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Off they go! For the drives, please go to /Drives. Since Wikimedia Commons is now the repository for free images, it is redundant and wasteful to upload an image to every Wikipedia language or sister project that wants to use an image. Using Commons, we can store a picture just once on Wikimedia's servers and use it anywhere. Therefore, uploaded free images should all be transferred to Commons, and those that are currently on Wikipedia should be moved. As all of the subcategories of Category:All free media, including Category:GFDL files, Category:Public domain files and many others, should now be transferred to Commons, this WikiProject has been created to organize efforts and expand awareness of this massive waste of server space. Please apply an extremely critical eye to allegedly "free" images here before uploading them at the Commons. This project is a good chance to catch many of the dodgily sourced and licensed images here. If you have any doubts please don't upload to the Commons, and send to FfD or PUF. Otherwise, you are creating a mess which Commons admins will have to mop up later. Categories to clear out Category Files Type Comments Category:User-created public domain files 32,996 Public domain Category:Australian public domain photographs 557 Public domain For Commons to accept an image, it must be public domain in both its country of origin and in the United States. Category:Author died more than 100 years ago public domain files 3,309 Public domain Category:Author died more than 70 years ago public domain files 639 Public domain Category:BSD files 0 Other Category:Canadian public domain photographs 320 Public domain For Commons to accept an image, it must be public domain in both its country of origin and in the United States. Category:Chinese public domain photographs 15 Public domain For Commons to accept an image, it must be public domain in both its country of origin and in the United States. Category:Conditional use files 0 Conditional use Please ensure that the {{Copyrighted free use provided that}} tag on the image has an acceptable requirement before moving Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commons 548 Varies Category:Copyright holder released public domain files 1,553 Public domain Category:Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 files 757 Creative Commons Category:Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 files 3,367 Creative Commons Category:Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 files 7,626 Creative Commons Category:Creative Commons Attribution files 12 Creative Commons Category:Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 files 530 Creative Commons Category:Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.1 files 0 Creative Commons Category:Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 files 2,239 Creative Commons Category:Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 files 42,626 Creative Commons Category:Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike files 40 Creative Commons Category:Creative Commons ShareAlike files 0 Creative Commons Category:FAL files 34 Other Category:Files requiring attribution 145 Conditional use Category:Free screenshots 40 Varies Category:GFDL files 36,508 Other Category:GPL files 66 Other Category:Images in the public domain in the United States 13,512 Public domain Commons does not accept most files which are public domain in the United States but not in the country of the image's origin. Be extra careful when moving these! Category:LGPL files 23 Other Category:MPL files 6 Mozilla Public License Category:PD-AR-Photo 32 Public domain For Commons to accept an image, it must be public domain in both its country of origin and in the United States. Category:Pakistani public domain photographs 31 Public domain For Commons to accept an image, it must be public domain in both its country of origin and in the United States. Category:Polish government symbols 14 Public domain For Commons to accept an image, it must be public domain in both its country of origin and in the United States. Category:Pre-1994 Poland images 1 Public domain For the file to be accepted on commons the file has to be a photograph published in Poland prior to 1994. Publication citation is needed in the source section. Author has to be Polish or the work has to be first published in Poland. Majority of photographs published in that time in Poland did not have author information, so unknown authors are OK unless there are reasons to believe that author was not Polish (Photos of US actors might have been published in Poland but they were likely taken by non-Polish photographers). All files meeting those requirements were moved to Commons several years ago, so all that is left does not meet them (usually no publication citation). Category:Public domain art 3,389 Public domain Commons does not accept most files which are public domain in the United States but not in the country of the image's origin. Be careful when moving these if the image wasn't first published in the US! Category:Public domain files 23 Public domain These tags should be updated to use a more specific license before being moved to Commons. Category:Public domain files ineligible for copyright 488 Public domain Category:UK Government images 222 Public domain For Commons to accept an image, it must be public domain in both its country of origin and in the United States. Category:United States government images 871 Public domain Templates {{Copy to Wikimedia Commons}} {{Convert to SVG and copy to Wikimedia Commons}} {{un-commons}} - User talk page notice for newish users who upload free files here. Code Result {{Template:User MFIC}} This user supports the migration of free images to the Commons. Usage Tools See Wikipedia:WikiProject Images and Media/Tools for a full list of tools to help you transfer media to Commons. You can also check out commons:Category:Commons resources.