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Not sure if this is called wearing or undressing?

I just saw a very special photograph. Look at this: File:ValerieSilverman. 421.jpg. Looks like taken off her bikini top and also like put on it, because it was glued to her breasts. What categories are appropriate for this case?--125.230.80.47 13:01, 15 September 2024 (UTC)

Probably something new. Bikini describes the top as "Bikini with strapless top" and another photo of the same woman wearing the same top (the next photo, File:ValerieSilverman. 519.jpg) as "Strapless top bikini". It may have been taped, rather than glued (glue leaves uglier marks). I doubt it was about to fall off, as it was being pulled on in the next photo. Pinging @Ww2censor as uploader of the second photo (the first was uploaded by a bot).   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 15:29, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

How to remove images that have categories already from the uncategorized

Hello, there are many images that have categories but are listed as not having any. How to remove them without doing it individually? Thanks, Krok6kola (talk) 18:14, 15 September 2024 (UTC)

@Krok6kola: - hello, have you tried to clear your browser cache? (Ctrl+Fn+F5 on Windows). The second question is why to you want to uncategorise images? All images should really be in at least one category. Regards. Militum professio scriniarii (talk) 21:20, 15 September 2024 (UTC)

@Militum professio scriniarii: The images are already in categories. It confuses things to have categorized images listed in uncategorized lists. Krok6kola (talk) 21:24, 15 September 2024 (UTC)

@Krok6kola: - can you give me an example? I am aware of noticable delays in Commons server caches not purging in a timely manner. So that might actually be the issue. Regards. Militum professio scriniarii (talk) 21:45, 15 September 2024 (UTC)

Often "uncategorized" comes from a template. @Krok6kola, it would be much easier to talk about a specific file or files that have this problem. - Jmabel ! talk 18:26, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

@Krok6kola: Do you mean something as this file where there is already the category "Wiki Loves Living Heritage in Singapore 2023"? Wouter (talk) 18:47, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

I think there is a bot doing that occasionally. Wouter's sample might not be the ideal sample, as that category should be hidden and thus not be taken in account.
 ∞∞ Enhancing999 (talk) 09:26, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

logo zespołu teatralnego

dobry wieczór; niedawno zasililiśmy Wikipedię skromnym artykułem o naszym zespole - Teatr STOP. Jest ona dopiero przeglądana przez bardziej doświadczonych redaktorów. Chcielibysmy umieścić w tym artykule w szablonie Teatr infobox plik graficzny, który jest logo grupy. Jaką licencję powinienem podać przesyłając ten plik. Nadmienię, że znak w pliku jest moją pracą (grafika komputerowa), a wykorzystałem do tego nasz plakat, który używamy od wielu lat. Bodajże od 1990 roku. Nie pamiętam nazwiska autora, któremu za projekt zapłaciliśmy. Dokumentów z tamtych czasów nie mamy żadnych. Plakat jest cały czas używany, ale z małymi przeróbkami. Czy mogę to w jakiś legalny sposób zrealizować? Będę wdzięczny za odpowiedź Mirontu (talk) 20:24, 15 September 2024 (UTC)

Translation:

logo of the theatre group

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good evening; we recently contributed a modest article about our group - Teatr STOP to Wikipedia. It is currently being reviewed by more experienced editors. We would like to place a graphic file in this article in the Teatr infobox template, which is the group's logo. What license should I provide when sending this file? I would like to mention that the symbol in the file is my work (computer graphics), and I used our poster for this purpose, which we have been using for many years. Since 1990, I think. I do not remember the name of the author, whom we paid for the project. We do not have any documents from that time. The poster is still in use, but with minor modifications. Can I do this in some legal way? I would be grateful for your answer

translator: Google Translate via   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 14:44, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

@Mirontu: Cześć i witaj. Zakładając, że piszesz o teatrze w Polsce, zapoznaj się z COM:POLAND (Commons:Copyright rules by territory/Poland/pl) i VRT (Commons:Volunteer Response Team/pl), lub poczekaj do 70 lat po roku od śmierci właściciela praw autorskich. Niestety, polska Wikipedia nie akceptuje treści niewolnych, ponieważ nie ma EDP na m:nfc.

Hi, and welcome. Assuming you are writing about a theatre in Poland, please see COM:POLAND (Commons:Copyright rules by territory/Poland/pl) and VRT (Commons:Volunteer Response Team/pl), or wait until 70 years after the year following the copyright holder's death. Sadly, Polish Wikipedia does not accept non-free content because it has no EDP per m:nfc.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 14:44, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Rozumiem, czyli nie mogę tego znaku umieścić. W takim razie umieścimy inny, który jest mojego autorstwa. Bardzo dziękuję za szybką odpowiedź. Pozdrawiam serdecznie. Mirontu (talk) 17:12, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Template:When?

Is it possible for someone to create this - similar to the one at English Wikipedia? My main reason for requesting is to tag image descriptions for information on date of image, when the date of the image is clearly different to the upload date. One such example is File:Wing Parade - RAF Wittering.jpg - those RAF uniforms were in use during the 1950s and early 60s, but categorically not in 2012, or even 1982! Maybe code the template to directly ping the original uploader (if that is actually possible) to request supplying the date of the image. Regards, Militum professio scriniarii (talk) 21:16, 15 September 2024 (UTC)

@Militum professio scriniarii, I created the template here (forking the one from enwiki). Can you try and let me know if this works okay? _Regards, Aafi ^(talk) 05:35, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

@Aafi: - Thank you. I just added it to the above file, but I don't see any additional 'maintenance' categories generated, and I don't see any talk page message for the original uploader. I also checked 'What links here' from the template, and the two other files it is used on is not generated any maintenance category. I am not sure how to fix that cat inclusion. Regards. Militum professio scriniarii (talk) 18:08, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Talk page message is never going to happen automatically from adding a template to the file page. - Jmabel ! talk 19:16, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

@Jmabel: - Ok, thanks for clarifying that point. Militum professio scriniarii (talk) 18:46, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

We don't appear to have Template:Never substitute on Commons; this uses it. No idea what happens from the absence of that. - Jmabel ! talk 19:21, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Ok, I will create now (copy from enwiki). Hopefully it will be an improvement. Appreciate all your help, best regards. Militum professio scriniarii (talk) 18:46, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

No carga de archivos para un concurso de wikipedia

Para un concurso de fotos que entré en wikipedia, no me dejo subir archivos que estaban bien supuestamente y al final error de las 40 fotografias que subi sólo 5 estaban bien y cuando trato de subir las otras me dice que ya estan subidas, pero no me dejan comprobar, ¿alguna sugerencia? Tecnosmaul (talk) 02:28, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Translation:

No uploading of files for a Wikipedia contest

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For a photo contest I entered on Wikipedia, it wouldn't let me upload files that were supposedly correct and in the end there was an error: of the 40 photos I uploaded only 5 were correct and when I try to upload the others it tells me that they are already uploaded, but it won't let me check, any suggestions?

translator: Google Translate via   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 14:17, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

@Tecnosmaul: Hola y bienvenido. Tenemos 39 archivos tuyos listados en Special:ListFiles/Tecnosmaul. El primero, File:Aguayos de diferentes colores.jpg, está en Category:Images from Wikimixtura Artesanía boliviana 2024 y Category:Uploaded via Campaign:Wikimixtura Artesanía boliviana 2024 (Wikimixtura Bolivian Crafts). Otros archivos tuyos que sean apropiados para esa campaña pueden tener las mismas categorías. Supongo que las reglas se basan en Commons:WikiMixtura 2023 Carnaval.

