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Is this image public domain?[edit]

Moved to Commons:Village pump/Copyright

Unofficial Logo Deletion Request[edit]

Unofficial Logo Deletion Request The logo at the address below has been retired and should be deleted immediately to prevent incorrect logo use. (https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dosya:In%C3%B6n%C3%BC_%C3%BCniversitesi_logo.gif) UFUKLIVE (talk) 08:54, 22 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@UFUKLIVE: Hi, and welcome. We don't delete historical logos like File:Inönü üniversitesi logo.gif, we keep them for use in historical logo sections of Wikipedia articles. Please use internal links and upload a replacement or replacements for use in such sections and current infoboxes in such articles, and link them together via "other_versions". If you can't upload such replacements, please at least link them in the descriptions or upload to Wikipedias like 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🇺🇦 11:34, 22 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Jeff G. Hi Jeff, Thank you for your detailed information. The reason for our request to remove this old unofficial logo is to prevent people from making the mistake of still using this unofficial and outdated logo from Google searches. The deletion of this unofficial logo, which is not included in İnönü University's Corporate Identity Guide, is a very sensitive issue for the İnönü University. Please respond positively to this humble request and remove this old logo from your systems.
Yours sincerely, UFUKLIVE (talk) 06:48, 25 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@UFUKLIVE: I'm sorry, but this absolutely will not happen. This is like if someone asked a newspaper to remove a news story from its archives because it no longer reflected the current situations. Commons is a media repository associated with encyclopedias. Things that are of historical interest are just as important as things that are current. - Jmabel ! talk 21:10, 25 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@UFUKLIVE: Was it ever official? If not, how could it be retired? Where may we find the official one? Are you willing to make that free enough for COM:L?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:55, 30 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Jeff G. Dear Jeff, thank you for your significant support and interest in the matter. For the correct use of the Corporate Logo of İnönü University, you can see this page with edu.tr extension (https://www.inonu.edu.tr/kurumsal/menu/24803/ana-logolar). Removing the current outdated logo, which is old and now incorrect to use nowadays, will promote the use of the current and correct logo of İnönü University. If you continue not to remove this old logo from the system, people will continue to use this outdated and unofficial logo as a result of their google searches. Our humble request is that people are directed to the correct and up-to-date logo that is corporate (https://www.inonu.edu.tr/kurumsal/menu/24803/ana-logolar). UFUKLIVE (talk) 07:43, 2 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@UFUKLIVE: You didn't answer three of my four questions. See also my reply at Commons talk:Abuse filter#Report by UFUKLIVE.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 12:13, 2 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Jeff G. Hi Jeff, Please see my following responses (1) Yes, it was official between 1975 and 2010. (2) We are not requesting to retire it, we are requesting to remove this outdated logo from your system, otherwise people are still using this outdated and unofficial logo, which damages the corporate image. (3) The official one can be found at the following address of the organisation (https://www.inonu.edu.tr/kurumsal/menu/24803/ana-logolar). (4) I'm not experienced in the use of Wikipedia, I don't know what COM:L stands for, all I'm asking is to remove this outdated logo from the system, that's all. UFUKLIVE (talk) 12:54, 2 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@UFUKLIVE: I intended for you to please click the link COM:L. Calling the logo "Unofficial" is disingenuous.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:12, 2 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Jeff G.: I don’t think that’s fair; I’d chalk it up to a language issue. @UFUKLIVE: would renaming the file to “Inönü üniversitesi logo 1975-2010” satisfy your concerns? That would make its obsolescence more obvious to people who may not read the description. (I’ll go ahead and put it in Obsolete logos now anyway: a less prominent indication but may also reduce the likelihood of misuse.)—Odysseus1479 (talk) 20:16, 2 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Odysseus1479 Thank you Odysseus, the renaming of the logo as 1975-2010 does not help to solve our current problem, because our case is that the google search for "inönü üniversitesi logo" directly shows this image as a priority, and our demand is to prevent people from using the wrong logo and to strengthen the image of the institution by restricting the access of this image at least. We respect the past, but unfortunately, people are still accessing and using this unofficial and outdated logo that has lost its official characteristic as a result of google searches. This causes an undesirable problem for the institution. Best regards, UFUKLIVE (talk) 08:40, 5 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
On Turkish Wikipedia, that Fair Use policy is at tr:VP:AK.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:20, 2 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Deletion of file in Wikimaps Warper[edit]

I uploaded a version of this map file yesterday: File:Admiralty Chart No 3992 Hai-nan Tao to Hong Kong, Published 1961.jpg. I started to georeference it iin the warper, but discovered the file had been garbled by the stitcher. I requested speedy deletion so I could astart again. I've uploaded a good version of the file, but when I try to georeference, the warper still has the old, corrupt file. How do I delete the old file from Wikimaps Warper? Thanks. Kognos (talk) 11:51, 31 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

