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Adult Content

Hi, there is adult content on the commons website. With the UK Safety Act in force now, shouldn’t this require age verification technology to access? 77.103.169.213 07:58, 22 August 2025 (UTC)

See for example [1]. My understanding is that the classification hasn't actually happened yet. If it does, WMF is likely to challenge it in court, and if that fails, UK may be restricted from WP to some extent. Time will tell, the classification may not happen. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 08:55, 22 August 2025 (UTC)

Some discussion on this at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(WMF)#WMF_loses_legal_challenge_to_UK_Online_Safety_Act_(OSA)_at_High_Court Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 09:10, 22 August 2025 (UTC)

Come to think of it, perhaps Commons doesn't have enough visitors to fall under the same legislation? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 09:13, 22 August 2025 (UTC)

Unhappily , there are not only the British legislation that bring to us this kind of questions.

I think for example to French legislation. As a Wikimedian and a French citizen , I think also to French legislation.

I think to others countries as well such Australia as a Wikimedian.

Never forget that legislations in the world can change. In the next years and decades , I think that legislations will certainly be more draconian. What to do for Commons and others projects containing these images ? Anatole-berthe (talk) 09:02, 26 August 2025 (UTC)

As a British Wikimedian myself, if anything, i wouldn't really bother with the Online Safety Act. It probably won't ever reach Wikimedia, as they'd probably fight back against the act. Itsamesnaz (talk) 19:00, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Itsamesnaz , why do you think that Wikimedia will win the case ? Anatole-berthe (talk) 23:13, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Anatole-berthe coming back on my new account [i speak in lowercase now] idk why i even said that and yes, i am against the act. Thatoneraynerd (talk) 13:46, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

OK Anatole-berthe (talk) 22:52, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

Photo added to Commons deleted by bot

Hello, I am fairly new at modifying Wikipedia pages, and my first attempt at adding a photo (by adding it to Commons) resulted in the photo being automatically deleted. I believe I did not give appropriate answers on the form that was presented to me when adding the photo to Commons. The Wikipedia page in question is for Michael S. Glaser: Michael was a friend and neighbor of mine, and he died this past January. The photo I uploaded was titled Michael S. Glaser cropped.jpg. This was a cropped version of the photo on Michael's personal website: https://michaelsglaser.com/ There is no copyright of any kind on that website, and regardless of that, I have permission from Michael's surviving family (who now manage that website along with the rest of Michael's estate) to include a version of the photo from that page in his Wikipedia page. So what do I need to do to properly get that photo back into Commons and included in Michael's Wikipedia page? Specific instructions on how to fill out the permissions form would be appreciated. Thanks, Tom Caulkins

p.s. Will I be notified in some way when there is a reply to my question, or do i need to keep checking back here? Neptune919 (talk) 11:08, 29 August 2025 (UTC)

@Neptune919: You didn't provide a license, and the author is wrong. This is not a selfie, so not taken by Michael Glaser. Who is the photographer? Yann (talk) 17:08, 29 August 2025 (UTC)

I have asked Michael’s family as to who the photographer was, and also suggested they could alternatively provide a different photo with a known photographer. In either case I presume a written release from copyright is required from the photographer. Is there a form or template for that release? Can you point me to that along with instructions on how that release is to be transmitted to the Commons and where and when in the process of uploading the photo that occurs? Thanks for your help! Neptune919 (talk) 09:18, 30 August 2025 (UTC)

@Neptune919: COM:VRT includes forms and a form generator; I also recommend at least a quick pass through Commons:Uploading works by a third party for the broader context here. - Jmabel ! talk 16:12, 30 August 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. I’ve identified the photographer and read through the material and looked at the email generator. Two further questions: the file I uploaded is a cropped version of the photo as it was on Michael’s website. Does this have implications for the photographer’s release? Also, I read (I believe in the email generator) that for a photo from a website the person granting the release must have a relationship with the website (https://michaelsglaser.com/). The photographer is the soon-to-be husband of Michael Glaser’s daughter. Is that sufficient? Thanks. Neptune919 (talk) 18:25, 30 August 2025 (UTC)

@Neptune919: I can't say what is and isn't sufficient for VRT; I'm not on the team. If they have doubts, they'll reply by email, and expect a reply in return. I believe that if you are cc'd on the original email, they will keep you in the loop, but I don't even know that for certain. It's a deliberately somewhat opaque process to preserve confidentiality for correspondents. - Jmabel ! talk 18:05, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

There is no copyright of any kind on that website: simply not true. For virtually any U.S. content created since March 1, 1989, anything copyrightable is copyrighted by default. The only exception I can think of is that the federal government and a few of the state and local governments have laws placing all work done by their employees (though usually not contractors) as part of their job into the public domain. Other than that, if a site says nothing about copyright, that means all rights are reserved. - 18:45, 29 August 2025 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jmabel (talk • contribs)

use of images on commercial app, compliance

Hi, I am planning to use images from Wikicommons in an app I'm creating, it should be available to purchase on app stores next year. There is an app plus an accompanying website, both sharing the same name. On the website, the photographer, image source and licence information are provided underneath all images I'm using, for example: photo © WikiCommonsUser "Photo" is the link to the source and the copyright sign is the link to the license page.

For info, the images I'm using have not been changed by me, only resized to fit a 16:9 ratio I'm using for the images, which I've stated on the website.

In the app, the same images are used but the links above are not, mainly for styling reasons but also because I'd rather not have users leaving the app to open the links. In the app, under a legal section, I state: "The car images were obtained from Wikimedia Commons. The photographer, source and license information can be found on our website: www.my_page.com"

The main screen of the app contains the web address so that users can check the license information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BerlinWilmer (talk • contribs) 09:01, 30 August 2025 (UTC)

So my question is, are the steps I've taken to be compliant acceptable?

Please let me know if there is any further you might need to help me.

Thanks in advance,

BerilWilmer BerlinWilmer (talk) 08:55, 30 August 2025 (UTC)

The intent is good, but the website, as described, will lack the license name which is mostly mandatory. Insert it after the licensor's name: photo © WikiCommonsUser CC-by-XY and make the CC thing the license link (assuming that you're using Creative-Commons-licensed stuff).

About the app: that's also not the best design. The intent of being license compliant is evident, but not the actual realisation IANAL. I see another option: start with watermarking the images with "licensor + license name" in a small but still legible font, that will fulfill the part of referencing the author. Then, do the same thing as already existing apps! If you check the licensing information on any Android smartphone (or in the handbook of a set-top box, a TV stick, a car...), you'll see that it is stated that the device makes use of software under the LGPL, MIT license, Apache licenses, GPL - there are always several known copyleft licenses named. This is due to them incorporating software libraries like the en:FFMPEG and others.

