabrndt (talk) 14:36, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

required uploading my personal images

Jay Shree Ram Mr.diler7 (talk) 01:58, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

I'm not sure what your question is, but does COM:PERSONAL help? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:50, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

Higher res logo

I have uploaded File:Rta radio tv af2.jpg. I request it to be moved to File:Rta radio tv af.jpg as a replacement since my version is a higher resolution and clearer image. Mobilustener (talk) 02:46, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

Convenience links: File:Rta radio tv af2.jpg, File:Rta radio tv af.jpg. @Mobilustener: please when referring to files, use internal links like these. - Jmabel ! talk 17:53, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

@Mobilustener: it's larger, but the edges aren't sharp, and File:Rta radio tv af.jpg has text that is missing from yours, so one of these is not a substitute for the other. - Jmabel ! talk 17:55, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

confirmation of photo being uploaded into wiki loves folklore

How can i know if the photo that i have just uploaded has entered the wiki loves folklore competition Mangam3na (talk) 08:33, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

@Mangam3na: It would be very helpful if you would link to a photo when you ask about it. If you mean File:Dancers from Imbonggu District, Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea.jpg it appears to be marked correctly with {{Wiki Loves Folklore 2024}}, but you still need to add categories, plus a description in at least one language. Very nice photo, by the way. - Jmabel ! talk 17:59, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

I can't upload file

why I can't upload a media,? I'm the new here The prof Osward (talk) 13:56, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

@The prof Osward: Very hard for someone to guess with no description of what you have tried and what went wrong for you. Have you read Commons:First steps? - Jmabel ! talk 18:02, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

Do all new uploads get checked?

If it is not routine for new uploads to be checked, can someone please look at

Whilst I am pretty sure this has a suitable creative commons licence, I am not totally certain that I have chosen the correct one – should this have a country-specific licence? ThoughtIdRetired (talk) 20:24, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

License appears to be correct. Source states cc-by-sa 4.0. Abzeronow (talk) 20:38, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

There is no single process that ensures that all new uploads are checked, but some users choose to make it a point to do this and some conditions will make it more or less likely to be visible to others. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:41, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

@ThoughtIdRetired: Free licenses, such as CC BY and CC BY-SA, are issued by the copyright owner to apply worldwide. Although CC licenses versions before version 4.0 may exist in some localized country adaptations, they apply worldwide. Therefore, free licensed works do not need an additional country-specific tag on Wikimedia Commons. On an unrelated suggestion, I think it could be useful to use the add note tool to help readers identify what is where on the image. -- Asclepias (talk) 21:20, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

PD-textlogo: Too complex, or can it be more complex?

Hello! this logo, marked as PD-textlogo, is one I feel does express plenty of originality, but I presume the law considers it public domain as "The [U.S. Copyright] Office typically refuses claims [of calligraphy]...regardless of how novel and creative the shape and form of the typeface characters may be." (Source, Section 906.4)

If it does, I wonder if the same could be said about the colored and textured logo here (better link added post-submission). I ask because Wikimedia is the only place I've seen the Jak & Daxter logo displayed in all black, having been a fan of the game since childhood. Thank you in advance for any assistance! Kaasterly (talk) 22:09, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

Heads up that your second link did not render to me. This works, tho: https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/logopedia/images/f/f0/Jak_and_Daxter.png Speaking as a non-lawyer, simply taking something that is public domain and adding a color gradient to it does not meet the threshold of originality in the United States. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 23:34, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

Actually, let me revise that somewhat: there is some 3-D embossing and debossing on it, so it's more than just a gradient. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 23:36, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

While true that the typeface is not copyrightable, sometimes seemingly small details like the isolated elements off of the D and R (which are not part of the letters) may qualify for copyright on their own, which could be enough. I would definitely not upload the second one, as there are several additional elements. The gradient by itself is likely not enough, but there are additional elements on the letters not related to the typeface, and those could also create a copyright. Carl Lindberg (talk) 14:40, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

I shan't upload it, then. I figured this might be the case as last year I got a logo taken down for having a logo with a monogram, stylized like a rock much in the same manner, taken down for using PD-textlogo. Thank you both for your assisstance! Kaasterly (talk) 14:45, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

File:Portrait d’un pionnier pédagogique.pdf

Bonjour, comment réintégrer une page (ici portrait d'un pionnier). Je suis désespéré de ne pas y arriver. Quel est le Problème ?

Cette page n’existe pas. Les journaux de suppressions, de protections et de renommages de la page sont fournis ci-dessous pour référence. 16 février 2024 à 16:29 Túrelio d contributions a supprimé la page File:Portrait d’un pionnier pédagogique.pdf (CSD F7 (file is empty, corrupt, or in a disallowed format)) (remercier) (global usage; delinker log)

25 octobre 2023 à 16:12 Túrelio d contributions a supprimé la page File:Portrait d’un pionnier pédagogique.pdf (CSD F7 (file is empty, corrupt, or in a disallowed format)) (remercier) (global usage; delinker log)

14 mai 2023 à 04:30 Krd d contributions a supprimé la page File:Portrait d’un pionnier pédagogique.pdf (No license since 6 May 2023) (remercier) (global usage; delinker log) Aucun fichier de ce nom n’existe, mais vous pouvez en téléverser un.

Utilisations locales du fichier Aucune page n’utilise ce fichier. Jeanlev78 (talk) 13:10, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

@Jeanlev78: Bonjour,

Ce fichier a été supprimé car il ne correspond pas aux documents acceptés sur Commons. En effet, les documents PDF ne sont acceptés que pour des documents anciens (livres, etc.) ou ayant pour auteur quelqu'un de notable. Les textes doivent être inclus dans Wikipédia comme articles, et non importés sur Commons comme documents séparés. Cordialement, Yann (talk) 13:40, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

@Jeanlev78: Voir aussi COM:NOT/fr et COM:CSD/fr#F7.

See also COM:NOT and COM:CSD#F7. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 15:09, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

Fel titel

Hej Jag behöver hjälp med att ändra ett filnnamn. Jag har missat ett underscore mellan stadsmuseum och GMA nedan. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prostbostaden_Tyska_kyrkan_-_G%C3%B6teborgs_stadsmuseumGMA_14389_17.tif Tack för på förhand Kathiis23 Kathiis23 (talk) 17:15, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

Done —RP88 (talk) 17:25, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

תמונה

הי, העלתי תמונה, אך איך אני מקשרת אןתה לעמוד הרצוי? Superr777 (talk) 17:55, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

@Geagea: to answer their question. (I can't find a Hebrew translation for Commons:First steps/Reuse) Abzeronow (talk) 18:10, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

@Abzeronow, thanks.

עברית: ::היי @Superr777, ראי בבקשה עזרה:הוספת תמונה לערך. לשאלות נוספות את מוזמנת לפנות לדף ויקיפדיה:דלפק ייעוץ.

-- Geagea (talk) 18:22, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

How do I replace a photo I've previously uploaded?

