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I don't know if this can be replicated by other users, but for me the File:Evelyn Salgado Pineda.jpg when it is displayed at 180px displays an old version that was deleted in 2022 [1] : [2]. Apparently it did not fix itself although a new version was uploaded in June 2024. -- Asclepias (talk) 16:00, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for looking. That is strange. There, it still displays to me the old deleted image of the woman in a black sweater, not the recent image of the woman in a green vest. I don't know how there can be a cache issue with an image deleted in 2022 that I had never looked at before recently. The browser should not have the ability to find a version deleted two years ago. But you're right, it must be a cache issue of some sort, given that you see the recent image. Maybe the image will fix itself now that someone else looked at it. I'll post an update if it happens. -- Asclepias (talk) 20:44, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
That raises an intriguing technicality. If you see the deleted ("black sweater") image at the specific url for the 180px .jpg image, but you see the current ("green vest") image in the 180px thumbnail displayed through wikicode in this section here, then what is the specific 180px .jpg url that you get when you ask the url of that "green vest" 180px thumbnail? I suppose that, for a user viewing Commons on the same machine and the same browser, the two different 180px .jpg images cannot occupy the exact same url at the same time, or can they? (That would be a Schrödinger's cat image, showing one state or the other depending on the observation.) -- Asclepias (talk) 15:36, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, that's interesting. So, the wiki code set at 180px leads you to the url of a 270px image of the new photo. Me, I still get the old image in the thumbnail set at 180px and it leads to the url of the 180px image of the old photo. Thank you for having participated in this little experiment. -- Asclepias (talk) 19:25, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I have tried to upload my portrait three times, but it has been deleted immediately after uploading it. If it is for copyright, it is okay with me because it is my personal picture and no one is uploading it against my will. Arammala (talk) 08:09, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Arammala: Wikimedia Commons is not a social media, and we do not accept personal pictures without educational use, unless people are already contributors. Please read COM:SCOPE before uploading anything. Yann (talk) 09:28, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Your account does not show up as having any contributions to any other WMF projects, not even creation of a user page. What do you feel qualifies you as a "contributor"? Or are you the subject of an existing article? (If so, what article?)
Also, unless these are selfies: if the picture is in scope for some reason, permission (presumably via COM:VRT) has to come from the photographer, not the subject of the photo (unless copyright has been formally transferred to you, in which case use VRT to show the formal transfer). - Jmabel ! talk18:55, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The article which I am the subject of it is not confirmed yet is entitled Aram Mala Nuri-is still receiving feedback. Moreover, I am the photographer of the photo and I am its subject, which means I have full ownership as copyright issues. If this photo is being deleted the person who is writing the article in Wikipedia cannot edit the article and submit it for revisions. Arammala (talk) 14:46, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Arammala: I don't really see how it would be any harder to first get the article accepted and then add photos but, yes, if the article is accepted then these photos are certainly in scope. Could you please provide a link to the draft in progress? - Jmabel ! talk17:35, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Zhewar H. Ali: you might want to look into how references are normally formatted. Normally, references should be mainly inline; also, following (for example) the "cite web" template with more or less the same content outside of the template is actively confusing. And when using non-English references, you certainly want to use the "language" parameter. - Jmabel ! talk19:36, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Abzeronow: And I just did something similar for Utica, and I got the same lack of results. I could've swore there was a fourth city category that needed this fix. --DanTD (talk) 00:03, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Auntof6: Actually, after I posted that reply, I realized what you did. You carried out those null edits on each individual category. I did it on the main category. So I did it on the individual categories and it did work that time. --DanTD (talk) 12:50, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I have already filled up a photo on 1st December. I want to use it in Wikipedia item Nechay Olivér but there was no any reflection about "Nechay- photo from a gallery.jpg" and I can not find to use it to improve that. May I expect a confirmation about its usable permission?
With compliments Phomalike (talk) 10:20, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Is it licensed under a license that lets anyone to use it? If not, you can't use it and if you do, you might get in big trouble. Gnu779 (talk) 13:40, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Phomalike: as you can imagine, there is a reason we prevent cross-wiki uploads of small files by relatively new users: most of them are copyright violations.
This Photo came out in a Hungarian Journal of "Növényvédelem" 2024, 85 [N. S. 60]: 11. 514-518 but it is available in printed form in Hungarian. Please find the attached copy of this containing this photo. Internet adaptation will be available later as an archive Journal item.
Please confirm anyone that I can use this in a Wikipedia item or not de jure. As I am not familiar in Licence regules, please indicate what I could apply in such a situation? Phomalike (talk) 09:22, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
So I suppose that it is a recent picture. For such an image, we require a formal written permission for a free license from the copyright holder. Please see COM:VRT for the procedure. Yann (talk) 09:32, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
In short, if you are not the copyright-holder there is no legitimate way to upload this to Commons without a license from the copyright-holder. - Jmabel ! talk20:36, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Heya guys! I'm gonna make a new page for the icon pack of early releases for GNOME 2. All of them are from the GNOME archives and all of them are licensed by GNU GPL 2. Gnu779 (talk) 13:38, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You should (in terms of permissions) be able to do this all yourself. And I don't want you to "give me the icons". If you want to make the page, make it. (If you want to call it GNOME 2 icon pack, just follow the link in this sentence. If you want to call it something else, adjust that URL accordingly in your browser.) If you have specific questions about how to do some step, ask here. - Jmabel ! talk18:15, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Good evening, So I'm in Québec 3 hours from Montréal (a bit more north) and for the last 10 years, we've been seeing turkey vultures. However, the map on the Turkey vulture wiki does not seem to indicate that our range has turkey vultures in the summer. I've never contributed to wikipédia, but I would love to help since this animal is one of animals showing signs of the climate changes. (mostly due to how, in my father's younger days, there was a LOT of snow and never seeing these birds. Nowadays we see them every summer when it's time to fill the freezer with the farm stuff) 70.81.176.4400:25, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
By "the Turkey vulture wiki" I'm guessing you mean en:Turkey vulture, the "Turkey vulture" page on the English-language Wikipedia. (If you meant something else, please clarify!) And in that case, you must mean this map which, interestingly, was last modified less than 2 weeks ago by MPF.
