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

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) 01:20, 16 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Volunteering

How to volonteer and add tags to images ? Vilahh (talk) 19:26, 5 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Vilahh: we don't really have anything here that we normally call "tags" (other than license tags, and you can't add those to someone else's image). Could you be more specific about what you have in mind? - Jmabel ! talk 20:48, 5 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Vilahh: If you want to categorize images, take a look at Commons:Categories. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 22:42, 5 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Actually I want to volonteer on wikicommons but I don't know what I can do to get started. Vilahh (talk) 06:06, 6 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Vilahh: well, none of us can guess what you know something about! Is there anything where you'd say you have more knowledge than an average person? E.g. are you from somewhere that we might not already have very well covered, or study something or do something for a living that means you know something about something? Do you happen to be able to read and write a language that not so many people know, and could translate into that language either from English or from some other major world language? Happen to be more than routinely knowledgeable about cars, or some sport, or about the clothing of a particular region, etc.? If you can say what you know something about, then I can almost certainly give you a good place to start. - Jmabel ! talk 06:19, 6 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'm knowledgeable about religions. Vilahh (talk) 07:14, 7 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Vilahh: you could help categorize currently uncategorized images. For example searching churches without categories finds File:Church of St. Flannan, Killaloe - altar.jpg which should most likely be in Category:St. Flannan's Cathedral, Killaloe. It could also be included in Category:Interiors of cathedrals in Ireland, Category:Altars in Ireland and Category:Crucifixes in the Republic of Ireland. You can find plenty of similar examples. Other religions have similar categories. MKFI (talk) 15:24, 7 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Vilahh (talk) 13:12, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Vilahh: Also, if you take photographs at all (or are inclined to, and photos taken with a phone are fine): are you willing to say where in the world you are? There are a lot of things we need photos of almost anywhere. - Jmabel ! talk 20:38, 7 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Unsuitable file extension

Hello. I wanted to overwrite Sierpinski_carpet_4.svg file with a 1-bit PNG because it only containts a few B&W squares that can be losslessly represented with raster, and it will be smaller (~250bytes instaed of ~2kb). But, system said "the MIME type does not match the file extension". In fact, file extensions does not need to fit the file type. For example, my music player can open MP3 files with WAV extension. But, commons seems to does not know that. I want to owervrite existing file rather than uploading a new file because the SVG version does not contains any benefits over the PNG. In PNG, the file size is much smaller, while the quality is the same. Please help me for uploading a PNG with a SVG extension, and i will be happy if these square-based fractals will be not uploaded in SVG anymore. RuzDD (talk) 00:02, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@RuzDD: Hi, and welcome. No one pixel PNG file would fit the bill. Also, please wikify your posts so people can easily look at things like File:Sierpinski carpet 4.svg, which is 2 KB. We do have File:Menger 4.PNG, which is 3 KB, but any png image will look fuzzy when scaled down (due to design decisions discussed in phab:T192744) or jaggy when scaled up, so you may want to upload a jpg version, too. Also, please understand that our systems require files to have the correct types. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 00:20, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

1: They would fit the bill if the resolution is correct. 2: PNG may look bad when scaled down, but SVG also will be look bad when scaled down. 3: I tried to scale up my PNG and it does not look like jaggy. Just it maybe look a bit better if it's not interpolated. 3: I am tried to wikify, but it showed the full image instead the link when i wrote [[File:Sierpinski_carpet_4.svg]]. 4: It has two (probable) reasons to be 3kb: A: it's bit depth is higher than 1-bit. B: it's resolution is very high: 245x245px while 81x81px can be perfect. 5: I think JPG will be mess up the image because JPEG is not designed to contain basic BW square-based fractals, but 1-bit PNG is way more efficient (and lossless if the correct resolution is used). 6: I understood now, so i am going to update the existing PNG. But, can we make a redirect from the SVG file with deleting that file, like in Wikipedia articles (different names of articles showing the same content)? RuzDD (talk) 00:33, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: Now i noticed i not have permissions to overwrite, so i uploaded Menger4-efficient.png. RuzDD (talk) 00:39, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@RuzDD: Using the colon trick, I can wikify that to File:Menger4-efficient.png. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 00:45, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Saperaud~commonswiki and @Meidosensei: What do you think? — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 00:44, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

1-bit != 1-pixel (resolution vs bit-depth (color number))
you can create meaningful PNGs with 256 byte or less file size and even smaller webp and gif files with the same content
It does not make sense to replace a file of only 2KB with a smaller file WRT MediaWiki
SVG is better for these kind of content than any bitmap format (even if this is not the case for MediaWiki at this moment)

C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 08:43, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

1: If bit depth = 1bpc, 1bit~=1px in uncompressed formats. In compressed formats, 1bit > 1px. 2: I not prefer WEBP because i think it is not different from a mess. PNG or GIF is nice enough for these images. 3: I want to reduce sşze as i can due to my principles. If a smaller file provides the same quality with the bigger one, i must upload the smaller file anyway, even for a few bytes (this is in most status, sometimes exceptions being real, for example when decoding another file is faster and speed is important, but this is not from these exceptioner files). 4: SVG is the same for look, and worse than PNG at performance. SVG will want more process for rendering than PNG in ~99.9% of cases. Anyway, i will be happy if you can make a redirect from File:Sierpinski_carpet_4.svg and File:Menger 4.PNG, thanks. RuzDD (talk) 13:43, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@RuzDD: I put the colons on the left and fixed the extension for you. Syntax is important here. If you want to delete those files to make way for redirects (or in the case of the PNG, to make way for your version), please see COM:DP. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 14:11, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I know syntax is important (i can write code on some langs), but i not know very well that wiki codes. I don't understand why mw uses the wiki lang, i think HTML and CSS are much better and easy. And, you fixed the extension: which extension? RuzDD (talk) 18:41, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@RuzDD: With regard to the Menger 4 file, in this edit, you wrote "[[File:Menger 4.png:]]". I moved the colon to the left side and changed the "png" extension to "PNG" to form "[[:File:Menger 4.PNG]]" in my reply. See also en:H:PIC#Linking without displaying and en:H:WT. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 23:57, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, i understand that it is the file extension. RuzDD (talk) 01:07, 16 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Useless efficiency

@RuzDD: if you write code, then I would imagine you are familiar with the notion that you can only meaningfully gain efficiency where there is significant inefficiency. For example, it is rarely worth optimizing a portion of the code where a program spends 2-3% of its time. Similarly here: a 2KB file is, in the scheme of things nowadays, nothing. It is literally smaller than the text of this discussion. Even if you could somehow take it down to nothing, unless someone is (for some odd reason) downloading it thousands of times, you don't gain enough to be worth any trouble.

Now, if you can drop a 32MB file to 600KB without data loss visible to the human eye, that can be very worth doing.

There's nothing inherently wrong with something being made unnecessarily efficient, but if significant human time is wasted on making it so, then it is generally a wasteful thing to pursue. - Jmabel ! talk 19:25, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I think that's not useless because not only high-performance computers and fast Internet connections using Wikimedia projects. Owners of very much lower capabilited computers may want to use WM projects. For example, ATmega328P has only 32KB of program ROM, 2KB of SRAM and 1KB of EEPROM. (ATmega328P is used on Arduino Uno and Nano, and Uno is the most used model of Arduino.) At this level of memory, a few bytes can change things. This also happens on performance. For example, on an Arduino, processing that SVG will be take much more time than PNG because Arduino have to think colors and shapes too much on SVG, but not on PNG because 1: Shapes used on PNGs are cannot change (they are always square, i mean pixels) 2: From the beginning of the file, ATmega knows that: this image contains only 2 colors! (I don't calculated the efficiency ratio, i hope this does not create problems. Also excuse me if i wrote things wrong because my main lang is Turkish and i don't know English very well.) RuzDD (talk) 23:17, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@RuzDD: You understand that uses of SVG files on WMF project are via PNG thumbnails, right? — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 00:28, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, but this does not remove the problem. All PNG files are not equalivant. There are major differences between File:Menger 4.PNG and File:Menger4-efficient.png. One is 245x245px while the other is 81x81px. And, one is 1bpc while the other is at a higher bpc (i not checked but it should be higher, otherwise the file size must be lower). Also, wrong conversions can make a blurry (or unbalanced if we do not interpolate it) image. A human can solve these problems, but the MW engine does not know that. Because of this, the output of that engine is probably going to be much bigger (file size) and maybe blurry or wrong. RuzDD (talk) 13:44, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Internal error: Server failed to store temporary file. (for pdf)

Hi all

I'm working with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization to help them upload their publications and graphics to Commons (lots of great graphics etc). I've uploaded quite a lot of content before and I have a new error I've never seen before, please can someone help? It would be useful to know if there is an issue with the file or with the upload wizard.

When I try to upload this publication to Commons for them to then send the VRT request I get this error

Internal error: Server failed to store temporary file

Please can someone tell me what it might be? Please feel free to try to upload the file yourself and just add {{Cc-by-sa-3.0-igo}} {{subst:OP}} as the license so they can then send the permission. If it is an issue with the pdf (which opens fine on my computer and isn't too big) could someone tell me the fix?

