Commons:Help desk/Archive/2024/02

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Welches Land?

Darf ich ausschließlich Bilder der Kultur meines eigenen Landes einreichen oder auch von Ländern, denen ich nicht angehöre? Ida Ltnr (talk) 18:00, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Du darfst Bilder von allen Ländern einreichen/uploaden solange sie entweder gemeinfrei sind, du ihr Autor bist oder du die Erlaubnis des Autors erhalten hast (so einer Erlaubnis musst du dann dem VRT team zukommen lassen). Was alles Gemeinfrei ist, und was es das wird, da sind die Gesetze aber von Land zu Land verschieden. Hier die Verschiedenen Länderspezifischen Gesetze. Und hier noch das Tutorial vom Upload Wizard (Auf Englisch). Paradise Chronicle (talk) 19:20, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Ich glaube es geht hier um Wiki loves Folklore? Bilder gehören in die jeweilige Landeskategorie des Wettbewerbs und natürlich ist es notwendig zum Fotografieren in dem Land gewesen zu sein, aber mehr auch nicht. C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 22:29, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Rejected submission

I have two certificates to support information on Pilot Peter Lee Foster. May I submit those as proof? Stephen Vest (talk) 18:11, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

As long as the certificates are in the Public Domain or you have the permission by the author of the certificates, yes. If you have the permission of the author of the certificates, you may sent this to the VRT team.Paradise Chronicle (talk) 19:26, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

They were provided to me by Mr. Foster. They don't need to appear, but they document the records. Stephen Vest (talk) 19:28, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

If you are just talking about citing them in a Wikipedia article, there is no need that they be online, just correctly cited. And, actually unlike what Paradise Chronicle said, you should not forward VRT a permission someone sent to you (if you are going that route at all). The copyright-holder needs to be in direct contact with VRT, though its fine if you are cc'd; you can even start the correspondence, cc'ing both, but the copyright-holder would need to respond on that thread and explicitly agree to grant the relevant permission. - Jmabel ! talk 20:26, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification, Jmabel.Paradise Chronicle (talk) 21:01, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

@Stephen Vest, are you attempting to create an article about a person on the English Wikipedia? Do you wish to submit certificates as "proof" of information in that biography? At Wikimedia Commons, we are not concerned about what facts may be supported by the content of those certificates. Commons is only concerned about whether you have ownership, license, or permission to upload the files that you wish to upload. Elizium23 (talk) 20:44, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

how to upload my own photo?

I´m trying to create a page for me with proessional purposes. @ Brunogp89 (talk) 22:13, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

@Brunogp89: assuming you mean a page on the English-language Wikipedia (en-wiki), please don't do that. Writing about yourself for professional purposes on en-wiki is one of the quickest ways to have your account blocked there. See their guidance on conflicts of interest.

Similarly, normally there are only two reasons why a picture of yourself would belong on Commons. (1) If you are participating in a significant way in one or more WMF projects, you are welcome to upload a small number of personal photos to use on your user pages on the projects (e.g. at User:Brunogp89 and its equivalent on other projects). (2) If you are notable for some reason such that a photo of you would be in scope, then it is OK that you are the uploader. E.g. if there is a Wikipedia article about you, or you are a major league athlete, or an elected official, or an author of books published by a reasonably established press, or are a professor at a university, etc., then your photo would be welcome. Unlike en-wiki, we don't have a rule against adding it yourself.

However, even in that last case, to be hosted on Commons, the photo needs either to be in the public domain or to have a free license issued by the holder of the copyright. There are very few ways that a photo of a living person ends up in the public domain, especially anything taken after the late 1980s, so it is nearly always a matter of a license. Only the copyright-holder can grant a license and that usually means the photographer, not the subject of the photo (selfies are OK in this respect, since you are your own photographer). If you want to upload a photo taken by someone else, and that is not already published with a free license that you can reference as a source, you almost certainly need to go through the process outlined at COM:VRT, either to have the photographer indicate that they are offering a license, or for you to prove that the copyright was transferred from the photographer to you. - Jmabel ! talk 02:44, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

Blaisantkerk - new page

I tried for the first time to create a new page 'Blaisantkerk'. I am the president of the non profit organisation DOIC vzw, who is the owner of the multifunctional building 'Blaisantkerk'. I prepared a text in word that i copied. The text was posted yesterday - but now removed. The explanation that i got from Wikipedia:

Wikipedia is bedoeld als een vrij beschikbare, vrij bewerkbare en neutrale encyclopedie voor iedereen. Hoewel iedereen van harte is uitgenodigd om Wikipedia te bewerken, vond een medewerker aan de encyclopedie een of meer van uw bewerkingen niet constructief. Deze bewerking(en) is/zijn daarom teruggedraaid of verwijderd.

In short: my input was not 'constructive'. What does that mean? The text was just the history of the building and the new facility. Who could help me? What do I need to change?

Thanks in advance.

Michel Alboort Alboort michel (talk) 08:08, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

So this is Wikimedia Commons: it is a sister project to Wikipedia that is about storing media (audio, images, video, etc.). If you have an issue on Wikipedia, you'll have to discuss it with editors there. Everyone who has an account at Wikipedia has an account at Commons, but they are just separate projects. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 09:12, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Alboort michel: If you were writing in Dutch, then perhaps start by looking at this Dutch webpage. Most wikipedia language sites have their own requirements but for instance the English wikipedia has a Draft section where people can write articles which will then be reviewed for notablity and complying with the standards for an acceptable article. Wikipedia is not a promotional site and it is highly discouraged to write about subjects you have any type involvement with due to a conflict of interest. Ww2censor (talk) 11:33, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

@Alboort michel: Hi, and welcome. In addition to the above, nl:Blaisantkerk has twice been deleted for infringement of copyright of the website blaisantkerk.be - please post permission there or have it sent from that site via VRT or VRT/nl. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 11:48, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

@Alboort michel: Clarifying where Jeff wrote "please post permission there," he means that http://blaisantkerk.be/ could indicate a CC-BY-SA 4.0 (or more generous) license for all or part of its content; then there would be no copyright problem using that content on Wikipedia. However, there still might be an issue of conflict of interest. You should almost certainly read nl:Wikipedia:Zelfpromotie. - Jmabel ! talk 20:22, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

@Jmabel: Is that not sufficiently covered by "If it's your own website, please follow Creative Commons' instructions to adopt the free culture license of your choice" under "The image was first published on my website, or on my own space of a shared website." at VRT#When contacting VRT is unnecessary? — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 12:20, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

@Jeff G.: "there" was ambiguous, could either have meant [:nl:Blaisantkerk]] or http://blaisantkerk.be/. - Jmabel ! talk 19:48, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

Artikel gelöscht

Mein Artikel wurde gelöscht, ich weiß aber nicht genau wieso. Kann ich hier ggf. Unterstützung erhalten? Vielen Dank. Juliagerlach (talk) 11:00, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

Commons ist nicht der korrekte Ort für Artikel. Dein Artikel wurde in der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia zurück in den Benutzernamensraum verschoben, de:Benutzer:Juliagerlach/Hubert Post - Entwurf. Artikel müssen aureichend belegt und in ganzen Sätzen formuliert werden. Zudem sind alle Bilder als problematisch gekennzeichnet worden. Magnus (talk) 11:15, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

Nein, das kannst Du hier nicht. Dein Artikel befindet sich nämlich nicht hier auf commons.wikimedia.org sondern auf de.wikipedia.org - also auf der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia. Der Artikel wurde dort auch garnicht gelöscht, sondern zuerst auf den korrekten Namen verschoben und dann in Deinen Benutzernamensraum, damit er nicht gelöscht wird, solange er unfertig ist. Im Artikelnamensraum würde er nämlich gelöscht werden. Und falls das geschieht kannst Du Hilfe auch nur auf der deutschssprachigen Wikipedia bekommen. Aber zunächst wird das nicht geschehen, du kannst den Artikel vervollständigen.

Aber hier auf Commons hast Du Löschanträge für Deine Uploads bekommen, darum musst Du Dich kümmern, das ist das dringendere Problem. C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 11:20, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

Privately commissioned drawing

Hi. Prior to the Cuban Communist revolution, a neighborhood association in Cuba commissioned a drawing from a well known Cuban Cartoonist to commemorate a resident's contributions to the Boy Scouts of Cuba. This "cartoon" is on the cover of the Association's monthly bulletin. I have checked to U.S. Copyright office for the artist's works, and the above privately commissioned work does not appear. When the Communist government assumed power in Cuba, it eliminated individual property rights, so everything would be public domain in that country. The cartoonist passed away in 1965. Can I assume that this work is in the public domain and upload it to the Wikipedia page of the person in whose honor it was created? The individual is no longer alive. Flightbook (talk) 23:34, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

Cuba does have copyright and is a part of the Berne Convention; see {{PD-Cuba}}. It's free in Cuba, as life+50 means it left copyright in 2016. However, it's copyrighted in the US for 95 years from when it was published, or put up on the wall.--Prosfilaes (talk) 23:41, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

Hi. Thank you for your guidance. The cartoonist copyrighted some works that I was able to find in the U.S. Copyright website for works he did for some magazines, but this private caricature was not included. How can I upload this to Wiki if the author is no longer living, It is no longer copyright in Cuba, and the Association that paid for the work was dissolved 50+ years ago? Do you have any suggestions? Thank you. Flightbook (talk) 00:05, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

@Flightbook: Prosfilaes didn't spell out the reasoning, but he is correct that it is copyrighted in the U.S. for 95 years from when it was first published. That is because it was still copyrighted in Cuba in 1996, and the URAA copyright restoration therefore treats it as if it had been registered for copyright in the U.S. - Jmabel ! talk 01:34, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, Jmabel. Let me ask a few additional questions since you've been kind enough to educate me... 1) How does one know that the sketch was copyrighted in Cuba? Is a filing with the government required for a copyright? There is no copyright marking on the document... 2) If the sketch was paid for (or commissioned) by an entity, doesn't the entity own the rights to it? 3) If the answers to the former are that the document is still copyrighted in the U.S. regardless, can a living heir of the cartoonist grant permission for its use? (assuming that person can be found...) Thanks for the education! Flightbook (talk) 02:09, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

1) Cuba (unlike the U.S.) was already under the Berne Convention, so copyright was automatic upon creation. 2) No, paying someone to do artwork does not normally transfer copyright. It's pretty unlikely anyone would have given it a moment's thought, so copyright would almost certainly have remained with the artist. 3) Yes, if someone is clearly the heir to the artist's intellectual property rights, they could grant a license. - Jmabel ! talk 06:17, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

Thank you. I will see if it is possible to track down a heir based on the information present in the US Patent Office database. I believe there may be periodic fees that have to be paid, so presumably someone is paying those. And the someone may be the heirs.... Flightbook (talk) 17:02, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

Updating a logo

I work for a college and would like to update our wikipedia page which has an outdated logo. I attempted to upload our current logo but was denied by Wikipedia. I believe the update was denied because Wikipedia detected it was a copyrighted image. What is the proper procedure for updating the college logo, which is copyrighted? GFC Otter (talk) 23:49, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

@GFC Otter: It wouldn't exactly be "because it was a copyrighted image" but it would likely be because you tried a cross-wiki upload of a small file, and when relatively new users try to do that it is usually a copyright violation, so we set up a filter so they will come ask, like you just did. You don't say what college and you don't link to the new logo, but unless it is so simple as not to be eligible for copyright, anything "new" is almost certainly copyrighted and should not be on Commons unless the copyright-holder (which could be the designer or the college, depending on the agreement between the two) provides a free license, which typically won't happen in cases like this.

Instead, and assuming we are talking about the English-language Wikipedia (you didn't say, but I'm guessing) you should use their approach for handling non-free content, which is entirely internal to the English-language Wikipedia and does not involve Commons. See en:Politehnica University of Bucharest and en:File:Universitatea Politehnica Bucuresti logo.png for a good example of doing this correctly. - Jmabel ! talk 01:43, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

@GFC Otter: Hi, and welcome. I am sorry to inform you that you have triggered Special:AbuseFilter/153 by trying to cross-wiki upload a smaller (<50,000 bytes or <2,000,000 pixels) jpg logo as a new user, and another filter.. The logo you tried to upload is smaller, and you indicated it's your own work. Usually when someone uploads a smaller logo, it's a copyright violation taken from the web. Please upload the full-size original of it, including EXIF metadata, but it may be judged too complex to be under TOO in the country of origin, so you may need to post COM:L compliant permission for such works on your website or social media presence or send permission via VRT. Also, any raster image will look jaggy when scaled up, so you may want to upload an svg 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 filter 153. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 02:37, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

Copyright unknown

I want to upload the three images of Koji Kobayashi from the following sites:

I have tried reverse image search but cannot find the origins. How can I determine if they are free to use? BinaryBrainBug (talk) 12:31, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

@BinaryBrainBug: more-or-less contemporary photos are almost never free enough for Commons, unless someone has specifically issued a free license, which does not appear to be the case here. But other than that: since the U.S. dropped its requirement for a copyright notice in 1989, there is no significant country in the world where photographs aren't generally copyrighted at creation. There are a handful of exceptions. Some governments, notably the U.S. federal government and a few U.S. states, place work by their employees (but usually not their contractors) immediately immediately in the public domain. Some other governments waive copyright for national symbols, protecting them by non-copyright means. No reason to think something like that would apply here. - Jmabel ! talk 16:30, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

Need " youtube "

আমার ইউটিউব নেই । — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 2001:4490:880:D834:0:0:0:1 (talk) 16:27, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

I'm sorry you don't "have YouTube" (kind of weird: it's a website, https://www.youtube.com/) but there is nothing Commons can do to help if that link doesn't work for you. - Jmabel ! talk 16:32, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

Country contacts on Commons for questions about files for a specific country

I sometimes have questions about where a specific location is within a country or the name of a government official in a photo.

Is there a list of helpful volunteers, by country, that will help answer country specific questions about Commons files?

If there is no list, where would be the best placed to go for country specific questions about Commons files? Thanks, -- Ooligan (talk) 18:34, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

I would initially go to the help desk or village pump of the country in question and use Google Translate. Wouter (talk) 19:46, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

@Ooligan: A good place is probably the talk page of that country's specific project on the Wikipedia in a language of that country. Or, if you don't speak that language, then the talk page of that country's specific project on the Wikipedia of a language you speak. For examples, see en:Category:WikiProject Countries projects. If there is not an active project for that country, you can try at places like en:Wikipedia:Reference desk. -- Asclepias (talk) 19:47, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

@Asclepias and @Wouterhagens, I will follow both of your suggestions for any future country-specific questions. Thank you for your help. -- Ooligan (talk) 20:16, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

@Ooligan: For specific languages, rather than countries, you can also seek out the language equivalent of en:WP:EMB. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 22:20, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

@Jeff G., thank you for another solution. The "Local Embassy" link you provided is great. I assume there is not an equivalent page on Commons. If not, what is the process to create a page and list of languages/ "Embassies" on Commons? It could be helpful. -- Ooligan (talk) 22:52, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

@Ooligan: You're welcome. There is a list of languages here at COM:BBL. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 23:02, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

Upload foto on wikipedia

Uplis RedepaoliniPoelman (talk) 20:59, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

@RedepaoliniPoelman: Hi, and welcome. I am sorry to inform you that you have triggered Special:AbuseFilter/142 by trying to use a mobile browser as a new user to add text which has been used before by mobile vandals. Please don't do that. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 22:13, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

Mp4

Can i upload a video? If yes which format is accepted? Shisasai (talk) 04:29, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

webm is the accepted video format. Preferably with AV1 or VP9 encoding. C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 07:23, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

@Shisasai: Hi, and welcome. Please see COM:VIDEO, COM:Mp4, and Commons:Requests for comment/Technical needs survey/Confirm mp4 for 2028. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 13:40, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

How do I submit a biographical entry to Wikepedia

How do I write a Bio of someone? Is there a template that I can use? I would appreciate your advice Simon Roth SRoth59 (talk) 13:01, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

@SRoth59: Hi, and welcome. Please read en:WP:BIO and en:WP:MFA. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 13:32, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks Jeff SRoth59 (talk) 13:42, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

@SRoth59: You're welcome. You forgot to ping me. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 13:45, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

help me any one

ELSAI ESAYAS help me any one — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 197.156.122.209 (talk) 13:14, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

Stop using open proxies. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 13:28, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

Why am I not able to upload an historic portrait (photo from 1926) of my great grandfather?

My great grandfather was a leading doctor of an historic clinic in the center of germany. Why am I not allowed to upload his portrait from 1926? He already died 1940. Isn't his portrait of public interest in that article? Böhmler Nachlass (talk) 20:49, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

@Böhmler Nachlass: Quite likely you are able to upload it. You don't say who or what prevented you, which makes this a bit difficult to address. If it was an attempt at a cross-wiki upload there are a lot of filters on that; please use Special:UploadWizard here on Commons.

The only likely issue would be: who took the photo? If it was someone who was still alive in 1954, and you are not heir to their intellectual property, then their heirs—not the heirs of the subject of the photo—would own the copyright. - Jmabel ! talk 22:47, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

@Jmabel OK, thanks, I think it was a cross-wiki upload. I'll try again. The photographer is unkown as far as I know. Böhmler Nachlass (talk) 00:16, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

@Böhmler Nachlass: if the author is genuinely unknown, and the work was never published, then {{PD-anon-70-EU}} should cover the German side, so you can definitely upload this locally to the German language Wikipedia. However, Commons needs the picture to be also valid under U.S. copyright, and if you don't know the author and it was never published, it has 120 years of U.S. protection, so it can't be published in Commons until 2047. If you could establish who took the photo, then Commons could accept it 70 years after their death. If you could establish that you are the heir to the intellectual property of the person who photographed it, then you would be able to offer a license to cover the U.S. side, and could upload it to Commons at any time. - Jmabel ! talk 00:26, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

@Böhmler Nachlass: Hi, and welcome. I am sorry to inform you that you have triggered Special:AbuseFilter/153 by trying to cross-wiki upload png and smaller (<50,000 bytes or <2,000,000 pixels) jpg photos as a new user. Such uploads of png photos are not allowed at all. The following applies to each photo. You indicated it's your own work. Usually when someone uploads a png or smaller jpg photo, 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 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 photo may still be uploaded to English or German Wikipedia in compliance with en:WP:F or de:Bilder, deren Urheber nicht bekannt ist 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}🇺🇦 00:55, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

Help reverting deletions by another User on my talk page.

I want to archive my talk page, However, before I place an archive bot on it, I first want to restore my talk page to the original version. Another User removed contents from my talk page on several occasions without my knowledge. I cannot "undo" these deletions to my talk page, but I can provide the "Difference between revisions" links that need reverting. Thanks, -- Ooligan (talk) 21:29, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

@Ooligan: I didn't see any of the described deletions that weren't reversed or deserved, but feel free to link them here or on my user talk page. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 22:07, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

@Jeff G., here are the deletions to my talk page that I would like to be restored/reverted. Thanks for your help.