There are basically three possibilities here; for all of these, providing a citeable source for the expanded range rather than just anecdotal evidence would be good, but might not be necessary.
create your own version of the map. This one may be a little tricky though. To upload content at all, you need to create an account, but because you are not an established user, you won't be able to overwrite someone else's file, so you'd have to upload your version with a different file name. You would link back to File:Turkeyvulturerange.jpg using {{derived from|Turkeyvulturerange.jpg}} and ideally add {{derivative works|YOUR FILE NAME HERE.EXT}} to File:Turkeyvulturerange.jpg. Then you could go back to the English-language Wikipedia and propose changing the article to use your map (or just make the edit in the article yourself).
I'd recommend going with one of the first two possibilities: replacing existing images with derivative works is relatively advanced stuff, not usually where anyone starts their involvement with Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia.
In any case, I recommend creating an account (and providing your email address as part of setting up the account: it will not be shown publicly) if you are going to become at all involved here. It makes it much easier for other editors to communicate with you. - Jmabel ! talk01:03, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It's a bit of a difficult case, as we have to rely on published information for maps. Submit your sightings to your local bird club (remember to give them accurate location data!), and eventually (yes, it'll be slow!) the information about the expanded range will work into maps published in bird field guides, etc., and when they do, we can revise our map here. I'll check other recent maps though and see if there is anything that already gives more up-to-date information than our map has. Thanks for bringing this up! - MPF (talk) 10:12, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I've updated it from iNaturalist observations; this can be risky for some species, but with a conspicuous easily-recognised species like this, it does give reasonably safe results by taking the denser observations while ignoring outliers (the mapped observations will also be weak in sparsely-populated areas with few observers like southern South America). - MPF (talk) 20:45, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello all, I want to upload image which is my profile pic image. even though I have clicked it by myself wikipedia says "We could not determine whether this file is suitable for Wikimedia Commons. Please only upload photos that you took yourself with your camera" help me to upload my image HardikKansara106 (talk) 02:41, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@HardikKansara106: Hi, and welcome. I am sorry to inform you that you have triggered Special:AbuseFilter/153 by trying to cross-wiki upload a smaller (<50,000 bytes or <2,000,000 pixels) jpg photo as a new user. The photo you tried to upload is smaller. Usually when someone uploads a smaller photo, it is a copyright violation taken from the web. You have also triggered that same filter by trying to cross-wiki upload a png image as a new user. Such uploads of png images are not allowed at all. You indicated each is your own work. Usually when someone uploads a png image, it's a copyright violation taken from the web. Please upload the full-size original of each per COM:HR, including any metadata, but it may be judged too complex to be under TOO in the country of origin, so you (or the photographer or designer) may need to license them on your official website or social media or send permission via VRT. Also, 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 an svg or jpg version, too. If you use our Upload Wizard instead, you should be able to avoid that filter. Also, we do not have profiles here like en:User:HardikKansara106/sandbox. Social networks have profiles. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 11:06, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Jmabel: No, that page title was implicated in the abuse filter log entry, and the character of that (draft offline) page was implicated in both that and the original post above. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 19:22, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Maybe "uploaded while editing (pagename)" includes the cases when a user edits a "page" before publishing it for the first time? Then that information gets recorded in the filter log details even if in the end the user does not publish the page. -- Asclepias (talk) 19:56, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'm trying to help UN FAO upload some maps to Commons but I'm getting an error I've never seen before, the error happens when I try to upload the SVG files, does anyone know what the issue is and can someone suggest steps to fix them? I'm not very technical so a vague answer isn't really going to help a lot :)
The error message is maybe 20 pages long so I'll just copy the start of it in below.
What is the correct procedure for creating a new, cropped image that highlights one individual seen in a larger file? I am hoping to extract a zoomed-in picture of the architect Gaetano Pesce from either this or this source photograph for use in en:Gaetano Pesce article (and likely elsewhere). -- Cl3phact0 (talk) 10:40, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
That is exactly what I was looking for, thank you. I had no idea it was such a simple matter. I've now made tightly cropped versions of both of the above examples (here and here, if anyone is interested in the subject). Cheers, Cl3phact0 (talk) 16:25, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Why am i being told that this page is to be deleted when i just made it and saying conflict of interest, what specifically is the matter? is it the name or the content and how can i the changed? Apostle John Enumah (talk) 16:16, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, I can tell you. Your user page was made to look like a Wikipedia article. You can't sneak an article about yourself, written by yourself, into Wikipedia by calling it a user page. - Jmabel ! talk20:44, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I’m not too familiar with these words you’re using, trying to understand.
