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Tried to use my own images for Wikipedia but identified as copyright violation[edit]

Thanks a lot for all the timely help regarding my own artwork. Given the complexity involved, I decided to stop here and retract what I asked. Once again, thanks a lot. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bnurs (talk • contribs)

Uploading my brand-new author icon to Commons[edit]

About a week ago, a Redditor by the name of "LeoTheFloofyDragon" delivered this portrait of my blue-furred tanuki avatar, which I intend to use not only as the top-left icon for my creative-venture wiki, but also my WP userpage portrait. (This becomes important in the commentary for an FTA post I'm currently preparing on MH, my first since late June.) Before any of you ask, here's a transcript from RDT chat on Saturday afternoon confirming his permission:

Routhwick: "Afternoon, Leo. Care if I give you a reminder before long?"

LeoTheFloofyDragon: "Reminder?"

R: "Yep. Uploading soon (with your kind permission) under my wiki's preferred PD waivers."

L: "Ofc!
"I just ask that you credit me as the maker of that piece somewhere if you don't mind"

R: "As I always do in my descriptions/commentary."

L: "Awesome, tysm :3"

If The Harvett Vault (talk · contribs) could do it (sorry if Commons gave you a hard time on your uploads recently), then so might I. Any further advice? --Slgrandson (talk) 18:22, 21 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Slgrandson: if the artist wants attribution, I would recommend strongly against a PD waiver. That does not retain the right of attribution. Use {{CC-BY-SA 4.0}} instead.
I'm going to assume right now that the artist has not formally transferred copyright to you; if they have, then this gets more complicated. Say so below and I'll give you the more complicated version.
The simplest way to clarify permission would be for the artist to add a comment to that Reddit post indicating the license they are offering (again, presumably {{CC-BY-SA 4.0}}) and how they want to be attributed. Then anyone (including you) can upload that, citing that page as the source, and using the indicated license. - Jmabel ! talk 19:19, 21 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Jmabel: Any moment soon, I'll remind Leo of COM:VRT (né OTRS) to save face. (Pinging now before this gets stale.) --Slgrandson (talk) 21:13, 28 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Jmabel: Relayed your advice/my VRT suggestion to Leo via RDT chat. Still awaiting further consultation from another 1-3 Commons clerks before I move ahead. (Happy Labor Day!) --Slgrandson (talk) 00:19, 5 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Jmabel: Just gave Leo an "ELI5" ("Explain Like I'm Five") on the licensing requirements + VRT. Any further developments, and I'll reach back. Anyone else to give us a hand? --Slgrandson (talk) 07:07, 11 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Slgrandson: I agree with Jmabel on this. Five year olds may not license their content.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 08:03, 11 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Yes, but that "ELI5" bit is just an expression. --Slgrandson (talk) 08:07, 11 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

New Page, New User[edit]

I am a fan of a band. I saw that they have no Wiki Page. So, I contacted them and said I want to make a wiki page for them. They are cool with it. They sent me some band photos, but when I try to upload them, the wiki rejects for copyright questions I think. Can you help me to get the pictures up? I might need to be verified? How do I do that? I saw a page but did not understand. Mistermiek (talk) 05:01, 1 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Mistermiek: There are a few things going on here. Please be aware that Wikipedia -- actually, each Wikipedia in a different language -- and Commons are separate projects (although under the umbrella of one foundation) and each makes its own rules. I'm guessing that by "a wiki page" you mean something on the English-language Wikipedia (en-wiki). You might want to look at their policy on conflicts of interest to make sure you don't get in any trouble on that account, and also at the "notability" policies related to music to make sure that the band in question are up to en-wiki's required level of notability, so that you don't waste effort on an article that will just get deleted.
Back to here on Commons. When you say "the wiki rejects" it's hard to know what tool you were using, but I'm guessing that it was a cross-wiki upload from en-wiki. And, if so, I'm glad that brought you here, because there are some copyright issues you are going to need to sort out. Please bear with me, because you'd probably rather go through the right hoops and have your content kept than take shortcuts and have it sit here for only a few days before being deleted.
  • Commons is super-strict about copyright and licensing, and pretty much any photos of a present-day band are copyrighted, because every significant country in the world now considers copyright to exist from the moment the photo is taken. (The U.S. was one of the last on board with this, at then beginning of March 1989.) It is possible for a copyright to be transferred, but usually that involves an explicit contract to do so, so most likely the band do not own the copyrights of existing photos of the band, and therefore cannot give a license to use them.
  • For copyrighted photos, Commons requires a license that allows (1) reuse by anyone, including commercial reuse and (2) the creation of derivative works (e.g. cropped versions, re-colorized versions, etc.) It is OK to require a photo credit (e.g. "Photo by FOO"). We normally recommend the {{CC-BY-SA-4.0}} license. This license has to be granted by the copyright-holder typically the photographer. The band will probably be able to put you in touch with the photographers in question. If you look at COM:VRT you'll see an explanation of how they -- not anyone else -- can send an email to grant that license. Do make sure you read that carefully, and don't go off half-cocked. Also, be aware that such licenses are irrevocable.
    • If the photographer has a web presence that is clearly their own (e.g. a web site for their photography business) this can be slightly short-circuited by them posting the photo to their own web site and indicating the license there. Then you can cite the relevant URL as a source, and can upload on that basis. Saves a bunch of emailing.
  • It may be simpler if possible for you to take pictures of the band yourself, and upload those as your own work with the same required licensing.
  • As for the technical issue of uploading: if you use Special:UploadWizard here on Commons, you'll probably get around whatever was the issue with the cross-wiki upload. But please make sure you have the licensing issue in hand first.
I hope that's helpful. And I'm sorry this is so complicated, but making someone else's photo broadly available for reuse is not a trivial thing. Please feel free to follow up here if you have further questions.
Jmabel ! talk 06:02, 1 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thank you for the reply. It is very helpful. Mistermiek (talk) 17:48, 1 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Mistermiek: Hi, and welcome. I am sorry to inform you that you have triggered Special:AbuseFilter/153 by trying to cross-wiki upload smaller (<50,000 bytes or <2,000,000 pixels) jpg photos as a new user, and ​ another filter. Each jpg photo you tried to upload is smaller, and you indicated it's your own work. Usually when someone uploads smaller photos, they are copyright violations taken from the web. If you took the photos yourself, please upload the full-size originals of them per COM:HR, including EXIF metadata. If you did not take the photos, please see Commons:Licensing for why we can't accept them, and have the photographer(s) license them on their official websites or social media or send the photos and permissions via VRT with carbon copies to you. If you can't get a compliant license, the photos may still be uploaded to English Wikipedia in compliance with en:WP:F because we don't allow Fair Use here. If you use our Upload Wizard instead, you should be able to avoid filter 153.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 09:21, 8 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Photos from google[edit]

How do some photos from google get allowed and others taken away. I want to upload a photo of someone from google for my age about them but dont know how wothout it getting taken away. Thanks Nrldragonsgood (talk) 10:45, 6 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Nrldragonsgood Please see COM:L and COM:NETCOPYRIGHT. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 16:29, 6 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
So if i go to a football game, and take a photo of a player, i could use that as it is my own work and own photo? because on some NRl players pages they have hptos which are on the internet? See https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fleets , how is this eprson allowed to do this? Nrldragonsgood (talk) 08:58, 7 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Nrldragonsgood: yes, if you take the photo yourself then you own the copyright and may choose to license (or not) it as you see fit. - Jmabel ! talk 21:04, 7 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Nrldragonsgood: Hi, and welcome. Some venues may claim you can't take photos there or that they own the copyright to photos you take there - check your ticket stubs, the venue rules, or COM:NCR to be sure.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 08:52, 8 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Trying to ascertain source+license for a potentially usable file[edit]