In your app, you could make a window with licensing information, where you state: "Imagery in this app is used under Creative Commons licenses and was sourced from Wikimedia Commons. The conditions of LICENSE A can be found at LINK A, of LICENSE B at LINK B (etc.)" Each "LICENSE #" is the name of one actually used Creative Commons offering: CC-By-SA 3.0, CC-By 4.0, etc. You get the gist? That way, you have all the parts needed for a valid CC-By-XY license in your app. The images themselves carry the licensor and the actual license name, the deeds and the explanation are grouped together on a customary information window. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 09:20, 30 August 2025 (UTC)

Thank you, that's really helpful. Will come back to you with follow up questions, no doubt.

Ragards 2001:9E8:1448:3900:D6A2:DE6C:F3AF:2DC4 10:07, 30 August 2025 (UTC)

Hello again, a quick follow up.

I have updated the website and app. On the website, under each image, I have this text:

photo © Wiki_User / CC BY 2.0

"photo" links to the wikimedia commons source and "CC BY 2.0" links to the license page.

In the app, I am adding legible watermarks to each image (not clickable):

© Wiki_User / CC BY 2.0

And this is in the legal section of the app:

Imagery in this app is used under Creative Commons licenses and sourced from Wikimedia Commons.

Some images have been adjusted to fit a 16:9 ratio

The photographer and license type is shown on each image. The link to the source and licenses are available on our website:

www.my_site.com

The licenses and their conditions:

CC BY 2.0 [link]

CC BY 2.0 DE [link]

CC BY 2.5 [link]

CC BY 3.0 [link]

CC BY 4.0 [link]

CC BY-SA 2.0 [link]

CC BY-SA 2.0 DE [link]

CC BY-SA 2.0 FR [link]

CC BY-SA 2.5 [link]

CC BY-SA 3.0 [link]

CC BY-SA 4.0 [link]

Free Art License 1.3 [link]

How do you think it is now with respect to full compliance?

Again, thank you for your time and help. BerlinWilmer (talk) 10:59, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

May we assume "Wiki_User" here is a placeholder for the requested attribution, not a literal string? For example, if you were to use File:Canalul Mila 35 - 09 - Egretta garzetta (cropped).jpg it would be "Joe Mabel", correct? - Jmabel ! talk 18:10, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for the reply.

To clarify, on the website the info underneath the images are clickable, except for the name of the person who uploaded the image to wikimedia i.e photo © username / CC BY-SA 4.0 --> the word photo is the link to the source image and the license name is the link to the license info page.

On the app, each image has a watermark showing the username of the person who uploaded the image and the license name, neither are clickable though, being just a watermark. And as mentioned before, the app has a legal section with clickable links to all of the relevant license pages.

I hope that helps! BerlinWilmer (talk) 19:55, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

@BerlinWilmer: sounds entirely reasonablee to me. - Jmabel ! talk 22:58, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

Nymphaea tetragona Georgi images - mass deleting redirects

Hello,
due to the mass uploading of mislabelled images from one user, the search for images of Nymphaea tetragona Georgi has been made absolutely impossible on Wikimedia Commons.
Any person not familiar with this plant will see all these false images and will get a false impression of what this species looks like.
There are very few images of the true species available on Wikimedia Commons, and more than 90% of the search results display plants that are not Nymphaea tetragona Georgi. This is not good, because I believe this impacts the educational use of Wikimedia Commons in this specific case.
A while ago I already got some help with mass renaming the files, but redirects were left in place, and these files still pollute the search results, obscuring the actual subject of the search.
Is there anything that can be done about this issue?
Greetings, Conan Wolff (talk) 09:15, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

@Conan Wolff: Without you even mentioning what user, or linking to any of the problematic files, you are making anyone who wants to comment re-do your research. Please, spell it out if you actually want help here. - Jmabel ! talk 20:37, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

Hello @Jmabel, thank you for your reply.
I'm not expecting anyone to redo any research.

Simply doing a search for "Nymphaea tetragona" on Wikimedia Commons is enough to see the problem, as the search results are almost entirely wrong.

For instance, on the 7th of April 2023 the user User:Dinkun Chen uploaded 46 photographs of water lilies that he wrongly labelled as Nymphaea tetragona, for example the files File:Nymphaea sp. or hybrid (70).jpg or File:Nymphaea sp. or hybrid (75).jpg. These files represent about 30% of the search results, so it's not a problem specific to this user, and other users made the same mistake.

You had kindly helped me in January 2024 to mass rename the files, however the files were renamed with redirects left in place, so they still show up in the search.

I would like to know how the redirects can be deleted for the files that were already renamed.

Greetings, Conan Wolff (talk) 19:29, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

I don't think there is a quick way to mass-delete redirects (or mass-tag them for deletion), though someone else might know one. Any individual inappropriate redirect can be tagged with {{SD|G2}} and will be deleted subsequently by an admin. Or if some admin wants to take this on, they can skip the tagging step.

I'd love to know a way to do this without it being that tedious, though. - Jmabel ! talk 20:33, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello @Jmabel

thanks for your help - I appreciate it. I will tag the redirects individually with "SD|G2".

Greetings, Conan Wolff (talk) 20:49, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

Logo de un medio de comunicación

Buenos días,

Querría enlazar en wikipedia el logo de un medio de comunicación español (Motor16). Obviamente, no es de mi autoría pero sí está disponible libre de derechos en las redes para la difusión del mismo. ¿cómo podría hacerlo? Gracias

Good morning,

I would like to link to the logo of a Spanish media outlet (Motor16) on Wikipedia. Obviously, it's not my work, but it is available royalty-free on social media for distribution. How could I do this? Thank you. JorgeVBis (talk) 12:04, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

@JorgeVBis Is it the logo I see at the top of https://www.motor16.com/? If so, you can upload it here on Commons, for an example, see the licensing section at File:Ncyc logo.jpg. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 16:12, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

Muchas gracias! JorgeVBis (talk) 08:56, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

Create a new Template:TOO-UK (United Kingdom)

Hi,any admin or a user please create a new Template:TOO-UK (United Kingdom),the user:Yayan550 (Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Doctor Who (1963) logos) requested says:I think we need to create TOO-United Kingdom tag as Commons template to emphasize it. (google translator) AbchyZa22 (talk) 11:00, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

@AbchyZa22, I have created it, see {{TOO-UK}}. Feel free to add any changes to the text shown in the template. Thanks. Tvpuppy (talk) 02:23, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Image filename correction

