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Telangana[edit]

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

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

localisation[edit]

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)Reply[reply]

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

Written consent of author[edit]

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)Reply[reply]

@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)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]
Thank you for your two helpful answers, Hirtle gives a very clear overview. Crazycracker44 (talk) 21:11, 19 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@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)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]
Ok. Thank you so much for the info. Miguel Angel Omaña Rojas (talk) 10:04, 2 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@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)Reply[reply]
Ok, that sounds logical. Thanks for taking your time in helping out. Miguel Angel Omaña Rojas (talk) 17:12, 2 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Miguel Angel Omaña Rojas: You're welcome.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 02:46, 3 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Copyright release request language[edit]

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)Reply[reply]

@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)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]
Please note that the museum has already uploaded a photo of this model themselves here.[1] CC-BY-SA and all.
Peter Isotalo 19:14, 23 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]
The museum has already released the rights to this exhibition through this photo.[2] 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)Reply[reply]
@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)Reply[reply]
We don't care whether they are "works of art", just whether they are copyrightable. - Jmabel ! talk 20:08, 25 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]

@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)Reply[reply]

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)Reply[reply]

Are photos from the White House Historical Association public domain?[edit]

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.

[3] It also came from this article. [4]

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)Reply[reply]

@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)Reply[reply]
Thanks. Here is a link to the source saying that they are public domain. [5] And1987 (talk) 04:39, 24 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@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)Reply[reply]

アップロードしたファイルがページに貼り付けない[edit]

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)Reply[reply]

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)Reply[reply]

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

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)Reply[reply]

@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)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]

Flickr upload problem[edit]

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 [6]https://www.flickr.com/photos/markbyzewski/12721286293/ Ron Clausen (talk) 08:05, 24 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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

Can't upload flickr images[edit]

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)Reply[reply]

Same here. FunkMonk (talk) 23:54, 24 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Aszx5000: See a few sections above: #Flickr upload problem. -- Asclepias (talk) 01:39, 25 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thank you for that. Aszx5000 (talk) 11:21, 25 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Potential joke on a beetle species[edit]

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)Reply[reply]

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)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]

Huge amount of problematic name categories[edit]

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)Reply[reply]

@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)Reply[reply]
Thanks.StarTrekker (talk) 22:40, 24 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

License for images found using the Google filter[edit]

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)Reply[reply]

@PheonixU+221E:
  1. Google is not always reliable.
  2. It is completely normal that someone owns a copyright on a CC-licensed image. You can't license what you don't own.
  3. 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)Reply[reply]
1. Ok
2. True, but I though that for a CC-licensed image it would be circled CC instead of © only
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)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]
I see, thank you. PheonixU+221E (talk) 21:57, 25 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Bibliotheque Nationale image descriptions that can't be edited[edit]

During a FAC[7] I just came across this[8] 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[9], 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)Reply[reply]

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)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]
@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)Reply[reply]
@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)Reply[reply]
@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)Reply[reply]
@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)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]
Thanks. Does anyone disagree that the best solution is to make the images directly editable? FunkMonk (talk) 17:14, 26 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I'm with FunkMonk on this. Just "subst" the template everywhere it's used. - Jmabel ! talk 19:16, 26 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]

شركة اقمشة[edit]

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)Reply[reply]

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)Reply[reply]

சித்திரக்கவி[edit]

விமானபந்தனம் முத்துராமன்1974 (talk) 09:49, 25 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

(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)Reply[reply]

i can not upload a picture[edit]

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)Reply[reply]

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)Reply[reply]

External link to be replaced[edit]

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)Reply[reply]

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)Reply[reply]

Folders[edit]

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)Reply[reply]

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

Flickr uploader doesn't work[edit]

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)Reply[reply]

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

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

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)Reply[reply]

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

Uploads just stuck "submitting details"[edit]

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)Reply[reply]

@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)Reply[reply]

Question[edit]

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

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)Reply[reply]
@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)Reply[reply]
@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)Reply[reply]

Replacing Official Logo with updated one[edit]

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)Reply[reply]

Trying to upload a video[edit]

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)Reply[reply]