I've identified a vandalism account Micheal P Richson (talk · contribs); the username is a perversion of Mike Pompeo's full name; their userpage is clearly a hoax derived from the wikipedia article about him at that time ([1]) and can likely be speedy deleted as nonsense or vandalism. The account has one upload, File:The love for my great family is great.jpg, for which file information is junk, and licensing is obviously suspect. However, this is actually a photograph of Tony Abbott and his family, so it could conceivably be kept as a useful file, if we're able to identify its source and ascertain a compatible license — perhaps it came from Australian govt? I haven't had any luck using google lens, does anyone have some other ideas or does this have to be sent for deletion? 2406:3003:2077:1E60:8045:33D5:E53F:DC92 20:55, 6 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

It looks like something that would be posted to a personal account of a family member. Unlikely to be licensed. -- Asclepias (talk) 21:36, 6 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Didn't find the exact picture, but got a search hit that's definitely from the same photoshoot. That picture was reposted to a forum in Sep 2013; its URL suggests original publication by Mamamia in Nov 2012. This was when Abbott was Leader of the Opposition, so probably comes from a publicity shoot for that site, some other media outlet, or via Liberal Party PR apparatus. Photo predates Abbott's time as PM, hence is not likely to have been obtained via some Australian govt website that makes content available under a CC license. 2406:3003:2077:1E60:E4DF:F525:2308:C92A 07:52, 8 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

File:Groundbreaking for new Australian embassy.jpg[edit]

It would seem 11484857 is the NAA-image ID, but the link to the photo doesn't work. Does anyone have an idea how to fix this? APK (talk) 21:59, 6 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The photo also doesn't appear in the JSTOR article that appears as the source...tried a google search, but wasn't lucky enough to find Mister Hasluck digging a hole. Paradise Chronicle (talk) 04:14, 15 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Handling a group of photos from a shoot or related shoots[edit]

Hi Commons persons, I have a few sets of photos either previously uploaded (see e.g. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gallopers-Tasmania-2013-01.jpg, with related files listed in the "description") or ready to upload, typically from a shoot or related shoots, that I would like to associate together in small "collections" of some sort if that is possible - in other words, not all "my" photos (group by uploader) but just a subset with a particular theme and date or dates. Probably not a "gallery" which (at least in Wikipedia) relates to any images of a subject taken by potentially random persons at random times; maybe a "photo essay" is close, but I can only find 2 examples where this terminology has been formally used, see https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Photo-essays , so perhaps it is not the recommended method - any guidance welcome (perhaps I am missing something obvious as well). Regards Tony Rees Tony 1212 (talk) 22:57, 7 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Tony 1212:
  1. You can probably do something on a subpage of your own user space.
  2. You can do a hidden category, if the grouping is mainly for your own sake in finding the materials.
  3. You can also do a "gallery" within the description like I did here, rather than just list the files.
By the way, that really is way to much text in your current description. It reads like an essay. If you want to do that at that length, I really suggest you start a blog of your own or something of that sort rather than embed it as the description of a photo here.
Do keep in mind: in a wiki like this, you are not really supposed to take "ownership" of a page. Of course the photo itself is your own, and you control how you get credit for it, and we severely limit overwrites of the image against your wishes (COM:OVERWRITE), but the description is really not supposed to be one person's subjective take. - Jmabel ! talk 00:33, 8 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thanks for the response, I will address the issue with the "mini essay" on the Gallopers topic separately. Regarding the purpose of my request, basically I would like something i.e. a particular set of images that can then be addressed as an "external link" in a Wikipedia article, in other words more than just for personal use. That is why I was thinking of "photo essay" or similar, but wondering why nobody seems to be using it... Tony 1212 (talk) 01:00, 8 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
If it is intended as a link for a Wikipedia article, then it should probably be done as a gallery page. But you can't expect to keep single-handed control over a gallery page. That goes against Commons:Ownership of pages and files, which I linked in my prior answer. - Jmabel ! talk 03:07, 8 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Hi @Jmabel... Maybe - just maybe - I could achieve what I want with some fine scale categorization... For example, I recently uploaded the file https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Railway_station_Lismore_(1).jpg, along with 2 others i.e. (2) and (3), for use on a Wikipedia page, however I have another 5+ to upload that will not currently be included in the Wikipedia article, but are of some potential historic significance since they document the appearance of the station (basically it is in disrepair) at time of photographing.
So, I could add these to a pre-existing https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Lismore_railway_station (not yet done) and provide an external link to them via that prefix.
The only issue then being, that ideally, I would like to differentiate the different "phases of use" / condition of this station, namely, in use (1894-2004); post-use but pre- flood damage (2004-2022); and in disrepair (2022-?), so that I could provide a link to just one of these sets (subsets) as needed. I am guessing that this could be done as subcategories, and would also permit others to add images to these categories in the future, which would actually be fine for my intended use scenario as well. So could this work?
One complication is that "Category:Lismore_railway_station" actually requires disambiguation, since although the category has been set up (by someone) for the Australian instance, there is an Irish instance as well, e.g. see https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_former_Lismore_Railway_Station_%28geograph_5434764%29.jpg . Different issue, to address as well, I am guessing.
OK, returning to the "Gallopers" example previously given... just for information, "Gallopers" are the UK variant of the U.S. "carousel" fairground ride, in which the horses go clockwise (I think it is anticlockwse in the U.S.A.)
So far as I can see, there is currently on Commons:
To date I added the second of these to my "Gallopers" photos, however they group (now or potentially) with other instances of particular carousels.
Then we have https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Carousels_by_manufacturer (subcategory of Carousels)
There is no subcategory for this particular make (Howcrofts) but there is one for e.g. "F. Savage carousels and gallopers‎" so I guess I could create an equivalent.
Then for this particular carousel, I could use its index number in the UK fairground archive which is g33, which allows the same ride to be traced through different locations / countries (!) and periods of ownership. So in theory at least, all photos of this ride could be grouped under Carousels > Carousels_by_manufacturer > Howcrofts carousels and gallopers > g33 , which would perform the intended purpose (a way to retrieve any past, present and future photos of this ride).
So would the above suggestions work, or is it getting into over categorization?
Thanks again for your input, and for reading this far, if you have indeed done so... Just so as you know, I should like whatever I do to be persistent / public / follow generic principles (and also be updateable by others as appropriate), not just be part of my own user space. Regards Tony Tony 1212 (talk) 03:19, 8 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
There is a bit more there than I wish to wade through but, yes, you could distinguish three different subcategories for three different periods in which the carousel would have looked significantly different. - Jmabel ! talk 04:56, 8 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
And it looks like Category:Steam Carousel (singular) is just a rather poorly-named category for one particular steam carousel. - Jmabel ! talk 04:57, 8 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
OK, I think I am on the way: I have created https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Lismore_railway_station_with_2022_flood_damage as a subcategory of "Category:Lismore_railway_station" and used it to tag my first 3 images as uploaded, more to be done directly. That should provide exactly what I need, in the form of an externally useable link for the relevant Wikipedia article. I will do something similar with the Gallopers situation, and see how far I get...
(update: now done, also reduced the "mini essay" on the Gallopers to a single paragraph - hope this is better now: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gallopers-Tasmania-2013-01.jpg )
Regarding "Category:Steam carousel" probably being an error (not mine), i.e. redundant cf. "Category:Steam carousels", is that something I can attempt to fix or do I just report it to an admin? Tony 1212 (talk) 05:24, 8 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Tony 1212: It's not redundant, just poorly named. It's a category for a particular steam carousel, and it should have a name that makes it clearer which one. I'll deal with it. (Also with the incorrect capitalization of Category:Steam_Carousels, clearly not a proper noun.) - Jmabel ! talk 14:24, 8 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thanks! Tony 1212 (talk) 18:03, 8 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Are there groups that are into flying drones?[edit]

looking to get into doing some drones photography for experience Skyniner (talk) 06:58, 8 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

API key not working[edit]

