User talk:VNiles

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, VNiles!

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 19:06, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

Deleted content

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Hello VNiles, the following content you uploaded violates one or more of our policies and therefore has been or will soon be deleted:

File:Village of Niles Free Bus.JPG

The Wikimedia Commons (this website) only hosts media files with a realistic educational purpose and that can be used for any purpose, including:

• use in any work, regardless of content
• creation of derivative works
• commercial use
• free distribution

See Commons:Licensing for the copyright policy on Wikimedia Commons, and Commons:Image casebook for some specific examples. Some other Wikimedia projects have different licensing policies. For example, the English Wikipedia allows fair use of sounds and photographs. This is not the case on Wikimedia Commons; "fair use" materials are not acceptable here.

Please make sure that you only upload educational content you have created yourself, those which are out of copyright, or those for which you have the required permission for the work to be used in all the ways described above. Please note that derivative works of copyrighted material are also considered copyrighted. Again, please read through Commons:Licensing, which is quite crucial, to understanding how Wikimedia Commons works. Thanks for your contribution, and please do leave me a message if you have further questions.

And also:

• File:Village of Niles, Illinois Park District Hockey.JPG
• File:Village of Niles, Illinois Park District.JPG
• File:Niles, Illinois Neighborhood.jpg

Yours sincerely, Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 21:51, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

How to respond

There are unwarranted accusations and really stupid things often done by some of the administrators around here. This may have been the case apropos your deleted uploads.

Here's some guidance you may find helpful: If you can change http://www.vniles.com/Site/Copyright to say that except where noted, the site content is released under a free license, say {{CC-BY-SA-4.0}}, then you should be able to get your deleted uploads undeleted.--Elvey (talk) 02:39, 9 September 2014 (UTC)