I found a few Phab tickets with this error message but don't really understand them, also I uploaded a similar size pdf just before so I don't think its a connection issue.

Small update: I've just tried uploading a slightly compressed version using the Adobe compressor and a 'repaired' file using an online pdf repair tool, but neither fixed the issue.

Thanks very much

John Cummings (talk) 06:00, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I have had this happen before and Commons:Chunked uploads has worked for me many of these times. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:53, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Koavf thanks very much, the file is 27mb, so I don't think its the file size, it only takes maybe 30 seconds to upload on my pretty ok wifi connection. I'm unclear how to use chunkeduploads, from what I read on that page it appears to be automatically applied? There aren't any installation instructions. Would you mind trying to upload the file? Just so I know if its an issue I'm causing or if its either the file or Commons? It failed for me on the upload page John Cummings (talk) 07:14, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, this file cannot be uploaded here due to its license. If you'd like, I can upload it to https://nccommons.org/, a similar project that has no formal relationship with this site. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:18, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Koavf the licensing will be sorted out with a VRT ticket after its uploaded(I have the email for FAO to send ready to go), the VRT system allows you to upload the content before applying the VRT ticket (I think it gives you 7 days to upload the permission before the file is deleted). Please can you just try uploading it and let me know if it gets as far uploading the file successfully? Also can you think of anywhere else I can ask for technical help with this? I feel like I have a pretty rare issue. Thanks, John Cummings (talk) 07:58, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Koavf: I know John, and although he doesn't mention it here, he was the longstanding Wikimedian in residence at UNESCO, and I'm sure that if he says FAO will grant a permission via VRT he knows what he's talking about. So this is presumably a strictly technical problem in doing the actual upload. - 08:08, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Jmabel thanks so much :) Yeah I'm assuming its a technical issue, although I have no idea what... Can you suggest anywhere I could ask for help? If you could try uploading the file and see if you get the same error I'd really appreciate it :) John Cummings (talk) 08:16, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

John Cummings file is now at File:World Food and Agriculture - Statistical Yearbook 2023.pdf with a blank template. You will need to fill out all fields and address the licensing issue. I suggest you address this ASAP, because as it stands now it would be subject to speedy deletion. - Jmabel ! talk 08:32, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@John Cummings As a workaround you can use Rillke's BigChunkedUpload. While you can upload files up to 100 MB without chunked upload, it is a workaround in cases, where normal upload does not work. see Help:Chunked upload The script allows you to set the chunk size. If upload does not work with the default setting try smaller or larger chunk sizes. C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 08:39, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Jmabel thanks so much :) Can you briefly explain how you managed to upload this incase someone also has this issue (or I get it again). Thanks again, John Cummings (talk) 08:51, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@John Cummings with Special:Upload, it went without a hitch. I find it much more reliable than the Wizard (which I generally avoid: I know exactly what I want on the file page). - Jmabel ! talk 19:23, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The tasks https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T353498 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T353068 show the issue. I assume they are linked together --PantheraLeo1359531 😺 (talk) 17:50, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use photo for a player like Julie Halard-Decugis

We have a tennis article at Wikipedia on Julie Halard-Decugis. There are no photos on her page because we can find no public domain images of her. She won the US Open tennis title in doubles in 2000 plus several other titles in her career in the 1990s but she is long since retired. When I look at a website like [1] I see photos of Julie Halard-Decugis and I know they are copyrighted, even though they don't say so. Must we have an article on wikipedia with no photo at all, or is there some way we can use one of these photos as fair use, say in either the infobox or perhaps in prose where we have a sentence describing her win? I'm not sure exactly how fair use works in this case as I usually have just uploaded my own personal photos here. We have many older tennis players with this situation and I need to be advised on how the fair-use works for Wikiproject Tennis. Thanks. Fyunck(click) (talk) 00:22, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This is an issue for Wikipedia. No "fair use" of 3rd party copyrighted material here on Commons. English language Wikipedia allows it in some circumstances, see en:Wikipedia:Non-free content - note that if so it would need to be uploaded locally to en:Wikipedia, not here. -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 00:54, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
However, I believe there is almost no chance en-wiki will accept a "fair use" image of a living person. They'll say, "Get hold of them. Take their picture." - Jmabel ! talk 02:44, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Yup. Or possibly "Send her to a North Korean prison." Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 09:44, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- @Gråbergs Gråa Sång: 'Or possibly "Send her to a North Korean prison."' If this is relevant, the relevance escapes me. Are you suggesting that we would somehow be putting her safety at risk by trying to arrange to take a photo of her? - Jmabel ! talk 21:35, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  @Jmabel Sorry, it was an attempt at humor, based on that I've seen en-WP on occasion accept pictures of living people as fair use with the motivation that they are imprisoned for the foreseeable future, like Lucy Letby. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 22:07, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  @Gråbergs Gråa Sång: Aha! Figured it was a joke but failed to get the reference. - Jmabel ! talk 23:17, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I'm told some editors have had some success contacting article subjects and asking if they are willing to "donate" a picture. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 09:47, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The use of non-free images on en.Wikipedia is deliberately restricted to a minimum because it is a free content encyclopaedia. In the case of a living person, non-free use images are rarely permitted as it is usually still possible to obtain a free-use image of the person. Alternatively, as Gråbergs Gråa Sång says, ask the subject to donate a picture or find a photograph and ask the copyright holder if they will donate it. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 14:19, 17 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

comopuedo subir archivos gratis

quiero subir archivos gratis para wikipedia como lo ago un abrazo y saludos Bilarmino (talk) 06:20, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Bilarmino: Buenas. Por favor, veas al COM:FS/es. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 10:50, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Month by year in Vitoria-Gasteiz

Hi there. There seems to be something wrong with {{Month by year in Vitoria-Gasteiz}}. It categorizes Category:December 2023 in Vitoria-Gasteiz into Category:December 2023 in Álava-Araba, but then it is not possible find it there. If only someone could help me solve the issue. Thanks in advance. Alavense (talk) 09:39, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

That is weird. - Jmabel ! talk 21:38, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I have no technical knowledge, but I would say it has something to do with the fact that its belonging to that category is conditional and subjected to its existence. For instance, when I have created «Category:Month year in Álava-Araba» before «Category:Month year in Vitoria-Gasteiz», there has been no problem. Alavense (talk) 06:12, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wizard upload not always working

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T289365

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T353498

For a week, I get error messages using the upload wizard: "Internal error: Server failed to store temporary file." I cannot always the classic upload because some files are over 100 mb Smaxims (talk) 10:09, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

See Commons:Chunked uploads and you can use tools such as User talk:Rillke/bigChunkedUpload.js. That will almost always fix the issue. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 10:31, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thx, but it won’t work. After uploading chunks and trying to assemble them on the server side, I got the message "00208: FAILED: stashfailed: Internal error: Server failed to store temporary file.".

And anyway, it is not a solution for a multiple upload, just a possible workaround (which want work for me) for a single file upload Smaxims (talk) 11:14, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I get the very same error for about a week. "Internal error: Server failed to store temporary file." The whole project I'm working on is stuck now. Can anyone please take a look into this issue with uploading wizard? Alexkrakovsky (talk) 17:01, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

User:John Cummings had a similar report. - Jmabel ! talk 21:39, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Jmabel Thanks :) Yes I had the same issue, I started a phabricator bug report here, please Smaxims and Alexkrakovsky can you share there what happened, what file it was including a link if you can (even if you've managed to find a workaround the engineer can test it because it fails before the duplicate file check). John Cummings (talk) 05:00, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I just tried to upload the file and I got the very same error "Internal error: Server failed to store temporary file." No change. Alexkrakovsky (talk) 17:33, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Same here with File:Map of the city and county of New York - with the adjacent country - by David H. Burr. NYPL433800.tiff --Sebastian Wallroth (talk) 05:28, 16 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'm also still got this error. So I can't proceed uploading my project. Ilham.nurwansah (talk) 07:50, 18 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The error after uploading is gone. But it now appears later when you type in all the details and proceed further. Internal error: Server failed to publish temporary file. Alexkrakovsky (talk) 16:26, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Supprimer cette page utilisateur Commons

Saurez vous s'il vous plaît supprimer cette page Commons mise en lien ici ? parce que c'est resté depuis un moment inutilisé

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Logan_Van_Huynegem?uselang=fr 2001:AC8:27:1001:EC4E:E3EF:8A67:D946 14:51, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delete this Commons user page

Can you please delete this Commons page linked here? because it has been unused for a while

translator: Google Translate via — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 15:29, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Logan Van Huynegem: Bonjour et bienvenue. Vous avez déclenché Special:AbuseFilter/235 en proposant la suppression de la page de discussion utilisateur désignée pour communiquer avec vous. S'il vous plaît, ne faites pas ça. Veuillez également vous connecter.