It looks like your original upload has been deleted. Is there still a problem? - Jmabel ! talk 19:26, 31 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Yes. The old corrupt file is still there in the warper. I have uploaded a good version to Commons, but when I try to georeference it I get the old corrupt file, not the new one. So I need to delete the old file from the warper. Thanks Kognos (talk) 11:43, 6 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Can someone else please help out here? I know nothing about Wikimaps Warper. - Jmabel ! talk 19:31, 6 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Country contacts on Commons for questions about files for a specific country[edit]

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

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

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

I would initially go to the help desk or village pump of the country in question and use Google Translate. Wouter (talk) 19:46, 4 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Ooligan: A good place is probably the talk page of that country's specific project on the Wikipedia in a language of that country. Or, if you don't speak that language, then the talk page of that country's specific project on the Wikipedia of a language you speak. For examples, see en:Category:WikiProject Countries projects. If there is not an active project for that country, you can try at places like en:Wikipedia:Reference desk. -- Asclepias (talk) 19:47, 4 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Asclepias and @Wouterhagens, I will follow both of your suggestions for any future country-specific questions. Thank you for your help. -- Ooligan (talk) 20:16, 4 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Ooligan: For specific languages, rather than countries, you can also seek out the language equivalent of en:WP:EMB.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 22:20, 4 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Jeff G., thank you for another solution. The "Local Embassy" link you provided is great. I assume there is not an equivalent page on Commons. If not, what is the process to create a page and list of languages/ "Embassies" on Commons? It could be helpful. -- Ooligan (talk) 22:52, 4 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Ooligan: You're welcome. There is a list of languages here at COM:BBL.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 23:02, 4 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Upload foto on wikipedia[edit]

Uplis RedepaoliniPoelman (talk) 20:59, 4 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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

Help reverting deletions by another User on my talk page.[edit]

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

@Ooligan: I didn't see any of the described deletions that weren't reversed or deserved, but feel free to link them here or on my user talk page.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 22:07, 4 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Jeff G., here are the deletions to my talk page that I would like to be restored/reverted. Thanks for your help.
1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Ooligan&diff=714236450&oldid=714236392&title=User_talk%3AOoligan&diffonly=1
2. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Ooligan&diff=714236450&oldid=714236392&title=User_talk%3AOoligan&diffonly=1
3. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Ooligan&diff=733884811&oldid=733878233&title=User_talk%3AOoligan&diffonly=1 --Ooligan (talk) 23:42, 5 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Ooligan: I restored 1 and 3; 2 was the same as 1.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 01:08, 6 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Jeff G., Sorry about that duplicate. Here is the #2 I should have posted: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AOoligan&diff=734055581&oldid=733961691 and here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AOoligan&diff=705076473&oldid=705076415 is the last one I have found. After your restorations, I will set up my archive bot. Thank you again. -- Ooligan (talk) 02:35, 6 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Ooligan: All done. You're welcome. To quickly use a standard setup for ArchiverBot, simply place {{subst:User:Jeff G./usertalksetup}} at the top of your user talk page.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 04:03, 6 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
✓ Done. I wanted to archive after one year, so I changed "algo = old(31d)" to "algo = old(365d)" -will that work to archive items older than 1 year? -- Ooligan (talk) 04:41, 6 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Ooligan: Yes. The parameters are explained at en:User:MiszaBot/Archive HowTo.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 05:17, 6 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Mp4[edit]

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

webm is the accepted video format. Preferably with AV1 or VP9 encoding. C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 07:23, 5 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Shisasai: Hi, and welcome. Please see COM:VIDEO, COM:Mp4, and Commons:Requests for comment/Technical needs survey/Confirm mp4 for 2028.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:40, 5 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

How do I submit a biographical entry to Wikepedia[edit]

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

@SRoth59: Hi, and welcome. Please read en:WP:BIO and en:WP:MFA.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:32, 5 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thanks Jeff SRoth59 (talk) 13:42, 5 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@SRoth59: You're welcome. You forgot to ping me.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:45, 5 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

help me any one[edit]

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

Stop using open proxies.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:28, 5 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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