Recently I have made a much cleaner (noise removed) version of a photo I uploaded a year or so ago. I'd like to replace the earlier one with the improved version. How can I do that? Thanks for any help and my apologies if this question has already been answered. Laurie macbride (talk) 18:22, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

@Laurie macbride: If it is really the same image, just improved, and you are the original uploader, then you should be able to use the "Upload a new version of this file" link below the file history (near the bottom of the file page). - Jmabel ! talk 19:17, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

No uploaded by phone

This is unfortunate that still unable to upload by mobile phone Sumasa (talk) 16:57, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

@Sumasa: It is perfectly possible to upload by phone. Dozens, probably hundreds, of people do it every day. Is there something specific you are doing that is failing, or are you just assuming it is impossible and not trying? - Jmabel ! talk 19:15, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

@Sumasa: Hi, and welcome. I see that you were able to do this four times on the 12th via UploadWizard using our mobile web interface. You may also be interested in COM:APP or other technologies at COM:UT. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 15:42, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

Is the rotatebot not working?

Been waiting for File:Daredevils Tower CocoCay Bermuda 2024.jpg to get rotated, but nothing is happening. It usually took less than 24 hours, but it has been a few days. Thanks Nv8200p (talk) 14:53, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

@Nv8200pa: Yes, still. Steinsplitter, who has not edited in 12 days, has been allowing his bot to neglect rotation duties for 25 days (since 08:49, 24 February 2024 (UTC)), causing Category:Images requiring rotation by bot to grow to 1,868 files. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 15:27, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

@Jeff G. Thanks. I was able to use CropTool to rotate it. Regards Nv8200p (talk) 16:13, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

@Nv8200pa: You're welcome. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 23:11, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

CDC TIF file not passing verification?

I'm trying to upload the TIF file located at at https://phil.cdc.gov/Details.aspx?pid=12048 direct but I receive an error "This file did not pass file verification." Why is that? GobsPint (talk) 14:50, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

@GobsPint: it would help a lot if you would say what upload tool you are using and what exactly you did. Lacking that info, converting from TIFF to JPEG before uploading might help. - Jmabel ! talk 18:07, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

@Jmabel: - I attempted to upload the TIF via Special:UploadWizard and the old upload form via both the url and downloading and uploading the TIF. The TIF renders fine on my computer and was not edited prior to upload. Perhaps it's a file parsing bug?GobsPint (talk) 01:53, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

@Jeff G.: Any thoughts? - Jmabel ! talk 06:41, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

@GobsPint I have uploaded it as PNG File:12048 see help desk.png please fill in all the needed description, date, categories.

The file does indeed not pass verification, but encoded as PNG it does pass. It has rich EXIF data and among EXIF data en entry "URL list", but it has no content. I thought, this might alienate the verification, but in PNG format is passed. C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 12:51, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for getting it uploaded! GobsPint (talk) 01:48, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

Cannot Create Account

Hello! When I attempt to create an account, I am not allowed, with the cited error saying that I have created over 6 accounts on my ip address in the past 24 hours. I am attempting to create this account from my own personal laptop that is not public or shared. Please let me know what to do. Thank you! 69.157.9.190 00:19, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

I'd wait for a day or so as IP addresses often change and therefore IP blocks are usually only for a few days or even less. Paradise Chronicle (talk) 00:55, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi, and welcome. If you don't want to wait, you can try from a network that does not belong to Bell Canada in Mississauga, or see here. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 12:59, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Photo

Unable to upload a noncopyright photo JustAPR (talk) 00:30, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Have you tried the Special:UploadWizard? That one has quite good instructions and worked for me. Paradise Chronicle (talk) 00:58, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

@JustAPR: - when you say "noncopyright", what exactly is the basis for it not being in copyright? Is this something already online somewhere, and if so can you provide a URL? - Jmabel ! talk 07:52, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

I can't upload my editings on page

I can't upload my editings on page please help me to solve that Shiloh Travel and Tours (talk) 05:26, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

@Shiloh Travel and Tours: your user page was deleted as promotional. - Jmabel ! talk 07:54, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Move to redirect

Hello, I am trying to move File:Ioke 2006-08-20 14-00Z.jpg to File:Ioke 2006-08-20 1400Z.jpg. The latter redirects to the former, but it is more compatible with the currently used format of [STORMNAME] [DATE IN FORMAT YYYY-MM-DD] [TIME IN XXXXZ].[FILE EXTENSION]. How do I move the first file to the more correct file? 2003 LN 6 16:10, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Since the redirect will work interchangeably with the actual filename, I can see no good reason at all to move this. - Jmabel ! talk 17:12, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Articles

Mon article et pas visible sur google comment sa ce fait ? 2A04:CEC0:1102:8A04:40B8:281A:3D95:D873 06:31, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

We do not have articles on Commons.
You don't say what article, on what site.
We have no control over Google.

Jmabel ! talk 07:11, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

Eliminação de um ficheiro

Preciso de ajuda para eliminar um ficheiro de midia por mim carregado. Pois já existe uma versão semelhante na Wikimedia Vini1980 (talk) 15:27, 22 March 2024 (UTC) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Retrato_de_Maria_Perp%C3%A9tua_1815.png — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vini1980 (talk • contribs) 15:31, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

Nothing to do, suspected sock of User:História do Porto. DR is already running. --Achim55 (talk) 19:30, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

من فضلك احتاج الي بياناتي الشخصية وجميع حساباتي

@ Gabr elkawater ala allah (talk) 15:55, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

@Gabr elkawater ala allah: What, if anything, does this request have to do with Wikimedia Commons (the site on which you've asked it)? - Jmabel ! talk 21:44, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

Zmiana wpisu w miejscu "źródła" dotyczącego wstawionego zdjęcia do commons (biografia).

W jaki sposób mogę zmienić sformułowanie w miejscu opisującym źródło pod wstawionym plikiem? Sandra.SZ (talk) 16:17, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

@Sandra.SZ: if I understand you correctly, exactly the same way you are editing the current page (or any other page on the wiki). If that does not make sense, then perhaps you could be more specific about what you are trying to change on what page.

(Przez Tłumacza Google:) jeśli dobrze Cię rozumiem, dokładnie w ten sam sposób, w jaki edytujesz bieżącą stronę (lub dowolną inną stronę na wiki). Jeśli nie ma to sensu, być może mógłbyś bardziej szczegółowo określić, co chcesz zmienić na jakiej stronie.

Jmabel ! talk 21:49, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

Could I uploaded a photo indirectly

I'm in contact with an artist that has a wikipedia page. He has given me permission to upload a photo. Is it allowed to upload the photo after this permission or does the artist really need to upload the photo thereself? Or should I have some kind of proof? (The goal is to use it on the Dutch Wikipedia) Definiteassembly117 (talk) 12:44, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

@Definiteassembly117: Hi, and welcome. Please have them send the photo and permission via VRT with a carbon copy to you to keep you in the loop. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:08, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

The simplest thing is that if the image is already posted on the artist's own website, they can indicate the relevant license for the image there on their own website, which you (or anyone) can then cite as the source when uploading to Commons. - 17:10, 21 March 2024 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jmabel (talk • contribs)

@Jmabel: : Right, sorry I forgot to mention that. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:53, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Lost my articlle

Hi there,

I was editing Olga Meier (Medizinerin) and suddenly lost the unpublished article. Is there a method to retrieve it?