I just uploaded File:Charles Bierbauer.jpg to replace the current low-rez image on Mr. Bierbauer's wiki page with a cleaner shot provided by his family. It would appear that assigning a filename of "Charles Bierbauer.jpg" was the same name as the prior image. I would like the description that appears on the page to remain Charles Bierbauer, but change the filename itself to something unique, like "Charles Bierbauer portrait.jpg" but I do not see how to do that. Could somebody give me a hand? Thanks!! Turransky2399 (talk) 17:37, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

There's a help page; COM:File renaming and a template: {{Rename}}. But I can take charge of the rename, as I am a filemover. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 17:52, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

you are my hero!! Thank you Turransky2399 (talk) 17:55, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

You're welcome @Turransky2399, see File:Charles Bierbauer portrait.jpg. But there's a bit of formalities remaining to take care of: please provide the licensing agreement to the COM:VRT, following the procedure described at Commons:Volunteer Response Team#Licensing images: when do I contact VRT?. We need evidence that the licensor (whoever of the family is the actual partner for that) agreed to the CC-By-SA 4.0. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 17:59, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

will do. I have the linked page open and will follow the directions. I so appreciate you taking the time to help me out. Turransky2399 (talk) 18:02, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

@Turransky2399: Assuming this is not the only time you will upload a media file that you did not create yourself, you should probably at least skim Commons:Uploading works by a third party. It may save you a lot of grief. - Jmabel ! talk 04:57, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

Image upload query

Is someone about to double check if a screenshot of an image of a historic house (sourced from an ebook on internet archive) is able to be uploaded to wiki commons without breaching any copyright?

The article it would be uploaded to is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gennings_Park

Image info below (ChatGPT has created)

Gennings Park, Kent – 1923 plate (anonymous)

• Purpose: Historical plate for the article on Gennings Park (Kent). Shows the house as it appeared in the late 19th/early 20th century .
• Source: Internet Archive item ID: lifeofrighthonsi01spenuoft — plate on p. 209. (Direct item link is fine: https://archive.org/details/lifeofrighthonsi01spenuoft)
• Publication: John A. Spender, The Life of the Right Hon. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, G.C.B., Vol. 1 (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1923).
• Credit line: “Unknown photographer; published by Hodder & Stoughton (1923)”.
• Licensing (please apply on Commons):

 - {{PD-UK-unknown}} — no photographer is named in the plate caption or list of illustrations; first published 1923 (>70y). 
 - {{PD-US-expired}} — published in 1923, public domain in the United States.

• Suggested filename: Gennings_Park_Kent_Campbell-Bannerman_1923_plate.jpg
• Notes: Happy to provide exact plate caption text if needed.

Amateur History Luke 24 (talk) 23:40, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

@Amateur History Luke 24: Sounds like that should be fine. - Jmabel ! talk 04:59, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

House pictured without consent

Hello Commons.

I was looking online and found my house uploaded here. I don't feel comfortable with my house being on the internet. This is not a deletion request. Is there any way any of you could, like, crop it out? Thanks in advance. JLima10 (talk) 01:46, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

@JLima10: You don't say what country you are in, but in most countries if your house is visible from a public place, people have a right to photograph it and publish those photographs. (The only common exception is in a country like France that does not provide Freedom of Panorama for architecture; in those countries, if the house is still copyrighted, then even the owner can't legally publish such photos, just the architect!)

That said: I'm an admin here. Feel free to email me the URL of the file page (so as to avoid the Streisand effect of linking it here); if there is more than one building in the photo, please be clear about what you'd want suppressed; and I'll see if it looks like something we can reasonably do as a courtesy. - Jmabel ! talk 05:04, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

Czeka na akceptację

pl:Zamek w Niemodlinie

Proszę o przejrzenie i akceptację Zamku w Niemodlinie. A.stanczykowska (talk) 09:21, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

@A.stanczykowska: Again, questions about the Polish Wikipedia need to be asked on the Polish Wikipedia. This is Wikimedia Commons, one of several hundred sister projects.

za pośrednictwem Tłumacza Google: Ponownie, pytania o polską Wikipedię należy zadawać na polskiej Wikipedii. To Wikimedia Commons, jeden z kilkuset projektów siostrzanych.- Jmabel ! talk 23:02, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

इनाम क्या मिलेगा

जितने के बाद इनाम क्या मिलेगा मौर्या444 (talk) 09:55, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

इनाम क्या मिलेगा मौर्या444 (talk) 09:57, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

@मौर्या444: after winning what?

गूगल अनुवाद के माध्यम से: जीतने के बाद क्या? - Jmabel ! talk 23:06, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

@Jmabel I think he means the Wiki Loves Monuments thing going on in September. DoctorWhoFan91 (talk) 06:24, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

@मौर्या444, आप क्या जीतने की बात कर रहे हैं? आपकी बात समझ नहीं आ रही। कृपया पूरी बात समझाएँ। _signed, Aafi ^(talk) 07:42, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

Daniele Pieroni foto.jpg

Goodmoring Commons, I'm writing to you regarding the photograph in question, which I recently uploaded. I received a message warning that the photo might be a possible copyright infringement. Since I uploaded the photo for the Wikipedia profile on the author, which I wrote for the recently deceased poet's estate, I'd like to understand why this might be a violation. Furthermore, we own the original print of this image, so I was wondering if perhaps scanning the photographic print directly would avoid the need for copyright tags. Thank you in advance for your time. Alessarlo (talk) 10:49, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

• @Alessarlo: who is "we"? You and who else?
• Owning a physical copy of a photo is not the same as owning the copyright. You will probably want to read Commons:Uploading works by a third party, then come back with any questions that you find are not answered there. - Jmabel ! talk 23:12, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

Issue in uploading, may be due to a bad connection

Hello,

I'd like to add a UNS image to our collection. It's source is https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-50000/80-G-50221.html , but the TIFF won't upload, neither by using the classical form nor with the upload wizard. Maybe my internet connection is too buggy ATM. Could someone take over, please?

I suggest the filename Aftermath battle of the Komandorski Islands - turret 3 guns of USS Salt Lake City (CA-25).tiff and here's the Info template I would have used:

{{Information
|Description={{en|1={{w|8-inch/55-caliber gun|8"/55 guns|en}} of turret #3, {{w|USS Salt Lake City (CA-25)|USS Salt Lake City (CA-25)|en}}, showing heat scale on the tubes from extensive firing during the action, taken after the {{w|Battle of the Komandorski Islands|battle of the Komandorski Islands|en}} at Dutch Harbor, 30 March 1943. Note snow flakes falling.}}
|Source=https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-50000/80-G-50221.html
|Date=1943-03-30
|Author=US Navy
|Permission=
|other_versions=
}}

[[Category:USS Salt Lake City (CA-25)]]
[[Category:Battle of the Komandorski Islands - US forces]]

Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 14:02, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

Resolved

I think that this question was replied to adequately based on the supplied information. If you have anything to add or a follow-up question please feel free to replace this box with your comment. This section will be archived after two days. Was temporary, I think. I succeeded. Grand-Duc (talk) 16:14, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

Best scan resolution?