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

@Böhmler Nachlass: Quite likely you are able to upload it. You don't say who or what prevented you, which makes this a bit difficult to address. If it was an attempt at a cross-wiki upload there are a lot of filters on that; please use Special:UploadWizard here on Commons.
The only likely issue would be: who took the photo? If it was someone who was still alive in 1954, and you are not heir to their intellectual property, then their heirs—not the heirs of the subject of the photo—would own the copyright. - Jmabel ! talk 22:47, 5 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Jmabel OK, thanks, I think it was a cross-wiki upload. I'll try again. The photographer is unkown as far as I know. Böhmler Nachlass (talk) 00:16, 6 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Böhmler Nachlass: if the author is genuinely unknown, and the work was never published, then {{PD-anon-70-EU}} should cover the German side, so you can definitely upload this locally to the German language Wikipedia. However, Commons needs the picture to be also valid under U.S. copyright, and if you don't know the author and it was never published, it has 120 years of U.S. protection, so it can't be published in Commons until 2047. If you could establish who took the photo, then Commons could accept it 70 years after their death. If you could establish that you are the heir to the intellectual property of the person who photographed it, then you would be able to offer a license to cover the U.S. side, and could upload it to Commons at any time. - Jmabel ! talk 00:26, 6 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Böhmler Nachlass: Hi, and welcome. I am sorry to inform you that you have triggered Special:AbuseFilter/153 by trying to cross-wiki upload png and smaller (<50,000 bytes or <2,000,000 pixels) jpg photos as a new user. Such uploads of png photos are not allowed at all. The following applies to each photo. You indicated it's your own work. Usually when someone uploads a png or smaller jpg photo, it's a copyright violation taken from the web. Please upload the full-size original of it per COM:HR, including any metadata, but if you were not the original photographer, that person may need to license it on their official website or social media or send permission via VRT with a carbon copy to you. Also, any png image will look fuzzy when scaled down (due to design decisions discussed in phab:T192744) or jaggy when scaled up, so you may want to upload svg or jpg versions, too. If you can't get a compliant license, the photo may still be uploaded to English or German Wikipedia in compliance with en:WP:F or de:Bilder, deren Urheber nicht bekannt ist because we don't allow Fair Use here. If you use our Upload Wizard instead, you should be able to avoid that filter.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 00:55, 6 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Upload Photo That Is Not My Own[edit]

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

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

Error in uploading from Flickr.[edit]

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

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

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

Flickr items marked in the public domain with CC-0 licenses are blocked because they are almost always copyfraud. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 08:10, 6 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thanks for telling me, that's a shame. An guy with one grammatical error (talk) 09:00, 6 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@An guy with one grammatical error: wbayercom (76319087@N08) is listed at COM:QFI as it transcludes Commons:Questionable Flickr images/Users, and has been since it was added in special:diff/130184821 20:36, 29 July 2014 (UTC) by Trijnstel "because Flickrwashing by Hipposcrashed (talk · contribs)".   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 12:32, 6 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

How to disable bots from editing wikipedia page[edit]

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

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

Font issues[edit]

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

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

ارغب برفع صور للمشاركة في المسابقة[edit]

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

@جذاذات عطر yes you can, please follow https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UploadWizard&campaign=wlf_2024 .
(google translated:
نعم يمكنك، الرجاء الضغط https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UploadWizard&campaign=wlf_2024 .) RZuo (talk) 16:36, 6 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

biografia[edit]

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

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

Error when uploading from Flickr[edit]

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

@Suntooooth: Looks like it has the work of a lot of photographers on a single account for a theater company, so the licenses are probably not worth much. It doesn't seem likely, and is certainly not obvious, that they cleared rights appropriately, or that any licenses there were granted by the actual copyright-holders. - Jmabel ! talk 04:59, 7 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Fair enough, I guess - thanks for the answer :] Suntooooth (talk) 05:03, 7 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Suntooooth: You can see also Commons:Deletion requests/Files found with insource:huntingtontheatreco for details. The photo that interests you has a copyright notice to the photographer. You can always contact the photographer with the form on his website and check with him if the photo is really offered under the CC license as indicated by the Huntington Theatre. The photo has been there with that license for more than 11 years. Maybe the photographer was never aware of that use of his photo or maybe he agreed to offer the license. -- Asclepias (talk) 12:28, 7 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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

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

The same problem also affects:

--125.230.89.172 06:38, 7 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Help me for my userpage[edit]

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

@Kmnahidulislambd: Hi, and welcome. I am sorry to inform you that you have triggered Special:AbuseFilter/153 by trying to cross-wiki upload a png image as a new user. Such uploads of png images are not allowed at all. You indicated it's your own work. Usually when someone uploads a png image, it's a copyright violation taken from the web. Please upload the full-size original of it per COM:HR, including any metadata, but it may be judged too complex to be under TOO in the country of origin, so you may need to license it on your official website or social media or send permission via VRT. Also, any png image will look fuzzy when scaled down (due to design decisions discussed in phab:T192744) or jaggy when scaled up, so you may want to upload an svg or jpg version, too. If you can't get a compliant license, the image may still be uploaded to English Wikipedia in compliance with en:WP:F because we don't allow Fair Use here. If you use our Upload Wizard instead, you should be able filter 153. Also, Special:AbuseFilter/186 and ​ another filter worked as intended. We do not host encyclopedia articles, résumés, CVs, current ads, random advice, spam, etc. here on Wikimedia Commons per COM:NOT.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 18:20, 7 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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