Hi, and welcome. You have triggered Special:AbuseFilter/235 by nominating for deletion the user talk page designated for communication with you. Please don't do that. Please also login. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 15:29, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

File:JuliaPart4bpc.png

Hello. I uploaded that file, but i named it wrong. It should be "File:JuliaPart4bpc0000.png". How can i rename it? If i cannot do that, may someone do that? RuzDD (talk) 16:09, 14 December 2023 (UTC) [reply]

Addition: i uploaded two files including this with upload wizard, but it programmed wrong. I writed paint.net is just a helper software, but it considered it as an AI model, and i deleted it. Wizard must be corrected. RuzDD (talk) 16:13, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@RuzDD: on your first question, there should be a "move" tab on every file page. Its location depends on the "skin" you are using, but typically it is one of the horizontal tabs above the file name. If you don't have filemover privileges yourself, then it should fill out a "rename" template, which someone else will attend to within a few days.

On you second question/remark, I'm not sure I understand "I writed paint.net is just a helper software, but it considered it as an AI model, and i deleted it." Could you elaborate? What exactly was the question you were answering in the Wizard? - Jmabel ! talk 21:48, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Also: on fractal images, it really would be better if you could upload at a much higher resolution. - Jmabel ! talk 21:50, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

When saying "I writed paint.net is just a helper software, but it considered it as an AI model, and i deleted it." i mean: I made these using paint.net program, and the wizard asked me like that "are you used some software to make this?", and i select "yes" and wrote "paint.net" to "which program you used" like question. I thinked it will write like "this work made with paint.net program" but it wrote like "this work made with paint.net AI model and it is public domain, maybe you should ask for permission for paint.net, author is paint.net". This is a program, not an AI model. Because of this, i deleted this template. On second answer: I like to consider filesize. And, i upload this for a basic example and also beautifulness. If someone want to see the mandelbrot or julia or some other fractal, they can be find ready images on there, but more preferently: They can use softwares to lively generate ultra-detailed images. I can upload some higher res and full fractals, also. RuzDD (talk) 22:30, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting. That sounds like a problem with the Wizard. I bet it also applies to (for example) Hugin. I'll report that. - Jmabel ! talk 23:18, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Jmabel Ouch! I found another thing. This option writes "Bu çalışmayı bir YZ aracıyla oluşturdum" that can translated to English as "I created this work using an AI tool" and i cannot figure out that "YZ" stands for "Yapay zeka" ("artifactial intelligence" in english), and i think not only i falled this misunderstoodate. I think it must write the full word "artifactial intelligence" (or "yapay zeka" in turkish), also indicate that: this work will be public domain if it created with an artifactial intelligence tool. RuzDD (talk) 23:41, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Reported at Commons talk:WMF support for Commons/Upload Wizard Improvements#Problem in the question that asks if you used software. - Jmabel ! talk 23:56, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Jmabel That link is red!? This page is not created!? RuzDD (talk) 00:06, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Now fixed. - Jmabel ! talk 00:12, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Licensing

It is frustrating that the photographer Harald Krichel whose many photos are available on Wikimedia/Wikipedia is using the services of Pixsy to bully and threaten small businesses and bloggers with copyright infringement lawsuits. This is hardly in the spirit of Wikimedia and the CC licenses available. Please reconsider your relationship with this photographer. Thank you. 152.44.211.156 20:06, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Pinging @Seewolf (Harald Krichel): do you have something to say in response to this? - Jmabel ! talk 21:53, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@IP the accusation is really strange as Seewolf is a member of VRT, has not uploaded "many photos", but only 125, has mostly imported files (PD or as an importer for VRT), only uploaded few "own" files (Seewolf could only for these make "bully and threaten") and Seewolf's "own" uploads are cc-by-sa-4.0 - a forgiving license that is avoided by copyright trolls. Maybe the IP is actually unhappy with VRT decisions? C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 19:55, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The account User:Harald Krichel uploaded thousands of files. -- Asclepias (talk) 20:53, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Pinging @Harald Krichel then. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 22:24, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Jimi Solanke

The voice recording of the pronunciation of the name is totally wrong. You need someone who actually knows how to say the name to speak 2600:1700:9A99:F410:BC28:2F1B:D5AA:401F 20:52, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'm guessing this refers to File:Yo-Jimi Solanke.ogg (implicitly meaning that the uploader considers this to be a Yoruba pronnciation of the name). The uploader states on her user page that she is an Igbo from Adavi LGA in Kogi State, Nigeria and now lives in Delta State, and her Babel box says she is a near-native (though not native) Yoruba speaker. Offhand, I'd think that meant she has a pretty good chance of pronouncing his name correctly, but also some chance of getting it wrong. (It's been 3 months since her last Commons edit, so I don't know whether she will see this).

You are, of course, welcome to create an account and upload a file with what you believe to be the correct pronunciation. If you wanted to do that in Yoruba, you should probably call it File:Yo-Jimi Solanke (2).ogg. If you speak a different language, then a different appropriate language prefix would replace "yo". - Jmabel ! talk 22:05, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Please exclude SVG translations via the SVG Translate tool from Special:AbuseFilter/290

Hello. Mere translations of SVG files via the SVG Translate tool should be exempted from Special:AbuseFilter/290. This tool only lets users translate text labels in existing SVG files, which is a far cry from the major, disruptive overwrites that this abuse filter seeks to prevent. Thank you. Leptictidium (talk) 08:37, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Leptictidium: We have an exception in place for this. Please try leaving the Edit Summary alone. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 23:43, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, @Jeff G.: , what do you mean exactly? I just click the "Upload to Commons" button from the tool; as far as I know, I'm not touching the edit summary.--Leptictidium (talk) 07:39, 16 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Leptictidium: In your last attempt to upload File:Route Punic army messana.svg, logged here, the tool wrote "Added translation for ca." at the end of the comment/summary/reason for you. @GPSLeo: this should have matched. When I translated the file, I got a similar comment/summary/reason (different language abbreviation), without allowing me any input but the language name. I think "contains" would be a much better condition for this than "rlike" in this diff. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 14:40, 16 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@GPSLeo: .Leptictidium (talk) 10:05, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I adapted the filter. Please try if it works now. GPSLeo (talk) 17:50, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I'll try when I have a few minutes and report back.--Leptictidium (talk) 21:26, 23 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Image Copyright

Am i allowed to upload a picture of a old folklore musician? The person who took the photograph is unknown. Adlogog (talk) 14:04, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Depends on how old the image is. When and where was the image taken? Bremps... 15:27, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

how to fix archive citation?

I am practicing an edit for a page and as you can see on my sandbox page, I am trying to make a citation for the archive, and the citation has an error. It appears as if the error is missing dates or something. I also looked on the page I am translating and it only shows one date. How do I fix this? AaronNinetyTwo (talk) 16:31, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@AaronNinetyTwo: Hi, The red error message currently displayed merely reminds you to use the parameters in English, e.g. title, not título. Please see the documentation of the template Cite web for a list of the parameters and their use. -- Asclepias (talk) 17:26, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! I thought it was missing a date or something. AaronNinetyTwo (talk) 18:19, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

MacekR

Hi all!

I am preparing a draft for an article, but only seem to have one option for saving it, which in the German version is "Änderungen veröffentlichen" (publish changes). For lack of an alternative I use this in the hope the draft is saved, but now can´t find it again. I followed the starter video, and have checked the handbook. I obviously turned somewhere and can´t find my way out. Please help.

Wie kann ich den bearbeiteten Entwurf speichern OHNE ihn zu veröffentlichen und wie finde ich diesen dann wieder. Das Handbuch hilft mir nicht. Mir steht NUR eine Speicherfunktion zur Verfügung: "Änderungen veröffentlichen". Der VisualEditor ist keine Hilfe.

MacekR MacekR (talk) 16:32, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@MacekR: Hello, You are on a different website here. Your contributions to the German-language Wikipedia are at de:Spezial:Beiträge/MacekR. -- Asclepias (talk) 17:11, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

my title

ɛvery time i try to upload the title a messaɡe appears sayinɡ it is unconstructive and disallowed. ʋlease assist C P MacCarthy (talk) 17:08, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It would be best if you elaborated on what you want to title your file. Bremps... 20:05, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@C P MacCarthy: What are you trying to do exactly? GMG ^talk 20:06, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@C P MacCarthy: Hi, and welcome. I am sorry to inform you that you have triggered Special:AbuseFilter/281 by trying to upload one or more pdf files as a new user, and another filter. Such uploads of pdf files are not allowed at all. The following applies for each file: You indicated it's your own work. Usually when someone uploads a pdf file as a new user, it's a copyright violation taken from the web or out of scope. What is in the file? If you were not the original file designer or photographer, that person or those people may need to license it on their official website or social media, or send the file and permission via VRT with a carbon copy to you. If you can't get a compliant license, the file may still be uploaded to English Wikipedia in compliance with en:WP:F. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 23:32, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion requests.