Sometimes I scan images from books and postcards etc., but I'm never quite sure what resolution to scan in. My current monitor has a highest resolution of 1920 x 1080, which is pretty average by modern standards, so an image that might look huge on my monitor might look quite small on somebody else's. Is there a preferred resolution for Commons? Gatoclass (talk) 14:10, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

Use the highest quality that your scanner is able to produce please. Your monitor is irrelevant for deciding the resolution (think about people viewing our imagery on modern smartphones, for instance, their screens easily have a resolution beyond 2k or even 4k). Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 14:17, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

Oh golly no, that would be highly impractical, the scans would take forever and the files would be huge. Perhaps then I will upload at the highest resolution that results in a reasonable file size (I don't want to be uploading everything by chunked upload, for one thing).

But honestly, almost every file I see on Wikipedia is much smaller than even a moderate-sized scan from my scanner. It does kind of make me reluctant to go for much bigger scans. Gatoclass (talk) 14:27, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

Typically for scanning a book or postcard 300 dpi is appropriate.

1920 x 1080 would be considered quite a somewhat low resolution, slightly below the bare minimum for featured pictures. - Jmabel ! talk 23:23, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

• As Jmabel implied, the resolution will depend on what you want to scan. A book, magazine, or postcard (basically, anything with halftoning) will have diminishing returns at higher resolutions. 300 ppi will be enough for most uses in that regard. If you have access to old photographs, however, 600 ppi could potentially be useful; for example, the extra resolution allows us to see the individual buttons on the cheongsam in File:Lies Noor, c 1956, three-quarter portrait, (Djakartawood, Semarang).jpg. High-quality printed materials (art books etc.) might be worth doing at 600 ppi too, as they use smaller dots for their halftoning. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:35, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

Well, I am already scanning most of my images at somewhere between 300 and 600 dpi, so it sounds as if I've got it about right. Thanks guys for your input! BTW, after starting this thread, I already decided it's past time that I upgraded my monitor to a 4k, so that should help me get up to speed - thanks once again :) Gatoclass (talk) 08:07, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

Donation to Wikimedia

Monthly 5.50 is being taken out of my checking account for wikimedia, but it is supposed to be for Wikipedia, not Wikimedia. I need to change this. Have no idea how this happened.

I will block the donation. ivey mccray, <redacted> 2600:382:6021:526D:2BAD:4DFA:22DE:A7E3 14:37, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi, You can't make a donation to Wikipedia, as there is no organization called like that. Your donation goes to the Wikimedia Foundation, which is the organization which supports Wikipedia. Anyway, it is your right to stop it anytime. Also please do not publish your email online, for your own security. Regards, Yann (talk) 14:45, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

This is the page you need to change or cancel your donation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ww2censor (talk • contribs) 21:17, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

მარიკა გერგედავა

გვერდი მარიკა გერგედავა პულმნოლოგი წაშლილია ვიკიპიდიიდან , გთხოვთ დამეხმაროთ აღდგენაში მარიკა გერგედავა (talk) 18:29, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

@მარიკა გერგედავა, if this happened on the Georgian-language Wikipedia, you have to discuss it there. If it happened on some other language Wikipedia, you have to discuss it there. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 20:32, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

When to remove deletion template

I nominated File:IAFHELICOPTER in Sathram Airstrip.jpg for deletion after the uploader removed the speedy deletion tag. In the deletion discussion, the uploader then said they were the copyright holder. I suggested they follow the release steps. It has been a few days & the uploader removed the deletion template. I restored it because it doesn't look like the VRT has updated the copyright status on the image. While I've tagged files with speedy deletion before, this is the first time I've nominated a file for a deletion discussion so I just want to verify that the discussion stays open (with the template on the file page) until the copyright status is confirmed. Sariel Xilo (talk) 19:58, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

@Sariel Xilo Yes, you are correct. As mentioned on the template itself, the DR template should stay on the file page until the DR is closed. Tvpuppy (talk) 20:30, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

Which licensing template is?

I'm so nervous uploading files right now, but my uploaded screenshots are removed like Cliff Edward webm., Bernband.jpg, Fistful of Frags jpg., Half-Life 2 demo jpg, and also The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall screenshot too is requested for speedy deletion. But most peoples when uploading files didn't get copyright violation well because they are skilled in noticing copyright policies on wikimedia commons, but what licensing template should i use? CC-BY-4.0 or Non free rationale images? most are in a public domain. Kuyalanz (talk) 13:27, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

Kuyalanz, you seem to operate on a misunderstanding. You have to become aware of some fundamentals that aren't apparently known to you. You can't make a copyright violation undone or non-existent by some license choice, so it's not about a template you can or can't use.

• Imagery and data available on websites is (in nearly all cases - exceptions apply, but you have to be knowledgeable about intellectual property rights to spot those) unfit to get copied to Commons. Don't go around and grab images, videos or texts from other sites to upload here, that'll get you blocked.
• Licenses are a usage authorisation that you can grant, but only when you're owning the intellectual property rights to do so. A picture of a flower or zoo animal that was taken by YOURSELF with your own camera is fine, a picture of an advertisement billboard or a modern sculpture that you took yourself in the US isn't.
• The concept of public domain is a legal term that has a distinct definition, your use of it above doesn't conform to it. Screenshots from video games aren't in the public domain, for instance (unless you're speaking about something like en:Pong, which is IANAL too simple for a copyright protection).
• We have several help pages: COM:Licensing, COM:Copyright rules by subject matter (and its subpages!!), COM:Copyright rules by territory (and the subpages available through the navigation box!!) that are a must-read if you want to learn important knowledge on how to contribute to Commons. Furthermore non-free content is not allowed here.
  • Sure, you can get along without this knowledge, but then you're restricted in uploading pictures of nature, without people, that you took yourself. Everything else entails imperatively the appropriation of some more knowledge, available on those pages linked above.

Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 14:16, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

Adding to what Grand-Duc said, take File:Daggerfall2.png as an example. Read the Licensing section carefully. It's not PD, not CC-BY-4.0, and it's not on Commons, it's uploaded locally on English Wikipedia, which does accepted a very limited use of non-free stuff. Commons accepts no non-free stuff. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 14:22, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

I would also recommend reading Commons:Uploading works by a third party which is intended as an overall introduction to the subject of uploading works that are not entirely your own creations. - Jmabel ! talk 18:52, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

do you mean this File:Daggerfall Sound effects.wav i uploaded this but this time on wikipedia, will you deletion for this? Kuyalanz (talk) 13:18, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

Convenience link File:Daggerfall Sound effects.wav. Looks like that has already been deleted.- Jmabel ! talk 19:48, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

Guitar Solo Page Help

Hi, my name is Garrett. I am a professional guitar player. I do not know anything about editing Wikipedia, but I went to the page on guitar solos and I found the example provided to be rather lackluster. It contains several technical errors (poor rhythmic sense, out-of-tune bends, etc.) and is unaccompanied. This may give people the false impression that a "guitar solo" (as used by the average musician and listener) must be unaccompanied. Because the rock guitar solo is, as acknowledged by the article, the most obvious use case for the overall term "guitar solo" (and I happen to be alright at rock guitar) I have made a 40 second guitar solo with full instrumental backing that I believe would much better exemplify the typical guitar solo. Sorry I'm saying guitar solo so much. Anyways, when I tried to upload it, it was flagged as "unconstructive". I have been informed that I don't have the necessary permissions to personally upload the MP3 and update the page, so I was wondering if maybe I could just send it to someone here and they could upload it for me? I will do anything to improve this article, as guitar solos are extremely important to me and the current example is just really, really rough. If you would like to hear the file in question, I could put it on youtube or something so you can listen to it. I made the file entirely by myself and did not use any copyrighted materials. I do not need to be credited or anything, and I am perfectly okay with people doing whatever they want with the file; I just want to make that page better. Leechfoot (talk) 18:50, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

I'm sorry you're experiencing these difficulties, and thank you or offering to contribute.

I'm happy to help you get it uploaded.

Can you say where it was flagged as "unconstructive", please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:10, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

Sounds like an abuse filter message. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 19:18, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

Yes, I think you are correct, it appears they were referring to this abuse filter message, Mediawiki:Abusefilter-disallowed. Tvpuppy (talk) 19:20, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

@Leechfoot: This should be welcome content, as long as you can license it appropriately. And it is entirely OK to require attribution, the overwhelming number of uploaders of our own work do so.

You didn't mention which uploading tool you are using. Were you trying a cross-wiki upload from one of the Wikipedias, or were you using Commons:UploadWizard here on Commons? The latter is generally less restrictive on the content it allows, so if that is not what you were using it might be a better choice to get past the immediate technical issue. In the worst case, you can upload to YouTube or some comparable site, with an indication of the license you are offering, and someone with a higher level of rights on Commons can transfer the file here on your behalf, citing that as a source.

One thing I would recommend after upload: in the "permission" section of the {{Information}} template on the resulting file page, it would help if you would add an explicit statement that you hold all of the relevant copyrights—composition, performance, recording—and that the license you are offering covers this all. - Jmabel ! talk 19:30, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

Yeah, I tried using the uploadwizard and it keeps giving me that same abuse filter message- I don't even get to the part where I specify release rights, the message happens immediately when I try to upload. How could I find someone with a higher level of rights? I already have it on google drive so I could just share it with someone that way. Leechfoot (talk) 21:34, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

It’s because you have to be Autopatrolled in order to upload a MP3 file. If you want to upload an audio file, you have to first convert it into an allowed audio file, e.g. .ogg or .oga. Use Video2commons for this.

Anohthterwikipedian (talk) 23:29, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

jpg used with permission

I uploaded a jpg grabbed from a video. The video is owned by a non-profit organization. The president of the organization has given me written permission to use this jpg for the Wikipedia edit. The only request is to ID the source of the jpg. How do I communicate this information and upload the email from the president and CEO? 3MCsubm1tt3r (talk) 03:42, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

@3MCsubm1tt3r I recommend the blue button at Commons:Volunteer_Response_Team#Declaration_of_consent_for_all_enquiries. More info at Commons:Uploading works by a third party. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 06:27, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

W

I want to add a picture on Wikipedia page Al-Shafi'iyuun (talk) 07:40, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

@Al-Shafi'iyuun See Help:Pictures. Details matter enormously. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 09:19, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

update a photo

how can i update a photo on our wikipedia ? 83.48.55.169 08:28, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

More details, please. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 09:20, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Uploading edit of file.

I've been trying for approximately the past 10 minutes to upload an edit of "File:Simplified Languages of Europe map.svg" to include Manx, Cornish, Silesian, and Kashubian - however when I upload with a PNG, There's an error that it has to be SVG, When I upload with SVG, A link appears so long it takes 3 minutes to scroll manually, and takes you to an error page. TruthfulSpeech (talk) 17:31, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

convenience link: File:Simplified Languages of Europe map.svg. - Jmabel ! talk 18:14, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

You can't overwrite an SVG with a PNG. Period.

As for what's going wrong when you try to upload an SVG, that's harder to say. Just to make sure: are you using the "Upload a new version of this file" link to upload, or are you doing it some other way?

Also, on a substantive level: I am not at all sure I would call Manx, Cornish, Silesian, or Kashubian among the "main languages of Europe," which is what the description there says is the purpose of the file. Admittedly, there are already several there that push those limits (Gagauz, Meglenitic). I'm honestly not sure why any of these should be considered more "main" than Asturian or even Aranese, which I believe has more speakers than Manx. - Jmabel ! talk 18:25, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Yes, I'm trying to upload using the link to upload, also, although that's what the file says, it still uses minority languages such as Crimean Tatar or Belarusian, and some indigenous in Russia, which most of which are even less spoken in the percentage of the population. TruthfulSpeech (talk) 18:05, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

Also quick extra, The "main languages" while counting minor languages in the east was most likely an excuse in case some languages were missing, which would make the most sense in counting languages even smaller than 500,000 speakers, or languages that are barely recognised.

Also. TruthfulSpeech (talk) 18:07, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

Also, Maltese has less speakers than Silesian, so if that's counted as "main" when a lot of the people, if not most, speak Italian, then languages with more than 300,000 should all be counted, as that's a lot of people after all. TruthfulSpeech (talk) 18:08, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

infobox image self-transformed to image-name.jpg text

After a new photo was correctly displayed in nfobox, a few hours later the image disappeared and was replaced by image-name.jpg text. How to get the image to reapper in infobox? Wiki888y (talk) 03:49, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

@Wiki888y: Please, when you ask questions like this, be a lot more specific. There are hundreds of thousands of Infoboxes in Wikimedia projects. I can see from your editing history that this is probably about en:Robert I. Misbin which is on the English-language Wikipedia, not here on Wikimedia Commons. It didn't change itself; it looks like Bruce1ee made a mistaken edit after yours, trying to clean up. (You didn't do it the best way; his fix was worse; I'll fix it properly after responding to you here.)