I am master's student at TU Dresden. For a project I need to download histopathology slides from the website. I tried to get the API key from the website and I was getting this problem , when I put some date for the start date and end date for user agent I was getting an error message 'Warning: no data available for part of the specified date' , I put start date sept 5,2023 and end date 21st Dec, 2023 . Please give me a solution to this problem, which date range I should put in the field to get download images for my project.The images I want to download is from this link : https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Histopathology&title=Special:MediaSearch&go=Go&type=image. Histopathology2023 (talk) 09:45, 8 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Histopathology2023: Given that it is now September 8, 2023, it's no surprise that you got no hits in a range only a couple of days of which actually exist. We have no files uploaded on future dates. (Or am I misunderstanding your question?) - Jmabel ! talk 14:37, 8 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Photo dowloand[edit]

I cant dowload photo. But I`l owner this photo. Can you help me? Тетяна&Андрій Бабичі (talk) 11:40, 8 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  • @Тетяна&Андрій Бабичі: Could you please link the page of the photo you are trying to download? Or did you perhaps mean "upload" in which case you'll need to say what upload tool you are using, and exactly what happened. - Jmabel ! talk 14:39, 8 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Copyright of suspected 100+ year old photo help needed[edit]

Can someone look at this: File:Metapth613583 xl ELPL PT195 01.jpg and tell me in English what more I need to do to keep this pic from deletion? Thanks in advance. GenQuest (talk) 19:04, 8 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@GenQuest: Is there any evidence that it was published before 1928? If so, it would be {{PD-US-expired}}. As it is, there is no PD tag or free license tag, just a vague statement about what some library says, which does not include (even in straight text) any claim that the image is public-domain or free-licensed. - Jmabel ! talk 21:19, 8 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

is all images and videos can i use[edit]

is all images video copyright free can i use in ouyube video Vicky pareek 29 (talk) 05:03, 9 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

{ping|Vicky pareek 29}} Assuming you are talking about images on Commons, all images here can in principle be used in a YouTube video. However, there is a wide variety of public domain images and variously licensed images on this site. The public domain images should be no problem at all; for the licensed images, you must conform to the terms of the license offered on the file page of the relevant image or, if multiple licenses are offered, at least one license offered on the file page of the relevant image. So you have to go through to the file page for each image and work out the situation for that image. See Commons:Reusing content outside Wikimedia. - Jmabel ! talk 16:13, 9 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Standard way to do a translated file?[edit]

Hello, is there a standard or default way to upload a translated version of an existing file? From a legal/technical view, I would imagine I can just use the article wizard like a standard upload. Is there a simpler way that auto-connects the files on The Commons? Rjjiii (talk) 05:22, 9 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Rjjiii: I'm actually not entirely clear what you want to do (in that there is no such thing as translating a photograph, which is the bulk of our content here). Could you be more specific about what you are trying to do?
That said: perhaps you are just referring to linking two images with {{Derived from}} / {{Derivative work}}. - Jmabel ! talk 16:15, 9 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Jmabel: I am thinking about translating infographics which contain English text. Here are two examples that I have uploaded for Wikipedia articles:
And when I looked at other translated files like this set: File:Open-source-vs-freeware.svg, it seems they are all linked, so I thought there might be a standard way to make the translations rather than re-uploading as a new file. Also, thanks for asking for clarification, Rjjiii (talk) 16:28, 9 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Putting them all in "other versions" like that is great, but at a minimum you can use {{Derived from}} in your new file and {{Derivative work}} in the source. - Jmabel ! talk 18:24, 9 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Is it public domain?[edit]

Please see this news article: Individuals can’t own historical images, photos of Bangabandhu, Liberation War: HC. Is this means that the historical photos of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman are now under public domain of Bangladesh? Mehedi Abedin 07:20, 9 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Mehediabedin: It sounds to me like until the verdict is published, we won't know whether they are public domain or copyrighted by the Bangladeshi government. - Jmabel ! talk 16:18, 9 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Does anyone know for sure if Smithsonian Magazine is fair game?[edit]

The Smithsonian Magazine is the official magazine of the Smithsonian, part of the US federal government. I'm taking it that it is essentially a branch of the Smithsonian, but it feels like a grey area. I found out the specific image I was looking at was originally taken from an academic journal, so no dice, but I was still curious for future reference. TheTechnician27 (talk) 07:25, 9 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The Smithsonian Institution is a separate entity than the federal government. It was created by it, but not part of it. And even if the magazine is considered public domain, note that it will certainly include many pieces of non-free media in it. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:31, 9 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

How can the categories of Paintings by artists in Museums be ordered alphabetically[edit]

I have created several sub-categories to the Meta-Category:Paintings in the Kunstmuseum Basel by artist, but I believe all my created categories are listed under the letter P (for Painting) and not the relevant surname as do the other sub-categories in the meta-category. I'd prefer the sub-categories to be listed by the relevant surname, so how can I do that? Paradise Chronicle (talk) 08:08, 9 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Insert text like [[Category:Paintings in the Kunstmuseum Basel by artist|Foo, Bar]] to sort by "Foo, Bar". Note that as I write this, the vast majority are sorted by surname and not by "Painting..." —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 08:34, 9 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I am not sure what you mean, I believe I followed your advice with this edit and then I also tried it with that edit, but it didn't work. I know most of the sub cats are listed according to their surnames, and I noticed my creations are not listed under the surnames so I believe I can do something better. Paradise Chronicle (talk) 09:26, 9 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Gotcha. What I meant was like this: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category%3APaintings_by_Albert_Anker_in_the_Kunstmuseum_Basel&diff=799916328&oldid=766042661 Does this make sense? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 09:29, 9 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
It does make sense, your answer is very helpful to me. Paradise Chronicle (talk) 20:57, 9 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Issue is solved to me.Paradise Chronicle (talk) 21:06, 9 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

1 ล. 4:45 no Band Alhabari ⑦ mediawiki.org 山 ＞[edit]

ارجو المساعه تم حظر lp Bandr Alhabari (talk) 15:30, 9 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  • @Bandr Alhabari: you are clearly not blocked here on Commons, or you couldn't write this here.
  • If you have been blocked on a different WMF site, the only correct place to contest that is your user talk page on that site. - Jmabel ! talk 16:21, 9 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Los Angeles Department of Airports[edit]

I have an original 1973 photograph of the-then newly formed-Boarding Services Bureau (for the Los Angeles International Airport) standing in formation with their first director. The photograph does not appear to exist online. The back of the photograph has a stamped: "PLEASE CREDIT Los Angeles Department of Airports 1 World Way Los Angeles 90009 645-5260 Neg# 1774/Y21 Date Take: 6/14/73"

This appears to be a publicity photograph. Am I free to upload to the Commons? BoardingServices (talk) 15:58, 9 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

It is {{PD-CAGov}} since it's not one of the agencies allowed to claim copyright. Abzeronow (talk) 16:11, 9 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thank you Abzeronow BoardingServices (talk) 16:41, 9 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

the Armenian sights challenge results (Summer 2023)[edit]

Earlier Wikipedia announceed there's a contest for the best photos of the Armenian sights. The photos should have been uploaded till 30th of July 2023... I wonder if there's a winners' list and there's an opportunity to view the winning photos... Well, to get to know all the details regarding that contest. Please, let me know how can I find that out. Thanks in advance. User:Lilit Gevorgyan1988|Lilit Gevorgyan1988]] (talk 19:53, 9 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Access list of images I've opened at Commons during the last few hours[edit]

I've spent the entire night browsing Commons for photos of specific lamp post shapes and designs, and by the end, I may have had close to a three-digit amount of tabs open, and just when I wanted to save the photos to my HDD in order to sift and sort through them, Firefox crashed. Of course, I'd been lucky enough that I'd done all of this in a private window, so I can't recover it from my Firefox history and not even from my cached DNS.