1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Ooligan&diff=714236450&oldid=714236392&title=User_talk%3AOoligan&diffonly=1

2. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Ooligan&diff=714236450&oldid=714236392&title=User_talk%3AOoligan&diffonly=1

3. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Ooligan&diff=733884811&oldid=733878233&title=User_talk%3AOoligan&diffonly=1 --Ooligan (talk) 23:42, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

@Ooligan: I restored 1 and 3; 2 was the same as 1. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 01:08, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

@Jeff G., Sorry about that duplicate. Here is the #2 I should have posted: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AOoligan&diff=734055581&oldid=733961691 and here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AOoligan&diff=705076473&oldid=705076415 is the last one I have found. After your restorations, I will set up my archive bot. Thank you again. -- Ooligan (talk) 02:35, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

@Ooligan: All done. You're welcome. To quickly use a standard setup for ArchiverBot, simply place {{subst:User:Jeff G./usertalksetup}} at the top of your user talk page. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 04:03, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

Done. I wanted to archive after one year, so I changed "algo = old(31d)" to "algo = old(365d)" -will that work to archive items older than 1 year? -- Ooligan (talk) 04:41, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

@Ooligan: Yes. The parameters are explained at en:User:MiszaBot/Archive HowTo. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 05:17, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

Upload Photo That Is Not My Own

I would like to upload the photo of a local city council member. Am I able to do that if it is not my own photo? Flpubliclibrarian (talk) 02:56, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

@Flpubliclibrarian: Typically, no. Is there some reason to believe that this particular photo would be either free-licensed or in the public domain? Commons accepts only images that fall into one of those two categories, both in their home country and in the United States. - Jmabel ! talk 03:47, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

Error in uploading from Flickr.

Hello, I wanted to upload this image, however when I tried to it said "Unfortunately, no images from this Flickr account can be uploaded on this site."

Does anyone know the reason for this, and if so, can I fix it?

Thanks in advance, An guy with one grammatical error (talk) 07:59, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

Flickr items marked in the public domain with CC-0 licenses are blocked because they are almost always copyfraud. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 08:10, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for telling me, that's a shame. An guy with one grammatical error (talk) 09:00, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

@An guy with one grammatical error: wbayercom (76319087@N08) is listed at COM:QFI as it transcludes Commons:Questionable Flickr images/Users, and has been since it was added in special:diff/130184821 20:36, 29 July 2014 (UTC) by Trijnstel "because Flickrwashing by Hipposcrashed (talk · contribs)". — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 12:32, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

How to disable bots from editing wikipedia page

While making edits to a page of a person, the wikipedia bots (eg. EasyAsPai) delete the changes that I have made and restore an incoorect version. How do I prevent bots from making edits and restoring previous wrong versions of the page? I know the edits I make are correct as I receive the updates from the person the page is talking about. OrlandoTavs (talk) 12:02, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

@OrlandoTavs: Hi, and welcome. EasyAsPai is a real live human being who is just as concerned about your edits to article en:Tara Deshpande as I am. Please read en:WP:BLP and en:WP:COI and refer the subject to them. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 12:45, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

ارغب برفع صور للمشاركة في المسابقة

ارغب برفع صور للمشاركة في المسابقة في الفلكلور المحلي جذاذات عطر (talk) 14:19, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

@جذاذات عطر yes you can, please follow https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UploadWizard&campaign=wlf_2024 .

(google translated:

نعم يمكنك، الرجاء الضغط https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UploadWizard&campaign=wlf_2024 .) RZuo (talk) 16:36, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

biografia

mi intencion es incorporar la biografia de un escritor floridense (uruguay) como debo hacerlo Lorenzo Caetano (talk) 17:39, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

@Lorenzo Caetano: Wikimedia Commons (este sitio del Web) no aloja biografias. Quizás quieres preguntar en la Wikipedia en español. - Jmabel ! talk 19:43, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

Font issues

Uploading O su (Osu! logo).svg, I have run into issues with displaying the font correctly, it should be in Fairfax Pona HD, displaying sitelen pona text as shown here. JnpoJuwan (talk) 14:19, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

On the page you link to is a copyright notice. So this font is not free and cannot be used in a svg on commons. Also: only webfonts can be used that are available on WMF sites. Even if this font was free, it is unlikely to be included. You can however use one of the webfonts from commons, or you can use a svg editor to transform the text into vector graphics - provided that is not in conflict with the copyright of the font desginer. C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 11:47, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Error when uploading from Flickr

While trying to import this image from Flickr, which is under CC-BY 2.0, the upload wizard gave me an error of "Unfortunately, no images from this Flickr account can be uploaded on this site". Why does this happen? What's specifically different about this Flickr account? Suntooooth (talk) 03:10, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

@Suntooooth: Looks like it has the work of a lot of photographers on a single account for a theater company, so the licenses are probably not worth much. It doesn't seem likely, and is certainly not obvious, that they cleared rights appropriately, or that any licenses there were granted by the actual copyright-holders. - Jmabel ! talk 04:59, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Fair enough, I guess - thanks for the answer :] Suntooooth (talk) 05:03, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

@Suntooooth: You can see also Commons:Deletion requests/Files found with insource:huntingtontheatreco for details. The photo that interests you has a copyright notice to the photographer. You can always contact the photographer with the form on his website and check with him if the photo is really offered under the CC license as indicated by the Huntington Theatre. The photo has been there with that license for more than 11 years. Maybe the photographer was never aware of that use of his photo or maybe he agreed to offer the license. -- Asclepias (talk) 12:28, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Can someone help me create a category for "smiling women giving V-signs"?

I would like to create a new category for the smiling woman giving V-sign, based on the image content, but I got picked up by the abuse filter and prevented from doing so. Can someone help me create a category for "smiling women giving V-signs"?--125.230.89.172 06:27, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

The same problem also affects:

--125.230.89.172 06:38, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Help me for my userpage

I can't add text in userpage. When i add my data and click public it has been declined again and again. Please help me Kmnahidulislambd (talk) 17:52, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

@Kmnahidulislambd: Hi, and welcome. I am sorry to inform you that you have triggered Special:AbuseFilter/153 by trying to cross-wiki upload a png image as a new user. Such uploads of png images are not allowed at all. You indicated it's your own work. Usually when someone uploads a png image, it's a copyright violation taken from the web. Please upload the full-size original of it per COM:HR, including any metadata, but 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 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 filter 153. Also, Special:AbuseFilter/186 and another filter worked as intended. We do not host encyclopedia articles, résumés, CVs, current ads, random advice, spam, etc. here on Wikimedia Commons per COM:NOT. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 18:20, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

I am trying to upload a commentary, an article that I wrote and feel strongly about for the good of common knowledge to be shared and to insight some action by those that need to react to it and do some good.

I am trying to upload a commentary, an article that I wrote and feel strongly about for the good of common knowledge to be shared and to insight some action by those that need to react to it and do some good. Kdgashaw (talk) 19:02, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

@Kdgashaw: Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, this isn't the site for articles. We handle media here. What you want is Wikipedia. I can link you with help with whichever language Wikipedia you use. Abzeronow (talk) 19:22, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

But really that doesn't sound like Wikipedia content, either. Usually advocacy does not belong on WMF sites. - Jmabel ! talk 20:49, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Two questions

1. I made a straightened version of the poorly-named File:Museums Victoria Collections.jpg (an Australian broadcast radio listener's licence from 1952) but received the (automated) refusal on the grounds I did not have permission to overwrite the file. I was under the impression that the modified file became the new "go to" version but that the previous version/s remained available if the need for reversion arose.

2. I am going through a box of photographs I inherited from my father-in-law. Some may be useful to illustrate a Wikipedia article, such as File:Hansen residence.jpg I recently uploaded. That one was easy as it was taken before 1955, so copyright-free under Australian law, but others may be younger. How do I release such images? None would have been published elsewhere. Doug butler (talk) 22:25, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

@Doug butler: Hi. Re question 1, 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. You may also request an exception for a particular file at COM:OWR. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 22:59, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

@Doug butler: Shortening that to what's really relevant here: normally, you'd request an exception for a particular file at COM:OWR, but since we're already discussing here: I take it that you'd like to overwrite this file. If you confirm that here, I'll set it up to allow you. Just come back here when you are done so I can turn that back off.

On your second question: was your father-in-law the photographer for all of these? Are either you or your wife the heirs to his intellectual property? If so, this will be pretty simple.

BTW, in the future, if you have two unrelated questions, it's usually easier to ask them in two separate sections so the threads stay a bit cleaner. - Jmabel ! talk 23:57, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

@Jmabel: Thanks, that is what I was looking to do. I suppose I should ask for autopatrol rights, though I'm a long way from being totally competent.

As for my father-in-law's photos, I have uploaded only one. He was not a professional artist or photographer, just an enthusiastic amateur, so intellectual property was the least of his concerns. I just ended up with a box of negatives when his wife was clearing the house.

Yes, I apologise for inconvenience caused. Doug butler (talk) 01:26, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

@Doug butler: if your wife was the heir to the ~~balance~~ residue of his estate, and there was no specific provision about intellectual property rights, then she inherited those. Again, if that's the case, that makes this much simpler; let me know so I can give you the next step. - Jmabel ! talk 01:37, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

I've marked File:Museums Victoria Collections.jpg to allow overwriting. Let me know when you are done; I don't think you can remove that template yourself. - Jmabel ! talk 01:39, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

@Jmabel: Done, thank you. As for the stash of photos, when Max (my F.I.L.) died, Joan (my M.I.L) cleared the house and moved to a more convenient place, and their four daughters took whatever mementoes they fancied, and much went to the garbage tip, from which I "inherited" the box of negatives by default. I can't say I was his favorite S.I.L. (I wasn't), but clearly the only one with a sense of history. So, in short, his wife inherited his property rights and she passed them to me. Doug butler (talk) 02:13, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

@Doug butler: On the image: I don't think that is necessarily an improvement. It is less sharp. I'm going to revert that and see if I can do that better myself.

No, the image is just too low-res to rotate without a significant loss of sharpness. Maybe there's some AI-based way to do it, but not anything I use. I think that if you want a "straightened" version of that, you should upload under a different file name, because there is going to be a tradeoff, and you should only overwrite for uncontroversial improvements. - Jmabel ! talk 03:15, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

On the photos: In the absence of a will, this is a little messy. I honestly don't know whether this would be considered a solid basis for her to claim to be heir to the relevant copyrights or not. I presume this is Australia we are talking about. Sadly, that 50-year thing is not so simple for Commons, because anything that was still copyrighted in 1996 had its U.S. copyright extended at that time to 95 years from creation, and Commons follows U.S. copyright because that is legally where we publish, plus we voluntarily follow the laws of the country of origin. So we really need a free license for these.

With the proviso that they may say that they actually need to hear from all the heirs, not just one: the most straightforward thing to do would be for your wife to send an email to the address given at COM:VRT, agreeing to license her father's photos under a specific free license (I suggest {{CC-BY-SA-4.0}} or {{CC-BY-4.0}}) and authorizing you to upload on her behalf, specifying this account name as who will be uploading. Then, when you upload, you would attribute her father as author, and indicate the license as {{Cc-by-sa-4.0-heirs}} or {{Cc-by-4.0-heirs}}. - Jmabel ! talk 03:01, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

Another possibility might be to obtain from Joan a writing confirming that she inherited from Max and that she transferred to you the negatives and their copyrights. Then you send a copy of that writing to VRT. Of course, that works if Joan is living and has not changed her mind about it. If Joan is not living, the fact that her gift to you was not confirmed in writing might be a problem about the copyrights. In that case, if your wife inherited from Joan, then the solution above by Jmabel can work. -- Asclepias (talk) 04:13, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

(Mustafa)Nazım Paşa

Harbiye Nazırlığı,İmalat-ı Harbiye Umum Müdürlüğü,Divan-ı Harbi Örfi Reisliği görevlerinde bulunan (Mustafa)Nazım Paşa hakkında bilgi sunmak istiyorum. (Mustafa)Nazım Paşa akrabamdır. Bu sayede ,özellikle İmalat-Harbiye Müdürlerinin kimler olduğu (bu konuda Vikipedi de konu başlığı var.Ancak söz edlen yani 1909da müdürlük yapan Nazım Paşa sözü geçen değil (Mustafa) Nazım Paşa olmalı) konusuna ve Divan-ı Harbi Örfi Reisleri konusuna bir açıklık geleceği inancındayım. Çünkü o yıllarda soyadı olmadığı için bazı karıştırmalar olabiliyor. Ben amatör bir kitap yazarı olarak, ailemle ilgili sözel tarih bilgilerimi teyid etmek için araştırma yaptım ve bu fikre ulaştım. Bu konunun açıklığa kavuşmasının önemine inandım. Onun için Vikipedi ‘ye başvurdum. İlerlemek için ne yapmam gerektiğini iletmenizi rica ederim. Sema Tatar (talk) 10:12, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

@Sema Tatar Wikimedia Commons'ta ortam dosyaları (medyalar) bulunur ve resme gömülü olması zorunlu olanlar haricinde metin içerikleri bulunmaz. Burası Vikipedi'nin bir parçası değildir, burayı sadece medyalar için kullanabilirsiniz. Medyaların da adil kullanım olmadığından emin olun (adil kullanımlar ilgili vikiye yüklenmelidir). RuzDD (talk) 15:21, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

Ayrıca, Vikipedi'nin kapsamında ama yine de söyleyim: akrabanızsa bu Vikipedi'de çıkar çatışması olarak görülür ve bu konuda katkı sunmaya çalışmanız tavsiye edilmez. Yine de yapmak istiyorsanız bu durumunuzu her seferinde açıkça belirtmeniz gerekir. RuzDD (talk) 15:23, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

Autotranslate Lua module fails on template's copy

Moved to Commons:Translators' noticeboard. --Yug (talk) 17:24, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

Image stored at Wikipedia, not Wikimedia Commons

Hi, I have come across a photo that is stored at Wikipedia, not Wikimedia Commons: en:File:Sir John Rose.jpg Should it be moved to Wikimedia Commons? I don't have any idea how to do that. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 04:11, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

Hi, Near the top of the Wikipedia page, you can click the link "Export to Wikimedia Commons". -- Asclepias (talk) 04:17, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

@Mr Serjeant Buzfuz: , I have imported it to Commons, and am currently doing minor file maintenance on it like adding categories. Abzeronow (talk) 17:35, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks to both of you. Appreciated. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 17:44, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

Mangyaring ako poy gabayan nyo at nawawala na ako sa focus ng aking hinahanap dahil sa mga pahina o page na dumadag

Nalilito na ako Ernestojrr17 (talk) 11:04, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

Masyado palang teknikal Ang pag-edit ng bawat pahina sa Wikipedia, pero ganunpaman ay may natutunan ako kahit smartphone lng Ang aking gamitin . Salamat Wikipedia hindi Aalisin bilang mahalagang Apps sa aking device... Ernestojrr17 (talk) 11:09, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

Please guide me and I'm losing the focus of what I'm looking for because of the pages or pages that keep coming

I'm confused

Editing each page on Wikipedia is too technical, but I learned something even though I only use a smartphone. Thanks Wikipedia will not Remove as important Apps from my device...

translator: Google Translate via — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 13:56, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

@Ernestojrr17: Kumusta, at maligayang pagdating. Sumulat ka sa Wikimedia Commons, isang kasamang site na nagbibigay ng mga libreng larawan at iba pang media sa Wikipedia at iba pang mga proyekto. Nakalulungkot, hindi pa ako nakakahanap ng isang ganap na gumaganang solusyon sa dark mode para sa pag-edit dito. Anong mobile browser at OS ang ginagamit mo para sa pag-edit sa light mode? Karaniwang ginagamit ko ang Chrome sa Windows, at nakita kong kulang ang extension na ito (binago nito ang bawat tab sa bawat window sabay-sabay, negatibong nakakaapekto sa pagganap). Maaari akong bumalik dito kung mayroon akong isa pang pagkamatay sa computer, bagong computer, o "nakalimutan ng browser ang lahat" na insidente. Para lamang sa pag-browse sa Chrome sa Android, pumunta ako sa Mga Setting / Tema at pinili ang "Madilim" na radio button, ngunit wala itong magagawa para sa akin. Talagang iginagalang ng Samsung Internet Browser ang radio button ng Mga Setting / Display / "Madilim" ng aking Android. Kung patuloy kang makaranas ng pag-aalis ng mahahalagang app mula sa iyong device, mangyaring humingi ng tulong para sa device na iyon, dahil maaaring nahawaan ito.

Hi, and welcome. You wrote on Wikimedia Commons, a companion site whigh provides free images and other media to Wikipedia and other projects. Sadly, I have yet to find a fully-functional dark mode solution for editing here. What mobile browser and OS do you use for editing in light mode? I usually use Chrome on Windows, and I found this extension lacking (it changed every tab in every window at once, negatively impacting performance). I may go back to it if I have another computer death, new computer, or "browser forgot everything" incident. For just browsing in Chrome on Android, I have gone into Settings / Theme and selected the "Dark" radio button, but that doesn't do anything for me. Samsung Internet Browser actually respects my Android's Settings / Display / "Dark" radio button. If you continue to experience removal of important apps from your device, please get help for that device, as it may be infected. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 13:56, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

Correction

Bonjour, j'ai voulu corriger mon PROPRE Wikipedia (Julien Sibre) je l'ai fait et quelques minutes plus tard, quelqu'un (ou un logiciel, je ne sais pas) l'a annulé et est revenu à la version précédente qui ne me convient pas et qui est incomplète. Comment puis-je faire pour que MA version de MOI-MÊME soit respectée ? Merci. Julien Sibre (talk) 12:27, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

Hello, I wanted to correct my OWN Wikipedia (Julien Sibre) I did it and a few minutes later, someone (or software, I don't know) canceled it and reverted to the previous version which does not suit me and is incomplete. How can I ensure that MY version of MYSELF is respected? THANKS.

translator: Google Translate via — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 13:14, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

@Julien Sibre: Bonjour et bienvenue. Dans fr:special:diff/212288138, vous avez supprimé 13 937 octets nets (principalement d'anciens crédits) de l'article Wikipédia français vous concernant fr:Julien Sibre dans un acte qui Kingofdubb appelé "vandalisme puéril", ou en anglais "childish vandalism". Cet article n’est pas à vous de modeler à volonté votre version de vous-même ; il est censé être neutre. Voir fr:WP:NPOV et fr:WP:COI pour des conseils sur la manière d'agir sur Wikipédia.

Hi, and welcome. In fr:special:diff/212288138, you removed 13,937 bytes net (mostly old credits) from the French Wikipedia article about you fr:Julien Sibre in an act which Kingofdubb called "vandalisme puéril", or in English "childish vandalism". That article is not for you to mold at will to your version of yourself; it is meant to be neutral. See en:WP:NPOV and en:WP:COI for pointers on how to act on Wikipedia. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 13:14, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

@Julien Sibre: Bonjour, Vous êtes ici sur le site de Commons, qui est une bibliothèque d'images. Votre question concerne plutôt le site de Wikipédia. Pour toute question ou discussion plus approfondie à ce sujet, vous pouvez utiliser des pages de Wikipédia comme notamment fr:Wikipédia:Forum des nouveaux et la page de discussion de l'article fr:Discussion:Julien Sibre. -- Asclepias (talk) 16:07, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

Vitamin C FA review

I have nominated English Wikipedia Vitamin C for a Featured article review. The first reviewer left several comments about images in the article. Two I am puzzled about are listed below. I have asked the editor what is meant by "needs a US tag", but also asking here about both. Thank you. David notMD (talk) 14:38, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

Some images are missing alt text
File:James_Lind_by_Chalmers.jpg needs a US tag

David notMD (talk) 14:38, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

@David notMD: Hello,

For an explanation about alt text, please see en:Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility/Alternative text for images.

For an explanation about US tag, please see Commons:Copyright tags/General public domain#Non-U.S. works.

-- Asclepias (talk) 15:35, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

@David not MD: , I've added the US tag to the file. For alt text, see the link Asclepias provided. Abzeronow (talk) 17:29, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

Thank you. I have addressed alt text David notMD (talk) 20:49, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

Document with multiple pages

I want to upload a three-page document (or part of document collection). The source is JPEG images.