However, there is a bigger problem if you don't want that image deleted. We can't just take your word for it that the subject of the photo designated his photo as CC-zero. You have to have him send an email as described at COM:VRT, and you'll need to mark the file page to show that permission is pending, which is also explained on that VRT page. If that doesn't happen, the file will almost certainly be deleted. - Jmabel ! talk 05:14, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Also, if you want to improve that WP-article, go through it and remove all "Dr." from the article text. Just "In 1995, Misbin joined" is the local style. Noting also that you said the date is "August 15, 2025" but meta-data says "29 November 2022". Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 05:24, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Sorry, I slipped up there. I didn't see that {{Infobox}} was used, where my fix didn't work, instead of {{Infobox person}}, where my fix would have worked. Thank you Gråbergs Gråa Sång for fixing it. —Bruce1ee^talk 06:58, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Help with Wikimedia VRTS release generator step 2

I want to include a photograph of my grandfather who died in 1917 into a wikipedia article. The photograph was taken by a family member. Who is the owner of copyright?

Gernot Haraldson, welcome! According to Commons, "Usually the copyright for a given work belongs to the author of the work for their lifetime, and then passes as part of their estate to a specific individual or entity either designated explicitly as heir to their intellectual property or inheriting that as part of the residuum of their estate." However, is it possible that this photo is now in the public domain? See COM:PD. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 14:47, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your help! The author of the work was my grandfather who died in 1917, my grandmother was his sole heir. My grandmother allowed many authors, publishers and newspapers to print this photograph.She died in 1965. Her inheritance was distributed among her descendants according to her will. Among other things I received the original photograph of my grandfather. I took the original photograph, which is my property, with my camera, reouched it on my PC in png format and want to upload it now to make it available as my work in the public domain. I assume this photograph was already in the public domain during my grandmother's lifetime? Thank you for your reply! Gernot Gernot Haraldson (talk) 05:43, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

@Gernot Haraldson: I don't understand: you said first that it is a photo of your grandfather by "a family member". Now you say "The author of the work was my grandfather…". This makes no sense to me.

Also: what country, which will have bearing on the copyright. Also, any estimate of when the photo was taken (ditto)? - Jmabel ! talk 19:09, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

Sorry for the confusion I caused due to my lack of English language and as a layman in copyright matters. Probably I should have said "the owner of the work". My question refers to a photograph showing the portrait of my grandfather. This photograph was taken in Vienna, Austria, in the year 1917, few weeks before he passed away. His widow, my grandmother, distributed this photograph free of charge to newspapers, authors of articles referring to her late husband and to publishers of encyclopedias over the course of her life. So I assume this photograph was already in the public domain when she died in 1965. In 2015 I made with my camera a photograph of the original photograph, which I own now, and created with my PC a digital .jpg file, removed from the digital image some scratches in the paper and some spots in the background visible in the the original photograph. My question is: Is this photograph my own work or my work based on a work which is already in the public domain? I want to upload this work for free use into Commons database. Thank you for your help! Gernot Gernot Haraldson (talk) 19:17, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

@Gernot Haraldson: Unless I am misunderstanding something, it is impossible for a 1917 work from Austria that originally merited copyright to have lost copyright in that country by 1965. You just say you assume this, but I cannot guess on what basis. Do you have some particular legal theory as to why it would have, or should I lay out the way the copyright situation looks to me?

As to your most recent question: in no sense (or at least none pertaining to copyright law]) is this your "own work". A faithful two-dimensional copy of a two-dimensional work never creates a new copyright. Historically, a few countries have had a "sweat of the brow" rule to grant some rights on things where it was very difficult to create a copy, but most of those countries (notably the UK) have been moving away from that, Austria wasn't one of them, and nothing about a typical photocopying with minor retouching would ever have reached that threshold. - Jmabel ! talk 21:36, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you so much that you spent your time answering my questions! I just wanted to make sure that I do not violate anybodies copyright and/or endanger anybody else! I summarize what I have learned thanks to you: If the taking of the photograph in 1917 in itself did NOT create a work protected by copyright acording to Austrian k.u.k. monarchy laws, than the photograph is already in the public domain. If there were or still exist any copyright protections in favour of my grandfather or of other persons , then either I, as an legal hair, am the owner and can release the retouched original to wikimedia commons, or the copyright expired anyhow meanwhile. If I undestood you correctly, NO third party who maybe reworked the original photograph, based on a copy of the original published in the many books and articles so far, can claim any copyrights and sue me or other people, after I have released the retouched original to public use in wikimedia commons. Best regards and many thanks! Gernot Gernot Haraldson (talk) 09:34, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

Close, and I'm pretty sure this is in the public domain, but let me spell out how it looks to me. I'm not expert, and I'm Pinging @Clindberg here because this photo being old enough to involve laws of the Austria-Hungary makes the matter a bit confusing. Here is how it looks to me.

1. Austria-Hungary was not a member of the Berne Convention (Austria joined in 1920), but as far as I know they never required copyright registration: any work was copyrighted at creation, and that would have carried over to successor states.
2. Austria distinguishes simple photographs (50-year copyright) and more deliberate works such as portraits "that involve artistic interpretations, such as studio shots and those that involve lighting and poses" (copyrighted for 70 years after the life of the photographer; if the photographer is unknowable, 70 years from creation). You say this was taken by a family member; if that is true, and it is not anything like a professional studio photograph, then copyright expired at the end of 1967. (Note: this is the earliest date it could have passed out of copyright, hence my objection to already in the public domain when she died in 1965.) So unless the picture (which I haven't seen) has quasi-professional lighting and/or posing, it would clearly be {{PD-Austria}}. (If it is more professional, then we might still have stuff to work out, though if you are confident that you are the heir to the intellectual property of the photographer then you can publish under a license like {{Cc-by-4.0-heirs}}. Note that there is a possibility that another family member could dispute that you are the heir. I don't know your family, so I have no idea.)
3. There is no way this is likely ever to have had copyright in the U.S., and if it did it would almost certainly have expired by now, so for the US side {{PD-US-expired}} is almost certainly valid.