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

@Kdgashaw: Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, this isn't the site for articles. We handle media here. What you want is Wikipedia. I can link you with help with whichever language Wikipedia you use. Abzeronow (talk) 19:22, 7 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
But really that doesn't sound like Wikipedia content, either. Usually advocacy does not belong on WMF sites. - Jmabel ! talk 20:49, 7 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Two questions[edit]

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

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

@Doug butler: Hi. Re question 1, I am sorry to inform you that you have triggered Special:AbuseFilter/290. The proposal to "Limit file overwriting to users with autopatrol rights" was accepted with many supports and one weak oppose 15:19, 23 September 2023 (UTC). After an implementation problem in phab:T345896 and testing, Special:AbuseFilter/290 went live with the Disallow action 09:35, 28 October 2023 (UTC). Please read MediaWiki:abusefilter-warning-file-overwriting. You may request COM:AP at COM:RFR when you think you are ready (once you have made more than 500 useful non-botlike edits); having that should allow you to overwrite. You may also request an exception for a particular file at COM:OWR.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 22:59, 7 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Doug butler: Shortening that to what's really relevant here: normally, you'd request an exception for a particular file at COM:OWR, but since we're already discussing here: I take it that you'd like to overwrite this file. If you confirm that here, I'll set it up to allow you. Just come back here when you are done so I can turn that back off.
On your second question: was your father-in-law the photographer for all of these? Are either you or your wife the heirs to his intellectual property? If so, this will be pretty simple.
BTW, in the future, if you have two unrelated questions, it's usually easier to ask them in two separate sections so the threads stay a bit cleaner. - Jmabel ! talk 23:57, 7 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Jmabel: Thanks, that is what I was looking to do. I suppose I should ask for autopatrol rights, though I'm a long way from being totally competent.
As for my father-in-law's photos, I have uploaded only one. He was not a professional artist or photographer, just an enthusiastic amateur, so intellectual property was the least of his concerns. I just ended up with a box of negatives when his wife was clearing the house.
Yes, I apologise for inconvenience caused. Doug butler (talk) 01:26, 8 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Doug butler: if your wife was the heir to the balance residue of his estate, and there was no specific provision about intellectual property rights, then she inherited those. Again, if that's the case, that makes this much simpler; let me know so I can give you the next step. - Jmabel ! talk 01:37, 8 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I've marked File:Museums Victoria Collections.jpg to allow overwriting. Let me know when you are done; I don't think you can remove that template yourself. - Jmabel ! talk 01:39, 8 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Jmabel: Done, thank you. As for the stash of photos, when Max (my F.I.L.) died, Joan (my M.I.L) cleared the house and moved to a more convenient place, and their four daughters took whatever mementoes they fancied, and much went to the garbage tip, from which I "inherited" the box of negatives by default. I can't say I was his favorite S.I.L. (I wasn't), but clearly the only one with a sense of history. So, in short, his wife inherited his property rights and she passed them to me. Doug butler (talk) 02:13, 8 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Doug butler: On the image: I don't think that is necessarily an improvement. It is less sharp. I'm going to revert that and see if I can do that better myself.
No, the image is just too low-res to rotate without a significant loss of sharpness. Maybe there's some AI-based way to do it, but not anything I use. I think that if you want a "straightened" version of that, you should upload under a different file name, because there is going to be a tradeoff, and you should only overwrite for uncontroversial improvements. - Jmabel ! talk 03:15, 8 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
On the photos: In the absence of a will, this is a little messy. I honestly don't know whether this would be considered a solid basis for her to claim to be heir to the relevant copyrights or not. I presume this is Australia we are talking about. Sadly, that 50-year thing is not so simple for Commons, because anything that was still copyrighted in 1996 had its U.S. copyright extended at that time to 95 years from creation, and Commons follows U.S. copyright because that is legally where we publish, plus we voluntarily follow the laws of the country of origin. So we really need a free license for these.
With the proviso that they may say that they actually need to hear from all the heirs, not just one: the most straightforward thing to do would be for your wife to send an email to the address given at COM:VRT, agreeing to license her father's photos under a specific free license (I suggest {{CC-BY-SA-4.0}} or {{CC-BY-4.0}}) and authorizing you to upload on her behalf, specifying this account name as who will be uploading. Then, when you upload, you would attribute her father as author, and indicate the license as {{Cc-by-sa-4.0-heirs}} or {{Cc-by-4.0-heirs}}. - Jmabel ! talk 03:01, 8 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Another possibility might be to obtain from Joan a writing confirming that she inherited from Max and that she transferred to you the negatives and their copyrights. Then you send a copy of that writing to VRT. Of course, that works if Joan is living and has not changed her mind about it. If Joan is not living, the fact that her gift to you was not confirmed in writing might be a problem about the copyrights. In that case, if your wife inherited from Joan, then the solution above by Jmabel can work. -- Asclepias (talk) 04:13, 8 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Image stored at Wikipedia, not Wikimedia Commons[edit]

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

Hi, Near the top of the Wikipedia page, you can click the link "Export to Wikimedia Commons". -- Asclepias (talk) 04:17, 8 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Mr Serjeant Buzfuz: , I have imported it to Commons, and am currently doing minor file maintenance on it like adding categories. Abzeronow (talk) 17:35, 9 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thanks to both of you. Appreciated. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 17:44, 9 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Document with multiple pages[edit]

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

What should I do?