Hello everyone, I hope you are well. On October 3, I requested to delete a group of images (Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by User:OptimusPrimeBot). We had an interaction with user Don-vip, where he concluded that the images could be deleted, but this deletion is taking time, I would like to know the estimated time for the deletion of images and if there is a way to speed up the process. Thank you so much! Yiseth Romero (talk) 19:49, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Yiseth Romero: and so we meet again. The deletion request (DR) hasn't actually been closed. User:Don-vip is an experienced user, and he probably has this right, but so far no administrator has even weighed in on the DR. I'll try to have a look later today. - Jmabel ! talk 21:06, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Trying to upload a photo and it's not being accepted

Hi - I originally created the page for Charles Daniels (tenor) some years ago. I can't recall the original account I used, so I've made a new one just now. Some time ago, someone took down the photo of Charles that I had initially added to the article; there was no reason given, but I think I understand why, as it depicted him with a beard and he doesn't usually wear one. (I am in complete agreement with his wife that it doesn't suit him.) So I have just been trying to upload another photo of him, sans beard, which I took in 2010, and for some reason it's not being accepted. There are no copyright issues here at all; it's absolutely my photo. I'm wondering if there is some objection to the word "publicity" in the filename; that's there because at the moment I'm arranging a concert in which he's singing, and I am putting that particular shot on the publicity for that concert. Can anyone help, please? Baroque mongoose (talk) 20:48, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Baroque mongoose: A beard would be an unlikely reason to delete a photo. But if you are not interested in having that image restored, it is moot.
You don't say what upload tool you are using, or what error message you got, so it is tricky to know what went wrong. Have you tried Special:UploadWizard? If not, see if that works; it often does where cross-wiki uploads do not. Just to be clear though: unless you took the photo yourself, the copyright-holder of the photo (typically the photographer) needs to grant a license to use it. That probably means going through the process at COM:VRT, and only the copyright-holder can do that, not a third party.
Also, for the article on en-wiki: I hope you have read en:WP:COI and especially en:WP:Paid-contribution disclosure. It's not an issue on Commons, but on en-wiki you can be permanently banned for writing an article where you have an undisclosed business interest, so make sure you do the appropriate disclosure. If you haven't dealt with that, I strongly suggest you do that before making any further edits on en-wiki. - Jmabel ! talk 21:13, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks - just to make it clear, I don't have an actual business interest; I don't work as a concert promoter for a living. This is a one-off concert. I used to travel to a lot of concerts, but since 2016 I have been fairly seriously mobility-impaired, so I no longer can; and I live in a New Town where there are no concerts, so I decided to arrange one, as a private citizen, at my own risk. I still have no idea whether I'll so much as break even. Other than that I've never worked professionally with Charles; he's simply a friend of some twenty years' standing. If I need to declare that, I'm happy to do so. Baroque mongoose (talk) 10:47, 16 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- @Baroque mongoose: Yes, as en:WP:COI says, you should make that clear on the talk page of the relevant en-wiki article if you are editing it (or in this case, have edited it). See, for example, what I did at en:Talk:Lena Levine#Full disclosure. - Jmabel ! talk 18:00, 16 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Baroque mongoose: The article on en.wikipedia was created by User:Tenor mongoose, as seen in the history of the article. A "File:Charles Daniels Stour 2007.jpg" was uploaded to en.wikipedia by User:Voceditenore in 2007 [2] and was deleted in 2022 for absence of evidence of permission from the photographer Sarah Hild McEvoy. Your recent attempts at uploads with the filenames "File:Small portrait Charles Daniels.jpg" and "File:Small portrait publicity.jpg" are recorded in your "abuse filter log", which tells that they were attempts at cross-wiki uploads, from a website other than Commons. You can probably upload from the Commons website. -- Asclepias (talk) 21:30, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

That was me. However, I am no longer Sarah Hild McEvoy; I am Makepeace McEvoy. I changed my name several years ago. And Wikipedia absolutely has my permission to use either that photo or the new one; I thought I had made that quite clear at the time! Baroque mongoose (talk) 10:49, 16 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Baroque mongoose: 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. The following applies to each photo. You indicated it's your own work. Usually when someone uploads a smaller jpg photo, it's a copyright violation taken from the web. Please upload the full-size original of it per COM:HR, including any metadata, but if you were not the original photographer, that person may need to license it on their official website or social media or send permission via VRT with a carbon copy to you. 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 that filter. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 23:26, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ah. OK. Thank you. There is, unfortunately, a problem with uploading the full-size original of that photo, because there was another person in it whose presence would cause confusion; what happened was that I attended that particular concert with a friend, and they wanted their picture taken with Charles, so I obliged. The photo I tried to upload was the result of cropping Charles out of that photo.

I do have several other photographs of Charles, but quite a lot of them are with other people, and also quite a lot of them are not that good. Getting a decent photo of Charles is not easy because he is somewhat nervous around cameras; he thinks he's ugly. So the trick is generally to amuse him, and then hopefully what you get is a nice smile (the photo that was taken down is actually the best I've ever managed of him, beard notwithstanding), but you might end up with him in fits of laughter... and while that sort of photo is very nice for a friend to have, I don't think it's at all suitable for a serious article on Wikipedia.

I'll see what else I can find that isn't cropped, but in the meantime, if someone wants to restore the original photo with the beard, I'm happy for that to happen. Baroque mongoose (talk) 10:58, 16 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Baroque mongoose: You're welcome. If the original is digital, it should have Exif metadata. When cropping for upload here with such a subject, please try to use a tool that preserves that metadata. See also COM:Exif and COM:UDR. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 15:26, 16 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Baroque mongoose: if you don't mind the picture being briefly visible, you can upload the full version, then overwrite it with the crop, and ask at Commons:Administrators' noticeboard for someone to suppress the full version, which will usually happen within hours. That way, we have it on file, and admins can consult it if needed, but except for the few hours of exposure -- and then only if you look at the file history -- it is not public. - Jmabel ! talk 18:04, 16 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Returning a Wikipedia page to its earlier state

I tried adding a photograph of James Joyce to the Trieste page. The photograph was from the James Joyce page. It didn't work out. I think I checked Publish instead of Preview. This happened today, December 15, 2023. I'd like to return page to last prior version. I apologize for my multiple errors. Thanks for whatever help or advice you can give me.

Quarkny Quarkny (talk) 01:05, 16 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Quarkny: Hi, and welcome. An IP fixed it for you in this edit. Please read en:H:PIC, and understand that you are posting on Wikimedia Commons, but your edits were on English Wikipedia. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 02:55, 16 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Old version of "Defense Supply Center Richmond.jpg"

Hello. I was wondering if there were any way to delete the original upload of Defense Supply Center Richmond.jpg while leaving the newer version intact. I ask because

I forgot to censor a license plate in that upload, which I fixed with the newer version, but I'm concerned about anonymity, especially due to the subject matter of the photo. (I know the plate is blurry, but I'd rather be safe than sorry.)
Commons doesn't seem to be displaying the newer version (nor does Wikidata, although Wikipedia seems to have updated just fine). This is a lower-tier concern, but I wanted to make note of it nonetheless.

Thank you,
Packer1028 (talk) 06:30, 16 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Convenience link: File:Defense Supply Center Richmond.jpg

#2 is certainly just caching.

#1 done, as a courtesy to you as uploader. FWIW, we don't normally blur license plates in the U.S.: there is no expectation of privacy for an automobile in a public space in the U.S. - Jmabel ! talk 07:25, 16 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much!

Is it prohibited to censor photos, discouraged, or just not required? If there's a policy against censoring them, I will of course follow it, but it's no big inconvenience for me and I prefer to censor plates as long as that doesn't go against policy or ruin a photograph. Packer1028 (talk) 19:49, 16 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It's just not required. Abzeronow (talk) 19:56, 16 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Aceptar fotos de Flickr

Buenas, en Wikimedia Commons se aceptan fotos de Flickr que contiene licencias libres?? AbchyZa22 (talk) 10:19, 17 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sí, siempre que esas licencias libres hayan sido usadas por el propietario de los derechos de autor y no por un tercero (ver COM:Flickrwashing). Strakhov (talk) 10:46, 17 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Strakhov:por ejemplo (File:Logo SAAR Bolívar.jpg) que pasa si el Flickreview 2 está valido (OK),es posible que el administrador de Wikimedia no será removido de esta imagen??

AbchyZa22 (talk) 14:06, 17 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@AbchyZa22: Puedes usar COM:Café. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 11:05, 17 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

AbchyZa22: pasa lo que te he dicho, que tú no puedes usar Flickr para blanquear derechos de autor. Flickr no sirve para eso: encontrar por ahí una imagen con derechos de autor de terceros (en internet, en la calle,... donde sea), subirla allí con una licencia libre, y mágicamente convertirla en una imagen libre. Las licencias de Flickr sólo valen cuando son legítimas, esto es, cuando el propietario de la cuenta de Flickr es quien posee los derechos de autor de las "obras" que aparecen en la imagen. Por lo demás, quizás ese logo pueda estar bajo el umbral de la originalidad, quizás pueda no estarlo. Saludos. Strakhov (talk) 14:18, 17 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Extremely confused

How did I get here Mikeymad3 (talk) 12:55, 17 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Mikeymad3: Hi, and welcome to Wikimedia Commons. We provide over 100 million files for use in Wikivoyage, other WMF projects like Wikipedia, and other outside projects and reusers. It seems that you were browsing Wikivoyage, clicked on an image or other file you liked, and then clicked on either the "Wikimedia Commons" link or the "description page there" link. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 22:20, 17 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Are those available for commercial use?