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

Can these images be published?[edit]

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)Reply[reply]

@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)Reply[reply]

Pamela Courson Photo German Wikipedia[edit]

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)Reply[reply]

@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)Reply[reply]

Yesterday videos without sound[edit]

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)Reply[reply]

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

Фотография из монгольского Музея истории религии.[edit]

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)Reply[reply]

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)Reply[reply]

Corrections[edit]

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

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)Reply[reply]

Photo credit[edit]

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)Reply[reply]

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)Reply[reply]

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

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)Reply[reply]

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)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]

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

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)Reply[reply]

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

video sounds are not listening on File:Why_We_Need_Fantasy.webm[edit]

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)Reply[reply]

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)Reply[reply]

How can I remove excess topics in my user talk?[edit]

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)Reply[reply]

@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)Reply[reply]

Delete File:Trips of MMuizzu.svg[edit]

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

✓ Done Yann (talk) 11:14, 28 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]

UPLOADING IMAGES[edit]

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)Reply[reply]

@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)Reply[reply]

Images, other[edit]

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)Reply[reply]

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)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]
@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)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]
@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)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]
@TheGreatestLuvofAll: Please be more specific, with internal links.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 17:09, 28 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]
@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)Reply[reply]
I have tried using those tags, but they seem to not work. TheGreatestLuvofAll (talk) 19:24, 28 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@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)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]
@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)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]

new picture[edit]

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)Reply[reply]

@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)Reply[reply]

Supprimer une page[edit]

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)Reply[reply]

@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)Reply[reply]
OK merci. C'est fait. Erdé51 (talk) 16:12, 28 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@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)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]
And {{subst:My bad upload}} is easier to remember. - Jmabel ! talk 17:56, 28 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Maybe not for a francophone, though, and we don’t have a {{Mon mauvais téléchargement}}.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 20:21, 28 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Jak przesłać i dołączyć plik graficzny do tekstu ?[edit]

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

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)Reply[reply]
@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)Reply[reply]

Uploading a file[edit]

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)Reply[reply]

Who wrote this text? Ruslik (talk) 20:00, 28 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
(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)Reply[reply]
@SheLovesTheatre: Please read COM:CSD#G4.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 00:05, 29 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Can I upload my own pictures of perfumes?[edit]

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)Reply[reply]

On that topic, can I upload pictures of storefronts I take myself? Locust Valley (talk) 21:46, 28 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]
I’m located in the US. Locust Valley (talk) 11:54, 29 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
See also COM:PACKAGING.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 00:03, 29 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]
Thanks! Is that a no on perfumes then? Locust Valley (talk) 17:06, 29 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Most are "no" but some might be below the threshold of originality for their respective countries. - Jmabel ! talk 19:32, 29 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Upload all images or exlude ones of little educational value?[edit]

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)Reply[reply]

Matthias Giljums[edit]

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

Can someone clip out the individual photos in this image?[edit]

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)Reply[reply]

@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)Reply[reply]
@Maury Markowitz: Hi, and welcome. I did it for you with CropTool, producing File:Ronald Reagan and Brent Snowcroft 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)Reply[reply]

Copyright on Canadian Soccer Photos[edit]

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)Reply[reply]

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)Reply[reply]

Split or Revdel problem version[edit]

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)Reply[reply]

@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)Reply[reply]
@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)Reply[reply]

Incorrect colors of SEPTA Route Icons[edit]

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)Reply[reply]

Permission to upload a photo[edit]

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)Reply[reply]

@Jforest59: Yes. PD-US-expired. From this source? -- Asclepias (talk) 21:39, 29 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Jforest59 Please upload the highest resolution available. Good find. Ww2censor (talk) 23:48, 29 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Photographs from the IWM archive[edit]