What should I do?

upload 3 different images (how to link them together?)
compile them in one PDF (it will have nice paging on Commons page)
use some template (that I couldn't find) for multiple files paging
create a gallery or category

Nyuhn (talk) 06:06, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

#1, #2, & #4 are all fine. If you do #1, there isn't exactly a template for this, but there are several acceptable ways to do it. See File:Parkour 01-1.jpg for a good example. - Jmabel ! talk 20:07, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

PDF is probably best if they are mainly a text, series of JPEGs tied together one way or another if they are mainly visual. - Jmabel ! talk 20:08, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

I eventually discovered a template {{BookNaviBar}} and an example of using it for a book - {{De Kafka Hungerkünstler}}. It might be outdated.

The reason I ask is that I've seen many text documents uploaded as JPEG series on Commons.

In my case, I followed the example of Parkour 01-1.jpg. Nyuhn (talk) 08:09, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

How can I upload a new version?

I want to change this painting's current version with this. But it keeps saying "Copy uploads are not available from this domain." What does this mean? Amir Ghandi (talk) 04:22, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

@Amir Ghandi:

You should not be uploading that as an overwrite. You should upload it to a distinct file name and link the two files with {{Other version}}.
There are very few domains from which the Upload Wizard and other tools can upload directly. Typically, you have to download a file to your own system, then upload it to Commons.

Jmabel ! talk 07:28, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

thanks! Amir Ghandi (talk) 10:29, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

Moving files

the file Toki Pona Luka - luka tawa (alt).png has not been moved in days, asking for a friend to move it. sorry if this is not the correct way to ask. JnpoJuwan (talk) 12:30, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

@JnpoJuwan: I've done it. I expect it would have been faster if you'd chosen "criterion 1" (request by original uploader), because that doesn't need so much thought on the part of the filemover. --bjh21 (talk) 13:37, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

ahhh thank you, I'll remember that for the future! :) JnpoJuwan (talk) 17:41, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

Copyrighted picture?

There is a picture of Bob Crosby with his family, two online newspapers have put it in their documents. They did not provide credit because it seems that the author is unknown. The picture is somewhere between 1938 and 1950. It was not originally put in any book or newspaper; it seems like it has come from a family photobook. Is it copyrighted? Can I put it in the wiki? [1]https://greatentertainersarchives.blogspot.com/2016/03/story-behind-photo-bob-crosby.html AlekosK04 (talk) 17:51, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

@AlekosK04: see COM:HIRTLE. An anonymous photo of that age that was unpublished as of 1989 will be protected for 120 years from creation, in this case until 2059–2071. Had it been published with a copyright notice within 25 years of creation, the term would have been 95 years from that publication. To be PD now, it would need to have been published before 1989 and without a notice or registration.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 19:44, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

If it was published in 1963 or earlier, it is in the public domain unless it had a notice and copyright was renewed.

Also, this looks like a publicity photo, not a photo from a family scrapbook. If distributed to the press without a notice (or with a notice but without renewal in 1963 or earlier), it's PD as well. D. Benjamin Miller (talk) 22:02, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

Drawing of Richard Alsager

(section title added—Odysseus1479 (talk) 00:40, 11 February 2024 (UTC))

I'm making some changes to the article on 'Richard Alsager', and I've came across a drawn portrait of him on an auction site.

To my knowledge, it's legal to use an art work 70 years after the artist's death. According to this site, the image approximately comes from the year 1835.

I'm curious as to whether this still can be used due to the picture of the portrait being recent.

https://theonlineportraitgallery.com/portrait/richard-alsager/ LBVGG (talk) 23:05, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

Photographic copies of public domain 2D images do not have a new copyright. The image is in the public domain and can be uploaded. D. Benjamin Miller (talk) 23:21, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

Copyrights question for photographs I took of paintings, sculptures, etc

Can I upload photographs I took myself of

-paintings (in a museum)

-sculptures, statues, buildings, artwork (for example an old church, old sculptures)

I am assuming if the photographed object was created prior to ca. 1920, it should be okay? Is this assumption correct?

Or if the object is located in a non-US country, is the rule older than ca. 1920 not applicable? Riantennis (talk) 23:09, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

It is more complicated than just this, but the short answer is that yes, you can upload photos you took of objects created before 1920 in 99% of cases. D. Benjamin Miller (talk) 00:18, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

I mostly agree with Benjamin, with the caveat that if the artist died less than 70 years ago, that's a problem in many countries. Many people creating works in 1920 were still alive in 1954. Also, in the U.S., the key date at the moment is January 1, 1929. Anything published before that should be fine. Unpublished work is trickier, and might carry you clear back to 1904 as an issue. 19th century is usually very safe. And this is still keeping it at "rule of thumb" level. - Jmabel ! talk 01:11, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

Please help me create an account.

I cannot write the text to create an account because no text is seen. Help me. 69.124.117.18 20:24, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

That doesn't make a lot of sense. What sort of device are you on (PC, phone, etc.)? - Jmabel ! talk 22:06, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

Hi, and welcome. It seems that you are trying to create an account; you may request that an account be created for you. Such an account may be used on all WMF projects, including this one. See also Special:Captcha and en:Special:Captcha. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 13:58, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

¿Por qué se dice que es "información dañina".

Es un artículo sobre el periodista Pablo Torres, actualmente jubilado. No hay spam. No entiendo qué quieren decirme... Tadeus Kunzt (talk) 09:19, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

¿Donde? Este sitio (Wikimedia Commons) no hay articulos acerca de personas. ¿Quiz´s era otro sitio de WMF? - Jmabel ! talk 17:26, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

Why is it said to be "harmful information."

It is an article about the journalist Pablo Torres, currently retired. There is no spam. I don't understand what they want to tell me...

translator: Google Translate via — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 13:37, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

@Tadeus Kunzt: Hola y bienvenido. Lamento informarle que ha activado Special:AbuseFilter/281 al intentar cargar uno o más archivos pdf como nuevo usuario. Este tipo de cargas de archivos pdf no están permitidas en absoluto. Lo siguiente se aplica a cada archivo: Generalmente, cuando alguien sube un archivo pdf como nuevo usuario, es una violación de derechos de autor tomado de la web o fuera de alcance. ¿Qué hay en el archivo? Si usted no fue el diseñador o fotógrafo del archivo original, es posible que esa persona o esas personas deban obtener la licencia en su sitio web oficial o redes sociales, o enviarle el archivo y el permiso a través de VRT/es con una copia al carbón. Si no puede obtener una licencia compatible, el archivo aún se puede cargar en Wikipedia en inglés de conformidad con en:WP:F (pero no en Wikipedia en español según es:Wikipedia:Uso legítimo) porque no permitimos el uso legítimo aquí.

Hi, and welcome. I am sorry to inform you that you have triggered Special:AbuseFilter/281 by trying to upload one or more pdf files as a new user. Such uploads of pdf files are not allowed at all. The following applies for each file: Usually when someone uploads a pdf file as a new user, it's a copyright violation taken from the web or out of scope. What is in the file? If you were not the original file designer or photographer, that person or those people may need to license it on their official website or social media, or send the file and permission via VRT with a carbon copy to you. If you can't get a compliant license, the file may still be uploaded to English Wikipedia in compliance with en:WP:F (but not to Spanish Wikipedia per es:Wikipedia:Uso legítimo) because we don't allow Fair Use here. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 13:37, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

Jeff, is there somewhere in there he would have had any notice referring to "información dañina"? - Jmabel ! talk 20:51, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

@Jmabel: That filter disallows edits with our standard Mediawiki:abusefilter-disallowed message. Mediawiki standard MediaWiki:Abusefilter-disallowed/es starts "Esta acción ha sido identificada automáticamente como dañina", which Google Translated is "This action has been automatically identified as harmful". That seems harsher than the English version's "potentially unconstructive" from special:diff/27494848. We don't have a local version of MediaWiki:Abusefilter-disallowed/es, perhaps you'd like to write one. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 23:03, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

Yes, that is awfully harsh. Rather than try to deal just with our local version, I'll see what I can do about the global one. - Jmabel ! talk 23:30, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

I took the liberty of simply editing it on meta. Since I'm one of the people who routinely does English-Spanish translations for interfaces (usually through translatewiki), this should probably be OK. We'll see if it sticks. - Jmabel ! talk 23:38, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

@Jeff G.: I probably should know this, and I think at one time I did, but I can't recall: where exactly are you finding the logs about cross-wiki uploads? - Jmabel ! talk 23:38, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

@Jmabel: The last 500 logged by the abuse filter for hitting the conditions of Special:AbuseFilter/153 are in this log. Any individual's filter 153 hits can be found by clicking "filter log" on their contributions page. Any file description page's filter 153 hits can be found by clicking "view abuse log" on the history page (even if you have to construct one with action=history from a nonexistent filename). You may also click "Search the abuse log" on Special:AbuseLog. The defining feature is '"Cross-wiki upload from" in summary | "Uploaded while editing" in summary' per line 2 of the conditions for that filter. I generally find the hits from "filter log" and "abuse log" links in reports containing uses of {{User8}} and {{Pagemulti}} (and older uses of {{Page}}, which Krinkle and I specially crafted for that purpose) on COM:FILTERT. I also check the logs of puzzling users who post to this Help desk, the Village pump, noticeboards, etc. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 00:26, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

How to do a mass DR

How do you do a mass DR? I have had to nominate quite a few images for deletion today because we had put them on Flickr Commons but have found a large number were not in public domain and have had to remove them from Flickr Commons and are trying to also now remove them from Wikimedia. These were images with unknown photographers, but they did not pre-date 1949. Thank you. Marygk86 (talk) 23:39, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

At this point I believe I've worked through the immediate issue with Marygk86 on her user talk page; for the future: Commons:Deletion requests/Mass deletion request should be pretty self-explanatory, but if it is not, then feel free to ask further questions. - Jmabel ! talk 01:07, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

@Marygk86: Hi, and welcome. As linked on that page, VisualFileChange AKA VFC can be used for semiautomatic tagging and other operations for 1 or more files. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 13:00, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

Thank you Jeff G. I am a new user and I am finding this all very challenging, but it's a good learning experience. Marygk86 (talk) 15:25, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

Want to add an image to an article, is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0, how to proceed?

Hello,

I would like to add an image to the Insignia (Xbox) article. Image here: [4]

According to the https://insignia.live/connect page it says "All screenshots and text (including the alt-text, and FAQ section) in this guide are licenced under CC BY-SA 4.0. Please give credit to "Insignia Team", and optionally link to this page." The above image is the last one on the page.

It has been a long time since I added any images to an article, especially one here at Commons. Can you please give me some guidance on how to go through the Upload Wizard with the license mentioned? I don't see the license as a choice (or I'm not looking hard enough.)

Thanks,

Urbanracer34 (talk) 18:09, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

Please note that part of this post was originally from English Wikipedia's Help Desk, where I asked it first. Urbanracer34 (talk) 18:57, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

@Urbanracer34: CC BY-SA 4.0 is actually our most common license on Commons, but I'm not familiar enough with the decision tree of the Upload Wizard to tell you exactly how best to go through it. I would suggest that you just do your best, then expect to edit anything that doesn't immediately come out right. You will definitely want to indicate https://insignia.live/connect as the source. The page is undated, so all you really can say about the date is the date you retrieved it (and you should probably make a remark to that effect). Feel free to circle back here once you've taken a shot at it, and I (or someone else) can review & fix anything you got wrong. - Jmabel ! talk 21:02, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
@Jmabel Thanks for the advice. I think I did it right. Can you please double check? File:InsigniaMOTDPage.png Thanks! Urbanracer34 (talk) 21:43, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
@Urbanracer34: I added a bit more on date & permission; you should probably have a look to see what I did for future reference.

Also, it looks like someone has nominated this claiming it is a copyvio (of Microsoft's copyright, by Insignia). You will almost certainly want to participate in the relevant discussion. - Jmabel ! talk 23:54, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

Hello, Arabic Wikipedia support team. I want to publish an article on your site, but it is being deleted. Why?

Hello, Arabic Wikipedia support team. I want to publish an article on your site, but it is being deleted. Why? Ahmedabdelazez381982 (talk) 21:33, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

@Ahmedabdelazez381982: Hi, and welcome to Wikimedia Commons. You may reach the Arabic Wikipedia support team at this link. You tried to hijack ar:أحمد_عبد_العزيز_عمران. You added unnecessary bolding to ar:أحمد عبد العزيز (توضيح). You have a whole litany of transgressions logged here. Please stop the abuse. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 23:20, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

Pages that you might want to delete

I don't know the policy on deleting images of no value. These images were posted by one of my students. I see no reason to keep it on commons, but since they are not mine, I don't know whether I should request a speedy delete.--Guy vandegrift (talk) 02:35, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
[GALLERY OF DELETED IMAGES NOW REMOVED]

Guy vandegrift (talk) 02:35, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

Done Yann (talk) 16:15, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

Did I do a merge request correctly?

As far as I'm aware these two templates are the exact same function and so should be merged. I think I may have done the merge request incorrectly though. PARAKANYAA (talk) 10:14, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

Looks like you did it fine. - Jmabel ! talk 01:11, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

Can I upload a YouTube video having a watermark but it is under Creative Commons license

This Kadodi Collection at Mutoto Dance Off video is under Creative Commons attribution license. But the video itself has a watermark in it that is "Bugisu Nation Music". If I upload this video, will it be deleted.

Uploaded Works such as Cedar Basket Weaving with Brenda Crabtree - Urban Access Project.webm do not have logos/watermarks so i got a bit confused. BalukuBrian (talk) 03:39, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

@BalukuBrian: Probably not. I checked the "Bugisu Nation Music" channel and found that the top video there is licensed CC-BY 3.0. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 13:14, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for your feedback@Jeff G. BalukuBrian (talk) 13:05, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

@BalukuBrian: You're welcome. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 18:59, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

I have uploaded pictures of my film. how can they be available to anyone accessing my page?

ilm. Susheel Bajomal Gajwani Filmmaker (talk) 15:11, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

Like I said on your talk page, for commercial works like films and posters, a confirmation of the license is needed via COM:VRT. Be aware that the permission should allow any use for anyone for any purpose, including commercial one, i.e. anyone could sell your film without asking or paying you. Thanks, Yann (talk) 16:13, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

@Yann: nothing here grants rights to the film itself, just these stills. - Jmabel ! talk 01:17, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

@Susheel Bajomal Gajwani Filmmaker: you definitely need to do one of two things if you don't want these deleted. Either you can go through the COM:VRT process, as Yann suggests, or you can place these images on a website that is clearly officially connected with the film and indicate the CC-BY 4.0 license there, then edit the respective file mates on Commons to reference that as "source". I know this is inconvenient, but otherwise, you could be any person in the world claiming to be the filmmaker. - Jmabel ! talk 01:17, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

got it, thanks. Susheel Bajomal Gajwani Filmmaker (talk) 04:41, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

Categories and diffusing

I'm not 100% sure if commons categories work differently than on Wikipedia, so sorry if I'm working off a wrong assumption, but "Category:Mug shots of people of the United States" is marked as needing to be diffused, however, several of the subcategories such as Category:Mug shots by California‎ and Category:Mug shots by New York‎, seem to me to not have 100% overlap? A mugshot can be taken by a state but not be of a citizen from it, so it would fit under one but not the other. Maybe I am overthinking this. What is the best way to diffuse this? PARAKANYAA (talk) 07:16, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

@PARAKANYAA: I think that the mug shots by state categories should not be under mug shots of people of the United States, because a state could take a mug shot of someone who's a citizen of another country. I have recategorized it. -- Auntof6 (talk) 07:48, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

@Auntof6 What's the best way to diffuse this then? By decade? PARAKANYAA (talk) 07:49, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

@PARAKANYAA: Good question. You could diffuse by:

Decade, if you can identify the decade, but the decade probably isn't indicated for a lot of them (the date indicated in a lot of files is the date of upload, not the date the photo was taken)
Gender, but the vast majority seem to be for men, so you wouldn't get much reduction
Name, in the few cases where there are multiple mug shots of the same person

Maybe black-and-white mug shots would help, but you'd probably end up with a category that still had a lot in it.

That's all I can think of for now. Maybe someone else will have some ideas. -- Auntof6 (talk) 08:11, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

Thank you :) General decade isn't actually too hard to figure out if you know the case - usually PARAKANYAA (talk) 08:13, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

Please guide me how to upload my biography in Wikipedia

I have some issues with the uploading of biography file Vijaykutala (talk) 09:09, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

@Vijaykutala: You might want to ask on Wikipedia. This is Wikimedia Commons, a site for storing media files. -- Auntof6 (talk) 09:31, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

@Vijaykutala Not at all. While it is not forbidden to write your own biography on Wikipedia, it is strongly discouraged and can only be done successfully by people with a deep understanding of Wikipedia: If you need to ask this question, you don't have this deep understanding. Just wait, some one will write your biography (if you are notable by the notability criteria of wikipedia). But in the meantime you can edit wikipedia and learn how to edit wikipedia and gain the understanding needed to also write about people like yourself. And you can upload fotos here at commons. C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 10:38, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

@Vijaykutala: do read en:Wikipedia:Autobiography. - Jmabel ! talk 20:29, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

PD

Is there a PD tag for UK? 20 upper 10:21, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

@20 upper: Please see COM:UK#Copyright tags. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 15:08, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

@20 upper: For many or probably most ordinary cases, the tag is the general tag PD-old-70 or PD-old-auto (or, depending on the case, another tag of the PD-old type such as those listed in the page PD-old/doc). Tags such as PD-old-70, PD-old-auto, etc., are usable for many countries that have similar copyright rules, including the UK, so for such ordinary cases there is not a duplicate template for each country. (There may be some subtleties about the use of those tags on UK works in particular cases, see Commons:Copyright rules by territory/United Kingdom#Ordinary copyright.) There are specific UK templates only for special cases, such as Crown copyright works or works by unknow authors, see Commons:Copyright rules by territory/United Kingdom#Copyright tags. -- Asclepias (talk) 16:27, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

Is this sufficient approval for a US Gov't image?

The Ellis Island Foundation (https:/www.www.statueofliberty.org) is part of the Nat'l Park Service. The US Gov't usually does not copyright their materials. The Foundation has a photograph of a Russian Volunteer Force (RVF) vessel that I would like to add to the RVF article. I was able to receive the following statement from the Foundation: "Hello again, The images of the passenger lists are not subject to copyright as they are documents produced by the US government for the purposes of immigration. Best, Donor Relations" Needless to say when dealing with the Federal Government it is virtually impossible to get the exact name of the person who inquiries should be referred to. Is the enough sufficient to allow the photo to be posted on Wikimedia? Thanks.Oldsilenus (talk) 14:59, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

@Oldsilenus: Is it about a photo of a boat or a photo of a list? If you asked them about a photo of a boat and they replied about a list of names, then no, their absence of reply about the photo is not sufficient approval. But that doesn't mean that the photo can't be in the public domain for some applicable reason, for example if there is evidence that it was taken by an employee of the federal government or that it was first published before 1929, etc. You're not telling much about it, so it's difficult to give a precise answer. -- Asclepias (talk) 15:26, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

The Nat'l Park Service Published the Photo as part of a passenger list. The exact date of the photo is not given., but the ship itself was scrapped long before 1929. The Park Service does not specify who actually took the photo. The Park Service was selling copies, but no longer does so. I am aware of your problem in answering this, but this is all the information that is available. Oldsilenus (talk) 21:17, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

Is the photo anywhere online where someone can get a better sense of what you are talking about? - Jmabel ! talk 23:36, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

Видалення фотографій із статті Небор Андрій Ігорович

Добрий день. Я створила статтю про військового "Небор Андрій Ігорович", а хтось вилучив з неї усі фотографії. Дозвіл на публікацію фото мені надала дружина військового Людмила Небор. Чому видалали фотографії? Людмила Нестерук (talk) 22:04, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

@Людмила Нестерук: I'm guessing this is about uk:Небор Андрій Ігорович (please link to what you are talking about) and possibly about deleted files File:Портрет на Алеї слави.jpg, File:Сім'я Неборів 01.jpg, File:Пам'ятник Андрію Небору.jpg, and File:Фото Андрія Небора.jpg. It looks like none of these indicated either a PD tag or a license, and any file on Commons needs one or the other to explain why it is either in the public domain or free-licensed. You were notified of the problem with each of these files on your user talk page and did not respond, nor in any way remedy the matter, so they were deleted. The files look like probable copyright violations, in any case: you can't just take someone else's photo, or a photo of someone else's photo, and publish it, so I doubt this can be remedied unless you actually can get a license from the person who took the pictures of Igorovich. - Jmabel ! talk 23:49, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

I am losing my mind with these SVG templates. Someone please help.