Thanks,

Beat Lorry2000 (talk) 01:56, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

@Lorry2000: I'm guessing this must be on some other site. We don't have articles on Commons. - Jmabel ! talk 07:05, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
Your only prior edit on Commons was the image File:Olga Meier.jpg. You have no deleted edits on Commons. - Jmabel ! talk 07:07, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
Perhaps, given that title, it was on the German-language Wikipedia and was deleted there? I don't have admin privileges on de-wiki, so I can't check that for you, but you can ask at de:Wikipedia:Fragen zur Wikipedia. - Jmabel ! talk 07:10, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
@Lorry2000: Sadly, that project has no documented equivalent to en:WP:AFC. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:51, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Benny Henriksson

I want to add a picture to his page., Bernadette Peterson (talk) 16:56, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

@Bernadette Peterson: Are you talking about a picture you took? Or something else (in which case, what)? - Jmabel ! talk 21:50, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

Lars Rading

I want to add a picture to his pages.There is another man’s photo now, Sighsten Herrgård. Can you help? Bernadette Peterson (talk) 16:58, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

Same comment as above; if you have a specific page in mind on some particular wiki, please indicate. Remember that there are about 400 sister projects here, and we have no way to guess which one you are talking about when you say "his page". - Jmabel ! talk 21:52, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

Hello again! I mean Wikipedia and I am the photographer. What can I do? HOW can I do something? I am new here. grateful for help! Bernadette Bernadette Peterson (talk) 22:24, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

@Bernadette Peterson: have you read Commons:First steps? And "Wikipedia" still leaves about 200 possibilities, though since you are asking in English I'm guessing you mean the English-language Wikipedia, so do look at en:Help:Pictures. If you've read those and still have unanswered questions, then please feel free to come back here with more specific questions. - Jmabel ! talk 00:29, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Hello!

No it is Swedish Wikipedia. It is in the middle of the night here. Good night for now. 2A02:1406:69:305F:F833:D1D8:1528:1BB4 00:59, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

@Bernadette Peterson: Sadly, that page has no Swedish version, but the syntax is the same. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:42, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Mass rename, mass categorization, etc.

as I document the language toki pona, I have uploaded many images of its writing system glyphs from fonts. how may I be able to change multiple of their names at once without having to individually mark every single one for review, as well as moving them into separate categories when necessary? Juwan (talk) 19:43, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

@JnpoJuwan: the category side of this is probably the easiest: Help:Gadget-Cat-a-lot. For the renaming, you might try User:Jeff G./massrename, though I'm not sure whether you have the privileges to run it. Do make sure you are completely familiar with Commons:File renaming before you do any mass renaming. Usually, we are much happier to have decent but less-than-optimal file names than to have the instability for third parties that comes from renaming longstanding files. - Jmabel ! talk 21:58, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

@Jmabel: I am aware about the guidelines for renaming, and as far as I know, these files are likely not being used by anyone but members in another wiki which I am envolved with.

other than that, what are the privileges to run the mass rename command, and how may I prove that I should be able to use it? Juwan (talk) 12:30, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

@JnpoJuwan: The privilege required is membership in the filemover group per COM:FR. You may ask for membership by posting at COM:RFR#Filemover. Posts there are evaluated by Admins on both editcount and successful/total rename request ratio bases. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:34, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

thank you very much! Juwan (talk) 16:17, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Bot that imports data from Flickr and adds it to structured data

What was it's name again? I forgot Trade (talk) 04:23, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Are you talking about Flickypedia or something else? - Jmabel ! talk 07:35, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

@Trade: That's User:FlickypediaBackfillrBot. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:09, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

What is the correct template for "major changes"

I think that this parrot image has been substantially changed compared to the original file at the same page. I am planning to tag it with "Template:Overwritten revdel", but I first wanted to confirm such course of action here at the helpdesk, in the case that I'm mistaken about something. Z80Spectrum (talk) 08:49, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Perhaps a request for a split would be more appropriate? Z80Spectrum (talk) 08:55, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

This again? Yes, it should be split. - Jmabel ! talk 09:55, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

There are multiple images on the same Wikipedia page having this same issue. I was planning to propose a split of them all, one by one. So, it would be "this again" many more times. I hope there are no probems with that plan. Z80Spectrum (talk) 12:37, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

@Z80Spectrum: Simply put: You should not overwrite images with such drastically different versions. Make a new upload. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:07, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Pregunta

Buenas, una pregunta Wikimedia está permitido subir (Upload) logos qué contiene texto y geométricos?? AbchyZa22 (talk) 14:50, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

@AbchyZa22: No hay ninguna respuesta definitiva. El "umbral de originalidad" varia de un país a otro. Por ejemplo, muchos logos que son en el dominio público en el EEUU tienen derechos de autor en el Reino Unido. - Jmabel ! talk 08:25, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

djvu file seen as "harmful"

I have been trying to upload this file [[File:Gwroniaid y Ffydd.djvu]]File:Gwroniaid y Ffydd.djvu to Welsh Wikisource, but it is being rejected because "Warning: This type of file could contain malicious code. It is possible that your computer will be undermined when using the file." My own security systems didn't find any problems whilst downloading it or converting it. The file has not been rejected whilst uploading it to Wikisource. I have tried uploading it to Wicidestun on a number of browsers and different computers, with the same response. It is a Google Books PDF converted by me to DjVu, which has never caused a problem before. Can anybody advise me what the problem might be? 03:38, 24 March 2024 (UTC)~ AlwynapHuw (talk) 03:38, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

Question about reliable sources

I am new to this and am creating my first page. Disclosure: I work for a marketing company and the page is for a client.

My question is about sources. My client is a chemical company is in a niche (they make non-CFC chemicals that batch-clean printed circuit boards, finished and remanufactured metal parts,

optics & glass, etc.) that has very little coverage from mainstream publications.

Are SEC filings acceptable? https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/944727/000095014404003239/g88125e10ksb.htm

What about industry associations? (citing only staff-written articles, not ones written by my client):

https://smta.org/

https://www.semi.org/en

https://www.ipc.org/

https://www.pfonline.com/

https://www.pma.org/home/

What about articles from the following industry publications (again citing only staff-written articles, not ones written by my client):

https://www.productionmachining.com/

https://iconnect007.com/landing/smt

https://www.globalsmt.net/

https://www.wnie.online/

https://smttoday.com/

https://industrialmachinerydigest.com/

https://finishingandcoating.com/

Any advice is appreciated. TheEdstros (talk) 03:55, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

I see almost nothing here that would have anything to do with Wikimedia Commons, which is strictly a media repository. These look like questions for the Wikipedia in the language in which you are working.

At least for the English-language Wikipedia, I suspect you will not get the sort of answers you are hoping for. (1) Generally, if a topic has not had significant third-party coverage, it should not have an article in the English-language Wikipedia. Primary sources generally are not acceptable to establish notability, though they can be referenced for specific facts. The industry publications might make the cut as significant third-party coverage; I couldn't tell without doing a lot more reading than I'm inclined to do. (2) If you have not already closely read en:WP:COI you should. The English-language Wikipedia generally does not welcome articles written by someone with a financial interest in the subject at hand. - Jmabel ! talk 08:31, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

I appreciate your advice and candor. I am a former newspaper journalist and hope to help other clients, so I want to stay compliant to the terms of use. Many thanks. 2605:A601:A3F6:C501:696E:D96E:C972:2666 16:43, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

Two categories for same item

The categories Category:Bahnhof Offenbach Ost and Category:Offenbach Ost duplicate each other. Somebody there who is able to merge them? The definitly proper name would be Category:Bahnhof Offenbach (Main) Ost or Category:Station Offenbach (Main) Ost. -- Reinhard Dietrich (talk) 09:06, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