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

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

I have no idea how IWM can possibly claim to own copyright on those photographs: how would the copyright from official German photos have made its way to them? They might not be PD, though. Imagine if they were taken by someone 25 years old at the time. They would only have been 61 in 1954, so they could easily have lived that long, and if they did then their heirs would still own a copyright. I believe that under German law (which Commons would defer to here) if the images were truly anonymous they would long since have lost copyright, but it is possible that there is a known author more specific than "German official photographer", and the IWM just doesn't happen to know who took them. - Jmabel ! talk 17:03, 1 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thankyou Jmabel: your thoughts are similar to mine. Frankly, the UK may have looted the photos from a German archive. However, we do not know which "German official photographer(s)" took these two photographs, and she/he/they could easily have lived until 1954 or later.
I tried a reverse image search to see if any German online archive offers the same two photos under more helpful copyright terms. I found no such archive. What I found instead was Alamy trying to pass off a sepia version of Q 51036 as their own, and charge £15 for a licence to use it!
I am no lawyer. I feel out of my depth in copyright matters. Is "German official photographer" a legal entity in German law? If a photograph is thus attributed, does it in a sense cease to be the work of the actual human who took the photograph, and become the work of the German state? Motacilla (talk) 19:58, 1 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
The Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive) has one of them, see [10], but they don't name a photographer as well ("o. Ang.", "ohne Angabe", not indicated), and it's also not the among the Bundesarchiv images that were uploaded here under a free license in 2008. The way German copyright works, even if these were photographs taken by official military photographers, they are not automatically in the public domain (like in the US on the federal level) or under some kind of Crown Copyright (like in the UK), but protected 70 years pma, for the lifetime of the photographer and then an additional 70 years; they're also not "anonymous" if the name of the photographer became known somewhere. So without further details about photographer, first publication etc., those would be ok for Wikimedia Commons only after 120 years (with {{PD-old-assumed}}); in 2039 in this case. They're old enough for local upload to en.wp though (from before 1929), and de.wp would also accept them as local uploads since they are older than 100 years. --Rosenzweig τ 13:38, 2 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Delete File[edit]

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

Fandom Copyright Questions[edit]

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

At https://jujutsu-kaisen.fandom.com/wiki/Gege_Akutami?file=Gege_Akutami.png, if you hover over "Gege Akutami" it says the file is fair use, so we cannot have it on Commons. The English Wikipedia might accept it on a "fair use" basis. - Jmabel ! talk 17:08, 1 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Got it, thanks for the help :)
Frostcrush Valari (talk) 17:20, 1 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

APPS[edit]

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

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

Foto pubblicata da altro utente spacciandosi per autore[edit]

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

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

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

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

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

@MGeog2022: Template:PD-US-expired states the PD status in the U.S. and it can be used for all such works, irrespective of the country of publication. For any additional template, you did not tell what country. You can use the specific template for that country, if there is one, or Template:PD-old-70 or Template:PD-old-assumed, if applicable to that country. -- Asclepias (talk) 13:56, 2 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Sorry, I hadn't said it: the map was published in Spain. Yes, I used "Template:PD-old-70" (it's automatically used when selecting "Author has been deceased for more than 70 years" option). For this case it should be OK, because it's extremely unlikely (not to say impossible) that authors of a 1853 work were alive in 1954. But for works from, let's say, 1910, that wouldn't be the same. For works such as maps, it can be really difficult to know the author's death date. For US works, the 1929 date makes this very easy, but for works from other countries, it can be really confusing (perhaps a template for Spain does exist, but it isn't easy to find, and the upload wizard doesn't offer an option for that). I would appreciate any information in this regard, not so much for this 1853 map, where there is no need for it, but for other possible future uploads. MGeog2022 (talk) 14:11, 2 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
For a summary of rules and a list of possible templates for a country, you can consult pages such as Commons:Copyright rules by territory/Spain (or, for other countries, other subpages of Commons:Copyright rules by territory). For Spain, note the precision about 80 years. So, on Commons, the two templates for your map are likely Template:PD-US-expired + Template:PD-old-80. -- Asclepias (talk) 14:42, 2 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
OK, I'll use both of them, since it seems that for older works from Spain it's 80 years after death, and not 70 (again, 1944, for a 1853 work, whose autors would have been born in 1833 or earlier, I think that we could take it for granted). But I am amazed that, unlike for the United States, there is no limit by publication date, this leaves out works from around 1900, when you don't know the author's death date. In any case, thank you very much for your help. MGeog2022 (talk) 15:01, 2 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • If author is unknown and there is no specific provision giving a shorter term, most countries consider 120 years after publication a safe bet, as do we for Commons. - Jmabel ! talk 18:00, 2 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    @Jmabel, thanks, that's a good reference to know what works are safe to upload (it would be fine to have that option on Upload Wizard; this would have been a good proposal for the Technical Needs Survey, if it had not already been completed). In this case author isn't unknown, but authors aren't notable enough to easily know their death dates (maybe with proper research work they could be known, or maybe not). MGeog2022 (talk) 18:41, 2 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    Yes, that death date thing is tricky when relatively obscure people are at issue. - Jmabel ! talk 21:59, 2 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