So, I'm asking, is there a way for some mod, admin, or other tech person at Wikipedia (or Wikimedia) to give me the list of URL requests by my IP (found in my signature below) at Commons within c. the last 6 hours? They should all point to this level, not the actual JPGs. 2003:DA:CF39:B803:8420:2CCC:8EC6:5B2 00:10, 10 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Nothing I'm aware of, and I doubt it could be obtained by anything short of serious forensics. - Jmabel ! talk 04:20, 10 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
That info might be available from Deutsche Telekom AG. History has taught me that when I have lots of tabs and windows open on a Windows platform, Chrome performs best at reopening them (despite needing a click to make that happen). However, even Chrome doesn't reopen private/incognito tabs or windows.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 08:14, 10 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Due to SNI and TLS, there is no way anyone's ISP knows the URLs we visited, without significant previously-unknown decryption or MITM capabilities. And they won't be revealing any such to consumers. Elizium23 (talk) 10:45, 10 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Вилучення статьї[edit]

Доброго ранку, підскажіть будь ласка через яку причину у мене видаляють статью? Тетяна Бабич (talk) 05:20, 10 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Removal of article
Good morning, please tell me why my article is being deleted?
translator: Google Translate via   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 06:52, 10 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Тетяна Бабич: Привіт і ласкаво просимо. Ваша стаття uk:Тетяна та Андрій Бабичі видається рекламною для вас і вашого чоловіка і без посилань. Ніхто ще не просив його видалити, але див. uk:VP:NON ADVERTISING і en:WP:PROMO.
Hi, and welcome. Your article uk:Тетяна та Андрій Бабичі appears to be promotional for yourself and your husband, and without references. No one has yet asked that it be deleted, but see uk:VP:NON ADVERTISING and en:WP:PROMO.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 06:52, 10 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I tagged it as spam.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 07:04, 10 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

How to access my translated svg image?[edit]

For prior context, see User talk:Goran tek-en#Request - Diagram legends from French to English translation.

Hello. I've translated the labels on the French image File:Marché noir - importance.svg to English using the svg translate tool, and I know it's saved, because I see it in the history, and also if I set the "render" drop down to English (en), even though the image remains in French, if I click it, it goes here which has the English labels I added. But how do I access that version of it at Wikipedia? I would like en:Black market in wartime France#Proportion of production to show the English version of the chart, not the French one. Background for this is this request. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 07:21, 10 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Mathglot: At 120x72px resolution as on that page with my custom view (en:Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering/Files/Thumbnail size:120px as an instance of my global preference), the words are illegible anyway. At 220x132px standard resolution, they are not very legible.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 07:34, 10 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
But the wrong image is being displayed now in this case, even though in other translated svg's, the right one is displayed; such as here, for example. (subscribed) (Edit conflict) Mathglot (talk) 07:42, 10 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Mathglot: I concur that this is how it looks - have you visited COM:SVG or posted at Commons:Graphic Lab/Illustration workshop‎?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 07:48, 10 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thanks for those links; I'll try there. Mathglot (talk) 08:03, 10 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Retouching and Copyright[edit]

I am writing an article about a famous cosplay facility and would like to reprint photos on WIKIMEDIA about photos published on Twitter with the permission of both the photographer and the photographed cosplayer via email.

In my country, photographers rarely publish their photos as is, and cosplayers usually do major retouching with Photoshop or other software before they are published.

So my question is, how is retouching handled copyright-wise in WIKIMEDIA? Who is the copyright holder of the photos retouched by cosplayers? Or is it a joint copyright holder? 狄の用務員 (talk) 14:14, 10 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  • @狄の用務員: Retouching is fine, as long as you tag it with {{Retouched}} and indicate roughly what has been retouched.
  • Permission has to come from the photographer, who is the copyright-owner. If there is a web site or page clearly under the control of the photographer, they can indicate the permission there, but it sounds like here they have already been published on someone else's social media which makes clarity difficult. I recommend that the photographer go through the process outlined at COM:VRT (this can all be handled in Japanese if that's easier). The email must come directly from the rights-holder, you cannot forward it, though of course they can just forward an existing thread from their email address. In particular, we need the grant of a specific license, not a vague "sure, you can use it." - Jmabel ! talk 16:30, 10 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • Some cosplay raises copyright issues, in terms of the original character being cosplayed. Since you are not specific about what was represented, I can only say that in general. - Jmabel ! talk 16:30, 10 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    I understood that retouching does not affect copyright and that the copyright of the photo belongs to the photographer. I also understand that the handling of cosplay photos is a general matter.I will follow your recommendation and use COM:VRT. Thank you. 狄の用務員 (talk) 12:17, 11 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Question about questions[edit]

Does question put here gets answered each time? If yes then within what time a question gets answered at an average? Does a questioner is notified elsewheres when question is attended or rejected for a valid reason? What is the alternative way to ask the same question when it seems to be answered or delayed ? Can the questioner be able to find the reason of not getting reply if a tolerable number of attempts to ask make the questioner feel like giving up on another try ? Does a questioner is given a least possible tenure to talk and act for improvement, correction or apologizy on which question is made or on the question itself? Does the questioner get a prior notice before being restricted or prohibited by asking questions here ? Is there any solution to ask or talk to any other users in their talk or help page individually or separately when the questioner is made disabled to contact on this common or group forum of talk ? I asked many questions in one attempt because my success of posting them and getting them answered wasn't upto remark to be called as satisfactory treat with the faith offered or asked by possible answeres to the questioner. Is it okay if someone put a non relevant or off topic question than of ongoing or trendy ones like I did here ? 2409:4081:AD10:115F:0:0:CC4A:C08 16:20, 10 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  • That's a lot of questions.
  • We usually try to answer every reasonable question that is asked, but we are volunteers, and at some point if someone asks too many questions it's time to get on with life. Also, really off-topic questions are often just deleted or given a cursory answer.
  • If you didn't get an answer here on the help desk, the best thing to do is to hit the same section and add "It's been X days and no one has answered this," so people have it called to their attention on their watchlists. Please don't forum-shop to other pages.
  • Some people should give up. There's a reason people here get blocked.
  • These were moderately on-topic questions, so I did my best to give you a decent answer. But please don't stray farther off-topic. - Jmabel ! talk 16:35, 10 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I am try to join of Ardan international but no anyone guide me how I can join esbella Resptionist not talk to with[edit]

Kindly help me how I am join of Ardan international and get reward 223.123.21.97 06:47, 11 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Let me Google that for you.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 08:11, 11 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Whether or not images were ever published in the U.S is extremely hard to verify.[edit]

I'd like to add some photos kept by the Kalk Bay Historical association to the commons, but one of the upload requirements for an image to have entered the public domain is that it must have been published in the U.S before 1928. The photographers are definitely dead, and its definitely been more than 70 years (many were taken in the 1850s), but I have absolutely no way to verify when (if ever) the photos were published in the U.S. Jemhop (talk) 09:28, 11 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Jemhop: We usually assume that old pictures were published at the time of creation, unless there is information saying otherwise. Old unpublished pictures are also usually in the public domain, as per {{PD-US-unpublished}}. Yann (talk) 09:40, 11 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Jemhop: An image does not need to have been published in the US before 1928. The criterion is that if an image was published before 1928 anywhere, it is in the public domain in the U.S. Also, that is only one of the possible ways that can make an image public domain in the US. There are many other ways to meet the Wikimedia upload requirement that a work must be in the public domain in the U.S. For example, if a photo was taken before 1973 and its first publication occurred in South Africa before 1989, it might be in the public domain in the U.S. So, what you can try to determine is if the photos were published somewhere and, if so, by whom, when and where. Not necessarily in the U.S. The origin of the photos, how the historical association obtained them, the history of the collection, the type of photos, can provide indications. -- Asclepias (talk) 12:50, 11 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Also, while there is at least one painful exception, almost anything over 120 years old is OK. The only exception I can think of:due to a quirk in U.S. copyright law, works created before 1978 and first published (with notice) 1978 through 2002 are all protected in the U.S. at least until 31 December 2047. - Jmabel ! talk 19:26, 11 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Postagem Da Foto[edit]

Tenho um album com tres fotos e uma capa. Como postar? Portpaz (talk) 11:20, 11 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Portpaz: Você é o fotógrafo (ou herdeiro do fotógrafo)? Caso contrário, provavelmente não é sua prerrogativa oferecer uma licença. - Jmabel ! talk 19:28, 11 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Copyright help regarding File:Csm 1 Stadt Oldenburg farbe Schrift schwarz 6afc26d32c.jpg[edit]

The logo is published by a company under the city of Oldenburg in Oldenburg. So i think it should be in public domain. But im not quite sure about this. As I can't find any information regarding this. Source: https://www.oldenburg.de/startseite/buergerservice/aktuelles/neues-logo.html

--Leonwolf3103 (talk) 17:48, 11 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Adding images & releasing copyright for specific images[edit]

I had added an image, File:AMT Lightning.jpg, to AMT Lightning pistol on 30 August 2023.