Are the following three images in the public domain?

If those are in the public domain, I would like to use it. The book will be published in Japan.

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ファイル:Queen_Elizabeth_II_and_Prince_Philip_sit_on_thrones_before_a_full_Parliament.jpg

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ファイル:Queen_Elizabeth_II_and_President_Ford_1976.jpg

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ファイル:Queen_Elizabeth_II_official_portrait_for_1959_tour_(retouched)_(cropped)_(3-to-4_aspect_ratio).jpg Qualiart (talk) 02:24, 18 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Qualiart: Hi, and welcome. Yes, they are. Please use internal links. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 02:33, 18 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Groupphoto of celebration of prof. dr. H.A. Lorentz jubileum taken at the library of Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen

It said that the picture was taken on November 12 1925. This is not correct, the picture was taken on December 11 1925. Probably a misreading in the digit-notation 11-12-1925 in Europe stands for December 11, in U.S. for November 12. Could you please correct this. Kind regards, Dick Pol poldj@hotmail.com P{.S. I iried to correct the date myself, but I was not allowed to do that. 2001:1C00:240F:6500:5062:228E:6436:985E 10:41, 18 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Could you please give a link to that image? Wouter (talk) 10:49, 18 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Probably File:De huldiging van Professor Lorentz bij de Hollandse Maatschappij der Wetenschappen in 1925.jpg. Notifying the uploader Hannolans. -- Asclepias (talk) 16:00, 18 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Just for confirmation, not just our reasonable analysis of the ambiguous "11-12-1925" date, the cited source is a scan of a newspaper with dateline "12 December 1925". Whether that means we should list it as the 12th (publication) or 11th (reasonably presumed when it was taken?) I'll leave to others to hash out. DMacks (talk) 06:18, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Löschdiskussion

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

Ich möchte wissen was man unter QS Standards versteht und ob ein Artikel auch von anderen verbessert wird wenn er die nötige Relevanz aufzeigt!

Mit freundlichen Grüssen,

Maximilian Nicola Wenning MaxWenning123 (talk) 11:01, 18 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@MaxWenning123: Versuchen Sie diese Seite: Hilfe:Übersicht

Création d'une page Wikipédia

Bonjour,

J'aimerais créer une page Wikipédia pour Mme.Valeria Sanchez et M.Didier Beautemps qui sont de célèbres architectes à Paris, ils ont entre autres réaliser des travaux dans les plus beaux lieus du patrimoine historique de la capital comme : Rénovation du RITZ, Rénovation du FOUR SEASON , rénovation de mairie, de château ou de siège social comme la société général qui est placer sous protection du patrimoine historique, de ce fait j'aimerais avoir la possibilité de leurs crée une page wikipédia afin d'avoir des liens hypertexte qui renverrons directement sur leurs page afin d’accroitre leurs visibilité et d’assoir leurs réputation déjà très bien établie dans leurs domaine de prédilection. RyanSem (talk) 12:02, 18 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@RyanSem: fr:Aide:Comment créer un article. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 14:02, 18 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Forged letters bearing a fake signature of Pope John Paul II

I have several images of documents that were published in the 1980s as genuine and exposed as forgeries; both the forgeries and the official Vatican response denouncing them as such were published by me in 1990 GuyStairSainty (talk) 14:59, 18 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@GuyStairSainty: It may be more helpful if you could specify the files and the source that they are forgeries. They may still have an educational use as prominent fakes, but if the matter is settled, then they should obviously be identified as inauthentic. GMG ^talk 15:14, 18 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@GuyStairSainty: do I understand correctly that these are things you are proposing to upload, rather than things that are already on Commons? And, if so, do you have any preliminary understanding of their copyright status (since we are unlikely to get a license from a forger)? - Jmabel ! talk 20:10, 18 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Image upload

Hello, I want to upload a picture of a famous Georgian composer in wikipedia page. I have located the photo in Google, under burusi.wordpress.com The owner or the initial source is not indicated on the website. Please advise how I can proceed? Konstantine B (talk) 20:18, 18 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Konstantine B: Hi,

We need the formal written permission for a free license from the picture copyright owner. Please see COM:VRT for the procedure. Once you got the permission, you can upload the file and mention the ticket number. Then the permission will be validated by one of the volunteer. Yann (talk) 20:22, 18 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

And if you can't establish who owns the copyright, then the image does not belong on Commons. - Jmabel ! talk 22:32, 18 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

If it someone modern or recent, it needs proof of free license from the original copyright holder (eg the photographer or the artist who made the original image). If it is an old image, it might be out of copyright depending on details, see Commons:Copyright_rules_by_territory/Georgia. -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 00:39, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Writing on the photos taken from Wikipedia commons.

Before, we could download the free images and photos taken from Wikipedia commons and write a title over them with the ¨paint¨ system coming with windows 10. It was extremely useful. Now, this advantage has disappeared, which make all those free images totally useless at least for me. What system can we use to write explanations on those photos? Is it prohibited? Have they been made useless on purpose and why? (They are free photos!) Thank you to inform me. Monsieur Lamaire (talk) 00:27, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Monsieur Lamaire: I'm quite confused. Are you talking about (a) something that has changed within Wikimedia Commons, or (b) something that is different about whatever (unspecified) operating system you are now using than it was in Windows 10, or (c) about something that has changed in later releases of Windows 10? (and by the way, it's "Wikimedia Commons" not "Wikipedia Commons".) - Jmabel ! talk 04:10, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Monsieur Lamaire: Hi, and welcome. Which image type(s) are you unable to write over with Microsoft Paint 10? It is likely that you can use the GIMP instead, as that supports many more image types. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 12:39, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

A friend of mine showed me how to solve my problem. It's back to normal. Thank you for your help. It was most appreciated. Monsieur Lamaire (talk) 12:53, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Monsieur Lamaire: You're welcome, but you forgot to ping me. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 13:01, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright issue- Consent not given

Good day,

I've recently found out that my work has been used on this site without my permission which has created another problem where another organisation is using it without consent. How do I get it taken down? 41.216.203.147 10:40, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Could you please mention which work? Yann (talk) 10:59, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Yann

this is it: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rhodes_fall_day.jpg Sthemse (talk) 12:27, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Sthemse: I nominated the file for deletion: Commons:Deletion requests/File:Rhodes fall day.jpg. You can comment in the DR. It will probably be deleted after a week or so. Yann (talk) 12:38, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you what is a DR? Also what do I do about the organisation(s) that have used it believing it was legally attained? Sthemse (talk) 12:43, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Sthemse: DR is an abbreviation for "Deletion request"; please see COM:DR for details. You may use {{Published}} with parameter "legal=no" to indicate that the use of the content was unlicensed. You may also file a DMCA takedown notice against the legal representative(s) of the organization(s); I did so successfully about a week ago. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 12:59, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Comment The file was deleted after a VRT ticket. Yann (talk) 13:50, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you both. It has been removed on this platform. Sthemse (talk) 16:57, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Who is in this imaeg?

File:08.03 總統與美國聯邦眾議院議長裴洛西媒體互動會 (52259967861).jpg

Who is in the painting? SeichanGant (talk) 16:31, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sun Yat-sen. -- Asclepias (talk) 17:15, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@SeichanGant: Hi, and welcome. In these edits, Nrya added Category:Sun Yat-sen and then moved the image down to Category:Sun Yat-sen in art. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 15:49, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Proper way to reverse a vote on QI Image Candidate?

Hi, I opposed a nomination of someone's QI image nomination (due to being below the size limit), but I was incorrect. I tried to go to "edit source" and remove my opposition, but my reversal got flagged (I forget the specific message). Anyway. Is there a proper way to reverse my "vote"? Thank you. Pdanese (talk) 20:17, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Pdanese: Hi, and welcome. You triggered Special:AbuseFilter/128. I made the edit for you. You could have just saved it again per mediawiki:abusefilter-warning-QIC. Please be more careful next time. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 16:00, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Pdanese (talk) 14:32, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Pdanese: You're welcome! — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 09:37, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Derivative figures included in an open access academic article

Hi, I recently came across a scholarly article that includes many valuable images related to the embryologist Wilhelm His, Sr. I wish to upload them, but as a first-time user of Wikimedia Commons, I am unsure as to whether permission is required. Most of the figures are photographs of historical images/objects, and the article itself is released under the CC BY 4.0 license (cf. article page and [3]). So I suspect they count as Commons:Derivative works with appropriate licenses and are hence acceptable here.