Hi, and welcome. We have 39 files of yours listed at Special:ListFiles/Tecnosmaul. The first, File:Aguayos de diferentes colores.jpg, is in Category:Images from Wikimixtura Artesanía boliviana 2024 and Category:Uploaded via Campaign:Wikimixtura Artesanía boliviana 2024 (Wikimixtura Bolivian Crafts). Other uploads of yours that are appropriate for that campaign may bear the same categories. I guess that the rules are based on Commons:WikiMixtura 2023 Carnaval.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 14:17, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Picture in the public domain but without documentation

In doing research, I was able to contact someone who had a picture of the Currituck Shooting Club from 1920, making the image public domain. However, I have no way of proving this, except that the museum which displayed the image and the person who gave it to me both indicate it is from 1920. Not sure how to proceed on this.

Thank you,
Packer1028 (talk) 04:47, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

The general answer is that you don't have to prove it, but should include enough information that others can come to the same conclusion as you. For U.S. images, the main issue is the date of publication. If it wasn't published at the time, but only after being digitised by the museum, it might very well still be under copyright (if the publication happened in a specific span of years).

Make sure you include the information you have in the file description, perhaps with some additional comments on the talk page. Link the museum page where the image is shown, to allow people to do research via the museum.

–LPfi (talk) 08:07, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Hmm, it may not be public domain. I know it was made in 1920 (have confirmed with the owners of the original through email), but I can't prove when it was published; I assumed creation date was the big factor. I gather the owners of the original print are fine with it being uploaded here, but (1) I haven't asked directly because I assumed PD, and (2) I don't know how to proceed based on my new understanding of PD and publication. Would this involve VRT at all?

Thank you,
Packer1028 (talk) 23:28, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

چطور به یوتیوب . خارج از ایران وصل شد

سلام . ما در باره رهائی کل دین ها کار می کنیم و سعی داریم ویدئو بسازیم و به یوتیوب خارج از ایران بفرستیم . در ایران اعتمادی نیست 2.147.172.180 09:53, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Translation:

How to YouTube? Connected outside Iran

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hello We are working on the liberation of all religions and we are trying to make a video and send it to YouTube outside of Iran. There is no trust in Iran

translator: Google Translate via   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:55, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Enter your name

In previous years, when uploading photos to WLM at a certain step, the name of the author of the picture appeared in the corresponding column, by default there was a nickname from the account, which could be changed at this stage. This step is currently missing. Apparently, the system automatically puts the user's nickname by the author. Tell me, and if I want to enter my first/ last name in the "author" column, how do I do this? Kemaluk (talk) 10:52, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

@Kemaluk: WLM questions should really be asked on a WLM talk page. It would be sheer coincidence for anyone who knows what is going on there to be looking at the help desk. - Jmabel ! talk 19:39, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Categorizing redirected categories

I have a category for a topic that has two very different names that are often used by various sources, so I use one as the cat name and the other as a redirect to it:

Category:Riedl-Pfleiderer process → Category:Anthraquinone process

{{Cat redirect}} says "Redirected categories should...not categorised themselves." In this example, one of the two names also belongs in a certain cat due to it being an eponymous name. Is this a reasonable exception to the cat-redirect notice, so that specifically "Riedl-Pfleiderer process" can be categorized as being eponymous? It is not true that "Anthraquinone process" is eponymous. DMacks (talk) 12:21, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

It's tempting, but in this case I wouldn't as querying the parent of the redirect and its subcategories wont give any result.

I think, in general, naming relations can refer to secondary names for the category, not necessarily the one in the category name.
 ∞∞ Enhancing999 (talk) 13:18, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Ooh, I didn't think about the mechanical process of going down the tree, and that {{Cat redirect}} is not technically the same as #REDIRECT. I was focused on avoiding having a non-eponymous entry in a cat that is defined as containing eponymous things. DMacks (talk) 18:35, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Requirements to participate photography contest

Sir, I want to participate the photography contest held by Wikipedia. Can you please describe the procedure regarding to them. Did it have any special requirement? Rabindra Podder (talk) 13:52, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

@Rabindra Podder: Hi, and welcome. In general, each contest has specific rules. Which contest do you mean, exactly?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:58, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

I'm want to participate Wiki loves monuments contest. But I'm new in this platform. I didn't get anything who these things are going! 2409:4061:2D8F:9DE7:0:0:900B:2314 08:25, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

Hi, and welcome. WLM celebrates monuments, generally through photography. Photos may only be uploaded by logged-in users. See COM:WLM for more info.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 15:11, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

pride and prejudice by Jane Austen

where is it and how can i download it in regular print...not copies of old book from 1800's Bofgoodhumor (talk) 18:46, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

The most recent edition we have is from 1917 from Boston File:Pride and prejudice (IA prideprejudice00aust 5).pdf Abzeronow (talk) 19:04, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

You can delete the log history by deleting

You can delete the log history by deleting, I'm just asking out of curiosity Bolitachan (talk) 05:57, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

• @Bolitachan: I don't see a question or a context here. If there is some language you write better than English, you might try using it. Otherwise, I believe you'll need to reword this for anyone to work out what you want to know. - Jmabel ! talk 19:12, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

@Bolitachan: Hi, and welcome. Deleting a file or page here makes it only visible to Admins, it does not actually disappear from the servers. Logs of page creation, upload, and deletion will remain unless they are hidden on purpose for a good reason by an Admin, generally via post to COM:AN or private contact.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 15:08, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

Ошибочная загрузка.

Как перенести две фотографии в другой памятник: я ошибочно загрузил две фотографии плотины Кушвинского пруда в другой памятник: Школа № 1 г. Кушвы? Александр Галаган (talk) 20:31, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

Incorrect upload.

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How to transfer two photos to another monument: I mistakenly uploaded two photos of the Kushva pond dam to another monument: School No. 1 of Kushva?

translator: Google Translate via   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 14:44, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

@Александр Галаган: Привет и добро пожаловать. Пожалуйста, используйте {{Rename}} или наш гаджет RenameLink, и смотрите Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2024/ru. Если эта школа не является памятником, пожалуйста, удалите все категории или шаблоны, связанные с WLM.

Hi, and welcome. Please use {{Rename}} or our RenameLink gadget, and see Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2024/ru. If that school is not a monument, please remove any WLM-related categories or templates.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 14:44, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

busco acta de matrimonio de mis bisabuelos

Soy María Cecilia Lucero y tengo este acta traducida y me hace falta el original para realizar trámites de ciudadanía. Soy de Argentina. Mi mail es luceromariacecilia@hotmail.com. Traducción del acta de matrimonio de Climent Jean Baptiste con Martinez Marie Thérèse El 21 de febrero de 1891 a las ocho de la mañana. Acta de matrimonio de Climent Jean Baptiste, de 24 años de edad ,de oficio de cultivador ,nacido en Algemesi (España) el 16 de enero de 1867, domiciliado en Chaïba aldea de este municipio ( Kolea ) , mayor de edad, hijo de Climent Joseph Raymond fallecido en Algemesi y de Boix Marianne de 58 años de edad viviendo en Chaîba aqui presente y dando su consentimiento dado que el padre falleció. Y de la señorita Martinez Marie Thérèse de 32 años de edad ,sin ningún oficio ,nacida en Darrical(España) el 22 de mayo de 1858,domiciliada en Chaïba ,hija mayor de edad de Martinez Manuel fallecido en Darrical y de Linares Josephine de 54 años de edad viviendo en Adra ( España) . El consentimiento se recibió a traves de un acta redactado por Don Juan de Palma y Remesar notario eclesiastico del districto de Adra el 28 de noviembre de 1890 Las publicaciones de la boda se hicieron en el ayuntamiento de Kolea los domingos 8 y 15 del mes de febrero corriente y publicadas seg¿n la ley sin que ningún impedimiento apareciera Los futuros esposos han presentado sus actas de nacimiento redactados en castellano y tambien traducidos en francés, asi que los actas de defunción de los dos padres en castellano y traducidos en francés ,el consentimiento de la madre de la futura esposa en castellano y en francés Después de la lectura de todos los actas y del capitulo 6 del titulo 5 del código civil , los futuros esposos declararon que no hubo ningún contrato de matrimonio y que deseaban tomarse en matrimonio el uno con el otro En presencia de Lan Marius ,31 años cultivador domiciliado en Tefeschoun municipio de Castiglione (Argel ) Sol Pierre 30 años cultivador domiciliado en Tefeschoun, Maruenda François ,68 ans de Tefeschoun, Manzano Venancio ,43 años ,vendedor ,domiciliado en Kolea ,los quatros amigos pero no parientes de los esposos