How to proceed with a picture[edit]

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

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

Thank you! YoursTrulyKor (talk) 23:59, 2 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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

YoursTrulyKor (talk) 00:02, 3 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

There's no way to use that picture, because it's still copyrighted and we cannot contact the author. We have some pictures of that horse in Category:Ourasi, though. --rimshottalk 02:16, 3 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I did a bit more of digging and i was able to find a source, it belongs to AFP (Agence France-Presse), now im wondering- how do i identify other details like the type of Copyright? Thanks! YoursTrulyKor (talk) 14:28, 3 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
See Commons:Copyright rules by territory/France. If the photographer is known, the copyright will be protected for 70 years after they die. If the photographer isn't known, the copyright will be protected for 70 years following publication. If the image is 12 years old, that means it will be protected by copyright until at least 2082 (or longer if the photographer is known and they were still alive after 2012). It is possible that AFP (or the photographer if they were a freelancer and retained copyright themselves) may choose to release the image under a free licence but it is highly unlikely. Press agencies like AFP make their money by selling the rights to use their images and releasing images under a free licence will hurt their profits. From Hill To Shore (talk) 15:10, 3 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thank you! Now i got another question. If i were to take a public recording of a race in which Ourasi participated in the 80s, stop at a certain frame, screenshot it and then crop it and maybe slightly restore it- would it that be considered copyrighted or an own creation? Thanks YoursTrulyKor (talk) 18:25, 3 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@YoursTrulyKor: Definitely not "own work". Which "public recording", exactly? See also COM:DW.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 19:21, 3 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Televized recordings of Prix d'Amerique from 1989, 1990, etc. YoursTrulyKor (talk) 20:05, 3 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@YoursTrulyKor: How did such recordings escape copyright? France has been a member of the Berne Convention since 5 December 1887.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 00:34, 4 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Ok so i was able to find out that these footages were captured by ina.fr
Maybe im making a mistake but i will continue researching into this. YoursTrulyKor (talk) 01:23, 4 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
so i've read through ina.fr terms of use (Here) and theres a section which peaked my attention which reads the following:
"Le Site permet à l’Utilisateur, librement et gratuitement de :
-consulter les Contenus du Site, et notamment les Contributions publiées;
-partager les Contributions sur les réseaux sociaux"
Which roughfully translates to:
"The Site allows the User, freely and free of charge, to:
- consult the Content of the Site, and in particular the published Contributions;
- share the Contributions on social networks"
Contributions is also defined on the website as:
"Contribution(s)”: designates all Article(s), Reading Note(s), video modules, Statistics(s), created by an Author and distributed on the Site;"
So it states that all videos, images, notes, statistics, etc. which are present on the site are free to user and share anywhere on the internet.
So what does that mean? Is it a good sign? YoursTrulyKor (talk) 01:35, 4 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Kindly keep my artworks[edit]

Hi

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

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:R-Gopakumar-Mind-Scape.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:R-Gopakumar-On-your-own.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:R._Gopakumar_Ephemeral_Void-Water.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:R._Gopakumar-Cognition_Libido.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:R._Gopakumar-Must-not-be-beautiful.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:R._Gopakumar_Ephemeral_Void-Fire.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:R._Gopakumar_Ephemeral_Void-Earth.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:R._Gopakumar_Ehemeral_Void-Space.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:R._Gopakumar_Ephemeral_Void-Air.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gopakumar-R.jpg