You can't write objectively about your pastor, since it is a matter that is close to you. There are also notability requirements that your pastor would have to meet to have an article about them. Abzeronow (talk) 22:39, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Apostle John Enumah: assuming the non-logged-in remarks are also from you: if you want to argue the case, you'll have to do that on the relevant website, the English-language Wikipedia, not here on Commons. You initially were asked simply why you were being told this; I hoped to spare you referral to a different site than where you asked by answering that question where you asked this. But this is like if you went to the electric company to ask why your gas bill was high, and they told you what they figured was the answer, and you started trying to argue the gas bill with them. We can't help you change your gas bill. - Jmabel ! talk23:37, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Apostle John Enumah and/or Anon IP: You need to address the issues on your talk page on English Wikipedia. User pages are not for encyclopedia biographies, which have specific requirements nevertheless. They are for people who edit the projects and upload media and relate to how that is done. I'm a pastor myself, but my user page tells a little bit about me personally but is mainly to provide information about my work on these projects. Bastique☎ let's talk!16:06, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Fonmonica: This is a nearly new account; that's an unusual thing for a new user to be doing. What is the gallery you were trying to create?
Filter 257 is intended to prevent certain recurring attempts by certain long-term abusers of Commons to create certain types of pages. If your intentions were good, this could well be a false positive. It looks like this filter is maintained by Elcobbola, who may be able to tell you more. - Jmabel ! talk23:47, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Добрий день. Яким чином можна завантажити фото померлого військового? Я зробив статтю для нього - це вчитель моєї школи, зараз я в ній працюю (uk:Левковський_Максим_Васильович). Фото надала його матір і дає дозвіл на використання, фото зробила його військова частина. Письмовий дозвіл від матері можу отримати. Просто не дуже розумію, чи потрібно завантажувати під вільною ліцензією в Commons чи через добропорядне використання на Українську Вікіпедію. Nikita.opanasiuk (talk) 13:27, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Uploading a photo of a deceased soldier
Good afternoon. How can I upload a photo of a deceased soldier? I made an article for him - he is a teacher at my school, where I currently work (uk:Levkovsky_Maksim_Vasilyovych). The photo was provided by his mother and she gives permission to use it, the photo was taken by his military unit. I can get written permission from my mother. I just don't really understand whether I need to upload it under a free license to Commons or through fair use to the Ukrainian Wikipedia.
@Nikita.opanasiuk: Привіт і ласкаво просимо. Нам потрібен дозвіл українських військових (якщо фото не було вперше опубліковано до 1 січня 1951 року, «і» автор (якщо відомо) помер до цієї дати) через VRT/uk за COM:Ukraine. Якщо ви не можете отримати відповідну ліцензію, зображення все одно може бути завантажено до англійської чи української Вікіпедії відповідно до en:WP:F або uk:ВП:ДК, оскільки ми не допускаємо добросовісного використання тут.
Hi, and welcome. We need permission from the Ukrainian military (unless the photo was first published before January 1, 1951, and the creator (if known) died before that date) via VRT per COM:Ukraine. If you can't get a compliant license, the image may still be uploaded to English or Ukrainian Wikipedia in compliance with en:WP:F or uk:ВП:ДК because we don't allow Fair Use here. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 14:28, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, I would like to use an image from a website to illustrate a Wikipedia article, but I'm not sure if I can. On the website it is written :
"The reproduction of all or part of this website on an electronic medium is allowed, provided that the source [website url] and the mention 'All rights reserved' are clearly and visibly included. The information used must be for personal, associative, or professional purposes only; any use for commercial or advertising purposes is excluded"
So I think usage in this context would be allowed, but I'm not sure. Is there a specific license category for Wikipedia that corresponds to this kind of authorization/restriction? PheonixU+221E (talk) 15:53, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Swimear: be aware: somewhere upward of 95% of what is on the Internet is copyrighted, not free-licensed, and therefore not eligible for Wikimedia Commons even if it is otherwise within scope.Jmabel ! talk18:20, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
In short: What is the best method to request speedy deletion of thousands of copyvios uploaded by a bot?
Context: This deletion request requests deletion of all files in a category of 107 copyvios (107 non-free photos by professional photographer Daniel Cande) uploaded to Commons by a bot Gzen92Bot. The photos are obviously not free at the source. (And that was also already known from previous discussions). Looking at more uploads by that bot, it can be seen that it systematically inserts false claims of CC0 on almost everything it uploads. Sometimes, it falsely tags CC0 files that are public domain by expiration of copyright, which is already bad behaviour but at least it's not too damaging. Often, it falsely tags CC0 files that are not free, which is much worse and potentially much more damaging.
Size of the problem: Searching only for photos by the same professional photographer Daniel Cande, it can be found that the bot created hundreds of categories and uploaded probably tens of thousands of non-free photos by that photographer. It can be expected that looking at more uploads of that bot thousands more copyvios of non-free works by other authors might be found.