I have two questions:

1. Would it be acceptable to crop these figures, as most of them are montages of multiple images? In fact, since the montages are created out of various different sources, I think it would be easier to document information if each individual image was cropped and uploaded.

2. The authors go out of their way to specify "image rights" for certain images (e. g., Figure 1D). Is permission necessary for such images, even if the article itself is open access? If so, would it suffice to contact the authors of the article, or would I have to obtain permission from the owners of the "image rights"?

Thank you in advance. Ymed16 (talk) 20:28, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Ymed16: this is a tough one to answer entirely, because potentially each image could have its own issues. At a quick glance, most of this looks old enough to probably (but in some cases not certainly) have passed into the public domain but, for example, portions of Figure 16 do not. So you are going to have to go through this and work it out on a case-by-case basis.

You mention image 1D; I can see no way this would still be copyrighted.

It's fine to take individual images out of the larger figures.

Jmabel ! talk 20:49, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I see, I will make sure to look into the descriptions of each image. Thank you very much! Ymed16 (talk) 21:03, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

French speaking editors

Could any French speakers here help explaining the concept of derivative works and the copyright of film posters to this user? Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Kondotikodro Trade (talk) 23:44, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Trade: I added a link to Commons:VRT. Do you think that her confirmation for the image of her own film will be sufficient or that there is a problem also with the text logo of the festival or something else? -- Asclepias (talk) 02:18, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Nah, the film is the only issue Trade (talk) 10:14, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Computer generated images used in the contests

Hello, i am an active member of Wikimedia commons. As amateur photographer, i like to join contests. I use my own photographs taken with my Canon camera. I would like to make sure that only our own images taken as "humans" and not generated by AI are participating in the contests. is there any one of the admin or moderators guys who vet the pictures in the contests? Are we all ensured that no AI Pictures are becoming part of the list of pics that compete in the contest? what happens if some of us check the pics and see that there are some AI pictures in the contest? can we report them or those pics are fully allowed in the competition? (i believe not, but i ask just in case). Thanks for the info that i believe are quite useful to know. Oncewerecolours (talk) 09:51, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Do the contest explicitly forbid AI? Trade (talk) 10:17, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

i didnt find anything that explicitly forbids the usage of AI but i found an implicit statement as you see in "Photo Challenge" page info:

"The Photo Challenge inspires photographers to take great pictures and upload them to Commons. Monthly thematic competitions encourage participants to try new subjects, new photographic or processing techniques, and to develop skills while improving the Commons repository of free images. Photographs entered into a competition must be new to Commons and taken by a Commons user."

Added to this is my consideration (that i assume is the consideration made by many of us, as members of Wikimedia : we are talking about contest of pictures, photographs. This is obviously related to an art, photography, made by users. Not by robots, computers, or softwares. They are not allowed to compete, am i wrong?

Due to this, i would like to suggest to the wikimedia admins to add an explicit rule which forbids the usage of AI generated images in the contest. As participant, i would like to be ensured that only real pictures "taken" by users are part of the contest.

Thank you to the admins who read this and take in consideration my idea. :) Oncewerecolours (talk) 13:32, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Oncewerecolours: Hi, and welcome. Thank you for participating in the contests and writing here. Your suggestion would be better received as a proposal that could be voted on at COM:VPP. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 14:38, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Admins have no special role in making rules, only in enforcing them.

The rules of any given contest are up to the people organizing the contest.

If it's a photography contest, then presumably only photographs are eligible, but I don't think we have any rule against a more general contest. - Jmabel ! talk 20:44, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

How to use the totally free images of wikipedia commons?

In the past, it was easy to use wikipedia commons. Now, they made it extremely unpleasant and infuriating. It's clearly on purpose since the photos are supposedly free. To improve the difficulty to use the system, I would suggest that they put a 65 pages long tutorial document to be read every time we want to download a photo on our computer. They could also force us to invent five different passwords (to be changed every week) and force us to use three different codes sent on three different telephone numbers. All that should be asked in Chinese or Turkish to make it even more unpleasant. I will try to find more difficult way to use that damned system. Thank you in advance. Monsieur Lamaire (talk) 01:41, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

There is not a single substantive thing in this post. If you have an issue, state it. No, no one is deliberately making this harder. - Jmabel ! talk 02:18, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I now see that your only prior post was to complain about an issue that apparently turned out not to be an issue. - Jmabel ! talk 02:20, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

delete uploaded photo

Since my article is going to be deleted, I want the photo I uploaded to be deleted too. Stefaniehillenaar (talk) 10:15, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Stefaniehillenaar For a limited time you can ask for a courtesy deletion (for exmaple if you uploaded an image you never actually wanted to upload). But apart from that exception, this is not how it works. You uploaded the portrait with a cc-by-sa-4.0 license. That is a license that cannot be revoked. If it turns out, that the image is a copyright violation (if you had not the right to publish it), it will be deleted. If it is out of scope or aganist personality rights, it can be deleted. In such a case everyone (including you) can start a deletion request. To the left of the image, you will find a link to start a deletion request. You will then be asked for the reason. "My article has been deleted or will be deleted" is not a valid reason for deletion. Someone else may write an article about the person, or the portrait image may be useful at other places in Wikipedia or anywhere else. C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 12:08, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Done per uploader request. GMG ^talk 12:11, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

How to edit the location of creation in the structured data of an image

I'm used to being able to edit the 'location of creation' in an image's structured data by using the edit button, but that button seems to have disappeared for a number of properties, including 'location of creation'. Not sure why this is, but it is quite important to be able to do it in order to modify or remove locations set by the GeographBot, which in my experience quite often either gets it completely wrong, or uses a location that is too general to ever be of any use. -- Chris j wood (talk) 12:37, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

As an example of what I'm talking about, the picture here of Reading station has a location of creation of Reading Abbey!. The ruins of Reading Abbey are actually about 500m in front of the camera, and a little bit to the left, beyond the big pink office block. And I seem to have no way of correcting this. -- Chris j wood (talk) 15:57, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It may or may not be related to this problem. -- Asclepias (talk) 16:41, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It may be, but the suggested workaround did nothing for me. I tried editing it both British English and German, but it still didn't give me an edit button for that property. -- Chris j wood (talk) 18:26, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"Edit" link is missing for me, too. I'm wondering if the data got there indirectly. May I pressume Category:Reading Abbey and depicts "Reading Abbey" are also both wrong? If so, I'd suggest editing those appropriately and see if it changes. - Jmabel ! talk 19:34, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You can try to ask also at Commons:Village pump/Technical. -- Asclepias (talk) 19:36, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I've done so, at Commons:Village_pump/Technical#How_to_edit_the_location_of_creation_in_the_structured_data_of_an_image -- Chris j wood (talk) 11:15, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Chris j wood, cf. Special:Diff/833137284 and Special:Diff/833137492 (plus additionally Special:Diff/833136886): I went on the structured data tab and then edited in the first box (seems to be captioned with “Items portrayed in this file”, note that my usual setting is not in English). — Speravir – 23:46, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

So that was not the issue, and it is still not possible to edit the incorrect 'location of creation'. - Jmabel ! talk 00:16, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Well that is well weird. I went for lunch. Before lunch there was no edit button, after lunch the edit button was back. I made no changes to me environment, didn't even restart the browser. Somebody fiddling?. -- Chris j wood (talk) 14:30, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Also works correctly again for me. May have been related to the second issue at User_talk:Dominic#Category:Media_contributed_by_Seattle_Public_Library. - 19:32, 22 December 2023 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jmabel (talk • contribs) 19:32, 22 December 2023 (UTC) (UTC)[reply]

And I only now understand the former issue. Maybe with my edit some error has gone away. — Speravir – 22:55, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Edit - No, I now see #Can't add structured data statement. So, it cannot have been my edit. — Speravir – 22:58, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Excluding a user's uploads from search?