Why would you need "(Main)"? Is there another Offenbach it is likely to be confused with? It seems to me like Category:Bahnhof Offenbach Ost is parallel to the bulk of the other categories in Category:Train stations in Offenbach am Main, and Category:Offenbach Ost should just be merged into that. - Jmabel ! talk 10:15, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

Notifying ChristosV and GeorgDerReisende. -- Asclepias (talk) 12:44, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

The official name of the train station is Offenbach (Main) Ost and the German article has this name (de:Bahnhof Offenbach (Main) Ost). I think the category should have the same name. GeorgDerReisende (talk) 13:43, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

Uploading info

Hi! I thought that I made 4 edits in the past week or so but you are only crediting me for making 1? Trying to do the required 10 to upload some information with images. Thank you for any information you can give me. Leeshiwei (talk) 13:29, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

@Leeshiwei You made one upload here at commons. And you made 3 edits at the english wikipedia to the article Barcelona Pavillon. But you should add categories to your upload and a better description: Who ist the person in the foreground and why ist the person there? C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 14:00, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

She is an architect from NYC/Cooper Union grad. I thought you would crop my photo as it has a long view down the corridor that leads to the only sculpture on the property.

Direction to other categories that need editing? 38.101.95.2 14:19, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

You can use the Croptool to crop images. C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 16:17, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

ferie in Londra

I'm reading about the LEZ zone and the ULEZ zone, now integrated into the same conference. If I have to enter a campsite, the ABBEY Wood Club in Federation Road, (by Thursday 24/7 and leave on 28/7) with a 2014 Renault Master camper for ARCA 697 LSX Diesel in Euro 5 class, what fee do I have to pay? the £12.50 ULEZ rate per day of movement or even the LEZ per day of movement? It's not clear whether I have to pay £312.50 per trip or just £12.50 per trip. Thanks for your reply Giuseppe — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 151.64.114.145 (talk) 14:13, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

sto leggendo della zona LEZ e zona ULEZ, ormai integrate in una stessa corconferenza. Dovendo entrare in un campeggio il ABBEY Wood Club in Federation Road, (entro il giovedi 24/7 ed esco il 28/7) con un camper renault Master per ARCA 697 LSX Diesel del 2014 in classe Euro 5, che tariffa devo pagare? la tariffa ULEZ da £12.50 per giorno di movimento o anche la LEZ per ogni giorno di spostamento? Non è ben chiaro se devo pagare £312.50 per ogni spostamento o solo £12.50 per spostamento. Grazie per la vostra risposta Giuseppe 151.64.114.145 14:10, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

What (if anything) does this question have to do with Wikimedia Commons (the site on which you have asked it)? - Jmabel ! talk 15:23, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

Arms of Louis Barratt

File:Arms of Louis Barratt, Baron of Irrus.png

I'm wondering about the status of this file, uploaded by User:TirawleyHistory. First, it is very likely that the user is a sock of User:LordRockall who has been banned on Wikipedia for abusive use of multiple accounts. Second, it is almost certainly a bogus coat of arms, created in furtherance of commercial endeavours which should not be using Wikipedia as a promotional platform, see here [5]. It's not in use anywhere on Wikipedia, although it may have appeared in the, since deleted, article Baron of Tirawley. I'd be grateful if someone could look at the status of the file. I've informed the uploader of this message. Thanks and regards. KJP1 (talk) 14:55, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

How do I even start???

Hello. I have tried to find quick information about how to start creating a map or a chart, but I don’t think I understood a lot of it. Specifically, I’m planning on creating a ‘map’ describing the spatial-temporal beliefs of the Inca, which reflect on their socio-territorial organisation, similar to this, but mixed with the quadripartite division (only map currently available) and dual (map of Cusco, where the four region separation also exists, but isn’t shown) division superposed on it (essentially the latter two, duel and quadripartite, are based on two imaginary perpendicular axis’ [in French that sounds a lot less complex…]). Where should I start with this? What format fits better with conventions? Thanks for your help. Cheers. Encyclopédisme (talk) 16:41, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

@Encyclopédisme: Bonjour, Vous pourriez demander conseil à l'atelier graphique de Wikipédia ou à celui de Commons. -- Asclepias (talk) 20:05, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia page create

.. Iamzaid 29 (talk) 00:07, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

@Iamzaid 29: Hi, and welcome. Please see en:WP:MFA and en:WP:AFC. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 00:09, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

I want to use the logo image of the English page on the Japanese page

Please tell me the method. I want to use the unicorn logo on the English page on the Japanese page.

https://ja.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AA%E3%83%96%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B6%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A6%E3%83%8B%E3%82%B3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3 ↓ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_of_the_Unicorn

Also, I want to use the product image of the German page on the Japanese page. Please tell me the method.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_of_the_Unicorn Greenkamitani (talk) 02:32, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

@Greenkamitani: For Mark of the Unicorn, I see no difference between the logos on the English and Japanese pages. Have you conformed with all of the legalities of using this copyrighted logo on the Japanese page? I can't read Japanese well enough to tell.

You cannot use copyrighted, unlicensed materials in the German-language Wikipedia. They simply do not allow it.

Also, please, use internal links: ja:マーク・オブ・ザ・ユニコーン, en:Mark of the Unicorn, de:Mark of the Unicorn, etc. - Jmabel ! talk 09:18, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Versioning question

At en:Regency of Algiers on en-wiki we are discussing increasing the contrast on certain images and brightening others. What is best practice for test edits we could share on the talk page? I especially don't want to overwrite the current image. Thanks Elinruby (talk) 04:58, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

@Elinruby: feel free to make any number of derivative works (with appropriate licensing) under different, unique file names, either here or on en-wiki. Be sure in your description to indicate what they are for. You might want to nominate the unsatisfactory ones for deletion when you are done. - Jmabel ! talk 09:21, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

so the key to not overwriting the current file is a unique filename but apart from uniqueness there are no special naming restrictions? and gotcha on deleting. Elinruby (talk) 09:40, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

@Elinruby: Commons:File naming. Otherwise, yes. - Jmabel ! talk 11:06, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Help with copyright / public domain determination

I recently uploaded File:Ben Yehuda bombing 1948.jpg with copyright tag 'PD-Israel'. I'm here seeking clarification as to whether or not this is the correct tag.

There's more information about the details of the image and its source at the file page.

Thank you, IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 10:19, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

@IOHANNVSVERVS: That's fine for Israel, but why would it be PD in the U.S.? Seems to me that the URAA copyright restoration would protect it in the U.S. through 2043. - Jmabel ! talk 11:09, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

@IOHANNVSVERVS: The basic country of publication for publications by Agence France-Presse is France. However, its works are distributed worldwide, so with some research you might find early simultaneous publications of this work in United States newspapers, possibly without copyright notice. -- Asclepias (talk) 13:58, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

ازياء

كيف استطيع عرض تصاميم الازياء الخاصة بي Ndia Abd Alrhman (talk) 11:52, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Fashion

How can I display my fashion designs

translator: Google Translate via — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:19, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

@Ndia Abd Alrhman: أهلا ومرحبا بكم. يرجى عدم تحميل تصميمات الأزياء الخاصة بك هنا إلا إذا كنت مصممًا بارزًا في COM:NOT/ar.

