User:Ellin Beltz/Messages

Please read the appropriate message for your situation

New users sometimes make mistakes...

Here is the cutest possible kitten for you

Hi there, and welcome to Commons! Yes, really, Welcome! it may not look like I'm very welcoming to you, nominating your pictures for deletion, but I think you may have made some mistakes. You can read more about copyright at the section for Copyright violations & Deletion guidelines. Sorry to be the one to nominate your pictures for deletion, but you need to read the instructions on what is ok to upload here and what isn't ok. I hope you follow the instructions and add some more photos of your own - of interesting things in the world around you!

Copyright Violations

Copyright violations will be removed.

Please read "COM:L" Copyright violations. If you did not take the picture yourself, please ask for help at the Village Pump before uploading. Copyright violations will be removed. Don't get upset if you don't understand all the ins and outs and a photo gets nominated. Stay calm, ask questions!

Out of scope

only what is within scope is desired

• Please read "COM:SCOPE" the Scope of the Project for a full list of images which are out of the scope of the project.
• Please see Commons:Project scope#PDF and DjVu formats. Please see [[Commons:Project scope#PDF and DjVu formats]].

Screenshots

computer screen

Not all screenshots can be uploaded to Commons, please read Screenshot

• For software note: If the screenshot shows any work that is not a direct result of the program code itself, such as a text or graphics that are not part of the program, the license for that work must be indicated separately. For example {{Free screenshot|{{Apache|The Android Open Source Project}}

Personal photos...

a personal photo album

Commons is not a personal photo album! Please read COM:SCOPE to find out more about what is and what isn't a file which can be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. In general, this includes images more suited for social media: images of some guy/girl/babies/families/pets doing various guy/girl/baby/family/pet things. Please see COM:NOTSOCIAL to read up on holiday and family snaps.

Old Personal photos

Old baby pictures are sometimes in scope

COM:NOTSOCIAL Commons is not a social network for old family pictures and the contents of scrapbooks.

COM:PS#Must be realistically useful for an educational purpose. Uploading pictures from family albums requires the name of the photographer and the date of the picture; not all album pictures are within scope, and many may also be COM:COPYVIOs.

Selfies

This selfie is in scope

Please see COM:SELFIE. Not all selfies are within scope, although if you're an astronaut in outer space, one or two would be in scope.

Admin apply {{autotranslate|1=|base=No selfies}} for friendly autowarning box.

Biographies, resumes, solicitations of friendship/marriage, motivational posters, personal holiday cards, etc.

No resumes, personal biographies or promotion

Please read COM:NOTSOCIAL. Resumes, personal biographies, solicitations of marriage or friendship, notifications of starting new business, uploading the first painting you did at age three, personal holiday cards, children's hand and foot prints, whether text or laid over photographs are out of COM:SCOPE.

Pron

Crummy pron knows no era

• COM:PORN Commons is not an amateur porn site, please refrain from uploading images so personal as to defy polite description,
• COM:OMGAPENIS aka COM:NOTCENSORED "If the images are of demonstrably inferior quality, or add nothing educationally distinct to the stock of such images we hold already, they may fail the test of being realistically useful for an educational purpose."

Out of project scope

Facepalm

This picture fails COM:SCOPE due to COM:PS#Must be realistically useful for an educational purpose.

Blurry and poor quality

• Blurry and/or really poor quality images. Note while there is a [[:Category:Intentionally blurred images]], generally blurred images are out of scope.

Duplicates

• Must be an exact copy to process as {{Duplicate}} to help any external re-users. Otherwise file a Deletion Nomination.

Advertising

Advertising

COM:SCOPE & COM:ADVERT: Commons is not a place to advertise.

• Advertising, promotional or self-promotional images, see also COM:PENIS and COM:NOTSOCIAL

Educational Use

Educational use

• Please read COM:EDUSE for full discussion of which images are not realistically useful for educational purposes. You may also see:

1. COM:PS#Must be realistically useful for an educational purpose including:

• Images that are impossible to tell what they are and/or have little to no description to help the user decide the educational content,
• Images uploaded as test edits, out of boredom, or to test a new phone,
• Uncategorized images or those categorized to [[Category:NonexistantPages]] and
• Unused, poor quality, low resolution and lacking metadata images.

Freedom of Panorama

Eiffel Tower at Night

• Freedom of Panorama "FOP" refers to whether nations permit photography on the public way or not. Click on that link and locate the nation in question.

{{drfop|Country Name}} generates a statement about FOP in country named