En virtud de la ley ,yo , Brales Charles François Vicealcalde de Kolea ,caballero de la Legión de Honor declaro que los esposos estan unidos por matrimonio en nombre de la ley y después de la lectura del acta establecido en presencia de los testigos y del público admitido en este local del ayuntamiento firmamos con los testigos y la esposa , no con el esposo ni con su madre por no saber .rtinez Marie Térèse 2803:9800:9885:52D7:A84E:93F1:2461:3D7E 22:08, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

Eso no parece una pregunta acerca de Wikimedia Commons. ¿Que quieres que hacemos en el asunto este? - Jmabel ! talk 06:59, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

Please help

I would like to add an image of the F.C. Dallas new stadium development. The stadium owner, the City of Frisco, released these images to the public so I believe they should be fair to use on the FC Dallas and Toyota Stadium pages but I want to be sure they’re cited properly. Can someone help with this? Here’s the source for the images: https://www.fcdallas.com/news/toyota-stadium-to-undergo-multi-million-dollar-renovation Flavius Constantine (talk) 05:34, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

@Flavius Constantine That page says "©2024 MLS". On Commons, that's a deal breaker, you can not upload those pics here. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 06:30, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

@Gråbergs Gråa Sång and Flavius Constantine: More importantly for our copyright purposes, it also says "Any unauthorized use is forbidden." and has no free license. See also COM:NETC.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 12:44, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

Cancellazione immagini

Buongiorno, ho caricato erroneamente delle immagini del Duomo di Macerata che non c'entrano con esso, sono infatti relative al vicino Santuario Basilica della Madonna della Misericordia, che ho poi caricato sulla pagina relativa. Chiede di cancellare le immagini che ho caricato in modo errato del Duomo.

Cordiali saluti. Viaggiamocela (talk) 12:25, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

Deleting images

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Good morning, I have mistakenly uploaded images of the Cathedral of Macerata that have nothing to do with it, they are in fact related to the nearby Sanctuary Basilica of the Madonna della Misericordia, which I then uploaded to the relevant page. Asks to delete the images that I have incorrectly uploaded of the Cathedral.

Kind regards.

translator: Google Translate via   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:00, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

@Viaggiamocela: Ciao e benvenuto. Specifica i nomi dei file immagine o una stringa corrispondente, oppure una richiesta di eliminazione di massa.

Hi, and welcome. Please specify the image filenames or a string they match, or start a mass deletion request.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:00, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

Or just correct the descriptions and categories and put {{Rename}} on the page to move it to an appropriate name. - Jmabel ! talk 05:09, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

Загрузка Видео Файлов

Приветствую, Подскажите пожалуйста в каком формате нужно загружать видео файлы? В QuickTime Movie(MOV) и MP4 не проходит... Serghiy (talk) 13:44, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

Uploading Video Files

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Hello, Please tell me in what format should I upload video files?

It doesn't work in QuickTime Movie(MOV) and MP4...

translator: Google Translate via   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 14:56, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

@Serghiy: Привет и добро пожаловать. Пожалуйста, посмотрите COM:FT#Video (Commons:File types/ru#Видео).

Hi, and welcome. Please see COM:FT#Video (Commons:File types/ru#Видео).   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 14:56, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

File:Map of Louisiana highlighting Vernon Parish.svg

For some reason, I can't see the map of Louisiana when the image is on a page, or when I click the link here on WMCommons. All I see is the red highlighted area, without borders, on a blank background. However when I go to https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/Map_of_Louisiana_highlighting_Vernon_Parish.svg, I see the whole thing. All the other images in Category:Locator maps of parishes of Louisiana work fine. Does anyone know the reason for this? 166.107.163.31 22:52, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

Hi, and welcome. For me, it displays fine as a locator map with a clear background. The outlines of the other Parishes in the state are visible in black, and filled in with yellow. This display is just like the other maps in that category with names starting "Map of Louisiana highlighting", except File:Map of Louisiana highlighting Southwest Louisiana.svg, which shows the non-Southwest Parishes filled in with white. Pinging @David Benbennick, Nux as uploaders.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 04:55, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

Is this album cover PD?

https://ia800507.us.archive.org/32/items/mbid-cbb9b062-9d4f-42c5-bfda-64291fdb6964/mbid-cbb9b062-9d4f-42c5-bfda-64291fdb6964-37082925560.jpg

Seems like it's just a little {{PD-shape}} and {{PD-text}}, but I wanted to solicit feedback before I uploaded it locally. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 23:54, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

@Koavf: symbols in the middle could be an issue. You don't say what country.

Questions like this are better asked at Commons:Village pump/Copyright. - Jmabel ! talk 05:11, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

Moving there, thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:47, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

Can someone help identify these Kofun (Japanese burial mounds)

All the kofun in this category Category:Unidentified Kofun in Nara prefecture are properly geotagged but I am struggling to identify where they actually are. Can someone identify them for me? I believe they all have Japanese wikipedia articles connected to their coordinates so there are definitely tools to help with them. Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 07:17, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

Using part of old video in article

I can I post this video in an article? Can it be used under fair use?

- It's more than 50 year old

- It's from a demonstration in Japan

- It's less than 2% the length of the original video, is far less than 30 seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COEyFyFPx8s Tamle2nd (talk) 08:29, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

@Tamle2nd: You don't say what site you are asking about. Wikimedia Commons (the site where you are asking this) doesn't have articles and does not allow files to be uploaded on a "fair use" basis, so you are probably asking on the wrong site. - Jmabel ! talk 21:32, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

@Jmabel If I were to use this video in an Wikipedia article, can I use it? If I can then how can I do it? Tamle2nd (talk) 03:03, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

Each language Wikipedia has its own policy on using non-free material. Their respective policies are linked from meta:Non-free content. - Jmabel ! talk 21:35, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

Загрузка изображения

Я пишу статью в Википедии о своем коллеге и хочу загрузить фотографию, которая является его собственностью, с личного согласия от него на размещение этого полученного изображения. В какой форме мне необходимо загрузить изображение? Missis Nekto (talk) 12:01, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

@Missis Nekto: When you say "его собственностью" do you merely mean he owns a copy of it, or that it is his intellectual property (he owns the copyright)? If the former, he cannot give meaningful permission; if the latter, he can and you should look at Commons:Волонтёрская команда содействия for how to do it. - Jmabel ! talk 21:37, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

Map

Is it okay to crop a copyrighted map and add colour? Does that then count as my own work? I want to use the map from 1550 here. Kowal2701 (talk) 14:17, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

No, because the original is not released under a free license. Abzeronow (talk) 16:16, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

Okay thank you Kowal2701 (talk) 16:32, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

@Kowal2701: see Derivative work if you want to understand this better. - Jmabel ! talk 21:38, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