Hi, and welcome. Please do not upload your fashion designs here unless you are a notable designer per COM:NOT. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:19, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Question About Youtube's Creative Commons Licenses

I took a screenshot from a YouTube video that was labeled as having a "Creative Commons Attribution License (reuse allowed)", then I uploaded it to Wikimedia because I thought all photos within a YouTube video with that license were allowed to be uploaded here. Then the photo/file that I uploaded (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Ariana_Grande_at_the_2020_Grammy_Awards_BETTER_-_Copy.png) was flagged for speedy deletion. Should I appeal the speedy deletion? Or is the photo allowed since it was sourced from a YouTube video with a correct license attached to it? Mcages20 (talk) 00:00, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

@Mcages20: The material to which the free license issued by a youtube channel can apply is the material whose copyright is owned by that youtube channel. It cannot apply to third-party non-free material that may happen to be included in a video, possibly in fair use or for some other reason. The source of this image of A.G. included in the video is not specified. The image can be assumed to be non-free, unless its source is known to be under a free license. -- Asclepias (talk) 00:49, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

Alright, that's what I began to suspect. Thank you for clarifying! Mcages20 (talk) 01:09, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

Would this photo be accepted?

I would like to upload the photo from this website to the Lake Pujon page on the English Wikipedia. Would that be accepted? I assume it is as there is no copyright on the page because it seems to be based in North Korea, where the fair use laws are a lot fairer and cover almost anything (i.e. their concept of copyright is completely different from the western world's). What do you think? Nar 2608 (talk) 07:57, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Here the copyright laws of North Korea. They are pretty fair and have a FoP, but they also have a copyright for photographs of 50 years. On commons fair use is not welcome, but in the English Wikipedia it is. Paradise Chronicle (talk) 12:13, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

I wouldn't say welcome. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 11:24, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

Which is to say that you can probably upload this directly to the English-language Wikipedia on a non-free-use basis, but not to Commons. - Jmabel ! talk 17:08, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Recent Changes

The header part of the page [6] with buttons is broken and requires improvement. PawełMM (talk) 10:48, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

电子邮件地址

维基百科爱民俗（Wiki Loves FOLKLORE)电子邮件地址是什么？ Ztgfendali (talk) 20:13, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

See Commons:Wiki_Loves_Folklore#Connect_with_Us —RP88 (talk) 20:24, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

How can I make a bot review my file license?

I just uploaded a file that is a screenshot from a YouTube video with Creative Commons licese (File:20231109 HeeJin @ MusicBank.png) but I'm not sure how to validate the license? Can I do it myself or must be a bot? This is the video with the timestamp: HeeJin (희진) 뮤직뱅크 출근길 - ARTMS HeeJin Music Bank 4K. Thanks! LeafGreen (talk) 00:28, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Done File has been license reviewed. Abzeronow (talk) 00:48, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

And, FWIW, it has to be either a bot or someone who is considered a license reviewer (mostly admins). - Jmabel ! talk 07:28, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Pregunta sobre licencias de uso no libre

Buenas, quisiera saber cómo puedo agregar los posters de UFC para la Wikipedia en español. Me di cuenta de que en las wikipedia en ruso [7], inglés [8] y árabe [9] tienen posters de UFC bajo sus respectivas licencias, las cuales son de uso no libre y están justificadas. ¿Saben algo sobre las licencias de uso no libre para Wikipedia en español? Leon332Z (talk) 01:04, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

@Leon332Z: Aparece que la Wikipédia en español no tenga nada análogo a en:Wikipedia:Non-free content. Entonces, creo que no. Puede preguntar a es:Wikipedia:Café/Archivo/Ayuda/Actual. - Jmabel ! talk 07:33, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Contact Ruffneck88

I'm new and want to contact this chap. How do I do it? Can't find a user page. SidXL (talk) 10:12, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

@SidXL: You probably mean User talk:Ruffneck'88? Yann (talk) 10:42, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Kannada language missing in the webpage list of languages

Link: Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Wiki Loves Folklore 2024

In other languages section. 2409:40F2:2055:2AE4:E064:7274:134B:76A9 14:21, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Team HUMANITY Official 247

I am not able to upload the. pdf file — Preceding unsigned comment added by Team HUMANITY Official 247 (talk • contribs) 17:33, 27 March 2024‎ (UTC)

@Team HUMANITY Official 247: We don't usually allow new users to upload PDFs, because they are almost inevitably either out of scope or copyright violations. What exactly is in the PDF you are trying to upload? - Jmabel ! talk 22:39, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Twister (ice cream) Logo

i want to upload Twister Ice Cream (by Heartbrand) Logo and add it to this page here I-am-LiKe-spongebob (talk) 18:11, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Commons is for free licensed media only. If the logo has copyrightable artwork, it may be ok on en:w as fair use (ask there), but does not belong on Commons. -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 21:17, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

error in a photograph, which seems to be used in more than one article

Hello, I am new here, just opened an account as I found an error in a photograph, which seems to be used in more than one article. Here is the link: File:Oil palm fruit.jpg That photo is misinterpreted. It shows the fruit bunch of a babassu palm. A good photo of an oil palm fruit bunch may be this: https://www.123rf.com/photo_12345593_oil-palm-fruit-bunches-at-the-oil-palm-tree.html Cuphea frank (talk) 08:36, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Convenience link (internal link): File:Oil palm fruit.jpg. - Jmabel ! talk 09:06, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Uploaded from Flickr by someone not active in over a decade, so we'll need to work this out without uploader help. - Jmabel ! talk 09:07, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

I have tagged the image as "disputed taxon". Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:00, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

The taxon is not disputed. -- Asclepias (talk) 22:07, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Yea. It is not the taxon but just a wrong name given by the author of the Flickr photo. Cuphea frank (talk) 08:04, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

I would not go so far as to call it "an error" or "wrong". The photographer (who is also the uploader to Commons) was, at the time, working as a communications agent in South America for the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). I suppose that it may not be surprising if at least some people, maybe in this area, or people of CIAT, at least in some contexts, may refer to this oil palm as an "oil palm". It is the one that is in this environment. Also, the template about Palm oil on Wikipedia lists both this American species and the African species. The original description of the photograph by the photographer already specified that it was in Bolivia. You judiciously added the name babassu and the scientific name Attalea speciosa in the structured caption. I added the category Attalea speciosa and some description. I think the file itself on Commons is fine. However, the important thing is: if the file is included to illustrate Wikipedia articles that are exclusively about the African oil palm, it should of course be removed from those articles. -- Asclepias (talk) 23:09, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

I want to change photo

I want to change the profile photo that was uploaded in 2019 for Tame One DBrownHarris (talk) 15:05, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

What page (a link, please) are you talking about? - Jmabel ! talk 22:37, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Page # 12157161 DBrownHarris (talk) 23:53, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

@DBrownHarris: That is not a link. It does not even tell us what website! - Jmabel ! talk 06:59, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

File:TameOne.png DBrownHarris (talk) 08:47, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

@DBrownHarris: Then please upload a picture taken by you, then this one can be replaced. Yann (talk) 10:03, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

I dont know how to upload the picture to replace old photo, so I just deleted it DBrownHarris (talk) 11:03, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

@DBrownHarris: Why would the absence of a photo be better than one five years old? That seems awfully close to vandalism. - Jmabel ! talk 11:11, 28 March 2024 (UTC) ("deletion" appears to be this edit.) - Jmabel ! talk 11:13, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

Not to mention that this is someone apparently no longer alive, so any picture would not be current. - Jmabel ! talk 11:15, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

That is exactly why I want to change to a more current picture. I am his mother DBrownHarris (talk) 11:36, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

That is why is it so hard to replace a photo if you want to refresh or update anything you should not be an issue or being criticized DBrownHarris (talk) 11:40, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

Comment moved from the discussion below about images fading to white, but obviously belonged here instead. - Jmabel ! talk 15:16, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

Asked for help to replace the photo since I could not figure out how to upload. My pin passed away am I am also Administrstor of his Estate. I dont know why this is tagged for deletion DBrownHarris (talk) 12:01, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

End moved comment. - Jmabel ! talk 15:16, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

@DBrownHarris: (1) My condolences on the death of your son.