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

@Editani: Hi, and welcome. Please send permission for them via VRT.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 06:05, 3 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Editani: As far as Commons is concerned, I agree with Jeff, but it looks like you are violating it:Wikipedia:Conflitto di interessi. It's not my role here to enforce the rules of the Italian Wikipedia, but I suggest you try to get in line with that rule or you are likely to have your account there blocked. - Jmabel ! talk 06:48, 3 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Aeron10 and Ruthven: FYI.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 11:21, 3 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi sir Google[edit]

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

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

How do I publish my photo?[edit]

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

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

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

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

All photographs after 1989 are presumed to be copyrighted. Please read COM:L. Abzeronow (talk) 18:19, 3 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thank you!!! Vintagemi (talk) 19:07, 3 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Vintagemi: See also en:Wikipedia:Finding images tutorial.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 19:34, 3 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Vintagemi: and adding to what Abzeronow said: "All photographs after 1989 …and many before that." Some photographs as late as the late 19th century are still copyrighted and (due to various quirks), a very small number even older than that. - Jmabel ! talk 21:34, 3 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Uploading picture[edit]

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

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

Uploading mp3 file disallowed[edit]

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

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

@Hpage66: MP3 uploads are restricted to autopatrollers and above. Abzeronow (talk) 21:28, 3 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
How do I upload this file? What is an autopatroller? Thank you. Hpage66 (talk) 22:40, 3 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Commons:User_access_levels#Patrol_and_autopatrol —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:53, 3 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Justin's link spells out what an autopatroller is. It's essentially a user that is trusted enough that their edits are automatically marked as "patrolled." For those of us who have the patroller status (and above), we can mark things as patrolled, meaning they have been checked for vandalism and the like. Abzeronow (talk) 19:47, 4 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Hpage66: Hi, and welcome. I am sorry to inform you that you have triggered Special:AbuseFilter/192 by trying to upload an mp3 file with insufficient rights. Too many people try to upload audio files that are still copyrighted by the authors, performers, recorders, publishing companies, etc. without proper licenses from those people. Please document fully the sources and licenses of your audio uploads, and request Autopatrol group membership at COM:RFR when you think you are ready (once you have made more than 500 useful non-botlike edits); having that should allow you to upload mp3 files. In the meantime, please reencode that and other audio into Vorbis or Opus and uploading them with full documentation as .ogg files.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 00:38, 4 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thank you, JeffG, Well the author/performer has explicitly place all his works in the public domain. Do you need a link to the web page? Screen shot of his web page? What is Autopatrol ? What is COM:RFR? What are non-botlike edits? Thank you. Hpage66 (talk) 05:05, 4 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Autopatrol is explained in the link Koavf gave above. - Jmabel ! talk 15:58, 4 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Hpage66: Links to the webpage or screenshots would be helpful. Justin and I meant for you to click on the blue links. non-botlike edits are edits that require individual thought by a human (rather than edits done by robotic means). For instance, recategorization of 200 files in a category using Cat-a-lot counts as one edit in the minds of the Admins evaluating requests at COM:RFR.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 07:44, 4 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Copyright[edit]

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

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

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

Village Goverment Seals[edit]

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

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

Inserção de figuras[edit]

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

Inserting figures
I want to insert a figure. It appears in a doctoral thesis, duly cited and referenced. How do I do?
translator: Google Translate via   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:55, 4 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Prof Daniel Neri: Olá e seja bem-vindo. Consulte COM:FS/pt e depois pt:WP:IMAGEM.
Hi, and welcome. Please see COM:FS and then en:H:PIC.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:55, 4 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

[edit]