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

Nyuhn (talk) 06:06, 8 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

#1, #2, & #4 are all fine. If you do #1, there isn't exactly a template for this, but there are several acceptable ways to do it. See File:Parkour 01-1.jpg for a good example. - Jmabel ! talk 20:07, 9 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
PDF is probably best if they are mainly a text, series of JPEGs tied together one way or another if they are mainly visual. - Jmabel ! talk 20:08, 9 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I eventually discovered a template {{BookNaviBar}} and an example of using it for a book - {{De Kafka Hungerkünstler}}. It might be outdated.
The reason I ask is that I've seen many text documents uploaded as JPEG series on Commons.
In my case, I followed the example of Parkour 01-1.jpg. Nyuhn (talk) 08:09, 10 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

(Mustafa)Nazım Paşa[edit]

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

@Sema Tatar Wikimedia Commons'ta ortam dosyaları (medyalar) bulunur ve resme gömülü olması zorunlu olanlar haricinde metin içerikleri bulunmaz. Burası Vikipedi'nin bir parçası değildir, burayı sadece medyalar için kullanabilirsiniz. Medyaların da adil kullanım olmadığından emin olun (adil kullanımlar ilgili vikiye yüklenmelidir). RuzDD (talk) 15:21, 8 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Ayrıca, Vikipedi'nin kapsamında ama yine de söyleyim: akrabanızsa bu Vikipedi'de çıkar çatışması olarak görülür ve bu konuda katkı sunmaya çalışmanız tavsiye edilmez. Yine de yapmak istiyorsanız bu durumunuzu her seferinde açıkça belirtmeniz gerekir. RuzDD (talk) 15:23, 8 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Autotranslate Lua module fails on template's copy[edit]

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

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

Nalilito na ako Ernestojrr17 (talk) 11:04, 9 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Masyado palang teknikal Ang pag-edit ng bawat pahina sa Wikipedia, pero ganunpaman ay may natutunan ako kahit smartphone lng Ang aking gamitin . Salamat Wikipedia hindi Aalisin bilang mahalagang Apps sa aking device... Ernestojrr17 (talk) 11:09, 9 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Please guide me and I'm losing the focus of what I'm looking for because of the pages or pages that keep coming

I'm confused

Editing each page on Wikipedia is too technical, but I learned something even though I only use a smartphone. Thanks Wikipedia will not Remove as important Apps from my device...
translator: Google Translate via   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:56, 9 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Ernestojrr17: Kumusta, at maligayang pagdating. Sumulat ka sa Wikimedia Commons, isang kasamang site na nagbibigay ng mga libreng larawan at iba pang media sa Wikipedia at iba pang mga proyekto. Nakalulungkot, hindi pa ako nakakahanap ng isang ganap na gumaganang solusyon sa dark mode para sa pag-edit dito. Anong mobile browser at OS ang ginagamit mo para sa pag-edit sa light mode? Karaniwang ginagamit ko ang Chrome sa Windows, at nakita kong kulang ang extension na ito (binago nito ang bawat tab sa bawat window sabay-sabay, negatibong nakakaapekto sa pagganap). Maaari akong bumalik dito kung mayroon akong isa pang pagkamatay sa computer, bagong computer, o "nakalimutan ng browser ang lahat" na insidente. Para lamang sa pag-browse sa Chrome sa Android, pumunta ako sa Mga Setting / Tema at pinili ang "Madilim" na radio button, ngunit wala itong magagawa para sa akin. Talagang iginagalang ng Samsung Internet Browser ang radio button ng Mga Setting / Display / "Madilim" ng aking Android. Kung patuloy kang makaranas ng pag-aalis ng mahahalagang app mula sa iyong device, mangyaring humingi ng tulong para sa device na iyon, dahil maaaring nahawaan ito.
Hi, and welcome. You wrote on Wikimedia Commons, a companion site whigh provides free images and other media to Wikipedia and other projects. Sadly, I have yet to find a fully-functional dark mode solution for editing here. What mobile browser and OS do you use for editing in light mode? I usually use Chrome on Windows, and I found this extension lacking (it changed every tab in every window at once, negatively impacting performance). I may go back to it if I have another computer death, new computer, or "browser forgot everything" incident. For just browsing in Chrome on Android, I have gone into Settings / Theme and selected the "Dark" radio button, but that doesn't do anything for me. Samsung Internet Browser actually respects my Android's Settings / Display / "Dark" radio button. If you continue to experience removal of important apps from your device, please get help for that device, as it may be infected.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:56, 9 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Correction[edit]