It was subsequently taken down & deleted from Commons on 6 September 2023.

I thought I'd outlined the permission properly in Addition of File:AMT Lightning.jpg, since we at GunBroker.com own the copyright and want to allow its use, but perhaps I missed something or don't understand the process? (I'm a disclosed paid contributor.)

The message on my User_talk:LoVeloDogs indicates it was removed because it was a violation from https://www.gunbroker.com/item/999306970, but we hold the copyright for those images.

The Category:Wikipedia requested images of firearms project would benefit from our images, and we would like to grant permissions for specific uploads to those pages.

Any help that anyone can offer would be greatly appreciated, thank you! LoVeloDogs (talk) 21:59, 11 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@LoVeloDogs: I deleted this file. Please contact COM:VRT so your permission for a free license can be verified. Abzeronow (talk) 16:10, 12 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thank you for the information! I've submitted it now. LoVeloDogs (talk) 17:30, 12 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Image search question[edit]

http://ucip.utah.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Case-Law-Update-2.pdf credits an image to me, and (assuming it's mine) credits it appropriately, but I have no idea what photo they used! I'm guessing it is a tight-crop detail of a picture I took that was mainly of something else (it shows two people circulating a petition). It's in a PDF; does anyone have any idea how I might to a reverse image search to try to work out what photo of mine on Commons they were using? - Jmabel ! talk 22:13, 11 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

It is unlikely, but possible that the EXIF are still in the image. Otherwise you can try haveibeentrained.com on the image. C.Suthorn (@[email protected] - p7.ee/p) (talk) 23:58, 11 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I know I'm not answering the question, but it's easier to search it on Commons than externally. File:Circulating an initiative petition 01.jpg. -- Asclepias (talk) 00:00, 12 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Asclepias: Thanks! I didn't remember taking that one. So it was the main subject. - Jmabel ! talk 00:01, 12 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Got it all wrong - sorry[edit]

This commons file is taken from a full page from The Tatler in 1928: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tatler_(Society_publication)_-_Captain._A._L._and_Mrs_Middleton_-_Page_34_-_4th_January_1928.jpg

Is this OK - I hope ?

Please let me know - I did a separate file on the "Middleton family" page (Wikipedia) which has only the centre pic as the file.

So sorry

Srbernadette (talk) 02:56, 13 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  • @Srbernadette: I don't know what to make of your claim that it is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International. Who are you saying owns the copyright and has issued that license? - Jmabel ! talk 03:22, 13 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I am not coping with this (so sorry) - I am assuming that as the Tatler publication is 1928 that all is OK. I got the whole page from "Find My Past" website as I have shown. I did not mean to state that "it (the photo/file) is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International".


Look at the "source" which is another commons page:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Tatler,_4_January_1928_(page_34)_(Center_pic)_Captain_Alan_Lomas_Middleton_and_wife.jpg

which is the FULL "Tatler" page form 1928 - which includes the middle pic that I made a separate file for.

Please help and I am truly sorry

115.70.23.77 03:29, 13 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Srbernadette: Both of those files are still tagged with a CC-BY-SA-4.0 license and not with any other license tag. Are you saying that the January 4, 1928 edition of the Tatler is in the public domain in the United Kingdom and also in the United States? If so, why? It might be {{PD-UK-unknown}} if we don't know who the photographer or the author of the text is, but in the U.S. works that were published in 1928 are still in copyright until 2024. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 07:33, 13 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Getting it all fixed

This new file:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tatler_(Society_publication)_-_Captain._A._L._and_Mrs_Middleton_-_Page_34_-_4th_January_1928.jpg

should be OK now, (please look at the "Source" in the Summary section).

So please remove the red box all about the incorrect licence.

Thanks so much115.70.23.77 03:55, 13 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Photos (scans) of old postcard/s not personally held[edit]

Hi all, I recently uploaded an image of an old (Australian) postcard (this one: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lismore_Railway_Station_early_1900s.jpg) on the understanding that being pre-1920, the image in the postcard was out of copyright in the US. Now I plan to do another one or 2. The issue being, I do not have the actual postcards in my possession, just some scans of them uploaded elsewhere (e.g. blogs, facebook, articles by others) and the actual physical instances of the postcards may be identifiable e.g. by unique creases, damage or discolouration, handwriting (which actually I removed for the instance above, for clarity/closer approach to the original), or whatever. So, at least in theory, someone could say, "hey, that's my image, and I did not give you permission to upload it"... just wondering if this has come up before, and whether it is something I should worry about. Response, thoughts appreciated. Tony Rees, Australia Tony 1212 (talk) 06:31, 13 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Tony 1212: Many people and even organisations, such as museums and libraries, claim copyright over images that are clearly slavish copies of public domain images. This is copyfraud and so long as you are certain of the copyright status then you should be fine using those images. However be aware that both US and country of origin copyright laws apply and also review the URAA restoration date rules. Ww2censor (talk) 10:53, 13 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Ww2censor: Thanks, from reading that link it does sound that it is OK to re-use someone else's digital copy of an out-of-copyright printed original. Regards- Tony Tony 1212 (talk) 18:15, 13 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Ok, I have uploaded the next image I had in mind, with the "intermediate source" duly noted, see https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lismore_Railway_Station_postcard_2.jpg . Hopefully this will not put anyone's nose out of joint. Regards Tony Tony 1212 (talk) 07:01, 14 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

English version of File:Rinitis medicamentosa mucosa nasal.png?[edit]

Is there an English version of File:Rinitis medicamentosa mucosa nasal.png? If not, could someone please create one? It's for the W:Rhinitis medicamentosa article on English Wikipedia. 206.204.236.63 19:41, 13 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

You might get more bites if you post this at Commons:Graphic Lab/Illustration workshop. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 01:42, 14 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thank you CalendulaAsteraceae! I'll post there. 206.204.236.63 22:20, 14 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

POTD - Picture of the day (mistake)[edit]

Hello,

I added a new POTD and it was incorrectly edited earlier for the day (Potd/2024-10-03).

I don't know or probably I don't have the right to revert to the previous version or simply to reinstate the Potd template...

Can an Administrator do it for me, please?


Thanks.

Terragio67 (talk) 04:04, 14 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Terragio67: I am not an administrator but I requested speedy deletion because it was accidentally created. Anon126 (✉ ⚒) 11:39, 14 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thanks, the speedy deletion worked... Terragio67 (talk) 14:54, 14 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I can't add photos[edit]

That's why Akshaykumarka26 (talk) 04:16, 14 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Akshaykumarka26: You are going to have to be a lot more specific for anyone to help you. You don't even say whether this is from a phone or a computer, let alone what software you are using and exactly what happens. - Jmabel ! talk —Preceding undated comment was added at 15:03, 14 September 2023‎ (UTC)Reply[reply]

Can I upload an old photo with Creative Commons licence[edit]

The licence is (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)? Cho Lantigua (talk) 10:49, 14 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Cho Lantigua: No, we cannot accept Creative Commons (CC) licenses with either the NC or ND restrictions, because all images uploaded here must be free to use, including commercial use and modification.
Can you clarify what you mean by "old photo"? Where did you get it from? There may be other copyright issues to consider. Anon126 (✉ ⚒) 11:11, 14 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Its from here: https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/57351 Cho Lantigua (talk) 11:29, 14 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Spain. Photographer lived until 1992. Has to be still copyrighted. - Jmabel ! talk 15:10, 14 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Self certification for photographers who do not have an official website or email address[edit]

I am planning to ask amateur photographers to provide photos in the near future. This is my first attempt and I am carefully checking the procedure so as not to bother them.