Rant: As someone who has been editing here for 20 years and who makes SVG by hand, I am up the wall with templates like {{Valid SVG}}. Silly me, but I think that inserting {{Valid SVG}} on a file would mark it as having valid SVG. Instead, it says invalid SVG. ...what? And so I figured surely the documentation will tell me that I just have to insert something like {{Valid SVG|valid=yes}} or {{Valid SVG|1=on}} or something else intelligible or otherwise intuitive. Nope. Which parameter makes it say "valid"? If you thought that adding 1=o would make it turn to "valid", you would be like me and you would be wrong. If you thought the usage documentation would help, you would be wrong. If you were also like me and thought you could just find some transclusion of the template and reverse engineer it, then good luck. It seems like virtually all instances of this template are just transclusions from {{Igen}} which is by far the most arcane template I have ever seen. It seems like there's some kind of embargo on using letters, so you end up with weirdly truncated and unintelligible instances like {{Igen|I|+|%r|s=d}} or {{Igen|A|+|\+|s=l}} or {{Igen|T|+|°|s=oc}}. Most confusing of all: if you insert {{Igen}} you get a tag saying that the code is valid! And it just assumes that you used Inkscape for some reason?!?!

Take-away: Is there some rational reason why inserting {{Valid SVG}} doesn't just say "this is valid SVG", which is what anyone on the face of the Earth would naturally assume instead of saying the exact opposite and making someone use a completely different template to say what this template's name literally is??? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:15, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Pinging @Sarang as mentioned on Template:Image generation/doc. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 05:50, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Pinging a deceased user will probably not be successful. -- Asclepias (talk) 05:54, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

@Asclepias: Sorry. RIP, Sarang. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 05:58, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Looking at the last edit of the template, the default display was changed when the template was deprecated in March 2023 and the old default display can be obtained by adding the parameter |c=y. But I guess the deprecation means that the template is not supposed to be used. -- Asclepias (talk) 05:54, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

c=y??? Why?! I go to the page and Ctrl+F and can't find "c=y" anywhere. Yeesh. It's just super-occult for seemingly no reason. :/ —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:58, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Maybe for "checked=yes"? If the template is deprecated, there was probably no point to make too obvious how to bypass the new default. -- Asclepias (talk) 06:12, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

I guess. Is there some law that templates cannot have more than seven characters or something? Why are these so obscure and bizarre? Does any other template work like this one? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:50, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Как изменить фото?

Приветствую вас! Пожалуйста, научите менять фото. Например, у певца Falco. Ольга Ефа (talk) 08:50, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Within Commons (the site on which you are asking this), normally once a photo is uploaded, there is no reason to change it.

Or are you talking about changing the photo used in an article on some other site? That will vary depending on how the photo got into the article. Typically, it's just a matter of editing (substituting the name of one file for another in the wikitext), but (for example) if it's in an Infobox, it may be drawing from Wikidata. In theory, you can change the photo for an item on Wikidata, though usually this is not a good idea, because it can affect dozens of articles and pages, not just the one you mean to affect.

If you can ask a more specific question, and indicate the page and image you are talking about, someone can give you a more specific answer. - Jmabel ! talk 22:31, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Unsure if I'm allowed to upload an image

I wish to upload some photos I took at a museum the other day. The artist's Wikipedia page is looking rather barren and I just want to make sure that it doesn't break any copyright laws. Alostvagabond (talk) 04:00, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

Sorry. In addition to your copyright as a photographer, there is also Derivative work copyright by the living artist. So unless we get specific permission from the artist, the photos can't be free licensed for Commmons. Thank you for asking. -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 04:16, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

Resolved

I think that this question was replied to adequately based on the supplied information. If you have anything to add or a follow-up question please feel free to replace this box with your comment. This section will be archived after two days. Alostvagabond (talk) 04:25, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

European Council

Are European council photos from here free to use? If so, what should I tag them I don't fully understand their copyright policy. Some photographs have also been uploaded in the European Commission and are free to use with Attribution. Prodrummer619 (talk) 10:34, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

@Prodrummer619: Hi, and welcome. Please see ongoing Commons:Deletion requests/Files found with newsroom.consilium.europa.eu. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 13:19, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

I'll take that as a yes. Thank you. Prodrummer619 (talk) 13:42, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

@Prodrummer619: You're welcome. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 14:00, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

@Prodrummer619: That DR was closed and the files were deleted because the permission is not free enough for us. Please do not upload new files from there. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 02:08, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

Corn Palace

Can someone explain why File:Corn Palace (3518465979).jpg is on Commons, but en:File:CornPalace.jpg is fair use? Kk.urban (talk) 20:05, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Where do you see fair use? That image is on enwiki only because the GNU license is no longer accepted on Commons. Ruslik (talk) 20:17, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Because it meets these three criteria: Commons:Licensing#GNU_Free_Documentation_License —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:19, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

@Koavf@Ruslik0 Ok, so it's because the user who uploaded the second one to enwiki specifically licensed it that way, instead of using the default license? Kk.urban (talk) 05:46, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

I would say exactly that except the "standard license" part, yes. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:47, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Definition of "Fake SVG"

Hello. I saw the definition of fake SVG is something like "a SVG that does not contain any vector image and only contains one or more images", but that's confused me. I agree that a SVG is fake if it only contains a raster, but i think SVG's those containing more than one raster images must be considered as "SVG's with rasters" and not "Fake SVG's" because making a SVG with no vector image and more than one raster image can give the same quality with smaller file size. For example, if one part of the image can be compressed with a very low quality setting without decrasing visual quality but another part needs to be uncompressed but these images must be look side by side, making two images and then putting them on a SVG can give the same quality with a smaller filesize. I know i must go the to village pump if i want to propose something, but i'm currently only trying to understand the reason. RuzDD (talk) 12:19, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

I am not one of the most active SVG editors here, so I may be corrected by someone else, but from my perspective, a "fake SVG" is when someone just inserts a raster image into the SVG document and doesn't even bother vectorizing which elements could in principle be vectorized. There certainly are legitimate reasons to embed raster graphics in a vector image, but there are not good reasons to slap a PNG wholesale into an SVG file, add nothing, and call it a day. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 12:26, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

@Justin I agree that, but i mean Template:Fake SVG says they will be fake SVG if the user combines more than one raster in a SVG; and while putting only one image to a SVG is unnecessary without a specific reason, putting more than one images to a SVG can create the same quality with smaller filesize and that's a good thing. RuzDD (talk) 13:15, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

For example, this image can be too smaller for the same quality if it's uploaded in SVG with two images. RuzDD (talk) 13:54, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

@RuzDD File:Gammarayburst-GRB990123.webp is 351 KB. Do you think you can create a smaller SVG? C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 17:47, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Ratio of the right side is approximately 1:5. If i just downgrade the right part, it will be 210KB (it can be very much smaller for some files). Base64'ing multiplies the size with 1.33 so it will be 280KB. I agree this image is not a very good example but assume this image has 10 sub-images these are showing smaller and smaller parts (most of these images are made for size comparison). With this way, an image like this can be at 465KB instead of 1755KB. And, if i make the image "stepping", it can be 233KB instead of 1755KB. That's just for 1:2 ratio, so this efficiency can be huge for some files. Also, this way allows users to put different file formats together. For example, i can put different file formats or different qualities side by side to show the differences and this way i also can scale the images (for example File:Felis_silvestris_silvestris_small_gradual_decrease_of_quality.png, File:Visual_impact_of_a_jpeg_compression_on_Photoshop.jpg, and File:Comparison_of_JPEG_and_PNG.png). If i make this with only one big lossless image, filesize will be much higher. This can be another usage of this technique to give the same quality with too smaller filesize (and users can verify these formats are really these formats). RuzDD (talk) 18:25, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

@RuzDD: Again, as you've been told many times, extreme minimization of file sizes is not particularly a goal here. We'd much rather have "clean" files than tiny ones. - Jmabel ! talk 19:15, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Minimizing the filesize is not the only advantage but anyway, seems like there's no need to verify images like File:Visual_impact_of_a_jpeg_compression_on_Photoshop.jpg. RuzDD (talk) 20:54, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Updating Wikipedia page

Hi! I am a moderator at Musixmatch and wanted to update the logo on the Wikipedia page, but I did not create the logo. Am I still free to do so? Thanks! 2b-bear (talk) 13:34, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

If the logo is either uncopyrightable (because it's too simple) or free-licensed, then yes. Otherwise, no.

Assuming we are talking about File:Musixmatch-logo-panoramic-Brand.png, it is probably too simple to copyright in the U.S., but standards vary from country to country. You don't say what country the company is based in.

Also, just FYI, since you are apparently editing en-wiki on a topic with which you have a close connection, make sure you have read (and conformed with) en:WP:COI. If you've already done so, great, I just don't want you to accidentally get in trouble. - Jmabel ! talk 19:19, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Sex wet daddy

I want more sex exsposed vids for me to enjoy SexyGirl11 (talk) 17:38, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Commons:Nudity and Commons:What_Commons_is_not#Wikimedia_Commons_is_not_an_amateur_porn_site clearly says Commons is not for this. Commons is not censored, but we can allow media only if they are educationally useful and filling a gap in our collection. This rule applies to all kinds of media in here. RuzDD (talk) 17:53, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

I would say "Don't feed the trolls". Yann (talk) 17:57, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

According to wikipedia:Wikipedia:You may need to feed the trolls i wanted to give a chance. Thanks. RuzDD (talk) 18:01, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Picture I submitted has gone

I submitted two pictures a few days ago, one, nude man with erect penis and one with flaccid penis, the flaccid picture has disappeared and I do not understand why. It was a classic pose, in fact it was a photograph of me posing for an art class. I’ve looked through your page of nudes with flaccid and mine would have been the only classic art pose, in fact I noticed that one picture of a man with a waist band cock string was included three times and at least one picture of an erect penis so I see no reason my offering could not have replaced one of these.

xyz666xyz Xyz666xyz (talk) 08:34, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Commons:Deletion requests/File:Nude man with erect penis.jpg —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 08:41, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

is that supposed to be an answer? I followed the link which was about my picture with erection which was still published even after the objections, when I saw my post I assumed the objections had been dismissed. I’ve read the comments of the objectors and if you feel my submissions are not good enough I accept your opinion and please remove them and my membership too. Xyz666xyz (talk) 09:07, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

That was an answer, yes. If you want to upload garbage-quality borderline pornography, then it will be deleted. If you keep on doing it, you'll be blocked eventually. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 09:28, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Borderline pornography? You have a page heading “ nude men with erect penis” and that is what I sent you and you have published several dozen similar images. Please feel free to delete my image and cancel my membership. Xyz666xyz (talk) 09:49, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Do be careful what portion of your anatomy the door hits on the way out. - Jmabel ! talk 19:14, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

COM:PENIS refers. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:17, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

Glitch with paragraph break

Hello, I created a template at template:Monohedral quadrilateral tiling series description to use as a general description for multiple files. As you can see, it has two paragraphs, with a break between. However, when I actually deploy the template in an image description field, such as at File:Monohedral quadrilateral tiling 6, 2, 1(M), T4 (1).png, the paragraph break disappears. Anybody got any idea why? I did the apparently identical thing with another template, and the paragraph breaks show up fine, see e.g. File:Monohedral pentagonal tiling 4, 1, 1(M), T100 (1).png. Tai Ling (talk) 22:17, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

I did a quick HTML hack, but yes, that is very weird. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:40, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

OK, well, the "hack" seems to work anyway, so thanks for that. Tai Ling (talk) 14:06, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

Please do add appropriate categories or at the very least {{Uncategorized}} if you make future templates. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:41, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

As I understand it, categories are to help people find content, but there seems no reason for anyone to want to look at these templates separate from finding the files where they are used, which are themselves correctly categorised. But if the templates do need categorisation, what category should I use? These are file descriptions that are used across multiple files, created in order to avoid having to edit numerous descriptions individually in the event of any changes. Is there any category for that? Tai Ling (talk) 14:16, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

@Tai Ling: Category:Image description templates. -- Asclepias (talk) 17:01, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. Tai Ling (talk) 20:04, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

Having issues with my recently uploaded image

can anyone check this up? I'm having trouble settings up the licence for the image File:Miss_Universe_Philippines_Logo.svg ItsAxld (talk) 08:36, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

ItsAxld: You can't determine what licence applies to this image unless it is very clearly stated on the site you found it and even then, this is obviously the logo of the organisation. The organisation, or their designer, own the copyright and we would need their written permission releasing the image under a free licence we accept in order to keep the image. As a piece of advise, generally most images you find on the internet are not freely licenced so caution is required before trying to upload such images because you uploading and volunteer editors patrolling such image and then deleting them or nominating them for deletion just causes more work and frustration all around. We are happy to help so if you think an image might be useful, it's a good idea to ask here or on the copyright talk pages before uploading. Good luck. Ww2censor (talk) 12:27, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

How come the photos I uploaded seem to have violate copyright? It is indeed part of an official document issued by Polish Institue?

Hi guys, I am quite confused and need some tutorial now. So, I uploaded two photos from Polish Institue this post https://instytutpolski.pl/beijing/pl/2019/11/15/li-yundi-laureatem-zlotego-medalu-zasluzony-kulturze-gloria-artis/. Since it is an official document issued by Polish government, I have them licensed under Polish "official documents, materials, signs and symbols", while now they are speedy deleted, under the reason apparently not "official documents, materials, signs and symbols. May someone lecture me on this matter, thanks EleniXDD (talk) 11:11, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

Your source states: fot. ARP W PEKINIE / IP. Does that relate to the photos on the page? You seem to be referring to Template:PD-Polishsymbol, I have no idea if that applies here. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 12:52, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

that's Polish Institute in Beijing:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Institute, https://www.gov.pl/web/diplomacy/polish-institutes. According to that copyright law, official documents, materials, logos and symbols is considered public domain. And this one is obviously official document by Polish gvt, if not official material.

I still hv no idea why it is deleted, and the one nominated for the deletion cannot explain well to me. EleniXDD (talk) 13:05, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

@Túrelio any comments? We seem to be talking about pics like [2]. Page does say "2024 © Instytut Polski w Pekinie". Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 13:13, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

format wideo

w jakim formacie można dodawać filmiki. mp4 nie można. KristofOSer (talk) 14:00, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

Commons does not accept MP4s. See Commons:Video. (There's a Commons:Video/pl, but it looks like no one has done much translation there, it's over 90% in English.) - Jmabel ! talk 18:49, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
- The link I don't think says it, but MP4 is currently protected by patents and thus we cannot support MP4 as a format until the patents expire. Abzeronow (talk) 18:53, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
  - @Abzeronow: on the linked page it says, "Commons does not support the more commonly used patent-encumbered video formats such as H.264 and H.265 that are used in MP4 and MOV files, since their use could require royalty payments." That seems pretty clear to me. - Jmabel ! talk 21:23, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

eMail

I changed my email over a year ago. Your system has a record of my new email, but you are still sending messages to my old email address. I have never received any message on my new updat6ed address. I rarely look at my old email, hence there are many unread messages on there from you (Jimmy) about continuing to donate, but I don’t see them because I no longer use it. How do I ensure only me new email is used? Arj000 (talk) 16:18, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

@Arj000: Hi, Donations to Wikimedia are managed by the Wikimedia Foundation. You can find the relevant information at:

wmf:Donor privacy policy#Accessing Your Donor Information

-- Asclepias (talk) 16:58, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

thank you - I'll try that Arj000 (talk) 17:19, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

Is this image public domain?

Moved to Commons:Village pump/Copyright

This section was archived on a request by: Speravir 20:32, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Request for Account Deletion - Mohsen Khajeh 1995

Hello Wikimedia Support, I am writing to request the deletion of my Wikimedia account with the username "Mohsen Khajeh 1995." Could you please help me in deleting this account? Additionally, here is the link to the images associated with my account:https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=mohsen+khajeh&title=Special:MediaSearch&go=Go&type=image Mohsen Khajeh 1995 (talk) 22:35, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

You have the option to have your account renamed. You can also request to have your account blocked, so that it can no longer be used for edits. You can also change your password to something random, so that you cannot log in anymore. You can also make a notice on your user page that the account is retired. But the account cannot be deleted. You have uploaded three files and if your account was deleted it would no longer be possible to attribute your uploads. C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 23:38, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

@Mohsen Khajeh 1995: it looks like all of your uploads are unused personal photos, so those can be deleted if you like, but basically we don't delete accounts on Commons (nor, as far as I know, does any WMF project). - Jmabel ! talk 07:24, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

All accounts are SUL-acounts, therefore the deletion on one project would make no sense (and even if it was done: the account would auto-recreate once the user visits the project in question while logged in to the SUL account). C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 09:49, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

User:Mahesh tagged them for speedy-deletion as unused personal photos and I deleted them as such. DMacks (talk) 10:13, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

How to include code used to generate a plot

I have uploaded the picture shown here, which could be potentially be used on the Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIE_1931_color_space . I would like to also publish the R script used to generate the picture, alongside the plot itself. What is the best way to do this?

Jochen (talk) 15:19, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

The template {{Image generation}} was built for this, but usually I've seen the source code included in the description or in an extra box after the info box. --rimshot^talk 16:47, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! I managed to include the code using the template. Jochen (talk) 18:01, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

Erroneous image attribution across a large range of species articles

File:The birds of America (Pl. 215) Agelaius assimilis (cropped).jpg is an extract from Birds of America by John James Audubon. Audubon depicts a bird that is most probably what is now called Agelaius phoeniceus gubernator, Audubon calling it Agelaius gubernator. Because of a similarity in appearance to the very localized red-shouldered blackbird Agelaius assimilis of Cuba, and Audubon's muddled description, the image has been tagged as a depiction of the Cuban bird. It isn't, the females are entirely black. In expanding the enwiki article [3] I figured this out and removed it, but the image is in wide use across many languages, and I hesitate to do more than correct the description on Commons and categorization. See [4] and subsequent pages for the referenced text and description. I think the image has been misapplied on a large scale, in good faith. Any suggestions on what to do with its naming and usage? There is an alternate image, which is at least correct as far as I can tell,File:Agelaius assimilis 104127030.jpg. I've removed the Audubon image from the Wikidata entry, which has reduced the erroneous inclusions a good bit. Acroterion (talk) 01:43, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

@Acroterion: I suppose you can rename the file with the precise current name if you think that's the best solution. But given that it is an "historical" book image that did not use that name, my suggestion would be to simply rename with the book title and plate number, in the same manner as the files in Category:The Birds of America (1841). "File:The birds of America (Pl. 215) (cropped).jpg". Only a few uses remain now. Erroneous uses can be removed. -- Asclepias (talk) 14:22, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

That sounds like a good idea.I'll see if I can flag the remaining issues on the individual uses. Acroterion (talk) 00:37, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

Question about maps

Hi, I have created some maps some time ago using a template. Now I got nomination for deletion of these maps. How should I change the license? Please provide with a step-by-step instruction. What should I include, for example, here? Information

|description=

English: Share of Ukrainians in Iamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous Okrug municipalities, 2002

@Andrijko Z.: Where did you get the underlying map images / outlines? @Quick1984: FYI. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 02:28, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Here is the template: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Subdivisions_of_Russia.svg Andrijko Z. (talk) 02:30, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

@Andrijko Z.: Thanks. So instead of "Own work" you should write "Own work based on File:Subdivisions of Russia.svg". @Quick1984: Are you willing to revert your tagging? — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 02:36, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

I got it. Thanks. I will correct the files appropriately. Andrijko Z. (talk) 02:37, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

I made necessary corrections. Hope all is fine now. If not, please let me know what other changes I should apply. Thanks. Andrijko Z. (talk) 02:53, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Now reverted. --Quick1984 (talk) 04:36, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Uploading an Image of an Internet Personality

I'm adding some details to a wikipedia page for Little Z, currently referencing and trying to pass for recognisability, stuff like that. But I was wondering how I could find a photo of him without it being a restricted image, because reasons of copyright, etc. If you have a good image of him that can be put on wikipedia, or know how I can get an image of Little Z, please let me know! Thank you. Mayor Orangutan (talk) 03:11, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

This is about en:Draft:Little Z. Note: that contribution has so far been declined for lack of sufficient demonstration of notability (third-party sources writing substantively about the subject). Even what is indicated there as his YoutTube channel gives a 404.