Help with licensing my own work

Hi, i recently got few notifications of my uploads being copyright violations. Most of them are pictures i took throughout the years an i see i have mentioned them as my own work. One recent image is from a screenshot from google maps, and a very earlier one from an old souvenir book of a college which in nowhere had any mentions of the photo being copyrighted. I really want to get these things done in a right way because ive already named as a user with bad history. I need to make things right, since there no intentions for me to own woks of others. I need help in this. Someone mentioned exif data of images. Do uploads from phones auautomatically add that data or i have to separately enter them? And why non of my pics which i know i took doent show that data? VihirLak007 (talk) 16:27, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

A screenshot from google maps is not your work, it's a screenshot of a copyrighted work from google. In general, faithful reproductions of 2D works don't generate a new copyright, so we are interested in the original copyright of photographs. Regarding EXIF, it depends on the phone. I take photographs with my Samsung phone and the EXIF is automatically added when I upload from my phone. But it could be different for older phones. Abzeronow (talk) 16:33, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

And all contemporary cameras also generate EXIF data, not just phones. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 16:40, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

@Justin @Abzeronow Noted thanks. Also here is the google's use of material info for screenshots on google maps and the needed atributions here, with all these, can't a screenshot still be uploaded on commons to use in an article? was the screenshot that got deleted. Need a map image like that for an article. How can it be done, need expert guidance since im new here. VihirLak007 (talk) 22:02, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

Screenshots of some things can be uploaded, if the thing being screenshot is freely licensed. Google owns the material in Google Earth and Google Maps and has not licensed it to be freely shared. Please see COMM:LICENSE for what is and is not acceptable in terms of licensing. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:04, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

@VihirLak007: "nowhere had any mentions of the photo being copyrighted". Under the Berne Convention, which all but about half a dozen countries in the world have adopted, photos (and anything else eligible for copyright) are copyrighted upon creation. There is no need to make any overt claim of copyright. - 21:42, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

Changing category of a media file after uploading

I have uploaded some files from the uploads under Participation in the left margin of wikimedia commons wrongly. it was actually intended to upload in https://w.wiki/B5Lp to participate in the Wiki Loves Onam 2024 flowers. How can I change the category now. Mazhanilavu (talk) 17:52, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

• @Mazhanilavu: You can edit the file page just like any other page on Commons. I'd suggest you look at the source of another file page that is in Category:Uploaded via Campaign:wlo 2024 and see what categories and tags related to that contest it may have. - Jmabel ! talk 21:45, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

iNaturalist bulk uploading

Is there an easy way to bulk-upload images from iNaturalist, such as all of a user's observations at once? I'd like to import my observations from there in bulk, rather than having to upload each observation separately on something like Wiki Loves iNat or iNaturalist2Commons. Suntooooth (talk) 19:00, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

Have you seen Commons:Guide to batch uploading or Commons:Batch uploading, where you can make a request? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:14, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

Completely forgot about those pages, thank you! :] Suntooooth (talk) 19:22, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

Deletion of "Own Work" images

1. Can an "Own work" deletion be based on whether the Exif information is available or not?
2. If a user have uploaded images that violates copyrights 2 years back when he/she is a newbie on commons (and wasn't active on commons for the past 2 years) be blocked permanetly on commons? and for any mistakes(honest mistakes, not stuff like faking a license) he/she might do while uploading in the future? can they be blocked on commons for that?
3. Just because some of obvious copyvio uploads a uploader might have done, can all of his uploads be nominated for deletion by assuming all are 'unlikely' own work and also because they have small file sizes?

(Yes this is about me, need help to get things right) VihirLak007 (talk) 21:42, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

@VihirLak007: There is no way to answer these questions in the abstract, other than to say, "Yes, if you have an extensive pattern of not understanding copyright, then as a precaution we may have to delete all of your uploads, and if you persist in uploading copyright violations after warnings your account may be blocked." In a concrete case, there might be a different answer, but you are not asking any concrete questions here. - Jmabel ! talk 21:49, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

Google maps screenshot

An aerial image is need for a building layout description of a church ground to use in an overlay template. How can a screenshot from a google map or such online map sites be uploaded on commons. Whats the procedure? VihirLak007 (talk) 21:44, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

It cannot. Google maps are copyrighted, and they do not offer a free license.

Between this and your prior question, I would strongly recommend that until you get a much better understanding of copyrights you refrain from uploading any files that are not either entirely your own work or already published with an explicit, specific free license. - Jmabel ! talk 21:51, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

I see, i understand now. The extensive pattern mentioned was actually the month of september in 2022. Most probably i was excited as a new comer uploading here and the recent aerial screenshot. I understand my mistake here, i shall read about license more.

(Just realise the last time i uploaded here that everything got nominated for deletion and the recent upload i did that also got deleted, all happened in september; not the best month for me i guess) If i caused any inconvenience here, Im really sorry!  Thank you. both of you @Abzeronow @Jmabel VihirLak007 (talk) 22:16, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

Simple answer: you cannot upload anything from Google maps. As Jmabel says, their maps and photographs are not under a free license. Abzeronow (talk) 21:54, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

Image

If this image is not available to be used how can a similar one be found? https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/6c21caf/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2187x1461+0+0/resize/1200x802!/format/webp/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fa0%2F58%2F8fbb901f43a98b4b28435aaa8749%2Fus-election-2024-trump-suspect-08018.jpg Delectable1 (talk) 22:32, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

It's hard to say what you would consider similar, so I don't know how to give you a useful answer. With a few exceptions (e.g. works created by U.S. federal government employees as part of their jo) any photo that is even vaguely contemporary is copyrighted from creation, and to host it here on Commons we need a free license from the owner of the copyright, which is typically the photographer. - Jmabel ! talk 16:34, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

Licensing Quesion

Can I upload an image that has the Creative Commons License- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International - This license allows the work to be shared but not adapted. CrissCollab (talk) 00:31, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

Hi CrissCollab. Such licensing is too restrictive for Commons as explained in COM:L and COM:LJ. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:38, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

@Marchjuly beat me to it. All the Best -- Chuck ^Talk 00:39, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for your speedy response! Just to clarify, if a work is allowed to be "adapted" does that mean that someone could basically take the image and digitally alter it in any way they want? Basically creating an entirely new image? CrissCollab (talk) 00:52, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

Yes, but adapting an image isn't allowed under CC-BY-NC-ND (the ND part is the reason.) All the Best -- Chuck ^Talk 01:00, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

If you want, you can upload it at https://nccommons.org/ with your login credentials here. It is a similar site that has no formal affiliation with this one. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:19, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

You could possibly do that, if you're just looking for a site to host such images. If, however, the reason you're uploading the images is because you want to use them in some Wikipedia article, you could run into problems based on local project polcies and for techinical reasons. NC-ND content is going to be treated as non-free content by local projects such as English Wikipedia and perhaps by some other language Wikipedias that allow such content to be used; moreover, there are many language Wikipedia that only allow "free images" to be used. In addition to all of that, I also believe only files being hosted on WMF servers can be internally linked for display on WMF project pages; in other words, links to files hosted on external sites won't be displayed by the WMF software. -- Marchjuly (talk) 02:29, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

Image re-upload or resharing from a news portal.

Hello I am new to Commons. I want to connect an image to an article which is extremely important. The image originally published by a newsportal here in Bangaldesh and it is not a public domain content. So what is the way to use this image in the article? Under fair-usage policy or something else? Aspaceodyssey1968 (talk) 09:46, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

You don't say what language Wikipedia you are working in, but typically the answer is going to be "you can't, it's not allowed." See meta:Non-free content for links to the policies of the various Wikipedias. - Jmabel ! talk 16:37, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

can Vector images be uploaded on commons?