I am planning to use COM:VRT, but I have one question: the description of the source of the email that should be sent to VRT says:" For instance, if you are releasing images shown on a website, your email address should be associated with the website or listed on the contact page of the website."

Many photographers here use Instagram as a portfolio, communicate externally via Twitter, and complete their communication only on social networking sites and do not disclose their email address.

In these cases, how can photographers prove their identity? How do usually deal with this? 狄の用務員 (talk) 12:58, 14 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@狄の用務員: For an official answer, you should post the question on the page Commons:VRT/Noticeboard. (But someone who posts photos online can specify a free license with them directly there.) -- Asclepias (talk) 13:16, 14 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@AsclepiasI understand. I will ask the question there. Thank you. 狄の用務員 (talk) 13:25, 14 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Block of my first page! I’m angry[edit]

I did write my page with my name, my writer work, my pic and Someone did block. It’fun Salvilgreco (talk) 22:20, 14 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  • @Salvilgreco: Your only prior edits on this wiki were to upload and then once edit a picture, presumably of yourself. It's still here. Nothing has been deleted, and the fact that you can edit here says you are not blocked. Possibly an issue on some other WMF wiki, and you are complaining on the wrong site? I see that you have edits on the Italian Wikipedia, Italian Wiktionary, and a single edit on the Sicilian Wikipedia. - Jmabel ! talk 00:33, 15 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    Ty v much. I’ll try to see that page.
    regards Salvilgreco (talk) 17:22, 15 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    Again: Salvilgreco is my nick, my true name is SALVO FIGURA. Salvilgreco (talk) 17:24, 15 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Uploading my own pictures?[edit]

I've tried to upload a picture of a county courthouse that I took, that I own, that also appears on my own website, but I got the message that Wiki couldn't validate, or something like that. How does one upload your own picture? I'm quite confused by this. Thank you. WikiSimon4Stand (talk) 02:06, 15 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi WikiSimon4Stand, have you tried the Upload Wizard? I use that one and its pretty easy. Paradise Chronicle (talk) 03:45, 15 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@WikiSimon4Stand: According to your logs, you triggered the "cross-wiki upload filter" when attempting to upload two files. That means that you probably tried to upload from a website other than Commons. Try uploading directly from Commons. -- Asclepias (talk) 12:58, 15 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@WikiSimon4Stand: Hi, and welcome. I am sorry to inform you that you have triggered Special:AbuseFilter/153 by trying to cross-wiki upload a smaller (<50,000 bytes or <2,000,000 pixels) jpg photo as a new user. The photo you tried to upload is smaller, and you indicated it's your own work. Usually when someone uploads a smaller photo, it is a copyright violation taken from the web. If you took the photo yourself, please upload the full-size original of it per COM:HR, including EXIF metadata. If you did not take the photo, please see Commons:Licensing for why we can't accept it, and have the photographer post permission on their official website or social media or send the photo and permission via VRT with a carbon copy to you. If you can't get a compliant license, the photo may still be uploaded to English Wikipedia in compliance with en:WP:F because we don't allow Fair Use here. If you use our Upload Wizard instead, you should be able to avoid that filter.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 00:32, 18 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

things necessary to do before uploading[edit]

I have pictures of a monument that I'd like to upload. What legal stuff should I do before uploading? Trueconscience (talk) 09:28, 15 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Did you try to follow the instructions of the Upload Wizard.Paradise Chronicle (talk) 10:49, 15 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
"A monument" is very vague. If this is something over 120 years old, then probably no special issues. Anything more recent than that, and in some countries the object itself might still have copyright protection. Unless you are more specific, no one can give you solid advice on whether this image would be acceptable for Commons.
Also, your choice of the word "monument" makes me wonder: is this for one of the "Wiki Loves Monuments" competitions? - Jmabel ! talk 18:22, 15 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thank you for replying! yes, I wanted to submit for "wiki Loves Monuments". I've followed the steps and submitted a picture. Now, I can see them in the "user uploads" section.
Does that mean I've participated in the competition? What should I do now? Trueconscience (talk) 09:20, 16 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
This is a bit strange: did you submit File:Qutub shahi tomb.jpg through the tool specific to entering the contest? Because just looks like a normal upload, and is not marked as submitted to WLM. You'll want to put {{Wiki Loves Monuments 2023|in}} just above the categories on that file page. You might ask at Commons talk:Wiki Loves Monuments 2023 in India whether there is anything further you need to do. - Jmabel ! talk 16:21, 16 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Oh yes you're right,Thank you. I did go through the tool but didn't follow all the steps correctly. Now I've submitted other files to the contest. can I put this File:Qutub shahi tomb.jpg now into the contest? after uploading it normally? Also, can I put these images submitted in the contest in stock photography editorial sections? Trueconscience (talk) 19:24, 16 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
You can copy-paste the relevant tags from File:Qutb Shahi Tombs,Echoes of History in Stone.jpg to File:Qutub shahi tomb.jpg. If you go into the mode to exit the wikitext of both in two different browser tabs, it should be pretty clear what needs to be copied. - Jmabel ! talk 21:43, 16 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thanks a lot! Trueconscience (talk) 08:47, 17 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Upload pictures from archive[edit]

I have picture that I would like to update to the wikipage that I received from the local authority. These picture coming from the archives. I already tried to upload them once but were deleted because of the copyright rules. What do i use as copyright for these documents? Kim Stroo (talk) 10:48, 15 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Kim Stroo: If it is copyrighted, then only the copyright-holder can grant a license to use it.
I see three images you have uploaded that have been deleted:
All of these are recent enough that copyright certainly persists. You give an archive as the author, but clearly the archive did not shoot the pictures. If you do not know who took the pictures, then there is probably no legitimate way to get a license for these images. - Jmabel ! talk 18:28, 15 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Upload of a public domain image[edit]

Hi Folks!! I'm working an editor who wants to upload an public domain image for the en:Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh article. The editor has received and image from en:Drew Weissman who wants to update the image that is currently on commons. How does the Weissman prove the image is his. Scope creep (talk) 16:27, 15 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Scope creep: I'm not sure I follow here, on at least two points. (1) We almost never replace or "update" images on Commons. Distinct images belong under distinct filenames. en-wiki can then change which image it uses, but that is not Commons affair. (2) You say the image is public domain and then you say that it belongs to a particular individual. Offhand that makes no sense at all. Can you clarify? - Jmabel ! talk 18:32, 15 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Jmabel: I'm looking to upload several images as public domain, helping another editor who is new to wikipedia. These images have been sent to this editor by the people who are on the en:Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh. How would they prove the images were them and they were offering them for public domain. They have agreed to use to the "CC BY-SA 4.0" licence for the images. I think three or four to upload. Scope creep (talk) 06:20, 18 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Pagina personale con foto[edit]

Come si crea una pagina personale Salvilgreco (talk) 17:11, 15 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Salvilgreco: Non dovresti farlo. Questo non è un sito di social networking. Le persone con contributi significativi sono benvenute ad avere una Pagina Utente, che può includere un piccolo numero di foto personali; sicuramente non hai ancora dato contributi significativi. - Jmabel ! talk 18:34, 15 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Need to revert a crop tool mistake[edit]