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

Hello, I wanted to correct my OWN Wikipedia (Julien Sibre) I did it and a few minutes later, someone (or software, I don't know) canceled it and reverted to the previous version which does not suit me and is incomplete. How can I ensure that MY version of MYSELF is respected? THANKS.
translator: Google Translate via   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:14, 9 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Julien Sibre: Bonjour et bienvenue. Dans fr:special:diff/212288138, vous avez supprimé 13 937 octets nets (principalement d'anciens crédits) de l'article Wikipédia français vous concernant fr:Julien Sibre dans un acte qui Kingofdubb appelé "vandalisme puéril", ou en anglais "childish vandalism". Cet article n’est pas à vous de modeler à volonté votre version de vous-même ; il est censé être neutre. Voir fr:WP:NPOV et fr:WP:COI pour des conseils sur la manière d'agir sur Wikipédia.
Hi, and welcome. In fr:special:diff/212288138, you removed 13,937 bytes net (mostly old credits) from the French Wikipedia article about you fr:Julien Sibre in an act which Kingofdubb called "vandalisme puéril", or in English "childish vandalism". That article is not for you to mold at will to your version of yourself; it is meant to be neutral. See en:WP:NPOV and en:WP:COI for pointers on how to act on Wikipedia.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:14, 9 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Julien Sibre: Bonjour, Vous êtes ici sur le site de Commons, qui est une bibliothèque d'images. Votre question concerne plutôt le site de Wikipédia. Pour toute question ou discussion plus approfondie à ce sujet, vous pouvez utiliser des pages de Wikipédia comme notamment fr:Wikipédia:Forum des nouveaux et la page de discussion de l'article fr:Discussion:Julien Sibre. -- Asclepias (talk) 16:07, 9 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Vitamin C FA review[edit]

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

David notMD (talk) 14:38, 9 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@David notMD: Hello,
For an explanation about alt text, please see en:Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility/Alternative text for images.
For an explanation about US tag, please see Commons:Copyright tags/General public domain#Non-U.S. works.
-- Asclepias (talk) 15:35, 9 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@David not MD: , I've added the US tag to the file. For alt text, see the link Asclepias provided. Abzeronow (talk) 17:29, 9 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thank you. I have addressed alt text David notMD (talk) 20:49, 9 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Please help me create an account.[edit]

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

That doesn't make a lot of sense. What sort of device are you on (PC, phone, etc.)? - Jmabel ! talk 22:06, 9 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Hi, and welcome. It seems that you are trying to create an account; you may request that an account be created for you. Such an account may be used on all WMF projects, including this one. See also Special:Captcha and en:Special:Captcha.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:58, 11 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

How can I upload a new version?[edit]

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

@Amir Ghandi:
  1. You should not be uploading that as an overwrite. You should upload it to a distinct file name and link the two files with {{Other version}}.
  2. There are very few domains from which the Upload Wizard and other tools can upload directly. Typically, you have to download a file to your own system, then upload it to Commons.
Jmabel ! talk 07:28, 10 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
thanks! Amir Ghandi (talk) 10:29, 10 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

¿Por qué se dice que es "información dañina".[edit]