If i create a vector image of a local church's floor map (not a blueprint; more likely the layout of buildings and places inside the premises), can they be uploaded here under own work license? And in what form? jpg, png, jpeg or any other? Thanks! VihirLak007 (talk) 11:53, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

Anyone? VihirLak007 (talk) 12:43, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

@VihirLak007: For vector images, use SVG. The formats you name are not vector formats. - Jmabel ! talk 16:38, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

Infobox image not displaying

I copied an info box to a foreign language Wikipedia page, but the image file doesn't show, it shows the text in red. What should i do?

• The file - File:St. Joseph's College Colombo crest.png
• The foreign wiki - si.wikipedia.org

VihirLak007 (talk) 12:01, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

• @VihirLak007: that image is on en.wikipedia, so it works on en.wikipedia. Only images on the local site or on commons can be used, not from one local site to another. DMacks (talk) 12:10, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

Use this file not working

When I click on the 'Download', 'Use this file', 'Use this file', or 'Email a link' buttons at the top of some pages they don't do anything. Why? Johnragla (talk) 14:32, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

@Johnragla: Hi, and welcome. Perhaps you didn't wait long enough. Which pages?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 14:42, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

Mathematics high school

I want to learn Abdoul Aziz Jallow (talk) 19:03, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

@Abdoul Aziz Jallow: this is a page to ask for help in using Wikimedia Commons (this site). It sounds like that is not what you are looking for. - Jmabel ! talk 20:13, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

Image license

While browsing the internet, I found a photo of a 2500-year-old artifact taken from a museum on a news site. When I searched for the same image with Google Lens, I saw that it had been used many times. I took a screenshot from the website, but the image was defective, so I cleaned the green spots on the black background with the background tool and made it completely black. I cut off the bottom of the image because it was unnecessarily long. I changed the lighting of the statue and made it more visible. Now, who owns the copyright of this image? What should I do when uploading? White Dodecahedron (talk) 03:32, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

@White Dodecahedron: Was the original image either in the public domain or free-licensed? I'm guessing not (since you don't say so), so we probably cannot accept this image on Commons. A derivative work of a copyrighted work requires permission from the copyright-holder of the underlying copyrighted work as well as from anyone who made copyrightable changes to it. - Jmabel ! talk 15:28, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

Incorrect template claims about heraldic images

I'm having trouble tracking down where some particular wording "lives", that is showing up in the description of various heraldic images, e.g. here. The templated text makes the baldfaced claim "Unauthorised use of arms is a criminal offence. Without authorisation, arms cannot be borne, used, or displayed by anyone other than their rightful owner." This is not actually true in many (probably most) jurisdictions, and even for heraldically restrictive ones, the wording is subtly still wrong anyway. It should be modified to read something like "Unauthorised use of arms is a criminal offence in some jurisdictions, in which arms cannot be publicly borne, displayed, or otherwise used by anyone other than their rightful owner without authorisation."  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  07:14, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

@SMcandlish: it came from Template:Insignia-Scotland-Grant/en. Pinging User:Billbowery, the only person who ever edited that template; however, I see he has not contributed to Commons for about 4 years, nor to any WMF project this calendar year. - Jmabel ! talk 15:35, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

@SMcCandlish: The usual Template:Insignia has a general wording considered applicable to most cases. Apparently, in 2020, a user believed it was a good idea, as one of their first edits on Commons, to create a different warning template, specifically for the jurisdiction of Scotland, "Template:Insignia-Scotland-Grant" (see there), which is the template you speak of. That template may or may not have been useful, but it referred explicitly to Scotland, so at least the possibility of confusion with other jurisdictions was limited. In 2024, another user thought that the specific templates for different jurisdictions were not a good idea and redirected them to the usual template (see this edit and the other edits of 16 March 2024 there), although it's not obvious if the initiative of that user to remove all those templates was sufficiently discussed somewhere. Normally, the redirection would suffice to prevent the display of "Template:Insignia-Scotland-Grant". However, its text is still displayed in "File:Arms_of_the_House_of_MacDougall_(after_1737).svg" because of the format in which it was inserted into that page (through autotranslate, which apparently takes the text from the "/en" subpage, which still displays the text). The text you wished to modify is in that subpage Template:Insignia-Scotland-Grant/en. But modifying a jurisdiction-specific template to speak of other jurisdictions may not be useful. If the specific template is not supposed to be used, you might prefer to simply remove it from the file description page. That will leave the usual template, which is there also. -- Asclepias (talk) 15:44, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

If this is meant to be jurisdiction-specific language, then it needs to specify (in user-visible form) the actual jurisdiction. However, since Scotland is not alone in such heraldic legal restrictions, there doesn't seem to be a clear purpose in changing this to read "In Scotland, unauthorised use of arms is a criminal offence ...", since it would also be against heraldic law in the rest of the UK and in a number of (but not all) Commonwealth jurisdictions, and a several continental European ones. I.e., the ultimate solution seems to be having a single template that warns that laws on the subject vary by country (perhaps one with parameters to give some country-specific annotations if they really seem pertinent, but it's hard to figure why they would be; this is a global image server, not a storefront in Inverness).  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  22:29, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

Template:Coa blazon has a similar error, and I don't know how to fix it, because the text is buried somewhere behind an "autotranslate" module. The text in question reads "This coat of arms was drawn based on its blazon which – being a written description – is free from copyright." But this is legally wrong; things are not free from copyright because they are textual. There is no connection betweeen the concept "written/textual" and "free from copyright"; the two claims are entirely independent of each other, like "She is tall" and "She is from France". Worse, this template contradicts its own documentation, which in small part reads: "Certain governments have extended copyright protection to new and recent blazons of heraldic devices ...". So, the material in the template needs to be fixed in two ways. First, the default wording should read "This coat of arms was drawn based on its blazon, which is a written description and is free from copyright." Second, we need to be able to turn off the text " and is free from copyright" with a parameter, for cases like the documentation mentions that are in fact copyrighted.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  09:17, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

• That sounds like a subject best taken up—at least initially—on the talk page of that template. - Jmabel ! talk 15:37, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

  Well, I'm in paritcular looking for Commons-expert advice on how to figure out where the storage location of this text is, in both cases. I use Wikipedia a lot, but it's generally much more transparent about where the actual text in templates is (often with a tiny "e" for edit one can click to get to it).  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  22:21, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

It's the same principle as in the other example above, and for many multilanguage templates, the English text is in the English subpage Template:Coa blazon/en, the Spanish text is in the Spanish subpage Template:Coa blazon/es, etc. -- Asclepias (talk) 01:49, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

But this means that changing the wording in just one language isn't that good an idea. I think somebody experienced should assist in the procedure and check that the result is consistent with actual usage and between languages. –LPfi (talk) 20:43, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

Changing file source and license

I've found that an image under the name of File:RemasteredIntroLogo.webp is not only plagarised from the Thomas the Tank Engine Wiki on Fandom, but also it uses an incorrect source and license, as if Toshibafansandmore was claiming that the image belonged to them. My question is how do you change the source and license of a file page, and which is the correct one in this scenario? SleepDeprivedGinger (talk) 12:10, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

@SleepDeprivedGinger: Actually the file is a copyright violation since it was originally made by the cover artist of Thomas and Friends. Therefore I deleted it, since claims of fair use aren't allowed on Commons. —Matrix(!) {user - talk? - _uselesscontributions} 12:34, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

@Matrix That makes sense, thank you for replying. SleepDeprivedGinger (talk) 12:37, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