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

Hello Froggheadd, what you describe is from the start (how you seem to have planned it) not compatible with the way things work here. The old logo was once the right logo, right? (at least that seems to be the case from your text). The way things work here on Commons: If there is a new logo you want to upload, fine. Then make a completely new file with the file name (just a proposal): "Organization XYZ, Logo since Dec. 2023.jpg". The old logo site and file stays exactly as is, but you might e.g. add to that description text "old logo until 2023, replaced since ..." or the like. Pittigrilli (talk) 16:28, 4 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
PS: If you want to make it perfect, you might afterwards the above initiate the renaming of the original (old) file name to have the addition "old logo until 2023" or so. But this is kind of an extra, and I would recommed that if you want to do that, you come back here and just ask for it. Pittigrilli (talk) 19:20, 4 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Pittigrill: , Froggheadd doesn't say he was trying to overwrite, so I wouldn't presume that. The "can't be a logo" is more likely a warning in an upload tool, because most logos are copyrighted. We've been having a lot of back-and-forth with developers who've been much too inclined to try to filter out possibly infringing material early, without understanding that false negatives are just as much problem as false positives.
@Froggheadd: If the log is simple enough to be below the threshold of originality in its originating country, you can upload it to Commons under a new filename, then use {{PD-textlogo}} in lieu of a license. (Depending on what upload tool you are using, you might have to edit after uploading to get that in there.) Then switch the relevant Wikipedia article over to use the new logo.
If the logo is above the TOO, then the only way you can upload to Commons is if the company (or other copyright-holder) is willing to go through the COM:VRT process and offer a specific free license for the logo.
If it is just the English-language Wikipedia you are concerned with, they have an allowance for uploading low-resolution versions of non-free logos (but those uploads are specific to en-wiki and cannot be used on other WMF projects). See en:File:Dallas Sidekicks WISL logo.jpg for a decent example. - Jmabel ! talk 09:42, 5 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Blocked upload: new user + pdf file[edit]

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

Hi Stan, should work now. I tagged your account 'confirmed'. Achim55 (talk) 17:07, 4 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thank you, @Achim55! I was able to upload the comments and I greatly appreciate your help and speed! SAdams-WMF (talk) 18:31, 4 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Licensing[edit]

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

You can use {{PD-UK-unknown}} if the author is unknown. Ruslik (talk) 18:55, 4 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
The authors are known (Owen G Thetford and E.J Riding) but I can't find any death dates (for the 70 year rule). I have read in one of the licensing sections here that old books with no copyright notices are not protected which seems to make sense. Nimbus227 (talk) 19:53, 4 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
In cases where the author is known but the death date is not known, we'd have to wait 120 years after the creation of the photograph so it could be uploaded in 2039 (sooner if the year of creation is known to be before 1918). Abzeronow (talk) 20:17, 4 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Nimbus227: I believe you may be referring to "Aircraft of the 1914-1918 War. Compiled by O.G. Thetford and E.J. Riding. Managing editor: D.A. Russe." The first contributor is almost certainly Owen Gordon Thetford (1923-1996). UK copyright on the work will last until at least 2066 (assuming the other contributors died earlier). However, the book is described as "compiled by," which suggests Thetford and Riding didn't take the photos. Does the book give any indication that other people may have taken the photographs? If so (and they aren't named) then {{PD-UK-unknown}} may apply to the photographs. However, if they were first published in 1946, the US copyright would have been restored in 1996 and won't expire until 2041. Unless you can find an earlier publication, it is unlikely that you will be able to upload these images for quite some time. From Hill To Shore (talk) 20:42, 4 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Yes, right title, there's no mention of D.A Russe that I can see. Majority of images are credited to the Imperial War Museum with others credited to the manufacturing companies (Sopwith, Westland etc). It looks like I will have to upload the needed images as non-free on Wikipedia. Nimbus227 (talk) 20:52, 4 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
The archive entry I found had the name cut off. Apparently it was edited by D. A. Russell,[11] the managing editor of "Aeromodeller." We also have a Wikidata entry for Owen Thetford (Q112564888). Ping me when you upload the images to Wikipedia; I'll be happy to look over them to see if we can craft a justification for them PD, or at least help establish when they are likely to become PD. From Hill To Shore (talk) 21:31, 4 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

HotCat tag[edit]

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

LANGUAGE[edit]

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

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

Hi there,

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

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

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

Thank you! EricaSatur (talk) 05:59, 5 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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

Photo uploaded but not sure if uploaded successfully[edit]

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

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