(2) This next thing is not Commons' issue, but if you are his mother you are almost certainly violating the English-language Wikipedia's policy on conflicts of interest by editing the article about him without declaring that.

(3) If you have a photo of him that you took, then you own the copyright on that photo, and it should be very straightforward to use Special:UploadWizard to upload the photo to Commons. Or are you wanting to upload a photo that someone else took (more complicated)? - Jmabel ! talk 15:09, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

The TAME ONE Picture that I wanted to change is one that I took. but if I am violating any policy I will not ask any more how to upload it or try to figure out how to change his picture any longer DBrownHarris (talk) 15:30, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

@DBrownHarris You are involved with two websites with differnet rules. One is the wikipedia with an article about your son. On wikipedia it is discouraged to edit a topic you are involved with (it is a conflict of interest). Your are still allowed to edit the article about your son, if you declare the conflict of interest. The photo in the article about your son is hosted on this website, commons.wikimedia.org. On this website there can be any number of images pictureing your son and the people editing wikipedia can choose one or more of this images for inclusion in the article. However images here on commons cannot be deleted (at least not for being outdated). As commons has different rules than wikipedia, the conflict of interest does not matter here. You are entitled and absolutly invited to upload as many pictures of your son or any other person or subject, as you want. The images you upload have to abide to copyright however. Photos that you yourself took (you operated the camera) are easy: You are the owner of the copyright and you can upload the images and choose from the available licenses on commons as you like. If someone else took a photo, this person has to send an persmission to VRT. If your son took a selfie then you inherited the coprright of this photo and you can upload it, but you have to verify the permission with VRT. About editing Wikipedia: Please ask at the wikipedia site for assistence. People here at commons do not make the rules there. C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 21:07, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

Deleting a photo

Hi, I need to delete a photo that I uploaded before. Currently the photo is not being used on any page. The person in the photo asked me to remove the photo from the wikipedia. I can not see any option to do so. Can someone help me ? Ahmetdogan78 (talk) 03:57, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

@Ahmetdogan78: Assuming we are talking about a photo on Commons, you can nominate your own photo for deletion just like anyone else's. You can indicate that it is a request for courtesy deletion, by the subject of the photo.

But I may not have understood you correctly. You say it is not being used on any page, but they want it removed from wikipedia. If it was uploaded to one of the Wikipedias, rather than to Commons, then nothing on Commons has anything to do with the process of getting it deleted. - Jmabel ! talk 07:03, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

Category for images fading into white

Where should I categorize the following set of images fading into white?

Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs) 09:47, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

I don't know of a category for that, but you can put exactly this gallery as part of the description or the "other versions" for each photo involved, and/or you can create a mainspace page for this and other similar sets of photos. Normally parent categories relate to individual photos or child categories (or pages, or templates, etc.), not to collectivities. - Jmabel ! talk 10:15, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

How we can write æ?

Æ is a ligature. @Z 37.225.73.154 12:25, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

You've just done so successfully right here. What (if anything) is your question? - Jmabel ! talk 15:13, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

Gallery main Spaces page topic

right page done//: sets for similar categories part each informationally talked about what if any just so just done 2601:601:8000:BF80:CC3E:FE84:D4B0:8227 20:51, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

If there is a question about using Commons here, I don't see it. - Jmabel ! talk 22:13, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

Does Commons have a tool to correct brightness/contrast?

Believe it or not, the essential information that this image is intended to convey is on the wall under the window. It is practically invisible because the photographer failed to allow for the high contrast. Does Commons have a tool to correct this? --JMF (talk) 21:09, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

@JMF: Except for simple crops and rotations, derivative works require a download -> edit (locally) -> upload sequence.

You are welcome to make a derivative work based on this file: download; edit with GIMP/Photoshop/etc. to change the contrast/lightness; upload, linking "other versions" using {{Derivative works}} / {{Derived from}}. If that's not clear, say so and someone here can flesh that out more for you.

If you want to overwrite the original, you should typically clear it with the uploader/photographer User:Tedster007, but he seems not to be recently active, so that may not be possible. - Jmabel ! talk 22:21, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

TYVM, that was the answer I expected but thought it no harm to ask, just in case. As an image to illustrate the text, I don't consider it particularly useful to the en.wikipedia article that had it, so I'll let it slip quietly away. Thanks again. JMF (talk) 23:11, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

@JMF: If you don't want to fix it yourself, you can ask at Wikipedia's "Graphics Lab", as I have done in en:Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Photography workshop#Memorial to Mary Beale. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:41, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

Strange error after uploading, below infobox comes 'Error in ??Information?? template: unknown parameter "1"', rendered in blue and red

The file with the above error is my 5 min ago uploaded File:US Robotics 33.6K Modem Front (turned, cropped, removed background).jpg. Any help or just quick remedy welcome. I was not able to find any error, even exchanged the first three lines of the infobox code by sth. from an older, working file to no avail. Thx in advance, Pittigrilli (talk) 22:47, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

@Pittigrilli: You had a minor error in your wiki markup. I've fixed it. —RP88 (talk) 22:54, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

@RP88: - Thank you. What a stupid little error can do... In German we say "Small cause, big effect". Big Time here. Best, Pittigrilli (talk) 23:01, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

@RP88: Thanks for doubling the left square bracket in this edit. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 12:38, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

I found a logo of a company from the internet, can I upload it here ?

I found a logo of a company from the internet, can I upload it here ? Caiptony (talk) 11:29, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

As a general rule, no. Do not copy anything from the Internet, with a few exceptions. Only very simple logos are accepted without permission, and it depends on the country of origin. If you would give a link, a more detailed answer could be given. Yann (talk) 12:25, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

@Caiptony: Right, please see COM:NETC. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 12:39, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

deleting a picture

How do I delete a picture i have uploaded? Pobesneo Maks (talk) 18:28, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

@Pobesneo Maks: If it is uploaded within the last week and is not being used anywhere you can just mark it with {{G7}} and it will be deleted as a courtesy; see Template:My bad upload for a bit more info on that.

Otherwise, you can't delete it. You can nominate it for deletion just like anyone else can, but any image you uploaded here is presumably either in the public domain or you granted an irrevocable free license, and you can't just change your mind about an irrevocable license. - Jmabel ! talk 20:01, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

Saan ko po makikita ang pahina ng settings ng dark mode theme para sa madilim na tema sa pagbabasa, salamat po

Dark Mode Theme Ernestojrr17 (talk) 11:52, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Maraming salamat po sa inyong pagtugon. Ernestojrr17 (talk) 02:05, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Where can I find the dark mode theme settings page for the dark reading theme, thanks

translator: Google Translate via — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:27, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

@Ernestojrr17: Hi ulit. Sa Android, wala akong makitang ganoong mga setting. See also Commons:Help desk/Archive/2024/02#Mangyaring ako poy gabayan nyo at nawawala na ako sa focus ng aking hinahanap dahil sa mga pahina o page na dumadag.