Interactive streetmaps

With Leaflet I created an interactive OpenStreetMap with my photos on Wikimedia Commons. The result can be seen here

https://mschoettler.de/Pinnenpfad/Pinnenpfad6.html

I couldn't find any interactive maps in Wikipedia, but I found screenshots for example:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:20201119_xl_194539_Leaflet,_WikiMap_with_WMFlabs_map_per_OpenStreetMap_contributors,_Berlin_Brandenburger_Tor,_Screenshot_mit_Beispielbild_(Berlin,_germany,_panoramio_(5)).jpg

that link to the interactive map at wikimap.toolforge.org:

https://wikimap.toolforge.org/?wp=false&basemap=2&cluster=false&zoom=16&lat=052.516266&lon=0013.376798

I found other examples at wikivoyage and wikimedia.swiss for example:

https://map.wikimedia.swiss/v/swiss-museums/

Where should/could I put my interactive map and how can I do that? M.Schoettler (talk) 16:02, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

Help in mentioning a variable source

A tag was put on my upload saying its a derivative work, File:Tæm̆bili Pandol 2024 Enderamulla Church Feast.jpg; should i mention all the villagers who made this pandol? I don't understand the requirment. pls explain this matter. its like asking to mention all the people who helped to build a christmas tree thats in a pic. Whats the solution on this. And no this is not sponsored by the mentioned church, its just a pandol made by villagers as a tradition. Whom should i mention as source? i hv already mentioned own since i took the photo. VihirLak007 (talk) 19:31, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

The photo appears to be on Facebook, posted prior to your upload here by an account whose name does not match yours, and tagged all-rights-reserved there. But even if you did take the photograph, there is no freedom of panorama in Sri Lanka, so you would actually seem to need explicit permission from each of the builders and/or designers. DMacks (talk) 19:37, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

it one of my page i do as you see, should i also mention the page link as source too? but i uploaded the raw file of it without the edited version with the watermark. Should i tag my page link as source still? VihirLak007 (talk) 19:44, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

Ok, that makes sense for the own-work claim of the photo. Thanks for explaining one of the two concerns. DMacks (talk) 19:45, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

is there anything else i should do that might help? VihirLak007 (talk) 19:48, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

im now reading the intellectual property act in SL. Can i know what category might a decorative arch made for a church feast fall in? VihirLak007 (talk) 19:56, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

I just read the section 8, from what i understad is;

Section 8: Works Not Protected by Copyright

This section explains that certain elements are not protected by copyright, which includes Ideas, concepts, procedures, methods of operation, or mathematical concepts as such.

This means that ideas, methods, or concepts in and of themselves are not subject to copyright protection. Only their expression in a tangible form can be protected. So, if a decorative arch (like a Thambili Thorana) follows a traditional or widely known pattern, it might not qualify for protection unless there is some new, original expression or design in its creation (which havent changed since the begining of the tradition).

While the Act does not specifically mention "traditional cultural expressions" or "public domain," it's generally understood in copyright law that elements that are part of cultural heritage or have been in long-standing public use may fall outside copyright protection unless there's an original aspect added to the work.

Thus, if a decorative arch is based on cultural traditions or forms, it is likely not protected unless new, creative, or original elements are introduced into its design or structure (again, the pandol form has never being changed in the history since the begining).

here you can see picture o fthe pandol over the years. Its the same traditional design. oldest available picture is from 1990 and 1991(100th jubilee).more older picture wouldnt hv been available since even in 1991 only one man owned a camera in the whole parish. The pandol was made every years except for 2020 for lack of king coconuts and covid pandemic in 2023. VihirLak007 (talk) 20:24, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

Isn't a construction of something "a tangible form"? Taking that this is literally the same thing that has been re-built every year and that the original designer is not known, protection for anonymous works lasts 70 years. If it's been modified, then that might reset the clock. And the copyright law explicitly says "expression of folklore" are protected. DMacks (talk) 20:48, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

Ah right. "expression of folklore". Noted. Okay moving forward what should be done to the file? is there another way to still keep it on commons? or to be used only in named articles. Any changes to the source? VihirLak007 (talk) 21:04, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

i might be wrong but i feel like in this case, if they had originally named the file let say "view of an old church in sri lanka, during a feast celebration" this might have a different outcome. since it does not emphasize on a item in the pic but a general view one might see. Just saying. Wikiceylon.pvt (talk) 21:09, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

The name doesn't matter if the content is unacceptable: the protected part of the image is not de minimis. Sometimes we get lucky and it's easier to catch potentially problematic content. Licensing policy is complicated, as you are learning. DMacks (talk)

Any update regarding my last two replies? VihirLak007 (talk) 03:40, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

If the content is non-free, there is no remedy except deletion. Commons does not allow hosting of images that infringe license policy. DMacks (talk) 17:25, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

the church celebrated its 133rd anniversary in 2023. doesnt that already have passed 70+ year guidline? since the original creation of the pandol design which havent changed since? VihirLak007 (talk) 11:18, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

@VihirLak007: Very good question: is there enough originality in this particular expression of traditional folk art to qualify for copyright? That is way too subtle a question about copyright for the help desk, and should be taken up at Commons:VP/C. - Jmabel ! talk 15:03, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

TYSM. A topic was added. The New topic in Village Pump VihirLak007 (talk) 18:21, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

BTW under "no freedom of panorama in Sri Lanka"; are the below files acceptable? Pandols made annually for vesak festivals in Sri Lanka?

• File:Piliyandala Vesak Thorana 2016.jpg
• File:Grandpass Vesak Thorana.jpg
• File:Maharagama Vesak Pandol 2022.jpg
• File:Piliyandala vesak pandol 2017.jpg

VihirLak007 (talk) 21:16, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

Those might also be problematic, yes. Fact is, some countries are more restrictive than others. DMacks (talk) 17:25, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

all the mention files are sri lankan pandol. vesak pandols. VihirLak007 (talk) 11:12, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

piliyandala, grandpass, maharagam all three places in file names are places in sri lanka. VihirLak007 (talk) 11:13, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

Actual Paper Magazine Puck Vol. 40 (XL) No. 1023.

Hello I am curious on what the value is of an Actual Magazine Puck Vol. 40 (XL) No. 1023. I want to put some insurance on the magazine I have. It was found in an old abandon car over the cliff in Elk City, ID. Thank you for your time and help. Windy Wkime9 (talk) 22:36, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

@Wkime9: This would not be the place to ask questions about the value of materials like this. I'm sure there are bulletin bulletin boards where such things are discussed; you can probably find out on eBay, Amazon Marketplace, or similar sites what comparable items sell for; or if you really want to do it right, you can pay an appraiser. - Jmabel ! talk 19:55, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

upload Suno song

I need to upload a Chinese song produced by Suno AI to enhance the description on Chinese Wikipedia. This will provide valuable context and information. Thank you.Idlcn (talk) 07:04, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

@Idlcn: the PRC is one of the few countries that does not currently consider all AI outputs to be in the public domain: see Commons:AI-generated media. I have no idea what jurisdiction you live in.

That said, if there is no copyright problem and it is needed for an article, Commons:Audio provides information about permitted and preferred formats for audio. - Jmabel ! talk 20:00, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

@Jmabel: Sorry ,I forgot to say ,I am Taiwanese, and Taiwan is not part of China. If the audio files I upload are considered to violate Chinese laws, then sensitive topics like the Tiananmen Square incident would also face the same scrutiny. It's crucial to recognize that Chinese citizens must use a VPN to access Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, highlighting the restrictions on information access imposed by the Chinese government. Thank you! Idlcn (talk) 22:13, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

@Idlcn: "Taiwan is not part of China": I believe both of the relevant governments would disagree with that statement (one more wholeheartedly than the other), but it is certainly not subject to PRC copyright law. - Jmabel ! talk 15:07, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

@Idlcn: Last I heard, Taiwan was ROC, which considers itself China. It would be better to say that Taiwan is not PRC and does not follow PRC laws.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 23:36, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for your responses. As a Taiwanese user, I want to clarify that copyright considerations here differ from those in the PRC, and Taiwan has its own legal framework.