Jmabel ! talk 20:50, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you so much for taking your time! I am now confident that in any possible case any copyright has expired by now! Since I am in the age of 80+ there is no thread of family members. Best regards and good luck! Gernot Gernot Haraldson (talk) 19:23, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

Yeah, for something that old, it should be fine. I think Austria and Hungary had separate copyright laws, even while they were Austria-Hungary, even if they were not Berne members so they would follow whichever of those countries your grandfather lived in. As EU members, both countries have retroactively restored their copyright to 70pma, but if the author died in 1917, that had expired beforehand. Austria was 70pma for a long time, though simple photos (defined differently then, was most snapshots, though posed photos were likely not simple) were much shorter. At most though, it would have expired in 1988. If published, the U.S. copyright was lost immediately most likely, though restored in 1996 to 95 years from publication. So if this was published before 1930, or was never published before 2003 (in which case it. became 70pma just like Austria), it is fine by either {{PD-US-expired}} or {{PD-US-unpublished}}. It sounds like the former case here, if your grandmother leant it out for publication. A photographic copy of the original photo should have no additional copyright. Carl Lindberg (talk) 03:59, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you, Lindberg, for information and clarification! This photo was just published in newspapers and bibliographies written in German language. Good luck! Gernot Gernot Haraldson (talk) 19:30, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

Annullo foto

Come cancellare una foto inserita erroneamente, ho inviato email per annullare,ma ancora esistente.. Come posso fare..? Grazie mille Stella aboaf (talk) 14:20, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

@Stella aboaf On a page like File:Guidonia Montecelio - Chiesa di San Remigio - 2025-09-03 22-26-11 001.jpg, there is a drop-down menu top-ish right, Tools/Strumenti. In that menu, there is link to nominate something for deletion. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 14:54, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

But I see you have several recent uploads. Normally, for anything uploaded in the last 7 days, we allow a lot of grace for someone to change their mind. See Template:My bad upload. - Jmabel ! talk 17:23, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

So i'm trying to upload a screenshot of the Rayman 4 proto menu to use in an article.

How am i meant to figure out if all parts of it are under free license? Another thing i'd like help with is trying to decide if the software is free or not Since Commons only allows screenshots of free and open-source stuff. [The decision is tough for me because the source code, editor, and proto became free and open-source to use when the R4 leak happened, if i'm correct.[ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Itsamesnaz (talk • contribs) 18:55, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Repost of my last topic.

So, as i said last time, i'm trying to upload a screenshot of the Rayman 4 prototype menu to use in my R4 proto article. I'm trying to figure out if the software itself is free and open-source, so this will be able to be uploaded. It's a tough decision, since Jade [R4 Engine] and the R4 source code got leaked and became free and open-source a while back. Itsamesnaz (talk) 19:05, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

need some help with this...

so im back on a new acc. can anyone help me with figuring out if the screenshot of the rayman 4 proto menu i'm planning to use over on WP is going to count as free and open source please? Thatoneraynerd (talk) 13:49, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

As long as a software itself is not distributed under a free and open-source (FOSS) license, assume that screenshots aren't allowed here, on Commons. There is a potential loophole when a GUI is too simple to get above a relevant threshold of originality (TOO), but I would advise you to not dabble into that and try to ascertain whether something is below the TOO, too much knowledge seems to be lacking. For instance, a leak is never a legitimate release under any FOSS license, as it happens against the will of the actual rights holder (you thought otherwise). Even an actual release of source code does not necessarily place that code or the software in the FOSS domain, en:Enemy Engaged: RAH-66 Comanche vs. KA-52 Hokum is an example, Microsoft publishing the code of old DOS and Word versions another. But neither are FOSS.

You may potentially be able to use a GUI screenshot on the EN-WP itself, refer to en:Wikipedia:Non-free content for guidance. But an upload on Commons is most certainly not possible. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 14:11, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

Overwriting an upload from a bot

I uploaded pictures to the German Wikipedia years ago. Now I realized that a File Upload Bot uploaded my pictures here without my knowledge. Now I want my account to be linked under User at these pictures and that my pictures are listet in my "Uploads by" listing. A simple reupload and overwriting isn't possible, because the pictures weren't altered. So my question, is the claim to my own works reason enough to authorize an overwriting? Or is there a different way to claim my own work? --Dozor (talk) 20:48, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

@Dozor: We can't change the "Uploaded by" but if you are in any way mis-credited (that is if something about how this is done could result in misattribution) that can be remedied by an explicit attribution. Also, a user category might be in order. You don't link any files, so I can't see any examples to make more concrete suggestions. Would you please link one? Thanks. - Jmabel ! talk 23:19, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

I guess the user means files like this file. They're credited all right, but they want to be the uploader too. -- Asclepias (talk) 00:30, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

I don't think there is any appropriate way to do that, but given that there is a search that will find these (is it just the handful of files that match the search insource:"[[User:Dozor|Dozor]]", or are there others?> it would be easy to add a user category to all of them, and/or for Dozor to add them all to their watchlist. - Jmabel ! talk 03:05, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

But they are not, on Wikimedia Commons, the uploader. To say otherwise would be to falsify records.

At File:Turm des Schlosses Freidegg.jpg#Original upload log, however, the fact that they were the uploaded on de.Wikipedia is recorded for posterity.

It seems as though everything is already as it should be. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:04, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

I think that they would like the files imported before FileImporter existed (2018?) to behave like the files imported since then with FileImporter, i.e. make the file look as if the original uploader to the other website was the uploader to Commons and include the file in their upload log and in their ListFiles, as if they were the uploader to Commons. -- Asclepias (talk) 21:43, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

Yes, I get that, but as far as I know, the only way to do that would be to delete the files, then re-upload leaving the old history hidden, not something we normally do and, in my view, a lousy precedent. I probably have over 100 files in a similar state, myself; I don't really understand the sense in which this is a problem.

Also, again: it looks to me like we are talking about less than a dozen files. - Jmabel ! talk 06:06, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

Correct an error after uploading

I made an typing error in the title of a photograph which i detected after uploading. How to correct this? Gernot Haraldson (talk) 06:25, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello and welcome @Gernot Haraldson, I noticed you already successfully request a rename for your upload, but just in case you still needed help, please see Commons:File renaming on how to rename a file. One way to do this is to select "Tools → Move" near the top right of the image page you want to rename, then fill in the provided form, then another user with file mover rights will perform the move shortly afterwards. Thanks. Tvpuppy (talk) 14:26, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

question re legal action concerning license compliance

Hi, in the theoretical event of being sued due to non-compliance when using Wikimedia Commons images, would Wikimedia itself become involved in arbitration? Or would it solely be a matter between the complainant, defendant and their lawyers?