I was trying to create a separate cropped version of this image of the KUMU museum File:Õhuvaade Kumule ja Kadrioru pargile.png but mistakenly hit the "overwrite" button and now the cropped version is the default image (this image is used on lots of WP articles). How can I revert this mistake? thanks. Aszx5000 (talk) 23:27, 15 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I've reverted the change using the little (revert) link next to the version to revert to. --rimshottalk 23:46, 15 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thank you so much for that! Aszx5000 (talk) 11:10, 16 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

In need of AWB tool[edit]

It's been precisely two months since my last request, so I'm wondering what I need to do to gain AWB access after having two requests lightly denied. Please help, I need the tool to fix file descriptions. See Commons:Requests for rights/Denied/AutoWikiBrowser access/2023 for context. 20 upper 07:18, 16 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@20 upper: It looks like there was an active decision not to give that to you. Twice. And not terribly long ago. I'd really suggest waiting a year or so. - Jmabel ! talk 16:25, 16 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
OH MY, OH MY, OH MY. I must assume that despite doing nothing wrong on Wikimedia Commons, I won't be granted any rights or permissions. Sad world we live in. 20 upper 17:18, 16 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@20 upper: How exactly do you want "to fix file descriptions"?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 00:22, 18 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Possible hoax[edit]

There is a deletion discussion on WP, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fanery. If this is a hoax, something should probably be done about the article-creators Commons-work, Uploads by Expedition2010. Not sure what the procedure is. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:49, 16 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Judging by the turn that discussion has take, while the en-wiki article might not be fully verifiable, it's not a hoax. Looks like nearly all the relevant sources are in French, if a French-speaker would like to go over and help them out. - Jmabel ! talk 16:30, 16 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
The images may very well be "legit", even if none of them are currency. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 16:32, 16 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

using pictures[edit]

I received pictures from photographer JP Swirko ,some portraits of my father. I can freely use them. What do I have tot do ? Erik De Vree (talk) 08:19, 16 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Erik De Vree I assume JP Swirko is the copyright holder. That means they have to license the pictures under one of the "ok" licenses here: Commons:Licensing#Well-known_licenses. The can do so by registering a user account themselves, and upload them at Special:UploadWizard. OR they can do so via mail-contact per COM:VRT. Hope this helps. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 09:26, 16 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Upload Own photo work with Creative Commons[edit]

I want to upload my own work to update the image in a certain wiki page, but they don't specifically allow CC License with CC BY-NC-ND, As I am only willingly allow and authorize Wikipedia/Wikimedia to use on this License only NutShards (talk) 09:13, 16 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Follow up on this, I am willingly allow Wikimedia to use my image on all of its subsidiaries or what-else, I just don't want any other companies to profit without my explicit written permission to use my work NutShards (talk) 09:18, 16 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@NutShards See Commons:Licensing#Well-known_licenses. If you're not ok with any of the "ok" ones, that's how it is. Thanks for wanting to contribute. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 09:20, 16 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
To be more clear: no, those are not acceptable licenses for Commons. - Jmabel ! talk 16:32, 16 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

about profile page[edit]

When click on my profile it says "This page does not currently exist. You can search for this page title in other pages or create this page." what does this mean? Trueconscience (talk) 09:25, 16 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Trueconscience In short that since you haven't made a userpage, there is none but you can make it if you like. It's not mandatory in any way, but it's a place to say "Hi, something about me, this is what I do/like to do on Commons." Just type and hit "Publish page". More at Commons:User pages. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 09:32, 16 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thank you! Trueconscience (talk) 09:39, 16 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Trying to understand some finer details[edit]

Hello. I wonder about a case like this image here File:Portupee veltveebel Hugo Siim.jpg. The context is COM:ESTONIA, PD from life + 70 years, the photographer died 1945. All well and good.

But then we come to the next part of File:Portupee_veltveebel_Hugo_Siim.jpg#Licensing, the US parts. Points 1 and 2 seem unproblematic, but then comes 3, "it was in the public domain in its home country (Estonia) on the URAA date (1 January 1996)."

Assuming the PD rules of Estonia was the same in 1996, the photographer had not been dead 70 years by then. So, does this mean that this pic (and pics in the same situation) fails the US part of the PD rules, and should be removed from Commons? I assume the US rules are there because Commons is based in the US and has to follow those laws. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 09:56, 16 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Gråbergs Gråa Sång: If the pictures were published in the U.S. within 30 days of their publication in Estonia, then they are OK in the U.S. If not then, yes, URAA comes into the picture, and they won't be in the public domain in the U.S. until 95 years after publication. So anything published (anywhere) before 1928 is good: {{PD-old-auto-expired|1945}}. This picture is from 1927; was it published promptly when created? - Jmabel ! talk 16:38, 16 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Jmabel Interesting. IMO, it's extremely unlikely it was published in the U.S. within 30 days of its publication in Estonia. Per source [2], we know it was taken in 1927. But I have no idea of the context. Was it a private "thing", a portrait for Hugo Siim himself or his family, or for military files or a local newspaper? It may not have been published before the Estonia National Archives Photo Information System put it on their website. So, what then? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 17:26, 16 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Gråbergs Gråa Sång: I'm not an expert by any means, but I've read a lot of previous discussions here about what exactly constitutes publication, and I don't think I'm misrepresenting the general consensus when I say that it's probably safe to assume that this particular photo counts as "published" for copyright purposes. In a discussion earlier this year, Carl Lindberg, who is one of the courts of highest appeal for this sort of thing on the Commons, wrote that "when it comes to publication, we do often assume works were published around the time they were created -- most works are made for a reason. Commons policy requires there to be no significant doubt; it does not require that there be no doubt at all or preclude making some assumptions. While it's theoretically possible for a work to have remained unpublished for decades, but then fortuitously published before some cutoff date to create a very long copyright, it's exceedingly unlikely and those usually do not amount to significant doubts. In other words, it's usually safe to assume that a photo was published around the time of its creation unless there are good reasons to assume otherwise. Sometimes there are good reasons -- for example, if this were obviously an unposed family snapshot that had remained in a shoebox or a photo album for decades after its creation, it would make sense to treat it as unpublished. But it's not. It's a posed portrait taken by a professional photographer, and most professional photographers expect to be paid for their work. If he had not sold the photo, and the original negative had remained in his archive without ever leaving his possession, that too would be a reason to treat it as unpublished. But if he gave or sold prints of the photo to members of the general public, or even to just one person without any restriction on further public distribution by that person, then that normally counts as publication.
In this case, it's pretty clear that the photo was indeed distributed to others besides Siim himself, because the one in the Estonian archive appears to be a presentation copy with Siim's signature on the front. Most people who label photos for their own information or as aids to memory write the labels on the back, not the front, because they don't want to mess up the photo itself. The main reason for signing a picture on the front is to give it to someone else as an autographed presentation copy. And if the photographer sold Siim the photos to do whatever he wanted with them, and if Siim was giving out signed copies to others (the explanation that best fits the available evidence), then it satisfies the publication requirement as far as US copyright law is concerned. Since the photo was taken in 1927, it's reasonable to assume the publication took place in 1927 as well. And if that's the case, you don't need to worry about anything else, because as Jmabel says above, if it was published anywhere in the world before 1928, then it is public domain in the US. So in my opinion it's perfectly fine to keep it on the Commons, although the license should be changed to {{PD-old-auto-expired|1945}} as suggested by Jmabel. (Others who know more than I do will no doubt correct me if my reasoning is faulty :) ) Cheers, Choliamb (talk) 19:57, 16 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
The U.S. definition of "published" was pretty tortured in that era, as courts had to come up with a definition. Different U.S. circuits came up with different tests, so the law itself is not uniform, but if copies were given out without restrictions on further publication, that often did qualify. There is always some uncertainty with questions like this, but to me they are usually just theoretical doubts, not something that rises to the "significant doubt" level of COM:PRP. Once copies leave the control of the photographer, most of the time that would result in publication (although different countries can have different definitions of that, really). A private family photo from an archive might be different; that would probably require more attention to the question of publication. In this particular case, the term in Estonia on the URAA date was 50pma, not 70pma, so if the author died in 1945, they became PD in Estonia in 1996, so were PD in Estonia when the URAA took effect. Estonia later extended their terms to 70pma, but that does not change the URAA status. See the Estonia section at Wikipedia:Non-US copyrights. And actually reading a Google translation of that old law, photos may have been 50 years from publication, not 50pma, anyways. So, I think it's also {{PD-1996}}. Carl Lindberg (talk) 20:21, 16 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Choliamb@Clindberg, many thanks for your comments. I watched The Paper Chase recently on Youtube, and this discussion strongly reminds me of that tv-series. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 20:58, 16 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Btw, is there some Commons-gadget where I can enter data like made in Estonia, author dead 1945 etc, and it spits out the appropriate PD-templates? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 21:12, 16 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
On that last, I don't think there is such gadget; it sounds like a cool idea, but to assemble and organize all the relevant data to make it cover everything would probably take a bare minimum of 6 person-months (and I do mean a bare minimum, wouldn't be surprised if it were multiple person-years), and I bet a lot of cases would still come up as "unclear". This is tricky stuff, with a scary number of edge cases. - Jmabel ! talk 21:49, 16 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I like the idea though, such a thing could make a lot of discussions (like this one) easier. Builders could start with US, then EU (both not without complexity), then add more as the thing is used and tested. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 06:34, 17 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
For U.S. there is the Hirtle chart but if you look at that you'll easily see how complicated it gets, how many different issues can come into play just for one country, and how many images there are out there where some of the factors that would determine copyright status are themselves difficult to determine. And that's without even getting into the question of what constitutes "publication." - Jmabel ! talk 16:17, 17 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Maybe we should just ask ChatGPT. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 17:17, 17 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
+1 from me for such a gadget. I have also asked for a licensing gadget a few days ago and was told that what I had in mind could be done with the VisualFilesChange. The description is not that easy to follow, and I haven't tried it yet, but maybe it works for your aims? Paradise Chronicle (talk) 18:33, 17 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Paradise Chronicle: VFC is useful to change the license on a relatively large number of photos at once, but will do nothing to tell you what license is desired. It performs the action efficiently, but you have to tell it what action to perform. - Jmabel ! talk 22:10, 17 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