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

¿Donde? Este sitio (Wikimedia Commons) no hay articulos acerca de personas. ¿Quiz´s era otro sitio de WMF? - Jmabel ! talk 17:26, 10 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Why is it said to be "harmful information."
It is an article about the journalist Pablo Torres, currently retired. There is no spam. I don't understand what they want to tell me...
translator: Google Translate via   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:37, 11 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Tadeus Kunzt: Hola y bienvenido. Lamento informarle que ha activado Special:AbuseFilter/281 al intentar cargar uno o más archivos pdf como nuevo usuario. Este tipo de cargas de archivos pdf no están permitidas en absoluto. Lo siguiente se aplica a cada archivo: Generalmente, cuando alguien sube un archivo pdf como nuevo usuario, es una violación de derechos de autor tomado de la web o fuera de alcance. ¿Qué hay en el archivo? Si usted no fue el diseñador o fotógrafo del archivo original, es posible que esa persona o esas personas deban obtener la licencia en su sitio web oficial o redes sociales, o enviarle el archivo y el permiso a través de VRT/es con una copia al carbón. Si no puede obtener una licencia compatible, el archivo aún se puede cargar en Wikipedia en inglés de conformidad con en:WP:F (pero no en Wikipedia en español según es:Wikipedia:Uso legítimo) porque no permitimos el uso legítimo aquí.
Hi, and welcome. I am sorry to inform you that you have triggered Special:AbuseFilter/281 by trying to upload one or more pdf files as a new user. Such uploads of pdf files are not allowed at all. The following applies for each file: Usually when someone uploads a pdf file as a new user, it's a copyright violation taken from the web or out of scope. What is in the file? If you were not the original file designer or photographer, that person or those people may need to license it on their official website or social media, or send the file and permission via VRT with a carbon copy to you. If you can't get a compliant license, the file may still be uploaded to English Wikipedia in compliance with en:WP:F (but not to Spanish Wikipedia per es:Wikipedia:Uso legítimo) because we don't allow Fair Use here.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:37, 11 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Jeff, is there somewhere in there he would have had any notice referring to "información dañina"? - Jmabel ! talk 20:51, 11 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Jmabel: That filter disallows edits with our standard Mediawiki:abusefilter-disallowed message. Mediawiki standard MediaWiki:Abusefilter-disallowed/es starts "Esta acción ha sido identificada automáticamente como dañina", which Google Translated is "This action has been automatically identified as harmful". That seems harsher than the English version's "potentially unconstructive" from special:diff/27494848. We don't have a local version of MediaWiki:Abusefilter-disallowed/es, perhaps you'd like to write one.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 23:03, 11 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Yes, that is awfully harsh. Rather than try to deal just with our local version, I'll see what I can do about the global one. - Jmabel ! talk 23:30, 11 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I took the liberty of simply editing it on meta. Since I'm one of the people who routinely does English-Spanish translations for interfaces (usually through translatewiki), this should probably be OK. We'll see if it sticks. - Jmabel ! talk 23:38, 11 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Jeff G.: I probably should know this, and I think at one time I did, but I can't recall: where exactly are you finding the logs about cross-wiki uploads? - Jmabel ! talk 23:38, 11 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Jmabel: The last 500 logged by the abuse filter for hitting the conditions of Special:AbuseFilter/153 are in this log. Any individual's filter 153 hits can be found by clicking "filter log" on their contributions page. Any file description page's filter 153 hits can be found by clicking "view abuse log" on the history page (even if you have to construct one with action=history from a nonexistent filename). You may also click "Search the abuse log" on Special:AbuseLog. The defining feature is '"Cross-wiki upload from" in summary | "Uploaded while editing" in summary' per line 2 of the conditions for that filter. I generally find the hits from "filter log" and "abuse log" links in reports containing uses of {{User8}} and {{Pagemulti}} (and older uses of {{Page}}, which Krinkle and I specially crafted for that purpose) on COM:FILTERT. I also check the logs of puzzling users who post to this Help desk, the Village pump, noticeboards, etc.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 00:26, 12 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Gade-English Dictionary[edit]

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

@Brobadiah: are you referring to Category:Lingua Libre pronunciation by HausaDictionary or something else? If that is what you are referring to, the category page would be basically identical except for the name. - Jmabel ! talk 17:28, 10 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thank you for your rapid response.
I actually saw what I was searching for on the Developer Portal,which I downloaded PHP zip folder 📁 for the project.
Are there tutorials on database once the file is extracted? 102.91.5.127 15:47, 14 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Moving files[edit]

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

@JnpoJuwan: I've done it. I expect it would have been faster if you'd chosen "criterion 1" (request by original uploader), because that doesn't need so much thought on the part of the filemover. --bjh21 (talk) 13:37, 10 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
ahhh thank you, I'll remember that for the future! :) JnpoJuwan (talk) 17:41, 10 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Copyrighted picture?[edit]

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

@AlekosK04: see COM:HIRTLE. An anonymous photo of that age that was unpublished as of 1989 will be protected for 120 years from creation, in this case until 2059–2071. Had it been published with a copyright notice within 25 years of creation, the term would have been 95 years from that publication. To be PD now, it would need to have been published before 1989 and without a notice or registration.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 19:44, 10 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
If it was published in 1963 or earlier, it is in the public domain unless it had a notice and copyright was renewed.
Also, this looks like a publicity photo, not a photo from a family scrapbook. If distributed to the press without a notice (or with a notice but without renewal in 1963 or earlier), it's PD as well. D. Benjamin Miller (talk) 22:02, 10 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Drawing of Richard Alsager[edit]

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

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

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

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

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

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

Copyrights question for photographs I took of paintings, sculptures, etc[edit]

Can I upload photographs I took myself of

-paintings (in a museum)

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

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

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

It is more complicated than just this, but the short answer is that yes, you can upload photos you took of objects created before 1920 in 99% of cases. D. Benjamin Miller (talk) 00:18, 11 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I mostly agree with Benjamin, with the caveat that if the artist died less than 70 years ago, that's a problem in many countries. Many people creating works in 1920 were still alive in 1954. Also, in the U.S., the key date at the moment is January 1, 1929. Anything published before that should be fine. Unpublished work is trickier, and might carry you clear back to 1904 as an issue. 19th century is usually very safe. And this is still keeping it at "rule of thumb" level. - Jmabel ! talk 01:11, 11 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