Hi again. On Android, I can find no such settings. See also Commons:Help desk/Archive/2024/02#Mangyaring ako poy gabayan nyo at nawawala na ako sa focus ng aking hinahanap dahil sa mga pahina o page na dumadag. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:27, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Possibly related:

-- Asclepias (talk) 14:27, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

File history

Two versions of File:Bandiera di Pieve di Teco.svg are shown in file history, but I have uploaded only one version of this file. Why this is happening? Is this a bug? -- ZandDev (talk) 13:50, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

@ZandDev: You appear to have overwritten it with the same file in the same minute, giving the appearance of a bug. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 14:03, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

@Jeff G.: Have you seen the file chrono? Mediawiki says to me that I have done only one edit, but maybe I did two edits. -- ZandDev (talk) 14:07, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

@ZandDev: You have me leaning in the direction of a bug. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 14:12, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

@Jeff G.: Should I file a Phabricator ticket? -- ZandDev (talk) 21:39, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

@ZandDev: Yes, please. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 11:05, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

Sous-catégorie

Bonjour, je cherche à structurer les images dans Média dans la catégorie « Collections of Archives départementales de Vaucluse » en créant au moins la sous-catégorie "Bulles et sceaux". Comment s'y prendre ? Merci pour les retours. FRAD084 (talk) 15:27, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

Subcategory

Hello, I am looking to structure the images in Media in the category 'Collections of Archives départementales de Vaucluse' by creating at least the subcategory "Bubbles and seals". How to do it ?

Thanks for the feedback.

translator: Google Translate via — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 11:14, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

@FRAD084: Bonjour et bienvenue. Nous évitons de créer de telles catégories bipartites. Vous pouvez créer des catégories individuelles comme Category:Bubbles in the collections of Archives départementales de Vaucluse, puis les catégoriser comme vous le feriez pour des fichiers dans Category:Collections of Archives départementales de Vaucluse.

Hi, and welcome. We avoid creating bipartite categories like that. You may make individual categories like Category:Bubbles in the collections of Archives départementales de Vaucluse, and then categorize them as you would files in Category:Collections of Archives départementales de Vaucluse. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 11:14, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

Deletion

please delete File:Anti semitic protest in berlin central station at 2024-03-29 16-00.webm as curtesy deletion on uplosd day. I will privide a better version at a later time. Nocomment-temp (talk) 23:48, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

@Nocomment-temp: Done. Please, when you want to mark your own recent upload for deletion, just tag it with {{SD|G7}} as explained at Template:My bad upload. Please do not simultaneously propose a rename and a deletion, and please do not ever propose a rename to a nonsense name. Things like the latter two will potentially get you in real trouble. - Jmabel ! talk 07:29, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

41.114.166.235

What is the common@ 41.114.166.235 02:40, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi, and welcome. Please be more specific. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 15:42, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

Folk-lore competition 2024

can I just randomly up load a photo clicked by my mobile, how to do that Dimpiprize123 (talk) 15:20, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

@Dimpiprize123: COM:WLF says the competition has not run since 2017. However, please see Commons:Wiki Loves Folklore 2024 in Spain. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 15:41, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

I retire my account

I retire my account and have replaced rhe password with scrambled text. I also ask to have my account blocked for eternal, so that nobody thinks i may be still active. Nocomment-temp (talk) 16:14, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

Done Yann (talk) 21:30, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

Publicação de artigo

Quero publicar um artigo. Tenho conta na Wikipedia. Qual é o meio mais rápido para fazer publicações como colaborador? Agradece, Da Costa Assunção Da Costa Assunção (talk) 17:25, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

Article publication

I want to publish an article. I have a Wikipedia account. What is the fastest way to publish as a contributor?

Thanks,

translator: Google Translate via — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 01:05, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

@Da Costa Assunção: Olá e seja bem-vindo. Você não tem equivalente em português para en:WP:YFA, então pergunte em pt:Ajuda:Tire suas dúvidas.

Hi, and welcome. You have no Portuguese equivalent to en:WP:YFA, so please ask at pt:Ajuda:Tire suas dúvidas. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 01:05, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Publicity still bought from seller of vintage photos

I own a publicity still photo of Czech opera singer Helena Tattermuschova that I bought from a seller of vintage photographs. May I upload it to the biographical article on the singer? Pojohla (talk) 18:53, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

@Pojohla: When was it taken? Is the author known? Where was it first published? That's what we need to know to answer your question. Yann (talk) 19:52, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

The area under the photo was autographed by the singer and dated December 25, 1956, so the photo must date from before then. There are news clippings on the back side of the mounting sheet in Czech language, so it's reasonable to assume that the photograph was taken in Czechoslovakia. It was probably issued by the National Theatre of Prague, being that the singer was a company artist. Pojohla (talk) 00:26, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Need to delete one upload

Hi! I need to delete below file. 15:38, 28 March 2024, Estonia's Digital Divide.jpg. Please delete the entire file that I have uploaded on 28th of March 2024. Please don't delete other files. Thanks. Sajani Karunarathne (talk) 20:49, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

@Sajani Karunarathne:

Done I also deleted your other file, which is advertising. Please read COM:SCOPE. Yann (talk) 21:15, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

a genuine question

I want to upload a logo for a certain website for my article on Wikipedia (Calligraphr). It does mention in the FAQ that you can use their materials with or without license, but are pretty vague for their logo. Shall I upload it or not? Guy.who.readsandedits (talk) 20:49, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

@Guy.who.readsandedits: I suppose you mean this file. This is too simple to have a copyright. But Calligraphr doesn't seem to be notable enough to warrant an article. Yann (talk) 21:19, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

British Newspaper Archive

Hi, I hope someone could help. I wanted to go thorough the British Newspaper Archive and wanted to take some screen shots of old articles. I was wondering what the rules were about that and can they be included on wiki commons? If I credit the newspaper and date them? Liverpolitan1980 (talk) 14:14, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

@Liverpolitan1980: They would have to be out of copyright. Per COM:UK, that means anonymous photographs published in those newspapers before 1 January 1953; read that overview concerning texts. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 14:30, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

@Jeff G. Thank you. I was hoping to take screenshots of old newspapers from the British Newspaper Archive. So it would be text from official newspapers - some of them don't exist any more though. So I'm a bit confused about the rules. Liverpolitan1980 (talk) 13:50, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

@Liverpolitan1980: Even if the newspapers don't publish any more, someone or something probably inherited their intellectual property - that's who would need to give permission for the text. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:59, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Uploading made files

If it is an SVG file, that I edited which is in the Wikimedia, how can I upload? Mr.Zoom1 (talk) 21:20, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

@Mr.Zoom1: Are you talking about a derivative work where the original that it is based on is here on Commons? Or are you talking about something else, and if so what? If it's on Commons, it would help to link the file page of the file in question. - Jmabel ! talk 07:47, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

I tried uploading a video when it was done uploading it stated processing file failed what is the cause

I tried uploading a video when it was done uploading it stated processing file failed what is the cause Dagentle (talk) 02:35, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

I tried uploading a video and I got this error file didn't pass file verification...what should I do Dagentle (talk) 03:12, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

@Dagentle: Which file? What was the exact error message? — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 08:34, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

"did not pass file verification" very likely was the exact error message.