Suggestions?: What could be the best practical method to speedy delete those thousands of bot copyvios? Placing copyvio tags on tens of thousands of files, flooding the speedy deletion maintenance category, may not be the most practical method. Another method could be starting a series of hundreds of mass deletion requests, for example each listing the files in one category. But considering the size of the problem, even formatting one or two such mass deletion requests every day, that could take practically a whole year to go through all of it. Also, deletion requests can sometimes wait several months before an administrator closes them, which is not practical for copyvios that should be speedy deleted. Another idea could be to simply notify the problem on the Administrators' noticeboard and let them deal with it as they want. Any other suggestions?
@Asclepias: Given that they are in a category, it is easy for admins to do a mass delete with VFC, especially easy if there is nothing else in the category. Sounds, though, like the more immediate problem is to stop the bot in question from digging an even deeper hole. - Jmabel ! talk06:20, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
History of licensing should be checked. Gallica released some files in the public domain, and later changed the license. Once released in the public domain, they will stay this way. Yann (talk) 18:13, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
From discussions in 2012 and 2013, it seems likely that the photos by Daniel Cande were indeed noted "domaine public" on Gallica at that time. They were probably noted like that until circa the mid-2010s. However, it does not matter that Gallica had ever placed or not public domain notices on those photos on which it never had the right to do so. The matter was examined in this DR in 2017 (if one goes to the essential and skips the secondary discussions that take most of the page). So, it's not necessary to search the internet archives in cases like that. Searching Commons, there are hundreds of categories with photos by the same photographer uploaded by the same bot recently. -- Asclepias (talk) 21:57, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
When we have proof (license review or Internet Archive) that the files were released to the public domain, I don't see any reason to delete them. Yann (talk) 09:03, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Although that is not necessary for a large number of uploads by that bot. Through previous discussions, Commons has developed a reasonable knowledge and consensus about the actual copyright status of many Gallica fonds. It is established that Gallica or BNF cannot release in the public domain works on which it never had any rights (other than a limited permission to simply display those works on its website). That is the case, for example, for the photos by Daniel Cande, that the bot has uploaded to Commons by the thousands and grouped into some 350 categories. It's the same thing with photos by Joël Verhoustraeten, grouped into some 100 categories. It does not matter if Gallica had ever placed or not a public domain notice on works on which it never had the right to do so. Therefore, there is no reason to delay the speedy deletion of such known copyvios, which should be deleted ASAP. By contrast, works that Commons has established might have been validly released to the public domain by Gallica at some point in the past are, for example, photos by Roger Pic, because that photographer ceded his rights to BNF. The bot grouped them in some 350 categories. I would rather keep the photos by Roger Pic, but the difficulty for them might be to prove if they had public domain notices, now some ten years after the removal of those notices from Gallica. It can be noted that apparently the bot started to mass upload Gallica files to Commons after Gallica had already removed most such public domain notices from its pages. They were not CC0 anyway. The bot operator said that there are still inconsistencies between the present non-free notices and some technical parameter, but he should check the notices and should get familiar with past discussions on this subject and with the public domain tags of Commons and understand what CC0 is before launching the bot on mass uploads. -- Asclepias (talk) 21:05, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, the API https://api.bnf.fr/api-gallica-de-recherche used parameter "access", "fayes" = public domain. But yes, sometimes it's not the case. I have already modified the code to use the field "dc.rights" ("restricted use (convention BnF-ADM-xxxx-xxxxxx-xx)") in API returns. I will list all these cases quickly. Gzen92 (talk) 07:28, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Asclepias: The BNF did acquire the copyright of several photographers, including Daniel Cande. That is specifically mentioned in the DR you linked above with a reference. Yann (talk) 09:06, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
What corrective actions can I take to correct all other files? The date of the work is not sufficient and often the author is not indicated. Gzen92 (talk) 15:56, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hadley Airfield was not in New Brunswick. I grew up on TEXAS AVE in South Plainfield. Hadley was my next door neighbor which put Hadley in South Plainfield, New Jersey, Hamilton Blvd. There was a big field between us, but nothing was on it but dead grass. My father was a pilot. He didn't fly Hadley's planes, but he did fly bi-planes. I have a picture somewhere of him stepping up onto the wing. His goggles and helmit, I think my brother has possession of them. I was soooooo sad to see a hotel there and Hadley gone, torn down. A lot of history was made in So. Plainfield by Hadley. That area sure has changed. My Grandparents live across the street on Texas Ave, originally UNION AVE. My Great-grandmother was the original owner of that property. She got it for $5.00 down and $1.00 a month, with only a daughter, who became my Grandma, when she married Frank DeFellipo. To fly commercial, Dad moved us to New Hampshire shortly after Grandpa died. I made trips to Grandma house When I grew up. We have to accept change and some times it is sad. Such is life. 24.91.21.6507:22, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I want to upload a modified version of File:Schaumankyltti.jpg as a separate file but am unsure how to go about it. I think the original version of the file has too much empty space around the plaque and the plaque itself is too dark in the image. I have made a modified version, but how do I upload it as a separate file as I don't want to replace the original file? I also don't want to choose "It's entirely my own work" on the Upload form as this is obviously not entirely my own work. I haven't even been inside the Government Palace myself. JIP (talk) 14:37, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I uploaded a new file File:Schaumankyltti (edited).jpg, originally using "It's entirely my own work", then replaced the entire contents of the page (not the file) with that from the original file, and then used the templates "Extracted from" and "Image extracted" on the two files. JIP (talk) 17:12, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@JIP: Thanks, that looks a lot better, but it reminds me that flash photography and shiny flat surfaces shot and illuminated head-on do not mix well due to reflection of the flash; oblique lighting is better in such circumstances. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 17:25, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hallo,
ich bin erstaunt, dass mein Account gesperrt ist.
ich habe einzig die Seite des Sportlers "Uwe Weber" der ein langjähriger Feeund ist, bearbeitet und ergänzt.