I seek to upload an audio file to Chinese Wikipedia featuring a song produced by Suno AI. This upload is essential to demonstrate Suno’s ability to generate Chinese songs, enhancing the understanding of AI's role in music. It’s important to note that many Chinese citizens need to use a VPN to access Wikipedia, making this contribution even more significant.

Additionally, English songs generated by Suno can be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, contributing to the global repository of AI-generated music.

I assure you that I will comply with all relevant copyright guidelines. Allowing this upload would significantly support Wikipedia’s mission of providing accessible knowledge.

Thank you for considering my request!Idlcn (talk) 01:07, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

Looks like you should be all good on the commons side of things, give me a ping on my talk page when you upload the file. All the Best -- Chuck ^Talk 01:12, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

Collaborative work

Is it possible to license a collaborative work of two people (I tried File:Gr-Georgia-Damasioti-geschnitten.ogg)? In the example, Osenji made the recording (of someone else's voice, but that is not the question), sent me the file and I cut and uploaded it. If a double permission is not possible, I suppose that the person who recorded must send the permission form to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org and the uploader gives the license, right? Things would be easy if the same person records and uploads. But this costs more time and people are not always familiar with the process, so I looked for a shortcut and possibility of cooperation. - If a permission is necessary, does it have to be given for every single file separateley? Thank you. Reisen8 (talk) 08:51, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

@Reisen8: There is not really much other way to establish the licensing if Commons is the first place you are uploading. Alternatively, you could first upload somewhere else that is clearly under your joint control, and indicate the relevant free license and desired (joint) credit there, then cite that as the source when uploading. You can certainly give permission for multiple files in a single email to the VRT (permissions-commons etc., as you noted above). You can upload them, send the relevant emails referencing the filenames, and follow the instructions at {{PP}} so they should not get deleted while VRT is dealing with it.

FWIW, questions about VRT are usually best asked at Commons:Volunteer_Response_Team/Noticeboard, but I'm pretty sure that in this case they'd say more or less what I just wrote. - Jmabel ! talk 20:51, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, Jmabel, then I'll move to VRT with my question. The thing is that I have to find a way allowing to give the permission also for future files - imagine a list with names to be pronounced as part of a project which will run for a long time. If people abroad will have to send a mail for each of those mini-files they will probably lose interest. I have to check that with VRT. All the best! Reisen8 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Reisen8 (talk • contribs) 09:22, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

എങ്ങനെയാണ് പൂക്കളുടെ Photo apload ചെയ്യേണ്ടത്.

എങ്ങനെയാണ് പൂക്കളുടെ ഫോട്ടോ Comensil apload ചെയ്യേണ്ടത്. Atpalamkonam (talk) 09:42, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

How to upload photo of flowers.

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How to upload flower photo to Comensil.

translator: Google Translate via   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 10:57, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

@Atpalamkonam: ഹായ്, സ്വാഗതം. ദയവായി COM:FS (COM:FS/ml) കാണുക.

Hi, and welcome. Please see COM:FS (COM:FS/ml).   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 10:57, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

logging in

This complaint also applies to Wikipedia. When trying to log in, a user is presented with a check box "remain logged on" or something like that. It is very convenient to remain logged on. But the amount of time that one has to check that box is less than a second or two. Try it. 192.80.107.0 16:27, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

This is not the case in general. What sort of device, browser, and operating system are you on? - Jmabel ! talk 20:02, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

There is no apparent reason why the check box would disappear before the rest of the page Special:UserLogin or before clicking the log in button. The problem might have to do with the software you use or maybe you somehow automated your log in procedure instead of manually clicking the log in button. -- Asclepias (talk) 20:08, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

Adding source of derivative work in an uploaded file - an image within an image

I need to indicate the source of a derivative work - I uploaded an image of an orchestra accompanying a film. A still image from the film is in my original photo. The film is now in public domain, so there is no copyright issue. I have the relevant information but I don't know how to edit the file description to incorporate it. I don't understand how to use the specific code. Can anyone help? Thanks Slwheatley (talk) 20:56, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

• @Slwheatley: it would help enormously if you would indicate a specific file instead of asking this question in the abstract. - Jmabel ! talk 09:03, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

  It's File:Babylon Orchestra Berlin performing Metropolis.jpg Slwheatley (talk) 13:47, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

@Slwheatley: Please see the message at the top of Category:Metropolis (film). For historical reasons having to do in part with confused discussions in its early months of existence, Commons still has a peculiar and cumbersome internal policy stating that a file on Commons must be free in its country of "origin" (the country where it is first published). That internal policy has been diversely interpreted and applied. If your photo was first published on Commons, located in the United States, then its country of origin is the United States and your photo, and everything in it, is free there. However, an application of the Commons policy means that all objects seen in an image must also be free in their respective countries of first publication. You can may upload your file to the English-language Wikipedia, which applies the United Sates copyright law only, but not to the Deutsch-language Wikipedia, which also applies the German copyright law. -- Asclepias (talk) 22:05, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

Fotografías de Santa Juana de Arco

Buenas se puede publicar a wikimedia las fotografías de Santa Juana de Arco?? AbchyZa22 (talk) 22:15, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

@AbchyZa22 Si, por supuesto. Si las fotos eran su trabajo y tienen una licencia libre como CC-by-4.0 o las fotos no tienen derechos de autor de otro, puede publicar las fotos. Bastique ^{☎ appelez-moi!} 22:39, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

@Bastique:Si público una foto no tienen derecho de autor es posible agregar PD (ella falleció en 1431 en Francia)?? AbchyZa22 (talk) 22:54, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

@AbchyZa22 Si, Utilice el Asistente de subidas. Bastique ^{☎ appelez-moi!} 23:21, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

Image violation

Hi!

One of the pictures that I uploaded to the Wiki commons was flagged by one of the users because of the copyright infringement. The article is about a biography of the person I was writing about and the image I uploaded was from the persons Instagram account. How do I dispute it?

I apologize if this questions looks too easy to answer, I just want to make sure that the article won't be affected.

Thank you in advance! Pypopus (talk) 05:06, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

Hi Pynopus. You might want to take a look at Commons:Copyright rules by subject matter#Internet images for reference, but most likely the only way for Commons to keep this image is going to be having the copyright holder of the photo (i.e. the person who took it, not the subject of the photo) to give their Commons:Consent. Since you seem to be saying you didn't take the photo yourself, then whoever did is the copyright holder. Commons needs some way to formally verify that that person is OK with the file being uploaded to Commons in accordance with Commons:Licensing. If you know who the copyright holder of the photo is, you can try requesting their consent per en:Wikipedia:Example requests for permission; however, only the copyright holder or their representatives can release the copyright holder's creative work under the type of licensing that Commons accepts. -- Marchjuly (talk) 06:17, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

Do remember: well over 95% of what you find on the Internet is copyrighted and does not offer a free license. You can't just grab a random photo from the web, wave a wand over it, and turn it into something that can be reused freely. - Jmabel ! talk 09:06, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

I want to restore my page Horror Insider

Commons:Undeletion requests/Current requests#File:Horror Insider

Please restore this one which is not advertised and it don't have any links Horror Insider (talk) 09:36, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

Resolved

I think that this question was replied to adequately based on the supplied information. If you have anything to add or a follow-up question please feel free to replace this box with your comment. This section will be archived after two days. Indeffed for adding oos content.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 21:12, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

Uploading my photo into my entry. How, from an Android phone?