If you have exiftool or ffmpeg you can look into the metadata of the video. This metadat is likely the cause. You could try to upload a version of the video with the metadata stripped (or part thereof). Or you could try to reencode the video (for example with ffmpeg) with a higher or lower bitrate. This will likely "solve" the verification problem.

For a real solution you would need to open a ticket at phabricator, provide extensive information and then probably wait months or years for a fix of the MW software. C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 09:29, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

@C.Suthorn this can take long is there no other short way that can be done....or is it because of the size of the video...its 1.4GB Dagentle (talk) 10:52, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

The error message shows, that file size was not the problem. Verification starts after upload is completed. It is probably a false positive in the verfication, so changing anything in the file will likely make the file pass verification (unless it does really contain malicious code). C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 11:54, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

@Jeff G. webm video file....the error message is file didn't pass file verification Dagentle (talk) 10:51, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

@Dagentle: Where did you get the content? How did you convert it to webm format? If you tried using Video2commons, please see the error messages on Commons talk:Video2commons. If not, please try that. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 12:36, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Video uploading

What will be the file extention name while video uploading ?? It's not supported mp4. Dgmkoushik (talk) 14:47, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

@Dgmkoushik: Commons does not support MP4 because it is a patented format. COM:VIDEO may help answer your question, but you can't just change the extension, you need to actually convert the file format. - Jmabel ! talk 15:50, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Thank you 2409:40E6:29:EE1C:E400:A108:FE2A:A70F 15:59, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Il nuovo documento di una carta d'identità

Mi serve per un aggiornamento del nuovo programma di identificazione il protocollo AOuth Pubblico pensiero (talk) 21:41, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

The new document of an identity card

I need the AOuth protocol for an update of the new identification program

translator: Google Translate via — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 00:27, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

@Pubblico pensiero: Ciao e benvenuto. Puoi consultare la documentazione per OAuth su mw:Help:OAuth o mw:Help:OAuth/it. Se stai cercando un press pass. Consulta la n:WN:AP o la m:Wikinews accreditation policy/it.

Hi, and welcome. You can see the documentation for OAuth at mw:Help:OAuth or mw:Help:OAuth/it. If you are looking for a press pass. Please see n:WN:AP or m:Wikinews accreditation policy/it. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 00:27, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

ico format

"Wikimedia Commons does not accept filenames that end in the extension ".ico". Please convert videos to an allowed format before uploading, or reference help on other file types."

Why is Commons calling my the image i'm trying to upload a video? Trade (talk) 20:30, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

No idea about the video thing, but .ico is not an allowed file format. Where does this image come from? If you created it yourself, you should be able to save it as PNG. Otherwise I would wonder about the license. --rimshot^talk 23:21, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

@Trade: I don't think that message is calling your .ico file a video. Rather, it's saying that if it's a video you'll need to convert it, and otherwise you'll probably need to look at the list of file types. If you have a suggestion for how to improve the message, you could put an {{Edit request}} at MediaWiki talk:Mwe-upwiz-upload-error-bad-filename-extension. The last discussion on the subject seems to have been Commons:Village pump/Technical/Archive/2023/12#Improving MP4 error message. --bjh21 (talk) 11:39, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

Just an idle disinterested bystander hoping my 2¢ will assist in understanding how the uninformed may read the message: “Please convert videos to an allowed format before uploading, or reference help on other file types.” To me this suggests that Wikimedia thinks this type of file is a video. Images can definitely be “converted” as well. I would change “videos” to “media” for clarity (covering images, videos, audio, drawings, etc.) As far as `.ico` files, specifically: to my ear this is suggestive of a platform-specific icon file and I see no good argument that this be hosted on WMF unless as part of a platform-specific bundle of some sort, like an open source OS image. That said, I personally prefer magic-number file identification, rather than assuming filename extensions are correct. That said, this is purely my personal opinion, and I am not affiliated at all with WMF. -Loren Osborn (linux_dr) (talk) 16:37, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Is there some way I could get temporary deletion privilege for categories?

Hi, there is a user User:JuTa here on Wikimedia who has created a massive amount of wrong name categories, I've come across at least a hundred name categories they have created that make no sense and are not actual names, I've been going trought and trying to delete as many as possible but it's getting very tiring emptying them out and nominating them all for speedy deletion manually. Is there some way I could be given the power to delete them right away, only just for a while to clean up this mess? StarTrekker (talk) 22:42, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

Only if you manage to get yourself elected as an admin. --Rosenzweig τ 23:07, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

Is being an admit really the only way? I don't feel comfortable with so much power/responsibility, I just want to be able to clean this up.StarTrekker (talk) 23:34, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

@StarTrekker: This is the way. (sorry for mixing scifi universes, but this really is the only way.) — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 00:56, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Can some Admin who speaks German please reason with JuTa? — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 01:16, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

@Jeff G.: JuTa is a former Commons bureaucrat and admin who hasn't been active on Commons or his home wiki in about two years. —RP88 (talk) 01:50, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

@StarTrekker: Could you give at least a representative sample of the categories you are talking about, so we can get a sense of this before suggesting a course of action? I don't want to presume either that you are right or wrong.

Keep in mind that even an admin is not normally allowed to just go around deleting catogories on the basis of their individual opinion. - Jmabel ! talk 07:45, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

@Jmabel: Some examples that I have recently nominated for deletion include: Category:Alexander George Morison (given name), Category:Edward Alexander Newell (given name), Category:HMikkelsen (surname), Category:Y Goud (surname), Category:Tiesssink (surname), Category:Johan Peter Fürchtegott (given name), Category:Johan Marie Jacques Hubert (given name), Category:Johan Lindström (given name), Category:Petr Stepanovich (given name), Category:Petr Vasilyevich (given name), Category:Vasily Vasilyevich (given name). Some of these are obvious mistakes that the creator seems to have not bothered to fix, while others seem to display a complete lack of understanding of what a given name is or how patronymics work.StarTrekker (talk) 16:01, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Got it. So you are talking categories for given names that aren't really given names. Are they empty categories? If so, you can mark them for speedy deletion as described at Template:How to delete empty categories. If not, then you'd first have to correctly recategorize their content. - Jmabel ! talk 16:10, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Well I guess that's what I'm going to have to do. Will be a lot of work but someone has to do it.StarTrekker (talk) 17:15, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Delete File

please delete the file

File: Sajida Mohamed Signature.svg

i uploaded it a wrong file MAL MALDIVE (talk) 19:53, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

@MAL MALDIVE: I've deleted this recently uploaded file that you uploaded per your request, per COM:CSD#G7. —RP88 (talk) 19:57, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Please delete the File Template:TUTRA PAHARI.jpg

I uploaded it a wrong file Template:TUTRA PAHARI.jpg TUTRA PAHARI TEMPLE (talk) 02:50, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

@TUTRA PAHARI TEMPLE: I assume that is File:TUTRA PAHARI TEMPLE.jpg. You uploaded it in 2021; the grace period to change your mind is only a week. If you like, you can nominate it for deletion, just like anyone else could. - Jmabel ! talk 07:19, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

@TUTRA PAHARI TEMPLE: ,@Jmabel: See Commons:Deletion_requests/File:TUTRA_PAHARI_TEMPLE.jpg Wouter (talk) 09:51, 1 April 2024 (UTC)