Die in der Sperre angegebenen Aktivitäten sind nicht von mir vorgenommen worden.
Meine IP-Adresse ist auch eine ganz andere als die in der Sperre angegebene.
Sofern Sie wünschen, kann ich Ihnen gern meine IP-Adresse übermitteln.
Ich bitte Sie, den Sachverhalt zu prüfen.
Sollten Sie noch weitere Unterlagen benötigen, um den Sachverhalt richtigzustellen, kontaktieren Sie mich gern auch über meine Mailadresse [Email address suppressed]
Ihrer Nachricht entgegensehend verbleibe ich mit
freundlichem Gruß
Heribert Magg ToschTwin (talk) 21:23, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@ToschTwin: you are certainly not blocked on this site (Wikimedia Commons) or you could not have posted this. Perhaps on one of our (several hundred) sister projects under the WMF umbrella? - Jmabel ! talk00:04, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
.... warum kann ich mich dann nicht anmelden!
Angeblich sei meine IP Adresse gesperrt.
Die angezeigte IP entspricht nicht meiner IP!
Was kann ich tun, bzw. wie komme ich wieder an meinen Account?
@ToschTwin: Hallo und willkommen. Welcher Benutzername kann sich nicht anmelden? Es tut mir leid, Ihnen mitteilen zu müssen, dass Sie Special:AbuseFilter/153 ausgelöst haben, als Sie als neuer Benutzer versucht haben, ein kleineres (<50.000 Bytes oder <2.000.000 Pixel) JPG-Bild wikiübergreifend hochzuladen. Das Bild, das Sie hochladen wollten, ist kleiner und Sie haben angegeben, dass es Ihr eigenes Werk ist. Normalerweise ist es eine Urheberrechtsverletzung, wenn jemand ein kleineres Bild hochlädt, das aus dem Internet stammt. Wenn Sie das Bild selbst erstellt haben, laden Sie bitte das Original in voller Größe gemäß [[COM:HR/de] hoch, einschließlich EXIF-Metadaten. Wenn Sie das Bild nicht erstellt haben, lesen Sie bitte Commons:Licensing/de, um zu erfahren, warum wir es nicht akzeptieren können, und lassen Sie den Bildfotografen/-designer es auf seiner offiziellen Website oder in sozialen Medien lizenzieren oder senden Sie das Bild und die Genehmigung per VRT/de mit einer Durchschrift an Sie. Wenn Sie keine konforme Lizenz erhalten, kann das Bild dennoch in Übereinstimmung mit en:WP:F in die englische Wikipedia hochgeladen werden, da wir hier kein Fair Use zulassen. Wenn Sie stattdessen unseren Upload-Assistenten verwenden, sollten Sie diesen Filter umgehen können.
Hi, and welcome. What username cannot login? I am sorry to inform you that you have triggered Special:AbuseFilter/153 by trying to cross-wiki upload a smaller (<50,000 bytes or <2,000,000 pixels) jpg image as a new user. The image you tried to upload is smaller, and you indicated it's your own work. Usually when someone uploads a smaller image, it is a copyright violation taken from the web. If you made the image yourself, please upload the full-size original of it per COM:HR, including EXIF metadata. If you did not make the image, please see Commons:Licensing for why we can't accept it, and have the image photographer / designer license it on their official website or social media, or send the image and permission via VRT with a carbon copy to you. If you can't get a compliant license, the image may still be uploaded to English Wikipedia in compliance with en:WP:F because we don't allow Fair Use here. If you use our Upload Wizard instead, you should be able to avoid that filter. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 03:30, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hallo, guten Tag, ich hätte als ehemaliger Bauleiter für die elektrische Ausrüstung noch ein paar Fotos, die Sie noch nicht haben. Wie kann ich diese hochladen?
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Wolfgang Vitense Wolfgang Vitense (talk) 13:14, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I have prepared a test set of 5 images for a collection holding NGO with OpenRefine (Permalink), merging their data entry policies with Wikimedia Commons best practices (mainly from here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OpenRefine/Uploading_files_with_OpenRefine). In a first technical test a couple of weeks ago, the same files have been successfully uploaded with my user account despite not being modeled remotely up to code. I think this time around, I have triggered some kind of abuse filter, but I cannot find any log or hint as to what the issue might have been.
Since we use the Wikimedia Commons upload as part of our Wikibase Cloud instance, I really need to resolve this issue. Any tips on where I can find hints about the problem with Wikimedia Commons? Or any suggestions what I might have done wrong in OpenRefine? Esxx24 (talk) 22:44, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Esxx24: The only things in the public filters log of your account are two rather inconsequential notes, that have nothing to do with uploads and not disallowing anything. By comparison, the other user, in the 2023 discussion to which you refer, had repeatedly triggered three filters actually disallowing uploads for several reasons [4]. At least, that means the problem may not be the same. You can ask your question also at Commons:Village pump/Technical for maybe better chances of receiving a technical answer there. -- Asclepias (talk) 03:29, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@MennNath: File:Men Nath.jpg appears at https://cwcicambodia.net/2017/08/09/men-nath-biography/, published in 2017, but was uploaded to Commons in 2021. Because it had been previously published, and the license is not indicated at the site of prior publication, any upload should have gone through the process described at COM:VRT. If you legitimately own the copyright to this photo, you can do that now to get it undeleted. However, you appear to be the subject of the photo, so unless it is a selfie, copyright would normally remain with the photographer, unless it was explicitly transferred. If someone else took the photo and didn't transfer the copyright, it is their permission we would need rather than yours, and they, not you, should be credited as author.