If I want to not see a certain user's uploads when searching for files, is there a way to do that? Appending to my search the expected "-User:Example" doesn't work. –Vuccala (talk) 14:02, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I assume that you have already explored the search help of MediaWiki and found nothing. I do not know an answer. But here is an idea. If you want to exclude a user's uploads, presumably it may be because that user has a lot of uploads? And if the user has a lot of uploads, then, with a bit of luck, there may be a category such as "Category:Uploads by Example". And then you could search with -incategory:"Uploads by Example". -- Asclepias (talk) 15:21, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

After more thought, that idea was not useful, because if the string "Example" is displayed only in a category, it is found by the simple "-Example". What we are looking for is a way to exclude also files where the string is present only in the upload history. -- Asclepias (talk) 03:46, 23 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Assuming that user's name USERNAME is in the wikitext for their uploads, -insource:"USERNAME" should work. - Jmabel ! talk 19:40, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, that does the job! ~~And I see we can also include the User: bit like so -insource:User:USERNAME~~ –Vuccala (talk) 09:23, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Vuccala Note that this will only work, if the user has oneself included as author (usually). This won’t work for files where the user is only the uploader, e.g. the search query file: bluecheek butterflyfishes yields today 4 results. But the query file: bluecheek butterflyfishes -insource:"user:Speravir" will not filter out the image I’ve uploaded. — Speravir – 23:18, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

But that's the thing? @Vuccala wants to exclude the files authored by a specific user, not files that have been uploaded by a user, but are imported and could have been imported by anyone else? OTOH if you want to exclude mass uploads by a user (if only few search results are from the user, then why make the effort to exlude this few unwanted files from the search result), Then there will be in most cases a category like "imports from XY-GLAM by UserYX". C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 13:32, 23 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

That's not how I read the OP's question. Although it would help if they clarified it with at least an actual case. If the goal was merely to exclude all files authored by a user, identified in the description pages, the simple "-Username" should do it. (Not "-User:Username", because "User:" is generally either not displayed or not written, although it would be found with -insource if it is written in the wikicode.) The OP says that they do not want to see the "user's uploads", which I understand as meaning all files uploaded by the user, including all the files not authored by the user, and including all the files where the username is not present (save in the file history), which is precisely the difficulty. Filtering with categories was my first idea mentioned above, but it probably has no more advantage than the simple "-Username". The -insource syntax may find also the rare cases where the username is present in the wikicode without being displayed. There's apparently still no easy solution to exclude all uploads by a user. -- Asclepias (talk) 14:43, 23 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'd like to exclude files both authored and uploaded by a user, but I think the solution Jmabel gave works well enough. (and a correction, yes, just -insource:"USERNAME" is better, without the User: bit.)
@Asclepias: I'll clarify with an actual case. I'm often searching for photos of animals and get many unwanted results of some user's bulk upload of sports teams/entertainers/cartoons/etc. that contain that animal name. For example, searching "vixen" is frustrating because there's an entertainer with that name but since most of the uploads are from "S._Bollmann" I can now append "-insource:S._Bollmann" to get rid of them. But continuing, there's further unwanted results of museum pottery uploaded by user "Pharos" which I'd like to remove, but since his username isn't in the source, -insource:Pharos doesn't work but I can instead use something like -insource:metmuseum.
The main thing, I think, is that I'm pretty new here and it didn't occur to me to use -insource: along with authors/usernames like that.–Vuccala (talk) 14:32, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I have to correct myself, because a slightly different query stings works: file: bluecheek butterflyfishes -"Speravir" (in my case also without the quotes, but this depends on, how unique a user name is). — Speravir – 23:24, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The string "Speravir" is displayed in the license review section of that description page. That's possibly how the syntax "-Speravir" finds it. The string "User:Speravir" is not present, even in the wikicode, and it is not found with -insource. But the string "Speravir" is present and is found. The -insource:username does not work when the uploader's username is present only in the file history. For example, the file File:James Weddell Expedition.jpg is not filtered out by it. (By the way, does the review of File:2 Bluecheek butterflyfishes (px-380037).jpg meet the condition "Reviews by image-reviewers on their own uploads will be considered invalid."?) -- Asclepias (talk) 03:46, 23 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

History of India

I want to know all about Indian gods Orefile Dyonta (talk) 23:05, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Orefile Dyonta Wikimedia Commons is a repository of pictures. You might be better advised to visit w:en:Wikipedia:Reference desk 🇺🇦 Timtrent 🇺🇦 talk to me 🇺🇦 23:17, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

But given that there are literally millions of Hindu deities, plus various other religions in India, you might start with Religion in India. - Jmabel ! talk 00:19, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Can't add structured data statement

I can no longer add statements to the Structured data. My addition just disappears when I click on the drop down menu. Have tried "location of creation" "instance of" and "source of file". Anyone else seeing issue? Thanks. Nv8200p (talk) 01:10, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

There have definitely been some recent problems with "location of creation". Not sure about the others. Have you tried seeing if just "depicts" works correctly? - Jmabel ! talk 05:44, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I can confirm that I can no longer add a 'location of creation' property to an image that doesn't already have one either. It is still possible to add or edit 'depicts' as normal. I think this must be related to the issue I raised above at Commons:Help_desk#How_to_edit_the_location_of_creation_in_the_structured_data_of_an_image. -- Chris j wood (talk) 11:28, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"depicts" works as it used to, and I can edit some existing statements and add qualifiers. Many statements no longer have and an "Edit" option. Nv8200p (talk) 12:07, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Well that is well weird. I went for lunch. Before lunch I couldn't add a 'location of creation' property, after lunch I could. I made no changes to me environment, didn't even restart the browser. Somebody fiddling?. -- Chris j wood (talk) 14:32, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Chris j wood: must have been a great lunch! I've never managed a side effect like that from a meal. - Jmabel ! talk 19:34, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

So, issue has been solved somehow. — Speravir – 23:00, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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What are the copyright laws in the EU of inherited artworks.

I am working on the Wikipedia page of my great-grandfather, who was a famous painter in Hungary. We'd like to upload some of his work to the site, but I'm not sure about the copyright laws. He died 52 years ago. He had a son (my grandfather) who inherited all his paintings and drawings. He has approved for me to upload some paintings, but we don't know if that's enough. Szerkesztő.2244 (talk) 10:45, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Szerkesztő.2244: The normal copyright terms is 70 years after death per [:Commons:Copyright rules by territory/Hungary]] but, until that time is over, the heir could release the paintings under a free licence we accept. If the image includes a frame or something 3-dimensional outside the painting area itself, the photographer's permission is additionally required. It sounds like your grandfather is still the copyright holder, so we would need to obtain his permission. He can do that by completing the consent as detailed on this page Commons:Email templates/Consent. Then you can use one of these copyright templates specifically for heirs Category:License tags for transferred copyright, preferably one of the first 5 listed. Ww2censor (talk) 11:02, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Szerkesztő.2244 (talk) 11:14, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Ww2censor: more precisely, the father is now the copyright-holder, having inherited the intellectual property rights from the grandfather. But, yes. Also: @Szerkesztő.2244: you might want to ask your father to word the permission broadly, authorizing you on this account to upload any of your grandfather's works on his behalf, and granting the license in advance for any of those that you upload. - Jmabel ! talk 19:38, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Jmabel: it was not clear to me if it was the father or grandfather who dies 52 years ago. However, the permission should obviously come from the current living inheritor. Ww2censor (talk) 19:55, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Ww2censor: Ooh, I'm sorry, I appparently misread, you were probably entirely right. Anyway, the advice remains fundamentally the same: the email needs to come from the person who holds the rights. @Szerkesztő.2244: will this be workable for you? There are other ways around this if it is not, but they are more cumbersome. - Jmabel ! talk 20:01, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I think I'll be able to solve it. Szerkesztő.2244 (talk) 20:13, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Please help me find the licenses for the logo of FC sporting Madeira

Please help me find the licenses for the logo of FC sporting Madeira https://sportingdamadeira.pt/ BELORECKIYSHARIK (talk) 14:31, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@BELORECKIYSHARIK: Presumably there is no free license available: there wouldn't normally be for something like this. The question is whether it is copyrightable. If you can find an example of pretty much exactly that "lion rampant" from the 19th Century (the easiest way to establish that the lion is public domain), I'd say there is nothing else copyrightable in that logo, so with that citation of prior art it would be uploadable to Commons with some combination of PD licenses (probably {{PD-old-assumed-expired}} for the lion and {{PD-textlogo}} for the rest, plus {{Trademarked}}. That's a little tricky, so if you upload it on that basis please link it here on Help desk (in this section, if this section hasn't been archived) so that someone can check your work and fix it if you didn't get it quite right.

Again, the key to that is finding a 19th-century or earlier image that is clearly the same "lion rampant". - Jmabel ! talk 19:46, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Commons policy on open proxy, TOR and simmilar

Do we have an policy on users using open proxies, TOR and simmilar? Juandev (talk) 15:42, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Juandev: We block those when found (fine for reading, of course). There is a way for a particular account to be made an exception. Are you asking because you need to access Commons that way, or just out of curiosity (or for some other reason)? - Jmabel ! talk 19:52, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Permitir fotos de tabla con captura de pantalla

Buenas, una pregunta Wikimedia está permitido subir fotos de una tabla (por ejemplo File:Resultadoscne2004.jpg) esta foto no representa el Logo ni nada, solamente una tabla con los resultados de una elección en el que un político fue electo como Alcalde, y segundo el Usuario fue subido por una captura de pantalla (screenshot)?? AbchyZa22 (talk) 23:09, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@AbchyZa22: el parte arriba contiene una linea de fotos que presumiblemente tienen derechos de autor. Eso no se permite.
Normalmente, no aceptamos tablas en la forma de imágenes. Hay excepciones ocasionales. ¿Por qué esta mesa pertenecería a Commons? ¿Por qué es importante tenerlo en una forma visual (en comparación con una tabla HTML en un artículo relevante)? - Jmabel ! talk 00:03, 23 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Battle of Mkalamo

Hi I just created this new category, which I intend to be a subcategory of the parent Category:East African Campaign (World War I) but I can’t figure out how to do this using HotCat and don’t want to make a mess. Could someone please point me to the right instruction or establish the relationship for me? Thanks Mccapra (talk) 07:20, 23 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Convenience link: Category:Battle of Mkalamo. - Jmabel ! talk 10:22, 23 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

{ping|Mccapra}} Done. Basically, what you accidentally did with [https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Help_desk&diff=prev&oldid=833850527 your edit here is exactly how you put a page (or a category, or file) in a category. - Jmabel ! talk 10:25, 23 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Mccapra (talk) 22:01, 23 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Category:Cantonal police of the [editing] question

Wondering if it can be edited to put the correct links? It's in here. Ominae (talk) 07:44, 23 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Well the category has already some images see Category:Kantonspolizei Thurgau. If you want to ad images to the category, the categories are at the bottom of every page and with hitting the + sign a field in which you can add letters in it opens. Then the available categories will appear. Paradise Chronicle (talk) 15:48, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion!