How to add my own portrait photo at the head of my entry? Noeltredinnick (talk) 09:48, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

@Noeltredinnick: Hi, and welcome. Please start with COM:FS.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 23:32, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

@Noeltredinnick: Or follow the steps at en:WP:A picture of you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:50, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

Help with identifying a grasshopper species (and species in general)

Hi,

I uploaded some photos of a grasshopper earlier today (e.g., File:20240920 greasshopper on corn point meadows PD205782.jpg).

I thought I had identified the correct species, but now I'm not so sure.

Wondering if there is a place on WM where I can get advice on the correct species.

Thank you

Pdanese (talk) 22:32, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

@Pdanese: I see that the species has now been IDd, but in future you can apply categories like Category:Unidentified insects or one of its sub-categories; or you can upload your images to iNaturalist (but please still upload them here also). Using iNaturalist has the added advantage that your record contributes to the scientific monitoring of biodiversity; see com:INaturalist. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:59, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

ابوعجيب

اريد أضافة صورة لـ صاحب المقال ابوعجيب Hdb.i12 (talk) 01:29, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

@Hdb.i12 see Commons:Upload. RZuo (talk) 08:50, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

Copyright help regarding File:Bonte Thatcher at UTSW.jpg

Hello

What tag would best fit images from this source?

https://utswlibrary.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/about

Specifically since it says: "Items within the UT Southwestern Image Archives are provided for non-commercial, personal, or research use. For these purposes, you may reproduce (print, photocopy, or download) materials without prior permission"

Thank you.

Nightryder84 (talk) 02:51, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

@Nightryder84: Commons doesn't accept content that's been released under a non-commercial license per COM:LJ; so, Commons is unlikely going to be able to keep this file because the licensing the UT Southwestern Image Archives is using is too restrictive for Commons. Given the information on the photo found at here, it seems likely that someone working for UT Southwestern took the photo in 1991 as part of their duties in a sort of en:work for hire type of arrangement, which means UT Southwestern is most likely the copyright holder; so, you would need its COM:CONSENT for the file to be kept on Commons. Others might assess this file's copyright differently, and you can wait to see if others respond if you want; however, I think your two options here are to ask the UTSW for its consent or tag the file for speedy deletion yourself per COM:CSD#G7. If you do nothing, the file will most likely tagged for speedy deletion by another Commons user per COM:CSD#F1 or COM:CSD#F4. -- Marchjuly (talk) 05:29, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

seems not okay per rights statement. _Regards, Aafi ^(talk) 05:56, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

Request

Sir want make own map like( African union ) colour more country for project i don't no how to make Wikipedia nmap used on their pages 2409:4085:8804:E506:0:0:29A8:68B0 04:32, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

go to com:gl/m with more detail about what you want to make. RZuo (talk) 08:49, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

Fotografías de Ezequiel Zamora

Buenas se puede publicar las fotografías de Ezequiel Zamora (militar y político venezolano) falleció en 1860 en San Carlos (Estado Cojedes)? AbchyZa22 (talk) 07:29, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

Picture of Emma Watson

There is this picture of emma watson from an interview for vogue magazine used in the simple wiki, would it be approved for use in the main wiki page, as the status of license is not confired, it is also used in various wikis. Adry9509 (talk) 10:17, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

@Adry9509: File:Emma Watson 2023 head and shoulders 1 (cropped).jpg is freely licensed and can be reused for any purpose, both in the wiki and outside the wiki. I just closed the related DRs. _Regards, Aafi ^(talk) 11:01, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

could you then please remove the nominated for deletion. Adry9509 (talk) 11:06, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

Sorry, thanks for Your Help Adry9509 (talk) 11:07, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

@Adry9509: Assuming you mean the Main Page of the Simple English Wikipedia, that would be a matter for that project's policies. It's easy enough to confirm that the source video on YouTube is marked with a CC BY 3.0 licence. But there is always the question of whether the channel that posted the video actually had the right to grant that licence. In this case, it's notable that there's a corresponding video on the main Vogue channel, and it isn't marked CC BY 3.0. So the question is, does Vogue Taiwan have the right to relicense videos from Vogue under a free licence? And while I was writing this it seems that Aafi has decided that the answer is "yes". --bjh21 (talk) 11:04, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

@Bjh21, thanks for bringing this up. Well, frankly, I did no go too deep into this and trusted the statement by VOGUE Taiwan that the file is freely licensed. Given that the original video (published two days earlier) doesn't put up any such claim, I share same concerns as you. I can simply revert my closure and ask other admins to take a look. _Regards, Aafi ^(talk) 11:12, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

Pictures from Vogue Taiwan Does Seem to be a theme, my guess is that taiwan requires an open license not required for the original vogue? Adry9509 (talk) 11:20, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

Problems uploading a file

Hi,

I tried to upload a 1.5 GByte PDF file. I got various error messages. Currently I constantly keep getting "Pathologie4.pdf Could not acquire lock. Somebody else is doing something to this file." Before that I got something like "Server did not respond in the expected time". And just now I got "Internal error: Server failed to publish temporary file."

any ideas?

Yours Dirk Hünniger (talk) 16:54, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

and another one "Upload from stash already in progress." Dirk Hünniger (talk) 16:59, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

Finally it worked. I got no clue why. Here is the file at last:

File:Pathologie4.pdf Dirk Hünniger (talk) 17:34, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

Oh no

Hello, I have uploaded a file of a Metro car to use, and I have realized it is not the correct one. To prevent people getting mislead, how do I modify the description and title or delete it completely? Thanks @MetaTalks MetaTalks (talk) 19:58, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

MetaTalks, if the uploaded file is in the project scope, it can be edited (if needed) and kept. If it's not, you can request the file to be deleted. You can also request renaming of the file, if it is necessary. Ratekreel (talk) 21:16, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

Clarification on US State Department Copyright Law

Hi, I have a question regarding U.S. State Department copyright law as it pertains to ambassadors. Since ambassadors operate under the jurisdiction of the Department of State, I understand that images depicting their official duties are considered public domain. Does this mean that any images they upload to social media platforms (such as Twitter/X) while performing their official duties are also in the public domain and, as such, can be used on Wikipedia? Titanciwiki (talk) 06:05, 26 September 2024 (UTC)

Hi Titanciwiki I believe it depends on who takes the photograph and where its published. If, for example, the photograph is taken by an employee of the US embassy (who isn't a local contract hire), it's taken as part of their official duties, and it's uploaded to an official US Government website (social media account), then perhaps it would fall under {{PD-USGov-DOS}}. On the other hand, if the photo was taken by someone else (e.g. a photographer working for the host country) but just is being hosted on an official US Government website (social media account) or is being hosted on someone's personal website or social media account (even if the person is a US government employee), then it might not be considered and official work of the US Government and thus could be eligible for copyright protection. This links to the copyright information page for the US Embassy in the UK, and I'd image most the other US embassies worldwide have similar pages. If that's not sufficient for you to do a self-assessment of the photo you want to use, it would probably be easier for someone to help you if could provide a link to the photo want to upload.

Finally and just for reference, Commons is mainly concerned with the licensing of the content it hosts and whether it meets COM:SCOPE. Commons isn't too concerned with how the content it hosts is being used by the various Wikimedia Foundation projects like English Wikipedia. Encyclopedic decisions regarding image tend to be left to each project to sort out; so, Commons hosting something doesn't automatically guarantee that a project will decide to use it, and such things sometimes need to be resolved through discussion at the local project level. -- Marchjuly (talk) 07:30, 26 September 2024 (UTC)