Dear Sir/Madam,
Kindly give me the copyright to use the following figure in my future textbook. From: https://en.wikipedia.org The diagram is shown in the following: file:///C:/Users/akendoush/Downloads/Sch%C3%A9maDechetsNucleaires_en.svg
Kendoush (talk) 12:30, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
How to send an email to one of your authors, Kuebi?
Would you please forward the following message to Kuebi/
My name is Kyeyoung Park and I am a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
I am writing to request permission to use the image titled ""Bamboo Rhizome 02" which is currently available on
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bamboo_Rhizome_02.jpg
I would like to use this image (originally published or with changes as noted) in the following work to be published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, an academic press based in Maryland.
Kyeyoung Park (Ed.), Korean Immigrants in Latin America: Home Away from Home
This book is scheduled to be published in 2025 with a list price of approximately $90-120 in an approximate press run of 1,000. I am requesting nonexclusive world rights in all languages in paper, hardcover, and eBook formats, for the lifetime of the edition.
Unless you indicate otherwise, the following credit line will appear in the book:
Kuebi is only moderately active on Commons, so they probably won't see this here. However, they have email enabled for their account. If you also have email enabled for your account, you can go to User:Kuebi and click on "Email this user" to send them an email. - Jmabel ! talk20:44, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'm helping to build the set for an amateur showing of w:en:Little Shop of Horrors (musical), set in about 1960 in poor areas in an unnamed US city, centering around a flower shop. How can I use the search function to effectively find the right categories to ensure an accurate and interesting set design? I'm willing to learn how to use w:en:Wikipedia:PetScan to quickly navigate subcategories of images.
RUEGO ELIMINEN EL ESCUDO QUE HAN PUESTO EN WIKIPEDIA REFERIDO A TORREGAMONES, NO ES EL ESCUDO ORIGINARIO CREADO EN 2010. YA EXISTE UN ESCUDO APROBADO Y PUBLICADO OFICIALMENTE. GRACIAS ANBALICARION (talk) 21:46, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Paraphrase: user is complaining that the coat of arms (escudo) in es:Torregamones is "not the original created in 2010".
Presumably it is an issue take up in es-wiki: Commons does not usually try to make determinations as to what version of a coat of arms is preferred, and certainly cannot tell es-wiki to change it. - Jmabel ! talk07:22, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
1. As explained by Usuario:Marcelo on your talk page at es.wikipedia, any image of an escudo is correct as long as it is conform to the text of the blazon.
2. The decision to use an image on es.wikipedia is a decision by the users at es.wikipedia. You can discuss that matter with other users on the talk page of the article at es:Discusión:Torregamones.
3. On Commons, you placed the .png copy of your image under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, but you released the .webm copy of the same image to the public domain with a CC0 dedication. And the .jpg of the same image at ayuntamiento.es is all rights reserved under the legal terms of that website. That all seems somewhat contradictory.
4. It is quite possible that you are D.A.B.L. as you apparently claim to be. If so, still, to help keep the files on Commons, it might be useful that you provide evidence (see Commons:VRT/es) that you are that person, and that you personally drew that particular digital drawing (the particular image of the .jpg, .png and .webm), and clarify who owns (or owned) the copyright on that particular drawing and what is its actual copyright status.
Sorry I mean like when you go on an article and you scroll down and theres the boxes you can click on to see more information like for example on this article you can click on "history" or "openness" or "policies and content" Красный Октябрь (talk) 12:33, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Красный Октябрь: glad I asked. So this is a question about the English-language Wikipedia, and would best be asked there (possibly en:Wikipedia:Teahouse).
You can always add a subsection by directly editing the Wikitext instead of using the WYSIWYG editor. If you do that on this page you are looking at, you will easily see the markup for subsections, which is the same in all WMF wikis (and all other mediawiki wikis). - Jmabel ! talk19:37, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi! I have been searching for an image (to put on Wikipedia), searching both Wikimedia Commons and Flickr. I have not yet found what I am looking for and I’ve used multiple search terms searched to the end of results, so I presume it is not on these sites. I am wondering if there are other free image sites I could browse besides Flickr that I could submit one of its images to Wikimedia Commons or Wikipedia if I find it there (with similar copyright tags that are compatible with use on Wikipedia/Wikipedia Commons).
So after the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, a prison has been raided by the Syrian people and that prison is Sednaya Prison which is notorious for torturing prisoners.