Are there any options for speedy deletion of images, or is there a separate process to nominate unambiguous copyrighted images for deletion apart from the usual nomination process? Jeraxmoira (talk) 18:32, 23 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Jeraxmoira: Commons:Criteria for speedy deletion. Also {{Copyvio}}. - Jmabel ! talk 19:16, 23 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Jmabel. This is very helpful. Is there a Twinkle alternative for commons, or should the tags be placed manually? Jeraxmoira (talk) 19:30, 23 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Jeraxmoira: I've never used Twinkle, so I have no basis or comparison. Speedy-deletion tags can be placed either manually or with VFC (for multiple identical SD requests). I suspect there are other ways as well, but these are the two I use. Do note, though: when asking for something to be speedy-deleted as a copyvio, you probably don't want to do something "mass", because you should present evidence (like a link to source). - Jmabel ! talk 20:18, 23 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I occasionally come here from EN Wiki to nominate copyvio images for deletion. Hopefully, nothing in mass numbers for now. Cheers <3 Jeraxmoira (talk) 20:46, 23 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Jeraxmoira: Hi, and welcome. The preferred method for marking copyright violations is the "Report copyright violation" tool (which requires a reason). I use m:User:Xiplus/TwinkleGlobal for speed (it uses the generic {{Speedy}}), but you may prefer to use {{SD}} with a particular criterion from COM:CSD in parameter 1 and follow through (please check your work the first time). — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 17:51, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Subir fotos de emblema Municipal

Buenas, Wikimedia esta permitido subir fotos de emblemas Municipales, por ejemplo explicame una emblema municipal en general y en Venezuela?? AbchyZa22 (talk) 23:22, 23 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@AbchyZa22: ¿Quien tomó la foto? ¿Cuál es el estado de los derechos de autor del emblema? - Jmabel ! talk 23:51, 23 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Jmabel:Buenas, File:Coat of arms of Caracas (2022).png, está foto publicó en 2022 por el Concejo Municipal Bolivariano Libertador de Caracas, y está foto se trata de una emblema municipal y la foto parece estar en el "Dominio Público" la licencia. AbchyZa22 (talk) 10:57, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Stijn Smeulders

Zie https://www.brabant.nl/bestuur/gedeputeerde-staten/stijn-smeulders/persfotos-stijn-smeulders, er staat 'Deze persfoto's van Stijn Smeulders zijn kosteloos te gebruiken voor publicitaire doeleinden, mits de naam van de fotograaf wordt vermeld'.

Maar er is geen expliciete toestemming van de fotograaf zelf, Marc Bolsius. Mogen foto's dan alsnog geüpload worden? JasperWiki86 (talk) 00:06, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@JasperWiki86: "voor publicitaire doeleinden" is much more of a limitation than Commons will accept. See Commons:Licensing#Acceptable licenses (surprisingly, not available in a Dutch translation). - Jmabel ! talk 02:03, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Can someone read this signature?

Can anyone read the signature on the photo at File:The Town Crier, v.15, no.47, Nov. 20, 1920 - DPLA - e4f9b50e68fa4f2e208e390a8311e8ec (page 14).jpg? - Jmabel ! talk 02:10, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Jmabel: I can't make it out, except for the letters LA (for Los Angeles) on the second line. But this appears to be one of several publicity photos of Walthall taken by, or at least published by, the Category:Photoplayers Studio in Los Angeles, which was active in the 1910s and 20s: here's a copy of the same photo, with the Photoplayers signature; and here's another photo obviously taken at the same sitting, again with the Photoplayers signature. If the version published in the Town Crier has a different signature, perhaps the original photographer joined the studio, or studio bought out and rebranded his work? Crawdad Blues (talk) 14:08, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Incidentally, I think the file name and description of File:Henry B. Walthall in Ibsen's "Ghosts".jpg is misleading. This appears to be one of a series of general publicity photos, not a photo of Walthall specifically in the role of Osvald in Ibsen's Ghosts, and the source doesn't claim that the photo has anything to do with Ghosts. It simply says that (a) this is a photo of Walthall, and (b) he will be appearing in the play on the following Sunday. Crawdad Blues (talk) 17:39, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Edit summary

I am a newbie in Wikimedia Commons. So, I need help in typing an edit summary for a picture which is copyrighted. Can anyone help me? Thank you in advance. Bolboks (talk) 09:47, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Just edit it like a Wikipedia page. Ruslik (talk) 13:49, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

PD-US

Hi, I wanted to transfer this file from Flickr. It seems to be old enough to be in public domain. But I couldn't find any specific date in which it was built or placed there. Should I still transfer it here anyway? If I do which PD tag should I use? Syrus257 (talk) 14:03, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Syrus257, we have a category for the Elmwood cemetery with other grave stones which seem of lesser age. I suggest to upload it and leave a short description about when the lady died. For the question below I have no answer. Paradise Chronicle (talk) 15:43, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Another question. This Flickr user uploaded his images under CC BY 2.0 license. But in his "about" page he wrote that he forbid the usages of his pictures in pornographic, violent or radical context. Here in Commons only the materials that can used "by anyone, anytime, for any purpose" are allowed. So can I still transfer the images from this flickr account?Syrus257 (talk) 15:07, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Syrus257: I think that you may not; the user is sowing so much confusion that the the files would qualify for deletion per pcp. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 17:31, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Accès aux photos d'immeubles protégés de Cologne

Bonjour comment se fait-il que je ne peux avoir accès sur le site "liste der baudenkmaler im kolner stadtteil neustadt sud" à la photo du bâtiment n° 7 Utrechterstrasse. Merci MESLET-ARENE (talk) 15:22, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Access to photos of protected buildings in Cologne

Hello, how come I cannot have access to the photo of building no. 7 Utrechterstrasse on the site "liste der baudenkmaler im kolner stadtteil neustadt sud". THANKS

translator: Google Translate via — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 17:25, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@MESLET-ARENE: Bonjour et bienvenue. Où pouvons-nous exactement trouver ce site, cette page ou cette liste, traduite par «Liste des monuments architecturaux du quartier Neustadt Süd de Cologne»?

Hi, and welcome. Where exactly may we find that site, page, or list, translated as "List of architectural monuments in the Neustadt Süd district of Cologne"? — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 17:25, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Lighten background of Hibex.jpg

I was wondering if someone might be able to "lighten" the background of the image File:Hibex.jpg so that the subject missile stands out more? It's a busy image! Maury Markowitz (talk) 16:39, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I could not access the links given as sources for the image. HIBEX and www.wsmr-history.org. Wouter (talk) 19:21, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Commons:Deletion requests/File:Coat of arms of Caracas (2022).png

Buenas Administradores de Wikimedia, una pregunta para ustedes, dime una opinión es posible remover (deleted) o quedarse (kept) con respecto a la polémica de que el emblema municipal está en el Dominio Público porque según en el artículo 325 de la Ley Orgánica del Trabajo, los Trabajadores y las Trabajadoras. Además del artículo 2 de la Ley sobre Derechos de Autor, que establece qué creaciones están sometidas a derechos de autor? AbchyZa22 (talk) 17:21, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sattar Alvi image

I am not aware if this image is free to use or not. thi MrGreen1163 (talk) 20:37, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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 Buenas Administradores de Wikimedia, una pregunta para ustedes, dime una opinión es posible remover (deleted) o quedarse (kept) con respecto a la polémica de que el emblema municipal está en el Dominio Público porque según en el [https://oig.cepal.org/sites/default/files/2012_leyorgtrabajo_ven.pdf artículo 325 de la Ley Orgánica del Trabajo, los Trabajadores y las Trabajadoras]. Además del [https://www.wipo.int/wipolex/es/text/130136 artículo 2 de la Ley sobre Derechos de Autor], que establece qué creaciones están sometidas a derechos de autor? [[User:AbchyZa22|AbchyZa22]] ([[User talk:AbchyZa22|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 17:21, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
+== Sattar Alvi image ==
+I am not aware if this image is free to use or not. [https://pin.it/5dzO7KR thi] [[User:MrGreen1163|MrGreen1163]] ([[User talk:MrGreen1163|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 20:37, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

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