Probably you won't get anyone interested in actively helping you track down an image until you can demonstrate notability.

Probably the easiest thing to do (if indeed his YouTube channel is accessible somewhere) is to ask him to license a still of himself from one of his videos. He can either place it on a public-facing page of his own social media with a clear statement of the license, or can go through the VRT process to grant permission via email. - Jmabel ! talk 07:27, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Okay, I'm sorry about the error with the channel link, this link should hopefully work: https://www.youtube.com/@LittleZReal

I am currently trying to get some notability and references through, I hopefully can gt the page published! But first, I'll need an image so it is sort of a self fulfilling prophecy. Mayor Orangutan (talk) 10:31, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

You can find more about Licenses here. For commons a photograph must be lincesed under CC-by, CC-by-SA or CC0, so it can be processed through VRT. --iMahesh (talk) 10:43, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

An image will do nothing to add to validation of notability. - Jmabel ! talk 00:32, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

Change title

Please change the title "Sie starben als Preussen une Helden"

into "Sie starben als Preussen und Helden"

Tks

Alta Falisa (talk) 18:20, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

@Alta Falisa: please link the file that you want renamed. Abzeronow (talk) 20:05, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

In fact, I thought my demand would be linked to that very page. Anyway, it has been done by Tsungam .

Thanks. Alta Falisa (talk) 20:45, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

code errors

I ran into errors when I tried to subscribe to a page yesterday. Can anyone assist with web configuration errors. The page I originally created has somehow been taken over and my access is now blocked. I dont know if creating a new page so I can access the settings needed to correct some of the issues would help, any feedback would be appreciated.

Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine. Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a <customErrors> tag within a "web config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This <customErrors> tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off". <! -- Web.Config Configuration File --> <configuration> <system.web> <customErrors mode="off" /> </system.web> </configuration> + G Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's <customErrors> configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL. <configuration> <system.web> <customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="mycustompage.h

I cant find the setting to modify the default redirect attribute! Prettytata253 (talk) 02:01, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

@Prettytata253: Please see Commons talk:Protection policy#page protection. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 07:30, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

@Prettytata253: that is an ASP.NET error message, but to the best of my knowledge Wikimedia servers do not use ASP.NET. This help desk post is the first edit you have made. Where exactly is your page located? MKFI (talk) 08:43, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

I wish for my work not to be sold unchanged

If I wish for my work not to be sold unchanged for real money, should i upload it here or should i instead upload it to the wikimedia project i want to use it on?

This is a pretty serious question as i did see the licensing tutorial and it says that by sharing my work here, one permission i grant by doing so is for people to sell my work without my notice. While i am fine with modified versions of my work be sold, i am not fine with the original file being sold. I am confused of if i should upload it here or the Wikipedia instead because of that? what should i do? AuroraANovaUma (talk) 02:52, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

@AuroraANovaUma: Hi, and welcome. Given your non-commercial restriction, please see COM:LJ. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 07:19, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

Hmmmmmm, i dont get it, because i still am allowing most commercial use, I'm just not allowing people to sell the original file for real money AuroraANovaUma (talk) 15:06, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

@AuroraANovaUma: Hi, The basic mission of the Wikimedia websites, including Wikipedia and others, is to offer works that can be reused for any purpose, provided that they are properly attributed to their authors. If you want to place restrictions on what can be done with your work, that is of course your very legitimate choice, but then it means that your work is not for the Wikimedia websites, because it is not in the scope of why the Wikimedia websites exist. If you want to offer your work on the internet with restrictions, there are many websites where it can be done, but that is not the mission of Wikimedia. -- Asclepias (talk) 15:42, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

@AuroraANovaUma: You have licensed your uploads with


{{self|Copyrighted free use|CC0|WTFPL}}

. The first of those, when rendered, includes "If this is your own work, please use {{Cc-zero}} instead", so you should not be using both that and the second. Both the second and the third say "You can [...] distribute [...] the work, even for commercial purposes, [...] without asking permission" and "do what the fuck you want to", respectively, so your manually applied text "you cannot directly sell the original file for real money" is both nonsensical and unenforceable.

If you do not agree to allowing your work to be used commercially, without modification, then you should not upload it here or on Wikipedia, where the same criteria will apply. But do you really think people will pay money for works like File:Graffiti-de-símbolo-de-direitos-autorais.svg? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:11, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

yeah and why would anyone pay money for my stuff, my first two uploads are ugly. and why buy it when you can get it here for free? AuroraANovaUma (talk) 16:59, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

but yeah i doubt anyones gonna sell my stuff AuroraANovaUma (talk) 17:00, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

The short answer is no. That's called "no derivatives", and is not considered a free license for Commons. -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 18:03, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
- Actually, it's not "no derivatives", the user is specifically talking about selling it unchanged, but the answer "no" remains the same. If you are not OK with someone else offering your work for money, don't upload it here. And, yes, it is a scummy business model, getting people to pay for what they want for free. If you don't want that, then especially don't ever put anything out as CC-zero, which means they don't even have to credit you for your work or indicate where they got it. - Jmabel ! talk 18:26, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
  i put my work under these three licenses because while i do appreciate credit, is optional, but i will not exactly put it in the public domain AuroraANovaUma (talk) 18:32, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
  - As my colleague Jmabel said, cc-zero is essentially "putting it in the public domain." Abzeronow (talk) 18:35, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
    ok AuroraANovaUma (talk) 18:41, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
    also ive unsubbed from this conversation AuroraANovaUma (talk) 18:57, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

Diagram with logo

Diagram depicting the morphology of the potato plant

I uploaded this: File:CIP-Afiche-papa-ingles.jpg. (We need it for the potato page, since there there is such a confusion where the tubers arise from). The website (https://cipotato.org/potato/how-potato-grows/) where I took the picture from states under the diagram: This publication is copyrighted by the International Potato Center (CIP). It is licensed for use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Which is ok to upload here. BUT: it has the logo of the institute on it. Do I leave it as is or crop the logo out? I'd like to leave it as is because it automatically gives attribution. My assumption is that the logo is also included under CC BY 4.0, since the license is for the entire website. Any advice? WikiUser70176 (talk) 13:12, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

@WikiUser70176: Hi, and welcome. You can leave the logo there, but don't be surprised if someone uploads a new file with the logo cropped out, say for a cleaner-looking article. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 13:28, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks a bunch! WikiUser70176 (talk) 13:45, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

...as someone has now done. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:54, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

फोटो

अपने फोटो अपलोड करने हैं Lokmitra bhagwat bisht (talk) 23:41, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

@Lokmitra bhagwat bisht: Perhaps you are looking for Commons:First steps. If not, you will have to be more specific. - Jmabel ! talk 00:53, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

unable to upload

Hi Wiki loves Vizag 2024 page says "not active now" Is there some issue? Drashokk (talk) 06:51, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

To me it looks quite active. Problem solved? Paradise Chronicle (talk) 08:05, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

Pinging @Drashokk. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 23:34, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Yes! Looks good now. Thank you. 49.204.230.39 23:39, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Are modern black and white photos acceptable?

Are black and white photos of current subjects taken with modern digital cameras acceptable for uploading to Wikimedia Commons? Or are color photos always the preferred choice? David Ratledge (talk) 16:29, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

@David Ratledge: Yes, b&w images are acceptable (subject to the usual caveats about copyright and scope); but if you can, please upload colour, or both. Users can always convert colour images to b&w; the reverse is less easy. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:53, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

Speaking as someone who does a fair amount of concert photography: there are many circumstances in which it is far easier to produce a good black-and-white photo than a good color photo, either because the lighting is rather bizarre in terms of colors or simply because it is very low light. From my own work, File:Sarah Dougher 02A.jpg (black and white) is a lot more useful file than File:Sarah Dougher 02.jpg. - Jmabel ! talk 18:31, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

Thank you (to both of you that replied). This is helpful information. I have recently been shooting more and more black and white out of personal interest but still wanted to contribute it if appropriate to Wikimedia Commons. It sounds like it would be okay to do so but that ultimately it would be best to contribute color photos. I will refrain therefore from uploading most of my black and whites to Wikimedia Commons so as not to overdo it. I have been searching, and while it is not hard to find black and white photos on Wikimedia Commons, modern ones that could have been shot in color seem to be relatively low in numbers. David Ratledge (talk) 19:59, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

This file is not "author's work".

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vladimir_Dimitrov_-_Maistora.jpg

This image of the Bulgarian artist Vladimir Dimitrov Maistora was taken in 1908 by an unknown author, and cannot be the "own work" of the uploader, who uploaded it in 2008. I am not sure when it was released to the public, but according to Bulgarian law "Copyright in anonymous or pseudonymous work shall expire 70 years after the work has been first made available to the public." Jaguarnik (talk) 07:08, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Pinging @Balkanregion as uploader of File:Vladimir Dimitrov - Maistora.jpg. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 15:50, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Gemeindewappen der Gemeinde Griesstätt in Wikimedia

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

im Wikimedia-Eintrag unserer Gemeinde ist eine Version des Gemeindewappens eingestellt, das im Allgemeinen nicht verwendet wird und wir auch nicht möchten, dass es weiter verwendet wird.

Die Gestaltung des aus der Königskrone wachsenden Adlerrumpfs unterliegt aus heraldischer Sicht der künstlerischen Freiheit. Der "zerrupft" wirkende Adler sollte nicht verwendet werden. Einen Unterschied zwischen Gold und Gelb oder zwischen Silber und Weiß machen zu wollen, ist heraldisch absolut widersinnig (siehe dazu: welt-der-wappen.de/Heraldik/seite43.htm).

Wir bitten Sie das Wappen im Wikimedi-Eintrag auszutauschen und die von Ihnen bisher verwendete Version in allen Bereichen zu löschen. Den Eintrag wollen Sie uns bitte bestätigen. Gerne lassen wir Ihnen dazu eine den heraldischen Vorgaben entsprechende Dateiversion unseres Wappens zukommen. Vielen Dank für Ihr Bemühen.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Barbara Lechner Vorzimmer Bürgermeister Gemeinde Griesstätt Innstraße 4 · 83556 Griesstätt Telefon: 08039 9056-11 Fax: 08039 9056-20 https://www.griesstaett.de<https://www.griesstaett.de/ 185.95.112.211 08:24, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Gibt es eine korrekte Version des Wappens, die entweder frei lizenziert oder gemeinfrei ist? - Jmabel ! talk 19:21, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

File:Sulambek Susarkulowitsch Oskanow.png

Ladies and gentlemen!

I've recently upload the above mentioned file. I got two questions concerning this file:

- Is there anyone at Wikimedia that knows about russian copyright law? I created this file in consideration of all the legal information i could find on Commons, but i'm only 99% sure this file is actually not an object of copyright even though denomination and country name are preserved.

- This file is an adaption of File:Sulambek Oskanov (marka).jpg. I'm not sure i uploaded my file as intended. If i made any mistakes concerning the upload, please let me know.

Thanks a lot, greetings from Vienna - Noah.Albert.ZivMilFü (talk) 09:22, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

@Noah.Albert.ZivMilFü: I made some adjustments; I think it should be good now. - Jmabel ! talk 19:29, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

its not letting me log in after creating an account

please help me log in after creating an account Tlackey22 (talk) 20:29, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

@Tlackey22 You were logged in when you wrote that. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 20:42, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Gade-English Dictionary

how can I create a page or pages for Gade-English Dictionary same as www.hausadictionary.com Brobadiah (talk) 11:15, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

@Brobadiah: are you referring to Category:Lingua Libre pronunciation by HausaDictionary or something else? If that is what you are referring to, the category page would be basically identical except for the name. - Jmabel ! talk 17:28, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for your rapid response.

I actually saw what I was searching for on the Developer Portal,which I downloaded PHP zip folder 📁 for the project.

Are there tutorials on database once the file is extracted? 102.91.5.127 15:47, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

@Brobadiah i guess https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki has what might be helpful. RZuo (talk) 11:19, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

famous pictures

can I use a photo of an artist/public figure that has been photographed by a professional, and posted on Instagram, for example? Sweetened (talk) 17:24, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

@Sweetened: No. You are not allowed to publish pictures by others without their permission. Yann (talk) 18:01, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

@Sweetened you can only if their permission is granted. follow com:vrt. RZuo (talk) 11:23, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

Wondering whether or not the license is okay

Hey there! I was just wondering if it would be alright if I were to upload this image of the current Bosnian foreign minister. I've seen some images from the European Council's page uploaded to Commons, but I'm not so confident that their licenses are okay, unlike the images from the EU Commission's page which are perfectly fine to freely redistribute. Thank you to anyone for taking their time for this in advance! :) -- Bakir123 (talk) 19:58, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

@Bakir123: Hi, You can see #European Council, a few sections above on this page. It's probably better to wait until the related deletion discussion is decided. -- Asclepias (talk) 21:04, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

Bakir123: All such files were recently deleted as not being sufficiently free for us to keep. Ww2censor (talk) 11:37, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

Photo of a portrait as illustration in a Wikipedia biography

I want to add a black&white photo of a portrait commissioned and paid for by the Swedish art collector dr Sten Lindeberg (1894-1954) in Paris 1949, painted by the french artist Bernard Buffet (1928-1998). The photo is ment to illustrate Sten Lindebergs Wikipedia .biography.

Please inform me about the best way to do this.

Best regards! Plin38 (talk) 15:30, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

@Plin38 I assume the portrait is of Sten Lindeberg (läkare). While you can't upload it on Commons, it's possible you can upload it locally on Swedish Wikipedia. I don't know their rules on this, you have to ask there. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 20:48, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

@Gråbergs Gråa Sång and Plin38: Different from the strictly enforced en:WP:F on English Wikipedia, Swedish Wikipedia has no mention on m:nfc, so non-free content is not welcome at all on that project. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 22:57, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the prompt answer! So OK, if I get permission from the copyrightholder(s), how do I proceed from there? Plin38 (talk) 16:13, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the prompt answer! So OK, if I get permission from the copyrightholder(s), how do I proceed from there? Plin38 (talk) 16:12, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

@Plin38 Simplest for you is that the copyright holder register an account and use [5]. Otherwise, you/they have to follow the directions at COM:VRT. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 16:43, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

That sounds like the portrait would still be copyrighted (until 2068, 70 years after Buffet's death), with the copyright owned by Buffet's heirs. To place that here on Commons, you'd need to have them grant a license. - 19:31, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Curiouslogo.png

C OllieE2b (talk) 04:57, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

Convenience link: File:Curiouslogo.png. @OllieE2b: you seem to have successfully uploaded a slightly larger version. I'm not sure what the point was of that, but your upload was successful. What is your question? - Jmabel ! talk 05:14, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

Sir I have document a Biography need to upload it to the wikipedia

Would like to know which format is acceptable to upload the file: Sampath Lakshmi v (talk) 07:43, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

Sampath Lakshmi v This is the wikimedia commons where media files are stored. The individual language wikis are where article are written, such as the English language wiki. Ww2censor (talk) 10:55, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
If the biography is about yourself or anyone with whom you are closely connected, see en:WP:COI. - Jmabel ! talk 23:17, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

Is this photo of a recent model a breach of copyright?

Is this a breach of copyright? It is a photo of a modern model. So I am wondering if this breaches the copyright of the maker of the model. I am hoping that it does not, as images like this are in short supply. ThoughtIdRetired (talk) 17:51, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

The above was originally raised as a question on [6] and referred here. ThoughtIdRetired (talk) 19:19, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Could be problematic if the model is considered to have enough originality to be copyrightable. You might be able to get permission from the holder of the copyright. - Jmabel ! talk 19:21, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

The model is on—presumably permanent—display in a museum in Sweden. Refer to Com:Sweden. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:36, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

As far as I am aware, this model is inside the museum as part of the permanent display. The existence of donated images, per [7] makes me wonder if a photo of a modern model has a copyright problem. ThoughtIdRetired (talk) 21:25, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Originality of model: since this model is the result of a massive archaeological investigation, a great deal of interpretation and measuring, I doubt that those who produced it would see it as anything other than original work. The same people have published pictures in books and academic papers that convey the same information as the model and those pictures are certainly copyrighted. ThoughtIdRetired (talk) 22:57, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

The photo is mine and I'm the primary author of the article about Vasa. I used to work at the museum and I know that they are very much aware of how these photos are used. Not going to comment on the specific legal issues involved, but it's worth noting that the museum has never raised any concerns or objections to any of this. It's not an argument per se to keep an image, but it might be more constructive to simply ask them about it.

From a more general perspective, Commons needs to get it's act together regarding the copyright status of models on display in public museums and the likes. There has to be clear and reasonably simple guidelines for these cases and they need to be applied consistently. It's not reasonable to try to figure this out for each individual photo of each individual scale model of... whatever.

Peter ^Isotalo 09:29, 17 February 2024 (UTC)::"

@Peter Isotalo:

quoting from Commons:Project scope/Precautionary principle, '…arguments that amount to "we can get away with it", such as the following, are against Commons' aims" and, as an example, 'The copyright owner will not mind/should be pleased that we have disseminated their work.'
There is no general answer to the copyright question, because it varies greatly from country to country; also, oddly, the more accurate a model, the less likely it is to be copyrightable, because it is simply a skillful reproduction rather than a creative work. The rules can't be made simple, any more than for any other sort of work. Copyright is inherently complicated.
If you used to work at the museum, you are probably in a better position than anyone else here to obtain permission. - Jmabel ! talk 18:46, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

I worked there part time over 10 years ago for extra cash as a student, not because I'm a museum person. I don't have any special contacts. They're run government agency and are available for anyone to contact, including in English.

And I'm not the one bringing up this up as a copyright issue. Just trying to provide some context. Peter ^Isotalo 22:55, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

Do we know who negotiated the donation of images by the museum (for example File:Block - Vasamuseet - 03741.jpg)? Surely that is the best route into gaining permission for an additional image. ThoughtIdRetired (talk) 08:50, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

It's from DigitaltMuseum. Peter ^Isotalo 21:08, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

But the set of free-to-use images on the Digital Museum is a larger number than those identified here as a "donation". That is what makes me think that someone specifically arranged use of a smaller group of photos. Or perhaps a broad-brush term was used in the identifier here. Someone within Commons should know. ThoughtIdRetired (talk) 22:28, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

The block photo wasn't "donated" but taken directly from DigitaltMuseum as far as I can tell.

DigitaltMuseum is a collaboration directly with various museums, including the Vasa Museum who have provided the metadata and chosen licenses themselves.