And there was a video recorded by one of the guards that was found on one of the mobile phones left around, the video captured one of the guards slapping and belittling a prisoner and saying to him in Arabic "You want freedom eh?" multiple times. I feel like that video might be historically significant, would it be acceptable to upload here? GnikehtCommons (talk) 13:46, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It is not sufficient that a file be important. For upload to Commons it must be released under a free license. Please see COM:L for additional information. GMGtalk16:05, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You put a wrong information with the picture of Biden's family wedding picture. It should be Ashley Biden in the picture not Naomi Biden . Naomi Biden already passed away when she is 1 yr old 148.8.132.1516:21, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I have been having a problem recently. When I try to upload an image that I have taken myself, to an article, it doesn't seem to fully upload. It just takes me back to the add media page. Then I try again and it says that the file already exists and I cannot use it. It's in Wikimedia commons when I search it but I am still not allowed to use it. Could you tell me why this is happening and how I figure out my issue?
@AndrewDeAngelo: do I understand that you are using a cross-wiki uploader from the English-language Wikipedia (or possibly another Wikipedia)?
"I am … not allowed to use it" is unclear. Are you somehow being prevented from editing the Wikitext and adding it that way?
In any case, if the image is making it successfully to Commons, it sounds like this is mostly a question for the English-language Wikipedia (or wherever else you are having this problem). - Jmabel ! talk20:07, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi @Jmabel no, I went in to edit an article on English wiki and add a picture and when I tried to upload it there, it just kept reverting back to there being no image successfully uploaded. " am not allowed to use it": I then went to the Commons and the picture appeared there but I could still not utilize it in the article that I wanted to. It is a picture I took on my own phone and was not copied or taken from anywhere. AndrewDeAngelo (talk) 15:54, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@AndrewDeAngelo: Once an image is uploaded to Commons, a second copy of it must not be uploaded to Wikipedia. So it's a good thing if Wikipedia did not allow the upload of a duplicate. An image is not to be uploaded to an article, instead it can be displayed in an article. You can review the help pages on Wikipedia about displaying thumbnails, remembering that galleries and infobox pictures can have a different syntax. -- Asclepias (talk) 18:07, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, as the title says, am I allowed to upload and use an image from a university work ?
As the work is published freely on the net I'm not really sure if it's allowed or not.
@Martinlievre: neither "a university work" nor "published freely on the net" give any clue to the answer.
Commons accepts only material that is either in the public domain or free-licensed. Be aware that this is less that 5% of what you will find on the Internet. If you don't know how to determine whether a particular image qualifies, please provide a URL and whatever else would be needed (figure number, etc.) for someone to find the image in question and try to give you an answer. That will work much better than any effort to describe the image. - Jmabel ! talk20:11, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I am wondering if someone could help me with translating an image from the French version of Wikipedia:Verdun Auditorium this is located in the “histoire” section of the French site and it’s the first one displayed.
If Someone could provide me some guidance, that would be amazing!
@Gojetsgo55: I'm not sure what you mean by "translating an image." I don't see anything there with text as part of the image. If that was just a false cognate from another language (e.g. Spanish trasladar, "to move"), and you just mean you want to use File:Construction de l Auditorium de Verdun.jpg in the English-language Wikipedia, that image is already here on Commons, and you can use in en-wiki it exactly as you would use any other image on Commons. - Jmabel ! talk03:49, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I am new to Wikipedia, so I have many doubts. In this case, I want to create a new page, and I would like to illustrate it with an old photograph, which no longer has any copyright protection. How can I proceed to place it, and why the platform does not allow me to upload it? Clodomiro Picado (talk) 07:34, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Clodomiro Picado: you triggered an automated filter that stops new users from uploading small resolution images using cross-wiki upload. That said, are you certain that the image is no longer copyrighted? Based on Special:AbuseLog/11117078 this is an image from 1957. That may or may not be copyrighted, depending on country. Also, you have claimed that this image is your own personal work (ie. you held the camera), that it is actually taken in 2024 and the description reads just "h". You can't claim that for on old picture. MKFI (talk) 08:02, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I want to add some photos of Gayatri Devi in their Wikipedia article because currently this article don’t have any pics of her. Photos are available on Charan Singh Archives see this. I have mailed the archives and i have talked to the chairman that i require photos for her wikipedia article and they mailed me that i can use these photos for Wikipedia and they send me 5 to 6 photos of her in full resolution through G drive. TheSlumPanda (talk) 19:11, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
If Belbury can find justification to delete two of those photos, you can find an excuse for the rest of them. The less of me on this website, the happier I'll be. I'm going to throw a cannister of salt over my shoulder and onto my computer when I'm done with this place. CorpPorPearl (talk) 02:27, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@CorpPorPearl: I assume this is about File:Dylan Thomas Photo at The White Horse Tavern.jpg and File:Andy Rourke Wheatsheaf Mural.jpg. Clearly the latter is a photograph of someone else's copyrighted work; I'm guessing the former is, too, though I'm less certain of the status of the underlying photo. Granger claims to own the copyright, though, and we would need to disprove that for the photo to be acceptable here.