referencing[edit]

hi do i need to reference author and creator of image like johari's window . its made by Joseph and harry but in your website the author name is someone who created it . so i need to mention both and the license ? Les cricris (talk) 12:31, 16 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I don't understand what you mean.
Si vous préférez en français, vous pouvez demander sur Commons:Service d'aide‎. Yann (talk) 12:47, 16 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Ou vous pouvez poser votre question ici (plus clairement, s'il vous plaît) en français. - Jmabel ! talk 16:40, 16 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

is there a video i can watch, when i use an image , should o download and copy all what says copy like licencing n author name and paste[edit]

Icant find any video to help start Les cricris (talk) 16:04, 16 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Attributions[edit]

I have created a Powerpoint presentation, using a poem I wrote, with images found on Wikimedia Commons. It will be very awkward to credit each image as it appears since it will disturb the flow of the video. Will it be acceptable if I put all attributions at the end, numbering them in order of appearance? AnnaOdds (talk) 17:31, 16 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  • @AnnaOdds: Yes, that is normally an acceptable way to attribute in a video. A little trickier if your slides may ever stand on their own outside the work, though. Ideally, additionally, you could but just a minimal credit (Image by FOO) in a small subtitle on the respective page of the Powerpoint. That way if the individual slides are separated from the whole work, the credit isn't totally lost. - Jmabel ! talk 21:56, 16 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    Putting the attributions (correct attributions - in the case of a cc-by-sa license name of author, image-file and license and links to them) at the end of the video is a good solution. If you are going to publish the video at YouTube, you can additionally put the attributions (with working links) in the video description at Youtube. The same should be possible with other video platforms (for example Peertube - you can look at my Peertube videos as an example of that) and also if you publish the video at your own website. Putting a (additional) minimal credit on the individual pages of the powerpoint as suggested is not wrong, but as people do not care (or even know) about copyright in practise it may be more Effort, than it is worth. But if you want to make the effort, it may be an idea to add a short url that links to the actual published video, where the full attributions can be found. With "image by FOO" people are likely to thinks it is a sufficient attribution, while in many cass it is not. C.Suthorn (@[email protected] - p7.ee/p) (talk) 09:08, 17 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

question[edit]

hi, I requested a rename at [3] how long does it usually take to have the request looked at?...thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 21:31, 16 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

You asked this 11 minutes after making the request, and it's about 40 minutes now. Normally, someone gets to these in a day or so, though there can be a backlog so a few days is not unheard of. I don't see any emergency here, am I missing something? If not, please, in the future: following up minutes after requesting something wastes admin time. I could have handled half a dozen requests like this in the time it takes to tell you to be a little bit patient. - Jmabel ! talk 22:00, 16 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
thank you (very kind)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:42, 17 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Ozzie10aaaa: Now moved. I also fixed the licensing (please use proper licensing templates, not freeform text!). And this still needs categories. - Jmabel ! talk 16:25, 17 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Homepage of Old Website[edit]

Hello, I am new to Wikipedia and this is my first time on Creative Commons. I am currently editing a stub article called CARad.com. I wanted to add a photo of the original homepage, just wanted to double check if its ok to add this to the article. I am also in the prosses of messaging eBay, (Parent Company of CARad.com) for permission to use this image, but I will keep it in drafts for now until further notice.

Thank You -123WasTaken 123WasTaken (talk) 09:52, 17 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@123WasTaken, hello and welcome to the wonderful world of trying to understand what can be uploaded to Commons and Wikipedia.
You can't upload such a screenshot on Commons, no "non-free" stuff is accepted here. However, WP does accept non-free stuff in some very limited circumstances, and a screenshot of a defunct (?) website in an article about that website would, I think, be acceptable.
Go here [4], pick "Upload a non-free file", then "This is a copyrighted, non-free work, but I believe it is Fair Use." then... Well, I'm not sure. Hope this helps some. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 10:37, 17 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
thank you for your help 123WasTaken (talk) 11:34, 17 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The Creatures[edit]

Please note, the original creatures are not Sousie and The Banchees! The original Creatures were formed in Montreal, Quebec, Canada back in 1964 and are prevelant in todays original music by M. Serber on Soundcloud.I suggest you make these corrections to clarify. 2607:FEA8:A25:4700:646D:1678:56E7:8068 14:17, 17 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  • What, if anything, does this have to do with Wikimedia Commons (the site you are writing on)? - Jmabel ! talk 16:27, 17 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

What is the equivalent of WP:Teahouse in commons?[edit]

See above query. Grandmaster Huon (talk) 19:06, 17 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Grandmaster Huon: No equivalent. This and the Village pump are as close as it gets. - Jmabel ! talk 22:11, 17 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

File:Helena Wanda Błażusiak-Pawlik.jpg[edit]

I enter information that I created the original content myself. Could you check if everything is ok? Because I do not want the picture to be deleted. Zuzap (talk) 05:22, 18 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I added a new topic heading here. Based on edits at User talk:Zuzap I assume this question is about that file. Anon126 (✉ ⚒) 06:09, 18 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

How can I do recent files and copyright patrol on commons?[edit]

See above. Grandmaster Huon (talk) 06:24, 18 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

possibly,I deleted your report.(I wrote the next report under here,after you would wrote.)If that is true,I would be sorry and apologize,sure. Assa146 (talk) 08:06, 18 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

削除された画像について[edit]

ライセンスの記録を間違って登録・アップロードしたので何回か削除されてしまいました。削除履歴のある画像としてアップロードしにくくなってしまいました。 本来は個人撮影による、commonsの規定に基づいてクリアな著作権の生じない形式でのライセンス取得が可能な画像です。どうか再アップロードできる方法の提案をお願いします。 Assa146 (talk) 07:46, 18 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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