I'm figuring that they've thought through their position on the copyright of the models they've commissioned through their uploads to DigitaltMuseum. Here's one of the model in question. [8] Peter ^Isotalo 07:51, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

I have opened a new thread here to ask for the procedures needed to request release of the model's copyright to the extent needed to continue to use the photo here. ThoughtIdRetired (talk) 15:31, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

@Jmabel, even if we disregard how different countries treat the issue, do we have any guidance regarding scale models where the creator hasn't been dead over 70 years? We're supposed to deal with this by a purely individual basis? Peter ^Isotalo 19:20, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

@Peter Isotalo: "70 years" is relevant in many countries, but not all (e.g. for the U.S., it has only relatively recently been relevant for anything, and I'd be hard pressed to come up with an example of where it would matter for a museum model). I don't think we can "disregard how different countries treat the issue," because "the issue" is (1) whether the model has a copyright and, if it does have a copyright, (2) whether there is sufficient freedom of panorama in the country in question to make that irrelevant. Both of those are country-by-country questions, including differing thresholds of originality. - Jmabel ! talk

"Whether the model has a copyright" is impossible to actually figure out because Commons doesn't seem to address this issue anywhere.

I've started a thread over at the Village pump regarding this. Feel free to join.

Peter ^Isotalo 21:17, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

User:Billbarretta19

Billbarretta19, who states [9] he is Bill Barretta, has recently uploaded [10] several pictures as "own work". Some of these may be that in our/Commons sense like [11], but for most it is not obvious. Bill Barretta works with Muppets (he is among much else the current Swedish Chef), and he just got an Emmy for it.

What is the best way to proceed here, I've never done any mass-tagging. I'll be quite happy if we can keep them all. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:38, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

@Gråbergs Gråa Sång and Billbarretta19: I believe that the Commons:Volunteer Response Team can go through verifying an account as being a particular person. I would say that would be the best way to proceed.

COM:VFC is certainly the best tool for mass tagging. - Jmabel ! talk 20:51, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

საკონკურსო თემა,,ქალები ვიკიპედიაში"

საკონკურსო თემა,,ქალები ვიკიპედიაში" Liana goderdzishvili (talk) 08:40, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

Is there a question here? - Jmabel ! talk 20:52, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

Ann Petersen, afbeelding van Engelstalige Wikipedia.

Beste,

Graag zou ik de afbeelding willen gebruiken van Ann Petersen op de Engelse Wikipedia om deze te plaatsen op de Nederlandstalige Wikipedia.

Hopelijk vormt dit geen probleem.

Groeten. Deus Ex Aequo (talk) 14:42, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

De link naar de afbeelding is Ann_Petersen.png en de Media data and Non-free use rationale. Wouter (talk) 16:21, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

I could be mistaken, but I believe the Dutch-language Wikipedia does not allow non-free images. You'd have to ask there to get a definitive answer though, not on Commons. - Jmabel ! talk 20:55, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

This table gives a clear NO for the Dutch-language Wikipedia. Wouter (talk) 21:20, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

Are photos from the White House Historical Association public domain?

Back in 2022, I began uploading photos of the White House Christmas Tree in the Blue Room. I would like to upload this photo of the 2015 tree.

[12] It also came from this article. [13]

However, I want to make sure that their photos are public domain. I saw this description on their website:

"PUBLIC DOMAIN IMAGES: The White House Historical Association has selected images pertaining to White House history from the Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration and Presidential Libraries. Rights information: These images are in the public domain."

Does that mean it's okay for me to upload the image here? And1987 (talk) 03:52, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

@And1987: If they are asserting it is public domain, I don't see any reason to doubt them. You'd probably want to create a template for this institution comparable to the ones in Category:PD-release like license tags. - Jmabel ! talk 04:11, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. Here is a link to the source saying that they are public domain. [14] And1987 (talk) 04:39, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

@And1987: Make sure the individual images are clearly identified as PD or sourced from the stated collections, because everything else on the site appears to be ARR.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 04:57, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

アップロードしたファイルがページに貼り付けない

アップロードしたファイルがあります。しかし、クリップをクリックして、本文中に貼り付けようとしても、「ファイルがありません」と赤色で表示されて、記事の中に表示できません。なぜでしょうか？ Tsuneoyamane (talk) 07:13, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

Google translates renders this as "I have a file that I have uploaded. However, when I click on the clip and try to paste it into the article, the message "File does not exist" is displayed in red and cannot be displayed in the article. Why?"

"click on the clip" makes no sense to me, so I can't guess what this user is doing. Of course, if they are trying to copy-paste the image, rather than use Wikitext to transclude it, that will fail, and that may be what they are doing. So I'm hoping the following will help them:

@Tsuneoyamane: ja:Wikipedia:ウィキメディア・コモンズ - Jmabel ! talk 17:23, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

Potential joke on a beetle species

Hi everybody, Just a question about what to do about these 3 images untitled Lixus Fitszmanicus. It's author @FactsAboutLixus published an article in the the French Wikipédia on this beetle with the affirmation that it is a a new species of Lixus (thisis the unique publication of this contributor to WP). However after searches through databases and scientific litterature, we (users @Givet, @Thulop, @Totodu74, @LD) are all convinced that it is a fake species (wether it is voluntarly or not is another question). We have all agreed in the deletion of the article on WP:fr. One of us (Totodu74) realized that these pics may be pics of the Lixomorphus algirus. So my question is, what to do with these files: Delete, rename, other ?

Regards GF38storic (talk) 11:27, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

Hi !

Sorry I'm late. I've found this cute weevil in Menorca ; I've tried to identify it a lot of time since 2020. Never found anyone answering me clearly. Since I had no answer, I've done this page as a semi-prank. Sorry, not cool, I know, will not do it again. On the bright side, I had a lot of answers thanks to this, and I now believe it's the Lixomorphus Algirus.

You have my blessing to delete the files or the rename them !

Sorry again ! FactsAboutLixus (talk) 14:51, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

I’ve gone ahead and categorized the images according to the above, also correcting the specific name in the descriptions. I don’t mind whimsical filenames myself, but if anyone feels they’re actually misleading I’d certainly entertain move requests. (To my mind the current titles are pretty much equivalent to “Lixus by Fiszman”, which I presume would be unobjectionable if not for the incorrect genus.) Otherwise the images seem pretty good (to my non-entomologist eyes) but OTOH I wouldn’t object to deletion if it’s felt that the uploader shouldn’t be trusted WRT the provenance & licensing (noting that the files lack EXIF metadata).—Odysseus1479 (talk) 21:35, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

Huge amount of problematic name categories

The user @JuTa seems to have created dozens upon dozens of name categories for names that are not actual names, for example there are tons of categories for "compound" names which are really just a string of given names used by a single person ever, like Category:Johan Marie Jacques Hubert (given name) (and in some cases a couple of given names + a surname treated as a given name such as Category:Marie Therese Nordsletta (given name)), as well as creating surname categories for surnames + initials like Category:Y Goud (surname), and in the case of Category:Yashki(surname) (which I moved to Category:Yashki (surname) 3 years after it was created) I'm not even sure the person who wears it has it as a family name (I'm not overly familiar with how Indian names work). It seems to me like JaTu doesn't understand naming conventions of different cultures and many of the categories they have created are really problematic, but I don't know how to take care of all of them. StarTrekker (talk) 12:21, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

@StarTrekker: this would probably be better at COM:VP, because you are asking for something like an informal policy discussion, not for help in using Commons. - Jmabel ! talk 17:34, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks.StarTrekker (talk) 22:40, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

I'm confused. I don't want a new hobby, I just want to propose an update to one file

Linking to original: Commons talk:Overwriting existing files/Requests#I'm confused. I don't want a new hobby, I just want to propose an update to one file. Linux dr (talk) 07:50, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

@Linux dr: Hi, There are at least two different aspects to your comment.

The specific answer to your question, as mentioned on the page Commons:Overwriting existing files, is that overwriting requires either the autopatrol right or "you may request an exception for a particular file" on that requests page. It seems that the second option is what you were looking for.

The other thing is merely a comment about the change you want to make. I'm not sure if it's feasable to fit into the metadata everything accurately. I understand that the file is apparently CC0, but still, maybe it would be good to first consult the authors to know what they think of your plan. The main author of most of the content used in the file is apparently User:Dmitry Fomin, and there are smaller contributions from David Bellot and User:Guy vandegrift. Note that the contribution from David Bellot is not in the public domain but under the LGPL, which causes a problem with the licensing of the file you want to overwrite. -- Asclepias (talk) 14:10, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

Re: Licensing

Yes, I was trusting in the accuracy of the metadata I saw on the Wikimedia Commons. The metadata claimed that @Guy vandegrift claimed that the "Source" was "Own work". Looking in depth at the Description, This file was actually based primarily on the work of @Dmitry Fomin who also claims his files as "Source: Own work". @Guy vandegrift also included 2 card back designs. One looks like probably his own work (a "O" design), and the second is clearly from David Bellot's SVG cards from here specifying the license very specifically as LGPL 2.1 (with this, unfortunately broken link: ~~https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.htm~~) published 8/12/2005. While the terms of the LGPL as I understand them would definitely supersede the CC0 license, making the entire work LGPL 2.1, I think this was an honest mistake.

In light of this mistake, I think we should:

Update the metadata licensing terms to LGPL 2.1 (though we can state that non-CC0 license appears to be accidental, and that the LGPL 2.1 specifically refers to that one particular card back.)
Update the metadata source to be @Dmitry Fomin, David Bellot and "Own work"
Update a new version of the file with a new name, with David Bellot's 2005 card back replaced with a CC0 card back instead
Contact @HFWMan, and suggest he update the card back in File:Golf Solitaire Layout.svg, and suggest he update the image to use a different card-back design.

Does this plan of attack sound like a productive way forward? (Now that this is all researched it appears like a larger task than I had planned on, but cest la vie.) Linux dr (talk) 23:28, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

I have updated the file metadata to point out what we have discussed in this thread[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:English_pattern_playing_cards_deck_PLUS.svg]. Please confirm before I:

Upload new version of the file with updated metadata
Upload new version of the file with a new name that actually is CC0 without the LGPL content.
Contact @HFWMan, and suggest he update the card back in File:Golf Solitaire Layout.svg, and suggest he update the image to use a different card-back design.

Linux dr (talk) 19:02, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Flickr upload problem

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T358414

For the past couple days, attempts to transfer different photos from Flickr are not finishing. Upon clicking "Publish files" the system acts like it's processing, but never completes. Here is just one exampleː [15]https://www.flickr.com/photos/markbyzewski/12721286293/ Ron Clausen (talk) 08:05, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

Already discussed at https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Village_pump&oldid=855447915#The_way_to_upload_images_via_Flickr_is_completely_broken and tracked in Phabricator. - Jmabel ! talk 17:30, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

https://flickr2commons.toolforge.org appears to be working fine, you can use that. - Jmabel ! talk 17:31, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

Can't upload flickr images

Been away for a few weeks and tried to upload some images from Flickr. They were accepted on the front screen, and I added their details and categorization etc., however, when I pressed the button to finally submit the images to WC, the system just hung. If I tried to go back, it kicked me out of the upload process completely? Is this a general issue, or just specific to me? thanks. 20:06, 24 February 2024 (UTC) Aszx5000 (talk) 20:06, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

Same here. FunkMonk (talk) 23:54, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

@Aszx5000: See a few sections above: #Flickr upload problem. -- Asclepias (talk) 01:39, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for that. Aszx5000 (talk) 11:21, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Issue seems to have spread beyond Upload Wizard. I succeeded in uploading a single photo via Flickypedia about 90 minutes ago, but haven't been able to get it to work again since. Flickr to Commons isn't working for me either. -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 19:23, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

License for images found using the Google filter

Hello, I found a photo on Google Images using the Creative Commons filter, but when I visit the website it comes from, I see a © symbol with the photographer's name under the image, and there is no indication of a Creative Commons license. Can this image be used? Or is the Google filter not always reliable? PheonixU+221E (talk) 18:17, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

@PheonixU+221E:

Google is not always reliable.
It is completely normal that someone owns a copyright on a CC-licensed image. You can't license what you don't own.
With no links about the specific site and image, anything else that anyone tells you will be guesswork.

Jmabel ! talk 18:44, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

1. Ok

3. Of course, here is the link : https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/provence-alpes-cote-d-azur/bouches-du-rhone/aix-en-provence/jo-2021-nicolas-navarro-conclut-la-prestation-des-athletes-provencaux-et-azureens-aux-jeux-olympiques-de-tokyo-2207803.html (the photography © GIUSEPPE CACACE / AFP) PheonixU+221E (talk) 19:38, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

Press agency non-free photo. Would you mind sharing the search keyword(s) you used to obtain this webpage with the CC filter? -- Asclepias (talk) 22:19, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

OK. The keywords are just "Nicolas Navarro" on the French Google Images (https://www.google.fr/imghp?hl=fr&ogbl), with the CC filter PheonixU+221E (talk) 20:33, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, I just wanted to try if it could be replicated. I tried the keywords "Nicolas Navarro" yesterday and that webpage did not show in the results. Maybe something tagged CC happened to be on the webpage when you searched. Or a temporary Google mistake. Anyway, unfortunately, the conclusion is that the photo is not tagged with a free license. -- Asclepias (talk) 21:52, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

I see, thank you. PheonixU+221E (talk) 21:57, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

شركة اقمشة

HATUN TEKSTILمرحبا انا انس اعمل مدير تنفيذي لشركة اقمشة المعروفة اصبحت شركتنا مشهورة عبر التواصل الاجتماعي وبعد تواصلي مع الخدمة على الانستغرام بعض نقاش طويل عن كيفية توثيق الصفحة الخاصة بنا اذا كان هناك مقالة على موقعكم ولكن قمت بكتابة مقالة تم حذقها من قبلكم بسبب سوء كتابة المقالة على ما اعتقد هل يمكنكم مساعدتي في هذا الامر وشكرا لكم Anasalghazzawi (talk) 22:50, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

There are no articles on Commons. Perhaps you are thinking of Wikipedia in one or another language? Those are sister projects of ours, but each is a distinct project with its own help page.

As far as I know, there are none of the Wikipedias where it would be acceptable to write about your own company. For example, see en:WP:Conflicts of interest. - Jmabel ! talk 05:48, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

சித்திரக்கவி

விமானபந்தனம் முத்துராமன்1974 (talk) 09:49, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

(Google translates as "Pictorialist aviation")

@முத்துராமன்1974: Did you have a question? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:19, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

i can not upload a picture

I adapted a picture to make it original. However i am not able to upload it. If i try to find why, i do not find any relevant information Wentaland (talk) 09:57, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

You have uploaded 5 files by now. Do you still have questions? C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 10:26, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Folders

create a main folder for each project or category, and then create subfolders within each main folder to organize specific files Lil Akeme (talk) 16:36, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

@Lil Akeme: What help do you need? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:44, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Flickr uploader doesn't work

When I try to upload a picture from Flick it stagnates on the Description tab. I tried different browsers on different machines. Prolete (talk) 16:40, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

There is an ongoing issue. See above. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:42, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Copyright release request language

Is there a standard letter to ask for release of copyright to Wikipedia commons? This request is relative to "Is this photo of a recent model a breach of copyright?" listed above. I intend to contact the Vasamuseet and ask them to release the copyright in respect of the model to allow continued use of the picture. I just need to know commons' own procedures and standard request phraseology to do that.

I have posted as a new topic so this gets noticed. I will put a note to refer here on the original post. ThoughtIdRetired (talk) 15:29, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

@ThoughtIdRetired: Hi, please see COM:CONSENT, and ask the Vasamuseet to carbon copy you on their permission to keep you in the loop. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 15:48, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Did the museum acquire the copyright from the author who made the model? If so, the museum should include a clear statement of that. Also, the author is still to be credited as the author. -- Asclepias (talk) 16:15, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Please note that the museum has already uploaded a photo of this model themselves here.[16] CC-BY-SA and all.

Peter ^Isotalo 19:14, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

OK, so we need one of the copyright experts in commons to say whether or not the picture in the article needs a separate release of copyright of the model. I suspect it does, but we need to know for certain. If we need a separate release and it is difficult to get that (for bureaucratic reasons) then the cleanup applied to the article's picture could be applied to the upload linked immediately above and we would have exactly the same picture. I already have a question with the museum on who to contact on copyright matters. Seems sensible to see if we get an answer. In my experience, some museums are brilliant whilst others are pretty hopeless (that seems to apply worldwide). ThoughtIdRetired (talk) 20:50, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

I think you're making this extremely complicated, especially for yourself, for very little benefit. If you think an image violates copyright, you need to nominate it for deletion, especially if there's an almost identical photo released by the museum who both owns the model and has commissioned it.

I've had reason to look at Swedish copyright law before and the legal position as far as I know is very clear: employers own the copyright of anything their staff produce in the line of work. This is work commissioned by the Swedish National Maritime and Transport Museums, like everything else that's part of the permanent exhibitions of the Vasa Museum.

Nominate the image for deletion first and see what the community says. Peter ^Isotalo 21:41, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

The least amount of work from this point is to wait to see if there is an answer from the museum. There is quite a lot of stuff in Commons with this sort of problem, for instance File:Krummträ.JPG|thumb|Krummträ, which ignores the copyright of the person who marked out the pieces of wood. I have left that alone for now, but it needs investigating as it is a useful image. ThoughtIdRetired (talk) 09:37, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

The museum has already released the rights to this exhibition through this photo.[17] At my last workplace here in Sweden, we investigated the issue of the rights of commissioned work by employees and concluded that they belong to the employer. From what we could tell, it's standard practice and completely uncontroversial. We have no reason to question the Vasa Museum's position in this case, only whether Commons actually has to require releases to each individual photo.

Aside from that, in both the case of the cut-away model and File:Krummträ.JPG, it's not clear whether museum exhibitions are to be considered works of art or not. Commons doesn't have any guidance on this and the Vasa Museum is not going to answer that question for us.

@Jeff G. and @Asclepias, can you please comment on this in light of the additional info I've provided? Peter ^Isotalo 07:41, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

@Peter Isotalo: I think {{Cc-by-sa-4.0}} should suffice in this case. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 10:58, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

We don't care whether they are "works of art", just whether they are copyrightable. - Jmabel ! talk 20:08, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Not everything that you find in a museum is actually owned by them. In these days of innovative funding, an item might be loaned, donated with restrictions, sponsored, etc., etc. The only way to find out if the copyright holder of an exhibit is the museum is to ask them. ThoughtIdRetired (talk) 20:37, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

There is no question about the ownership of a model in the permanent collection of a museum, researched and built by its staff. That is clearly what we are dealing with here. And in Sweden, it seems pretty clear that the intellectual property rights would belong to the museum. I don't think there is any reasonable question about that. An image released (free-licensed) by the museum itself is clearly OK; the question is whether we can obtain the museum's permission for images not taken by their own staff. (That is, their permission for using the underlying work in a photo that constitutes a derivative work.) - Jmabel ! talk 21:39, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

I'm personally not going to object if my original amateur photo taken with a crappy camera is deleted when we have an almost identical alternative.

I absolutely respect the precautionary principle, but I can't see any useful purpose in securing a separate release for a separate photo of an exhibition that has been released as CC-BY-SA and where we have no idea if the work is even considered copyrightable.