Several of your other uploads look like similar copyright violations (derivative of other people's copyrighted work) so it should be easy enough to get those deleted. I can't do much, though, about the ones where you already legitimately granted an irrevocable license. - Jmabel ! talk05:24, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@ExclusiveEditor: The first upload was to nl.wikipedia. You could try to ask administrators there to look at the page history to know who attributed to this file a OTRS template on nl.wikipedia before it was transferred to Commons. However, the other version of the image, apparently first uploaded to en.wikipedia under the filename Schlechter.png, is tagged as public domain with PD-old, possibly incorrectly since the author is not identified nor the place and year of first publication. If the image is from circa 1910, it does not meet the condition of PD-old-assumed. Given that it is sourced from a website by a person with a name similar to the name under "author" in File:Schlecht.jpg, it is possible to hypothesize that the OTRS communication came from that person, who might have meant to say that he agreed to the use of the image. It might be copyfraud, maybe involuntarily. You can ask at Commons:VRT/Noticeboard about ticket 2007040710018191 to know what it might have said. You could try to research the origin of the image or its early publications. -- Asclepias (talk) 19:20, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Per {{Tasnim}}, "all images without explicitly watermarked attribution to agency photographers are presumed to be outside this [CC-BY-SA-4.0] license." I see no such explicitly watermarked attribution to agency photographers on those photos, so no, you may not upload them here. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 23:51, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Can I upload the logo of the Irish Communist Party?
I mean, if they are communists, surely the flag belongs to everyone.... However, here on Commons the burden of proof is on the uploader to insure that an image is not subject to copyright. This page seems to indicate that most of the images on the site are fair use, Commons requires that they be freely licensed, so probably not. Just Step Sideways (talk) 21:56, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This existsI checked the website of the party itself, and ironically these communists have copyrighted the entire site. We do already have at least two user-created images of the current flag though. Just Step Sideways (talk) 22:01, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think there is any particular Communist antipathy to intellectual property rights, except insofar as they constitute the "means of production," which a logo does not. - Jmabel ! talk01:05, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi there, there is a B-class Wikipedia article that I'm doing on a particular South African subject and I will need to have about 7 pictures in the whole article, depicting the issues I'm writing about, including newspapers copies, cartoons, etc.
I have not been able to upload pictures that were not taken by me. Can someone please help me, I can send the list like links of the stuff that I wish up on my article. Anybody? ZS Khumalo (talk) 15:00, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks a lot, that will be so helpful. I appreciate. For example the pic contained in these article in the links below. I need to search for more other pics as I write the draft:
I see absolutely no reason to think that any of the images linked above are either in the public domain or free-licensed. @ZS Khumalo: do you have some reason to think any of these would be OK, or is this just shooting in the dark? - Jmabel ! talk04:43, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello. I am interested in making a donation (I've been seeing the pop-ups on Wikipedia, asking for contributions), but want it to be matched if possible. Is that something Wikimedia will sometimes do? Sirenxp (talk) 15:43, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Can I publish and upload a personal photo of myself on Wikimedia? Without problems or not? How do I do that? Also, does it have to be under an open license or can I publish my personal photo under a copyright license? Abdullah Alzowiny (talk) 17:42, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Abdullah Alzowiny: Hi, We require people to be really active before uploading pictures of themselves. "copyright license" doesn't mean anything. We require all content to be under a free license or in the public domain. Please read COM:L. Thanks, Yann (talk) 17:53, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Karmakolle: It should be ok. Maybe you had moved the page to the Commons namespace inadvertently instead of to the main namespace. The difference between the move and the creation of the new page is that the history list of contributions to your draft has been removed when you deleted the Commons page. Depends if you wanted to keep that or not, but probably not, I suppose. The redirection page "User:Karmakolle/Michael Sweerts catalogue raisonné, 1996 Kultzen" is probably not useful either, you could delete it also. -- Asclepias (talk) 19:59, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hola, subí imágenes en Commons que son con derechos reservados y necesito eliminarlas. ¿Cómo elimino las imágenes? Gracias.
Hi, I uploaded some images on Commons that are copyrighted and I need to remove them. How do I remove the images? Thanks.
I uploaded three images to the Wikipedia Commons page that are copyrighted and I need to remove them.
@Joaquintelchi: Hola, y bienvenido. Los derechos de autor de otros que no dieron su consentimiento sería el problema. Consulte COM:NETC/es y COM:DP/es.
من یک آهنگساز خواننده و تنظیم کننده بین المللی موسیقی هستم و سالیان سال هست که تلاش برای داشتم ویکیپدیا کردم ولی هنوز موفق نشدم ، آیا اجازه برای ساخت دارم ؟ ایا ممکنه من هم صفحه خودم رو با کلس مطلب بسازم ؟لطفا من رو راهنمایی بفرمایید Amiryarmusic (talk) 22:16, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Amiryarmusic: There are almost no circumstances where it is acceptable to write about yourself in any of the Wikipedias. If you want something more specific about a particular Wikipedia, you would have to ask on that Wikipedia, not here on Wikimedia Commons, which is a media repository and has no articles at all. - Jmabel ! talk04:59, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Zarefal: this is your first-ever edit (deleted or otherwise) on this site (Wikimedia Commons}}. You have no edits (deleted or otherwise) on the English-language Wikipedia. What site is your question about? I would suggest asking it on that site. - Jmabel ! talk05:02, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Zarefal: you triggered an automated filter that stops new users from uploading small resolution images. Just to be certain, this image is completely you own work as you have claimed? You created the artwork entirely yourself or held the camera and took the photo? MKFI (talk) 09:37, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
minta tolong bahwasanya audio ini ditujukan kepada publik untuk edukasi yang membangun pengetahuan,bukan untuk politik dan kepentingan orang lainnya dan juga file ini tidak melanggar hak cipta Widy Nur Rosid (talk) 09:22, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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