User talk:Contains Mild Peril

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Contains Mild Peril!

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Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, Contains Mild Peril!

Tip: Add categories to your files

Thanks a lot for contributing to the Wikimedia Commons! Here's a tip to make your uploads more useful: Why not add some categories to describe them? This will help more people to find and use them.

Here's how:

1) If you're using the UploadWizard, you can add categories to each file when you describe it. Just click "more options" for the file and add the categories which make sense:

2) You can also pick the file from your list of uploads, edit the file description page, and manually add the category code at the end of the page.

[[Category:Category name]]

For example, if you are uploading a diagram showing the orbits of comets, you add the following code:

[[Category:Astronomical diagrams]]

[[Category:Comets]]

This will make the diagram show up in the categories "Astronomical diagrams" and "Comets".

When picking categories, try to choose a specific category ("Astronomical diagrams") over a generic one ("Illustrations").

Thanks again for your uploads! More information about categorization can be found in Commons:Categories, and don't hesitate to leave a note on the help desk.

BotMultichillT 05:44, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

• Image:Richard Hughes Keane 2009 - 1.jpg was uncategorized on 5 October 2009.
• Image:Smartcardchip no text.jpg was uncategorized on 25 January 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:38, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Notification about possible deletion

Some contents have been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether they should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at their entry. If you created these pages, please note that the fact that they have been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with them, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Affected:

• File:Farnell Alpha monkey.jpg

Yours sincerely, Fæ (talk) 14:22, 24 October 2019 (UTC)

Derivative works

If you wish to make controversial changes to a long-standing guideline, you will need to discuss them on the talk page first. A lack of familiarity with copyright law does not render the summation merely "certain Commons editors' own interpretation of the law. For example:

"We would have no pictures featuring any modern man-made objects with any element of artistic design whatsoever"

Copyright subsists in original works of authorship (USC § 102), not "artistic design". Contemporary works ("artistic design[s]") could be any of, among others, below the threshold of originality, de minimis, released under a free license per their author, etc.

"We would have to avoid, for example, photos of clothed people unless every garment depicted is in the public domain"

Clothing is explicitly a useful article and thereby not eligible for copyright protection ("Common examples of useful articles include: [...] Articles of clothing" and "an article of clothing is inherently useful because it covers the body" (US Copyright Office, citing Star Athletica)); this is concept addressed at COM:UA. One also notes, tellingly, "photos of clothed people" is not "photos of clothing"; to the extent a copyrightable element were incorporated into an article of clothing therein, it would almost certainly be, again, de minimis. Эlcobbola _talk 10:44, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

I will take this to the talk page later. I don't appreciate your condescension. My edit was perhaps a slight oversimplification for the sake of brevity and I could have been more specific, but as far as I can see you have presented literally no evidence whatsoever to support your assertion that your interpretation of the law is not "creative". If I have missed any information in cited sources explicitly mentioning photography of toys, especially those which do not represent specific characters, please do correct me. Contains Mild Peril (talk) 16:31, 10 November 2019 (UTC)