I know one thing, though, it should be our problem to solve, not the Vasa Museum's. Peter ^Isotalo 17:10, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

With this level of information, that would be a reasonable position. However, before the majority of the comments above, the question about obtaining copyright approval was asked of Vasamuseet. I don't see any huge urgency in solving this problem immediately, so I suggest that we wait and see if we get an answer. If not, then the previously released picture can be used. The advantage of the photo in question is that it has the background edited out of it, so it is much clearer to see. ThoughtIdRetired (talk) 19:55, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

@Jeff G.: I now have an answer from Vasamuseet. They are happy to release the copyright of the model under CC-BY. Is this OK for me to ask them to complete the forms as per instructions above with this licence? I am not totally sure if the forms need to be modified to make clear that they are releasing copyright of the model itself, rather than the photograph – but I wanted to get the question about the licence offered off immediately. ThoughtIdRetired (talk) 20:32, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Yes, this will take some rewording of the form letter, and might even involve some back-and-forth with the VRT. Ask them to keep you in the loop by cc'ing you on the email so this doesn't go off the rails. And it might be good to include a permalink to this discussion. - Jmabel ! talk 21:25, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Bibliotheque Nationale image descriptions that can't be edited

During a FAC[18] I just came across this[19] strange image description that can't be edited, though it seems to have a maintenance tag that could hinder its use. Turns out there is a whole category[20], if not more, of images using such description templates. What on earth is the purpose of making it so difficult to edit an image's information, and shouldn't it just be disabled? And if the answer is that you can still do it by directly editing some template that isn't even linked from the file description, that certainly isn't very user-friendly or useful for the project. FunkMonk (talk) 19:10, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

This is apparently a direction some of the people who work with GLAMs have wanted to go, pulling information in from SDC rather than placing it in the wikitext. I personally don't like it at all: editing SDC remains much more difficult than editing wikitext, and if (for example) we want to supplement a description that may have come from a GLAM without simply overriding it, there is no obvious way to do that. I don't believe there was any broad consensus to go this direction, though I'll admit there was not firm consensus not to. - Jmabel ! talk 05:45, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Any link to where this was discussed? I have a hard time imagining any good arguments for why this would be optimal. FunkMonk (talk) 05:52, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

I don’t think it uses SDC at all; AFAICT it’s just the regular info template with some of the parameters pre-filled. Perhaps its being flush to the SDC box, with no section head, gives the impression they’re related. I don‘t know the history or of any discussion, but I suppose the purpose is to be able to change every page of the MS or book with a single edit to the template. For example if the linked item was to be found through research to date to 1456 precisely, or the author was discovered to be pseudonymous, the file and all its siblings could be updated with one edit to {{Bibliotheque Nationale MS Fr. 68}}. Of course this ability is of most use when the info changes frequently, which seems extremely unlikely here.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 06:46, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

This may be something different than what User:Dominic is doing (I didn't look "under the hood" at this on), but his definitely uses SDC. - Jmabel ! talk 20:11, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

@Odysseus1479: You are right that this one does not seem to be using SDC. Where and how is it getting the date and the source and author info? And how could anyone add to the description? This is way too obscure. And, however it works, it's been more or less this way since 2008! - Jmabel ! talk 20:18, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

@Jmabel: it transcludes the MS Fr. 68 template I linked just above, which has two blanks or variables: #1 is the entire Description field and #2 is the folio that goes in the Source line. Everything else from there (which used to include the {{PD-GallicaScan}} template as well, with its deprecation notice) is reproduced verbatim. It also gets the Bibliotheque Nationale MS Fr. 68 category from the template‘s includeonly section. The description as such can be edited in situ, just as one would in a file with the usual info template. Yes, it showed its age by its lack of headings and language templates.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 21:08, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

@Odysseus1479: maybe I'm being obtuse, but where exactly do the source and author info come from? - Jmabel ! talk 21:43, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

@Jmabel: from {{Bibliotheque Nationale MS Fr. 68}}. On that page you can see (and edit) the ‘static’ text, including the complete Date & Author entries as well as most of the Source (excepting the folio designation). Changes made there will be shown on every file that uses the template. The {{{1}}} and {{{2}}} in the wikicode are placeholders for the description & folio respectively. (The missing-description message won‘t appear in transclusions on file pages where the desc parameter is non-empty.) BTW I notice, now that section heads have been added, that clicking the section-edit link on a file page takes you straight to the template. Handy in a way, but unexpected and could be quite disorienting to someone trying to edit the local description line.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 22:32, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

I see. You have a template about the individual work! I certainly wouldn't think this is a good idea. I suppose you could always "subst" it if you wanted to do further editing. - Jmabel ! talk 22:51, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Regarding the Gallica warning, see this discussion for some background. I’m not sure what the best procedure is for clearing it but FTTB I’ve disabled the template in the MS in question, on the basis that it’s indubitably PD, which template I moved into the Permissions field. (Does it need PD-scan, though?) I hope that will mollify the FA reviewers.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 08:22, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
@Odysseus1479: "FTTB"? — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 11:02, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
@Jeff G.: For The Time Being, temporarily. (Yann has since updated the MS template more authoritatively.)—Odysseus1479 (talk) 19:40, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
@Odysseus1479: Thanks. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 07:53, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. Does anyone disagree that the best solution is to make the images directly editable? FunkMonk (talk) 17:14, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

I'm with FunkMonk on this. Just "subst" the template everywhere it's used. - Jmabel ! talk 19:16, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

No objection here, especially considering the section-edit-link easter-egg I noted above, but when carried over to other MSS or books I would remind people to first update the applicable templates, as Yann & I did here, so as to to minimize subsequent cleanup.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 20:55, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

External link to be replaced

External link to be replaced into Category:El mundo físico : gravedad, gravitación, luz, calor, electricidad, magnetismo, etc.

I'd kindly need some technical advices in this talk I've opened some minutes ago. Best regards. Mess (talk) 12:47, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

NOTE TO ALL: please keep further discussion at Category talk:El mundo físico : gravedad, gravitación, luz, calor, electricidad, magnetismo, etc.#External link to be replaced. - Jmabel ! talk 21:32, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Uploads just stuck "submitting details"

I tried many times, but flickr-uploads just got stuck on the last "submitting details" loading forever. Navstar2777 (talk) 03:54, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

@Navstar2777: Hi, and welcome. There is an ongoing issue. See above. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 07:37, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Question

How can I find non-copyrighted images for politicians Yousifali777 (talk) 12:07, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Look through the category system we use here (at the bottom of image pages). Start at Category:Politicians, then maybe Category:Politicians by country and Category:Politicians of Italy (or wherever). Or search by name, if you know who you're looking for.

Note that all images on Commons should be freel licensed, which means that you can use them elsewhere. See COM:REUSE. But most are still copyright, it's just that their owners give you permission (a licence) to use them, even though copyrighted. But there might be restrictions on what you can do with them, usually this means that you have to give credit for who's original work this was (See COM:REUSE). If you have questions about a particular image, please ask again. Andy Dingley (talk) 13:38, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

@Andy Dingley: He is asking about finding images to upload to commons, not ones already on commons. Number 57 (talk) 15:58, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

@Yousifali777: I think you mean "free-licensed" rather than "non-copyrighted". Except for a few governments, like the federal government of the U.S., that have special laws placing their work in the public domain, nearly all photos from recent decades are copyrighted by default.

Usually, for most countries, there won't be a lot of these. You either have to go out and take them yourself, or contact photographers who have already taken them and try to get licenses. If you are lucky, on a site like Flickr there may already be some that are free-licensed. - Jmabel ! talk 19:21, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Embedded video player doesn't play audio in recent WEBM uploads

Recently I've uploaded several videos in WEBM format (codecs: VP9/Opus):

But embedded video player doesn't play audio from these files. If you open "original file" link you'll hear that audio tracks exist in these files.
I use ffmpeg tool to encode videos to WEBM format. And earlier I had no problems with it (File:Петрозаводск, ул.Университетская, птенец БПД в дупле и его родитель.webm, File:Сортавальский р-н, Рюттю, обыкновенный жулан.webm).
What's wrong? Avsolov (talk) 17:55, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

I found the answer in phab:T358342, thanx Bjh21 for reference. Avsolov (talk) 20:46, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Trying to upload a video

Hey folks. I'm trying to upload my first ever media file, a video. But I got an error message saying that .mov files are not allowed. What extension should I change it to, and how do I do that? Sorry, I'm too lazy to search the help archives, so I thought I'd bother y'all instead. :) Thanks in advance for your help. Yesthatbruce (talk) 03:24, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

@Yesthatbruce: see COM:VIDEO. - Jmabel ! talk 04:19, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! I just knew there'd be a how-to article all about it, but I didn't know how to find it. Yesthatbruce (talk) 04:31, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Can these images be published?

Hello, I would like to ask if it is possible to post images (specifically the screenshot of the Arcadia Tales Trilogy series and movie) from the following link 1, and how and who could be credited to the author (or authors) and what type of Comoons license could be used in those images. and the reason is that I would like to use the images in the Wikipedia articles Bolitachan (talk) 04:02, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

@Bolitachan: Hi, and welcome. Please have the copyright holder (perhaps one of the owners Netflix / DreamWorks Animation (Universal Pictures) or one of the creators * Guillermo del Toro or Daniel Kraus) send permission via VRT with a carbon copy to you. If you can't get a compliant license, the images may still be uploaded to English Wikipedia in compliance with en:WP:F because we don't allow Fair Use here. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 13:05, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Pamela Courson Photo German Wikipedia

Hey,

quick question: I noticed that the german Wikipedia article of Pamela Courson (https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pamela_Courson&veaction=edit) only features pictures of the band the Doors and of Jim Morrison, her on-off life partner. The English version includes a portrait of herself (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Courson) which seems more fitting since it's an article about her, not the band or Jim Morrison. It bugged me, so I created an account and now I'm not sure how to get her portrait on on the german website as well (I don't want to violate any copyrights). Can anybody maybe help me?

Cheers! Klerstory (talk) 12:14, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

@Klerstory: Hi, and welcome. en:File:Pamela Courson.jpg was uploaded in compliance with en:WP:F. We can't host it here because we don't have a free license for it and we don't allow Fair Use here, but German Wikipedia might be able to, in compliance with de:Wikipedia:Bildrechte#Bilder, deren Urheber nicht bekannt ist. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 12:56, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Фотография из монгольского Музея истории религии.

Добрый день, Редактирую статью, посвящённую Эрлику, персонажу из тюркских и монгольских мифов. В энциклопедии, которая является источником, есть фотография маски этого бога из музея Улан-Батора. Можно ли мне взять эту фотографию из энциклопедии для статьи Эрлика? Monsieur Rainier (talk) 17:37, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Ваш вопрос не содержит многих важных данных, которые необходимы для точного ответа. Рискну предположить следующее. Маска сама по себе как 3D-объект вероятно является общественным достоянием (я представляю её себе как древний исторический артефакт). Однако права на её фотографию принадлежат фотографу (вы не указали год издания, скорее всего речь идёт о 1990-х) и срок их охраны ещё не истёк. Без разрешения фотографа или издателя (в зависимости от того, кому принадлежат права) вы не можете загрузить такую фотографию на Викисклад.

Тем не менее, другой фотограф мог сделать фотографию этого объекта и выложить её под свободной лицензией. Поищите в категории Category:National Museum of Mongolia.

Если нужное фото не найдётся, то возможен ещё один вариант — загрузить фотографию по критериям добросовестного использования непосредственно в Русскую Википедию. На мой взгляд, по КДИ это фото тоже не проходит. Но этот случай лучше обсуждать непосредственно на форуме Русской Википедии. Avsolov (talk) 18:47, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Corrections

Who to contact if you want Wikipedia to make a correct to one of your articles? CleverMD (talk) 18:48, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Probably better asked on the relevant Wikipedia (there are several hundred, each in a different language) than here on Wikimedia Commons.

@CleverMD: When you say "your articles": if you wrote it, surely you can correct it! If you mean an article about you, this gets trickier because of potential conflicts of interest in writing about yourself. You can always bring an issue to the talk page of the relevant article, but that may or may not be effective in terms of getting the article changed. If you feel there is something inaccurate about you in the English-language Wikipedia, you can take that up at en:Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard, but most of the other Wikipedias don't have anything so specific to this purpose, and you'd have to go to the more general help page. - Jmabel ! talk 19:40, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Photo credit

I have been sent a photo that the photographer had said I can use for a Wikipedia page. What so I need to do to have that happen? 2600:1017:B835:3939:B07B:15EF:1382:962C 20:04, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Sounds like you asked the photographer the wrong question, and certainly asked the wrong question if you want it on Commons. Commons accepts only images that are either in the public domain or free-licensed, and nothing about "you could use this in Wikipedia" amounts to a free license. I don't think there are very many circumstances where any of the Wikipedias accept images on that basis either, but since you don't say which language I can't address that directly.

At this point you've made it more complicated by already talking to the photographer with the wrong question, so it may be a little harder now to go back and ask the right one. Basically, to move forward, this is the first case covered in Commons:Volunteer Response Team#Licensing images: when do I contact VRT?. Please follow the directions on that page; feel free to come back here with a more specific question if anything here is unclear. - Jmabel ! talk 23:24, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Is there any clear definition about the category Immigrants to B place from A place?

Let's say that a girl was born in Taiwan, but she lived in Canada for six years, then returned to Taiwan. In this case, can we say that she immigrated to Canada from Taiwan? If the answer is no, please teach me how to do it? I just want to learn how to do it the right way. Would appreciate your help a lot.--125.230.86.247 01:12, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

I don't think this is clear in the world, let alone how we model it. If she went just to study and returned to her native country after, we certainly wouldn't call that being an immigrant. Similarly if she was accompanying a family member who had a work assignment abroad. But it's trickier if she came intending to settle and changed her mind, and we may have no way to know her intent unless we have a solid source for that. The case is clearer if someone becomes a Canadian citizen and renounces their original citizenship, even if they go back to live in their birth country as a foreign national, but even that might not be a hard-and-fast rule. - Jmabel ! talk 02:30, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

A lot less clear if they become a dual citizen, though, and then go back. I have a U.S. friend who lived about that long in Canada, became a dual citizen, and then very shortly after that came back to the U.S. for career reasons. She had, indeed, intended to emigrate from the U.S. to Canada, and I won't be surprised if she retires there in a few years, but for whatever reason it just didn't work out for her to work there in her chosen profession, even after getting Canadian certifications. It was her intent to immigrate to Canada, but I'd hesitate to put that on a category about her (if she were notable enough for us to have a category about her). - Jmabel ! talk 02:36, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

localisation

Bonjour, Je viens de découvrir un peu par hasard Wikimap, et j'ai compris que ce site était alimenté par les photos postées sur Wikimédia, à condition que celles-ci incluent un lien vers la carte "open street map" (exemple : https://wikimap.toolforge.org/?wp=false&cluster=false&zoom=16&lat=048.669972&lon=-003.911217)

Comment faire pour ajouter ce lien sur mes photos déjà publiées, ou sur les prochaines ?

D'avance merci Scrapdemonik (talk) 11:47, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

@Scrapdemonik: Bonjour, Ma réponse sera incomplète puisque je n'utilise pas cette fonction. Mais les photos concernées comportent un lien d'information vers la page d'aide Commons:Géolocalisation, qui semble expliquer le fonctionnement. Il semble qu'il suffit de géolocaliser adéquatement les photos avec les coordonnées dans les paramètres du modèle «Location». Vous pouvez aussi poser votre question sur la page Commons:Bistro, où il se trouvera probablement des photographes francophones qui connaissent ce sujet. -- Asclepias (talk) 13:49, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

Vous avez raison, je crois : j’ai vu mes propres photos affichées par cet outil, ayant seulement ajouté les coordonnées à la page fichier avec {{Location}}.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 20:44, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

merci pour votre réponse si rapide ! je vais faire un essai... Scrapdemonik (talk) 09:31, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

bonjour,

Merci à tous les deux ...

bonjour,

je ne sais pas si ce message sera utile à quelqu'un : j'ai réussi à enregistrer une géolocalisation sur une nouvelle fiche

Ste Elisabeth à Trégunc, en ajoutant une ligne lors de la description. J'essaierai de me servir de cette notion à l'avenir..

Merci à ceux qui mon lu Scrapdemonik (talk) 14:24, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

En résumé : J'avais donc réussi à ajouter une localisation sur une nouvelle fiche, mais je n'arrivais vraiment pas à modifier une photo déjà publiée .. les indications trouvées me semblaient difficiles à mettre en place.

Les nuits blanches sont souvent sources de bon conseil, et j'ai tenté une manipulation très simple :

sur l'une des photos que j'ai enregistrées récemment et qui se "localisent" correctement, j'ai ouvert la fenêtre "modification". J'ai lu ce qui était indiqué entre les accolades : {{Location|xx.xxxxx|x;xxxxx}}

Il m'a suffi de faire un copier coller de la "formule" (avec les bonnes valeurs bien sûr), Yes ! ça marche !!! 👍 👍

Scrapdemonik Scrapdemonik (talk) 09:08, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Replacing Official Logo with updated one

Hello, I am an employee of Singapore Chinese Girls' School. And we are looking to update the official logo on our wikipedia page with the new official logo. When I try to upload it to wikimedia commons, I am rejected by the system. May I find out how I can go about uploading the new official logo? Mr Zheng at SCGS (talk) 03:19, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

@Mr Zheng at SCGS: I suspect that a lot of what I just wrote to someone else at Commons:Village pump/Copyright#Changing a logo will be useful to you, though I'm guessing that you are in a simpler position to get a free license issued, if needed, than someone at a large corporation. I do recommend reading what I wrote there.
You don't say what tool you are using to upload, or what message you get when you are "rejected by the system," but typically you can get around such issues by using Commons:UploadWizard. - Jmabel ! talk 04:16, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
Thank you so much for your help! Managed to get it done. Mr Zheng at SCGS (talk) 02:47, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Yesterday videos without sound

Yesterday, two videos were uploaded

if click direct on the play button in the image, the I have no sound. But If I show the original file then it has sound. Is there a problem in the player? How can we fix this.

--sk (talk) 15:38, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T358342

@Stefan Kühn: A fix for this was deployed at 21:38 UTC yesterday. So I expect that if you choose "Reset transcode" on each of the affected formats, they'll come back with sound. Or you can wait and I expect they'll get re-transcoded automatically. --bjh21 (talk) 15:49, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. I try the "Reset transcode".--sk (talk) 12:04, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Could I upload this image to the Caldwell County Courthouse (North Carolina) page?

I love the town, and I know of an old photo given out by the city and the Caldwell Heritage Museum of the old domed Courthouse Here's a discord image link to the image since I don't know if I can upload it here (just signed up today) https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/998077175485956137/1212223396021014528/image.png?ex=65f10e03&is=65de9903&hm=1ba5fc87bd165d594632114eab4d3e4a08da25a202fa0c0cfbedd23a5d98a51e&

If your wondering the source of this, https://www.cityoflenoir.com/DocumentCenter/View/256/Comprehensive-Architectural-Survey-of-the-City-of-Lenoir-Final-Report-PDF on page 19 Squogg (talk) 02:24, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

If it's from the U.S. and was published before 1929, then it's definitely in the public domain. Hard to tell if it was. And it might be modern derivative work. At lower right, on the image, it says, "Restoration/enhancement by Bill Tate, Meadowood Studios".

Your discord image looks lower resolution than what is in the Word doc; if you are uploading it here, you probably should be able to do a better "grab". - Jmabel ! talk 02:44, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

FYI, I'm pretty sure that Discord file links expire. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 03:00, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Without pre-1929 publication, even if the restoration was purely technical (pursuant to faithful reproduction, as opposed to creating a DW), it could be protected until the end of 2033 (or possibly later).—Odysseus1479 (talk) 03:10, 28 February 2024 (UTC) P.S. FWIW the image in the PDF is 937×575 px (at 144 ppi).—03:27, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

@Odysseus1479: Someone the print was published to wrote "April 4th 1913" on it, so I think {{PD-US-expired}} should do. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 10:06, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

AFAICT old anonymous works first published after 2002 get 120 years from creation: 1913 + 120 = 2033, which is where I got that year. But without more information about the prior publication history (if any), we’re all guessing.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 10:15, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

@Squogg: What would you want to call it? I managed to consult Commons:Extracting images from PDF#Extracting images from PDF and use Semadox PDF Image Extractor to get a 937×575 pixel png file. That should be converted to jpg for sharp display on our projects per phab:T192744. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 09:57, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

@Squogg: I uploaded File:Commencement Day in Lenoir. April 4th 1913.jpg for you. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 12:11, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

video sounds are not listening on File:Why_We_Need_Fantasy.webm

Hello, I uploaded this video from YouTube, but the sounds do not play. How do I fix it? Migupla (talk) 04:11, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

It's a known problem about recent video uploads; I believe it's no its way to being fixed. - Jmabel ! talk 17:49, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

How can I remove excess topics in my user talk?

