Eat Your Makeup

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A better way to import files from Geograph Britain and Ireland

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons! I see that you've been importing files here from Geograph Britain and Ireland for use on English Wikipedia, and that's very good: keep it up! However, there is one slight problem: pictures on Geograph are licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0, a fairly restrictive licence, while you tagged the files with CC Zero 1.0, which has no restrictions whatever. This is technically a copyright violation (hence the notice above from Brianjd). I've fixed the problem for your uploads from last night, so you don't need to worry about them.

Because there are so many pictures copied from Geograph to Commons, we have a few ways to make it easier. On any Geograph picture page (e.g. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2366863), there's a link just under the picture saying "reuse", which takes you to a page like this: https://www.geograph.org.uk/reuse.php?id=2366863. At the bottom of that, there's a section with some rough instructions for copying the file into Commons. I usually use Geograph-to-Commons, except for the 5% of files it mysteriously breaks on, where I fall back to Special:Upload. You can also carry on using the Upload Wizard: just choose "Another reason not mentioned above" on the list of copyright tags and paste in the {{geograph|...}} line from the "reuse" page. --bjh21 (talk) 10:22, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

Thank you bjh21 :) I'm new to this so I'm sorry for the mistakes! Eat Your Makeup (talk) 10:34, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

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You have been blocked from editing Commons for for 1 day on namespace 'Commons'. The reason for the block is available in the block log as is the name of the administrator who blocked you. If you believe this block is unjustified, you may add {{Unblock}} below this message explaining clearly why you should be unblocked. For more information, see Appealing a block.

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File:Abbot's Meads from the bridge © Tim Evans.jpg

File:Abbot's Meads from the bridge © Tim Evans.jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

88.96.174.14 14:52, 19 June 2020 (UTC)