How to do a mass DR[edit]

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

At this point I believe I've worked through the immediate issue with Marygk86 on her user talk page; for the future: Commons:Deletion requests/Mass deletion request should be pretty self-explanatory, but if it is not, then feel free to ask further questions. - Jmabel ! talk 01:07, 11 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Marygk86: Hi, and welcome. As linked on that page, VisualFileChange AKA VFC can be used for semiautomatic tagging and other operations for 1 or more files.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:00, 11 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thank you Jeff G. I am a new user and I am finding this all very challenging, but it's a good learning experience. Marygk86 (talk) 15:25, 11 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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

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

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

@BalukuBrian: Probably not. I checked the "Bugisu Nation Music" channel and found that the top video there is licensed CC-BY 3.0.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:14, 11 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thank you for your feedback@Jeff G. BalukuBrian (talk) 13:05, 13 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@BalukuBrian: You're welcome.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 18:59, 13 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

European Council[edit]

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

@Prodrummer619: Hi, and welcome. Please see ongoing Commons:Deletion requests/Files found with newsroom.consilium.europa.eu.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:19, 11 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I'll take that as a yes. Thank you. Prodrummer619 (talk) 13:42, 11 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Prodrummer619: You're welcome.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 14:00, 11 February 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]

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

Hello,

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

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

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

Thanks,

Urbanracer34 (talk) 18:09, 11 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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

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

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

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

Pages that you might want to delete[edit]

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

Guy vandegrift (talk) 02:35, 12 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
✓ Done Yann (talk) 16:15, 12 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Did I do a merge request correctly?[edit]

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

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

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

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

Like I said on your talk page, for commercial works like films and posters, a confirmation of the license is needed via COM:VRT. Be aware that the permission should allow any use for anyone for any purpose, including commercial one, i.e. anyone could sell your film without asking or paying you. Thanks, Yann (talk) 16:13, 12 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Yann: nothing here grants rights to the film itself, just these stills. - Jmabel ! talk 01:17, 13 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Susheel Bajomal Gajwani Filmmaker: you definitely need to do one of two things if you don't want these deleted. Either you can go through the COM:VRT process, as Yann suggests, or you can place these images on a website that is clearly officially connected with the film and indicate the CC-BY 4.0 license there, then edit the respective file mates on Commons to reference that as "source". I know this is inconvenient, but otherwise, you could be any person in the world claiming to be the filmmaker. - Jmabel ! talk 01:17, 13 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
got it, thanks. Susheel Bajomal Gajwani Filmmaker (talk) 04:41, 13 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

famous pictures[edit]

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

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

Categories and diffusing[edit]

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

@PARAKANYAA: I think that the mug shots by state categories should not be under mug shots of people of the United States, because a state could take a mug shot of someone who's a citizen of another country. I have recategorized it. -- Auntof6 (talk) 07:48, 13 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Auntof6 What's the best way to diffuse this then? By decade? PARAKANYAA (talk) 07:49, 13 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@PARAKANYAA: Good question. You could diffuse by:
  • Decade, if you can identify the decade, but the decade probably isn't indicated for a lot of them (the date indicated in a lot of files is the date of upload, not the date the photo was taken)
  • Gender, but the vast majority seem to be for men, so you wouldn't get much reduction
  • Name, in the few cases where there are multiple mug shots of the same person
Maybe black-and-white mug shots would help, but you'd probably end up with a category that still had a lot in it.
That's all I can think of for now. Maybe someone else will have some ideas. -- Auntof6 (talk) 08:11, 13 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thank you :) General decade isn't actually too hard to figure out if you know the case - usually PARAKANYAA (talk) 08:13, 13 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Please guide me how to upload my biography in Wikipedia[edit]

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

@Vijaykutala: You might want to ask on Wikipedia. This is Wikimedia Commons, a site for storing media files. -- Auntof6 (talk) 09:31, 13 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Vijaykutala Not at all. While it is not forbidden to write your own biography on Wikipedia, it is strongly discouraged and can only be done successfully by people with a deep understanding of Wikipedia: If you need to ask this question, you don't have this deep understanding. Just wait, some one will write your biography (if you are notable by the notability criteria of wikipedia). But in the meantime you can edit wikipedia and learn how to edit wikipedia and gain the understanding needed to also write about people like yourself. And you can upload fotos here at commons. C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 10:38, 13 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Vijaykutala: do read en:Wikipedia:Autobiography. - Jmabel ! talk 20:29, 13 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

PD[edit]

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

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

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

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

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