Hi, I would like to ask how can I delete the topics in my user talk? Or is there something that eliminates the excess of topics in user talk or could someone do it for me please? Bolitachan (talk) 04:46, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

@Bolitachan: the best practice is to archive them; see COM:ARCHIVE. Sounds like you would be interested in using ArchiverBot, which is briefly described there, with links to set-up instructions &c.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 05:16, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Delete File:Trips of MMuizzu.svg

i uploaded it mistakenly MAL MALDIVE (talk) 10:58, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Done Yann (talk) 11:14, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

and also File:List of international presidential trips made by Mohamed Muizzu (Feb-2024).svg i uploded it with a wrong country MAL MALDIVE (talk) 12:35, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

UPLOADING IMAGES

I am writing an article about an artist. Can I upload images of their works of art? If yes, how do I do that? If no, then I don't understand their are many articles of artists that feature images of their artwork. What I am missing?

Thanks Milaefema (talk) 13:16, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

@Milaefema: Hi, and welcome. We only accept freely-licensed or public domain images here at Wikimedia Commons. The artist can license them via VRT, or you can upload them to English Wikipedia in compliance with en:WP:F, but not to Danish Wikipedia. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 13:21, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

new picture

I want to change the photo of the building. the old photo is not mine and is anti-advertising FCC Varna (talk) 14:24, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

@FCC Varna: Hi, and welcome. I am sorry to inform you that you have triggered Special:AbuseFilter/153 by trying to cross-wiki upload a png image as a new user. Such uploads of png images are not allowed at all. You indicated it's your own work. Usually when someone uploads a png image, it's a copyright violation taken from the web. Please upload the full-size original of it per COM:HR, including any metadata, but 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 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}🇺🇦 16:20, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Supprimer une page

Je souhaite supprimer la page File:Utilisation d'un électrocardiogramme (ECG) pour établir les variations de la fréquence cardiaque.png. J'ai recréé la page pour divers motifs ne sachant pas modifier l'image : File:Variabilité cardiaque à partir d'un électrocardiogramme.png. Pouvez-vous supprimer la 1ère page. Merci. Erdé51 (talk) 14:43, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

@Erdé51: Bonjour, Vous pouvez insérer le modèle {{SDG7}} au haut de la page que vous voulez faire supprimer. -- Asclepias (talk) 15:25, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

OK merci. C'est fait. Erdé51 (talk) 16:12, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

@Asclepias: That's good advice, but {{G7}} is shorter to type. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 16:53, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Indeed. Commons has at least five different templates for the same request. It's difficult to know them all. -- Asclepias (talk) 18:18, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

And {{subst:My bad upload}} is easier to remember. - Jmabel ! talk 17:56, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Maybe not for a francophone, though, and we don’t have a {{Mon mauvais téléchargement}}.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 20:21, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Jak przesłać i dołączyć plik graficzny do tekstu ?

Jak przesłać i dołączyć plik graficzny do tekstu? Edytor automatycznie odrzuca pliki, które chciałam dołączyć. Katarzyna Kuchowska (talk) 14:56, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

How to upload and attach a graphic file to text?

How to upload and attach an image file to text? The editor automatically rejects the files I wanted to attach.

translator: Google Translate via — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 17:07, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

@Katarzyna Kuchowska: Witam i zapraszam. Z przykrością muszę Cię poinformować, że uruchomiłeś Special:AbuseFilter/153, próbując przesłać przez wiki mniejszy obraz jpg (<50 000 bajtów lub <2 000 000 pikseli) jako nowy użytkownik. Obraz, który próbowałeś przesłać, jest mniejszy i wskazałeś, że jest to Twoje własne dzieło. Zwykle gdy ktoś przesyła mniejszy obraz, jest to naruszenie praw autorskich pobrane z Internetu. Jeśli obraz wykonałeś samodzielnie, prześlij jego pełnowymiarowy oryginał zgodnie z COM:HR/pl, łącznie z metadanymi EXIF. Jeśli zdjęcie nie zostało wykonane przez Ciebie, zapoznaj się z Commons:Licensing/pl, aby dowiedzieć się, dlaczego nie możemy go zaakceptować, i poproś fotografa/projektanta obrazu o licencję na jego oficjalną stronę internetową lub w mediach społecznościowych albo wyślij zdjęcie i pozwolenie za pośrednictwem VRT/pl z kopią do Ciebie. Jeśli nie możesz uzyskać zgodnej licencji, obraz może zostać przesłany do angielskiej Wikipedii zgodnie z en:WP:F, ponieważ [[COM:FAIR/pl|nie zezwalamy tutaj na dozwolony użytek] ] Jeśli zamiast tego użyjesz naszego Kreatora przesyłania, powinieneś móc uniknąć tego filtra. Zobacz także en:H:PIC lub pl:Pomoc:Ilustrowanie.

Hi, and welcome. I am sorry to inform you that you have triggered Special:AbuseFilter/153 by trying to cross-wiki upload a smaller (<50,000 bytes or <2,000,000 pixels) jpg image as a new user. The image you tried to upload is smaller, and you indicated it's your own work. Usually when someone uploads a smaller image, it is a copyright violation taken from the web. If you made the image yourself, please upload the full-size original of it per COM:HR, including EXIF metadata. If you did not make the image, please see Commons:Licensing for why we can't accept it, and have the image photographer / designer license it on their official website or social media, or send the image and permission via VRT with a carbon copy to you. 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. See also en:H:PIC or pl:Pomoc:Ilustrowanie. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 17:07, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Uploading a file

Hi - I just uploaded a file (Peter Drake playwright). Can you please tell me when it will go live for the public to read? Thanks SheLovesTheatre (talk) 18:24, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Who wrote this text? Ruslik (talk) 20:00, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

(Edit conflict) @SheLovesTheatre: that appears to be an article intended for Wikipedia, but Commons is only for photos, illustrations and other audiovisual media. Please see COM:SCOPE. Wikipedia articles are pages of wiki-text, not self-contained documents that can’t be edited online. Have a look at en:Help:Your first article, and you can also seek advice at the Wikipedia Teahouse. (Courtesy link to the file in question: File:Peter Drake playwright.pdf.)—Odysseus1479 (talk) 20:09, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

@SheLovesTheatre: Please read COM:CSD#G4. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 00:05, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Can I upload my own pictures of perfumes?

I have some pictures of perfume bottles that I want to add to their respective Wikipedia pages—would I be allowed to upload them or would that not count as free? Locust Valley (talk) 20:58, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

On that topic, can I upload pictures of storefronts I take myself? Locust Valley (talk) 21:46, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Among other things that depends on the country this bottles and store fronts are located in. To answer your question at least the country needs to be known. C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 22:56, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

I’m located in the US. Locust Valley (talk) 11:54, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

See also COM:PACKAGING. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 00:03, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Storefronts in the U.S. are usually OK, but they can get problematic if there is considerable copyrighted packaging or signage in view. I'd say go for that one, but don't be astounded if some get deleted. - Jmabel ! talk 16:25, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! Is that a no on perfumes then? Locust Valley (talk) 17:06, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Most are "no" but some might be below the threshold of originality for their respective countries. - Jmabel ! talk 19:32, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Matthias Giljums

Ich muss Matthias Giljums Geburtsurkunde finden 2804:1B3:A583:3720:E875:300D:87F4:73D 14:28, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Copyright on Canadian Soccer Photos

So I'm still confused regarding Crown Copyright and what it can be applied to. Recently I found out that the official Canadian Soccer Association website has a good number of images of older players but I want to make sure that they're actually in the public domain. SuperSkaterDude45 (discusión) 17:50, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Crown Copyright covers works by Canada's government. Canadian Soccer Association is not part of Canada's government, it is a non-profit organization so any photographs by them would have to be before 1949 to be public domain in Canada and before 1946 to be public domain in the United States. Abzeronow (talk) 17:57, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Incorrect colors of SEPTA Route Icons

Almost all of the Wikivoyage Route Icons for w:SEPTA Regional Rail have incorrect colors and in some cases are completely nonexistent. Compare the icons for all of the regional rail lines in Category:Wikivoyage route icons of Pennsylvania with w:Module:Adjacent stations/SEPTA. Can we please fix this? Like, many of the Regional icons are reusing the same color as the others. I know SEPTA doesn't refer to the lines directly by color but I believe they still use the colors in the timetables (similarly to NJT and Metra) so we should ideally have the correct color accents matched to the correct lines/routes. 73.17.22.205 20:51, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Permission to upload a photo

I would like to add a photo to the Wikipedia entry about Abraham Hanson, an English born pastor and American diplomat. The photo is from a book about the history of one of the churches where he pastored. The book is listed in the References section of the Wikipedia article. Under the Rights & Access section, it states, "The books in this collection are in the public domain and are free to use and reuse. Credit Line: Library of Congress"

Based on the above, may I go ahead and publish the photo of Abraham Hanson from that book? I would use the Credit Line that is suggested. Jforest59 (talk) 20:53, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

@Jforest59: Yes. PD-US-expired. From this source? -- Asclepias (talk) 21:39, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Jforest59 Please upload the highest resolution available. Good find. Ww2censor (talk) 23:48, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Written consent of author

Can I upload photos with the written consent of the author to publish it under CC BY 4.0 even though it has originally been posted online under another license?

I'm sure this question is stupid because either the answer is completely obvious or this question is already answered on the many pages on here that should help people to know everything about licenses. But still, I am not quite sure as I don't have much experience and I would really appreciate to get an answer to my exact question from another person.

Sorry for having to ask that question but thank you in advance. -- Crazycracker44 (talk) 20:39, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

@Crazycracker44: Which license is it published under online? If it's not a free license, you would need the author to contact COM:VRT confirming that they are licensing the previously published photograph under a free license. Abzeronow (talk) 20:42, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

I'm mainly talking about pictures obtained from Ebay listings... While Ebay itself writes that all the images on there are copyrighted, the authors I contacted all believe that they would be public domain. They all say to me that I could upload the photos here but they don't want to send a confirmation of that to VRT because I guess it seems like a scam if someone just texts you on Ebay to ask you to send a text to an unknown email... Crazycracker44 (talk) 20:40, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

COM:Hirtle should guide you here. If the photograph was published before 1929, it's free and clear in the US. If published between 1929 and 1964, it needed a copyright notice on the photograph and a copyright renewal to be in copyright. From 1965 to 1977, it still needed a copyright notice, and from 1978 until March 1989, copyright notice or subsequent copyright registration within five years for a copyright. If it's before March 1989, and lacks these, then it's probably OK. Post March 1989, we would require the photographer to grant permission via COM:VRT. Abzeronow (talk) 20:51, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for your two helpful answers, Hirtle gives a very clear overview. Crazycracker44 (talk) 21:11, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

@Abzeronow One question regarding this issue. Should the person email VRT before or after we post that person's image. I also have photos another person took and she says it's OK for me to upload them to Wikimedia. Sorry for this type of questions but I'm also new, and I don't want to make any mistake. I read the VRT page and couldn't find in which order should we do things. Miguel Angel Omaña Rojas (talk) 01:39, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

It's not very important whether it is before or after, as long as it isn't long after. And even long after is OK, it's just that the image might be deleted and have to be undeleted when permission arrives. - 05:27, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Essentially Jmabel says here what I would have said, permission can be emailed before or after the file is uploaded. Abzeronow (talk) 16:25, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Ok. Thank you so much for the info. Miguel Angel Omaña Rojas (talk) 10:04, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

@Miguel Angel Omaña Rojas: Ideally, the image should be uploaded first so that you may refer to the URL of the file description page in the email message soon afterwards. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 12:27, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

Ok, that sounds logical. Thanks for taking your time in helping out. Miguel Angel Omaña Rojas (talk) 17:12, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

@Miguel Angel Omaña Rojas: You're welcome. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 02:46, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Split or Revdel problem version

What would be the best way to handle File:Aspergillus caatingaensis.jpg? The original version was uploaded by a known copyright violator and marked as lacking evidence of permission. The uploader the overwrote the original. This second version has now passed a licence review. Is it best to delete the problematic original or split them? From Hill To Shore (talk) 19:23, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

@From Hill To Shore: Reviewing Admin Taivo or any Admin at COM:AN can hide the original version, I think that's the best option. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 12:18, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

@From Hill To Shore: I think that the practical question is: can the first version be potentially useful? If yes, then a split would be a good option. Both images have the same source and can be treated similarly. In that sense, one image is not more problematic than the other. It can be noted that the positive license review by Taivo links specifically to the first version (figure 4 at the source), not to the second version (figure 10 at the source). If it's not useful, then deletion. -- Asclepias (talk) 12:52, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

Images, other

Basically, I tried uploading two images from eBay which are promos of Ike & Tina Turner and Debra Laws, but I had instead placed the Debra Laws image onto Wikipedia under a claim of Public Domain in the USA. They even say that I triggered some edit filter, but most images from eBay on here are in the public domain. Even when I requested speedy deletion of my page, this website even said that i was adding "external links or websites". TheGreatestLuvofAll (talk) 13:51, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Well should I know if my pictures are in the public domain because when I click upload, they prevent me and say I triggered an edit filter? TheGreatestLuvofAll (talk) 16:21, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Do you know about "fair use"? You made some edits on the english wikipedia connected to fair use images at en.wp and you made some crops of images here at commons. If you say you triggered a filter, maybe you tried to upload a small image from en.wp. Either such an image is fair use and can only be uploaded locally at en.wp or it is in the public domain, but a small image, then it should be uploaded directly here at commons. But make sure the license state of the image in question first. If in doubt post a link to the image here, so that others can know what you are about to do and can answer your questions. C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 16:35, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

I already know about the "fair use" criteria. I even had uploaded non-free images of album covers and deceased people on enwiki. TheGreatestLuvofAll (talk) 16:37, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

@TheGreatestLuvofAll: Hi, and welcome. I am sorry to inform you that you have triggered Special:AbuseFilter/154 by trying to upload content that has appeared elsewhere as a new user. Please read COM:NETCOPYRIGHT. You have also triggered Special:AbuseFilter/142 by trying to use a mobile browser as a new user to add text which has been used before by mobile vandals. Please don't do that. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 16:25, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

I have never tried to misuse a mobile device because I have used a mobile device since my tenure. I also have been editing on computer too, and for example there are people using images from Worthpoint and eBay under Public Domain purposes. TheGreatestLuvofAll (talk) 16:39, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

@TheGreatestLuvofAll: Such images from Worthpoint and eBay must be Public Domain for good reasons (like expiry from 120+ years ago), or they cannot stay here. Do you have examples? — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 16:49, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

An image of singer Jean Knight, this image of Minnie Riperton, a image of The Supremes, a image of the Shangri-Las, a image of the Ronettes, this image of Luther Vandross. TheGreatestLuvofAll (talk) 16:52, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

@TheGreatestLuvofAll: Please be more specific, with internal links. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 17:09, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

It is relatively unlikely that these are public domain, and if not then there is almost no chance that they are free-licensed. Since these are U.S. artists, the most likely way they would be public domain is publication in the U.S. before 1978 without a copyright notice. See Commons:Hirtle chart for details: it's complicated. - Jmabel ! talk 17:54, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

~~When I insert one it's just going to enter the picture instead of the link~~ Links are now added. TheGreatestLuvofAll (talk) 17:58, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

@TheGreatestLuvofAll: File:Jean Knight 1971 press photo.jpg "is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1929 and 1977, inclusive, without a copyright notice." File:Minnie Riperton 1977.jpg, File:The Supremes 1967.JPG, File:The Shangri-Las - Promotional photo.png, and File:The Ronettes.JPG are, too. File:Luther Vandross 1985.jpg "is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1978 and March 1, 1989 without a copyright notice, and its copyright was not subsequently registered with the U.S. Copyright Office within 5 years." Do any of those apply to the images you want to upload? Please see COM:HIRTLE. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 18:59, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

I have tried using those tags, but they seem to not work. TheGreatestLuvofAll (talk) 19:24, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

@TheGreatestLuvofAll: The first group uses {{PD-1978}} because each photo was published in the US between 1929 and 1978 without notice, while File:Luther Vandross 1985.jpg uses {{PD-US-1978-89}} "because it was published in the US between 1978 and March 1, 1989 without a copyright notice, and its copyright was not subsequently registered with the U.S. Copyright Office within 5 years." Please be more specific about "they seem to not work". Where exactly on eBay did you find the promos of Ike & Tina Turner and Debra Laws? You forgot to ping me. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 03:02, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

https://www.ebay.com/itm/115626784436 (Debra Laws)

I could not find the Ike & Tina Turner photo. I tried to search what I remember when seeing it. TheGreatestLuvofAll (talk) 04:06, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

@TheGreatestLuvofAll: Thanks, but you again forgot to ping me. @Carl: was "PHOTO CREDIT: RON SLENZAK/1981" along the right margin sufficient for a copyright notice in the US in 1981? There is also the matter of the "elektra" logo in the bottom right corner, but I suppose that could be cropped out when cropping down to the photo content. Did Slenzak register copyright for this photo with the USCO within 5 years? — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 04:54, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

No, there needed to be a copyright symbol or the word "copyright" or something close to one of those. Name and year alone was not a notice. Slenzak has a bunch of registrations (including many for album artwork) but not sure I see one for this photo. Carl Lindberg (talk) 05:18, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

I do not know? That photo was also used on the cover of her first album "Very Special", and was also issued as a promo by the time the album was released. TheGreatestLuvofAll (talk) 05:20, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Can someone clip out the individual photos in this image?

There is a contact sheet here:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Reagan_Contact_Sheet_C14768.jpg

I am writing an article and would like an image of Brent Snowcroft and Reagan. There are a series of these mostly on the second and third rows. The ones near the end of the series seem like the right aspect ratio for an infobox. Can someone select one of these that is the best looking in their opinon, and clip it out and rotate it into a new upload? IMHO, the last image on the second line looks best. Thanks! Maury Markowitz (talk) 15:12, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

@Maury Markowitz you can either use com:croptool; or save the original file to your devices, crop it in your devices and then upload the crops separately, possibly using com:derivativefx. RZuo (talk) 08:28, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

@Maury Markowitz: Hi, and welcome. I did it for you with CropTool, producing File:Ronald Reagan and Brent Scowcroft C14768-07.jpg. Please use internal links like that and File:Reagan Contact Sheet C14768.jpg. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 12:06, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks Jeff G.! Maury Markowitz (talk) 13:19, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

@Maury Markowitz: You're welcome. I fixed the spelling. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 15:08, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

Upload all images or exlude ones of little educational value?

I would like to upload images from https://www.duma72.ru, which is the website of the Tyumen Oblast Duma. (Copyright shouln't be a problem since it's under a free license.) I'm wondering if it's a good idea to upload every single image from this site, which would be easier, or if it's better to exclude ones that I consider to be of little educational value like these ones: https://www.duma72.ru/ru/arena/media/photo/2412/. Is uploading of such images even allowed or would this violate the depicted persons' personality rights? D3rT!m (talk) 11:41, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Dear @D3rT!m, this is now just a personal assessment but I'd only try to upload what I consider to be of a potential educational value. What I deem to have little educational value I'd not want to upload. I have checked some of the pages and at least here, they have twice the same image. I believe here then you could only opt to upload one each.Paradise Chronicle (talk) 13:38, 9 March 2024 (UTC)