Kindest regards

ps please note this hasn't happened, I'm just curious as to how things work here! BerlinWilmer (talk) 12:25, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

Wikimedia is only a hosting provider and won't be involved in such matters. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 12:40, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

Unless of course it was one of the handful of images (e.g. a Wikimedia logo) on which Wikimedia owns rights. - Jmabel ! talk 19:16, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

Licensed Photograph

Hi I've paid and downloaded a licensed picture from Alamy. Can I use this on a wikipedia page? Rizrozz (talk) 12:36, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

Nope. Alamy and other stock image agencies don't allow the sublicensing or the granting of a free license which are needed for Wikimedia sites. Single exception: paying for a high resolution image that is actually in the public domain due to age or origin (Alamy, Getty, etc. may distribute images from war correspondents who actually got killed in the WWII for instance, those are mostly PD-Old, and also images from e.g. the US Coast Guard, also PD). Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 12:39, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

Thanks very much! Rizrozz (talk) 12:43, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

how to change date on a registered photo

When I registered the photo, put the wrong date. How can I change that? Wiki888y (talk) 03:48, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

@Wiki888y: Not sure what you mean be "registered". "Uploaded", or something else? Your only file on Commons is File:Dr, Bib Nusbu.jpg, the date has already been corrected based on the EXIF data. (If the date were not correct, then you could edit that exactly the same way you edit this page.)

Again, though as has been discussed before: what we most need on this photo is to get overt permission from the copyright-holder, presumably Dr. Nisbu since it appears to be a selfie. They need to go through the process outlined at COM:VRT. Otherwise the file will be deleted. - Jmabel ! talk 06:11, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

To create article with the name Getnet Abebe difficult for me,help me?

Getnet Abebe

Ethiopian young journalist and Activist for Africa.

Cut & paste of article?

Getnet Abebe is the Ethiopian young journalist and he want equality and fighting NWO,[1][2] for freedom[[1] (https://www.dw.com/am/%E1%8B%B0%E1%8 8%98%E1%8B%88%E1%8B%9D-%E1%8A%A8%E1%89%B0%E1%8A%A8%E1%8D%88%E1%88%8 8%E1%8A%95-4%E1%8A%9B-%E1%8B%88%E1%88%AB%E1%89%BD%E1%8A%95-%E1%8A%9 0%E1%8B%8D-%E1%8B%A8%E1%88%98%E1%8A%95%E1%8B%9D-%E1%88%8B%E1%88%8E-% E1%88%9D%E1%8B%B5%E1%88%AD-%E1%8B%88%E1%88%A8%E1%8B%B3-%E1%88%A0%E 1%88%AB%E1%89%B0%E1%8A%9E%E1%89%BD/a-71350056) ". Alamrew (2017-05-12 E.C ] .[3][4] Getnet Abebe wish freedom for all [[2] (https://dzen.ru/a/Z_9-FOT0VVfbaDHA The (2017-10-11)/ Profile/22078) ] .[5] 1. ^ "Getnet Abebe bio at Human right voice DW (https://www.dw.com/am/%E1%8B%B0%E1%8 8%98%E1%8B%88%E1%8B%9D-%E1%8A%A8%E1%89%B0%E1%8A%A8%E1%8D%88%E1%88%8 8%E1%8A%95-4%E1%8A%9B-%E1%8B%88%E1%88%AB%E1%89%BD%E1%8A%95-%E1%8A%9 0%E1%8B%8D-%E1%8B%A8%E1%88%98%E1%8A%95%E1%8B%9D-%E1%88%8B%E1%88%8E-% E1%88%9D%E1%8B%B5%E1%88%AD-%E1%8B%88%E1%88%A8%E1%8B%B3-%E1%88%A0%E 1%88%AB%E1%89%B0%E1%8A%9E%E1%89%BD/a-71350056) ". Alamrew (2017-05-12 E.C). በ2017-05-12 E.C የተወሰደ. 2. ^ https://dzen.ru/a/Z_9-FOT0VVfbaDHA The (2017-10-11). " on 2017-13-02. በ2013-01-20 የተወሰደ. 3. ^ " Getnet Abebe profile: getnetabebe' (https://www.flickr.com/photos/realtoractioncenter/9979280083". getnetabebe (September 28, 2013 E.C). Archived from the original (https://www.flickr.com/photos/realtoractioncenter/9979280083) on 2013-10-03. በ2017-13-02 E.C የተወሰደ. 4. ^ "getnetabebe profile ( https://jurfzscjxdguyyhs.quora.com/getnetabebe) ". getnetabebe. Archived from the original (https://jurfzscjxdguyyhs.quora.com/getnetabebe on 2013-10-02. በ2017-13-02 E.C የተወሰደ. 5. ^ Getnet Abebe. "Getnet Abebe (https://am.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getnet_Abebe. Archived from the original (https://am.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getnet_Abebe) on 2013-10-02. on 2025-10-02 የተወሰደ. External links Getnet Abebe. "Getnet Abebe (https://am.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getnet_Abebe. Archived from the original (https://am.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getnet_Abebe) on 2013-10-02. on 2025-10-02 የተወሰደ. Category:Living people Category:Social media journalists Category:Journalists Category:Politics Category:Russia Category:Ethiopia Category:Africa [[::Category:New World Order]] Category:Human rights in Ethiopia Category:21st-century activist Category:Year of birth missing (living people)

-- Abebe78 (talk) 08:06, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

Your question seems to be about the Wikipedia article at am:Getnet Abebe.

This page is on Wikimedia Commons, a separate but related project, and we cannot help with Wikipedia issues here. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:26, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

Änderung des Namens einer Kategorie

Hello. Could someone please change the name of Category:Willy-Sachs-Stadion to the new name Sachs-Stadion (since 2021). Unfortunately, I can't do that. Of course, the category links in all files in the category would have to be changed accordingly beforehand so that the files don't disappear into oblivion. Many thanks in advance and best regards. --Foxy5 (talk) 09:48, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

@Foxy5: are you asking for Category:Willy-Sachs-Stadion to be moved to Category:Sachs-Stadion or to Category:Sachs-Stadion (since 2021)? I would guess the former, but the way you wrote this is quite unclear. - Jmabel ! talk 16:45, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

To Category:Sachs-Stadion. --Foxy5 (talk) 19:41, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

@Foxy5: I will do this for you; I still don't understand what would have prevented you from using {{Move}} on the category page, though. - Jmabel ! talk 21:40, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

@Jmabel: Thank you very much for the quick processing and for your reference to Template:Move. Best regards --Foxy5 (talk) 15:26, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

Can I add a picture of the logo of a New York Times game

(Don’t respond)Thetigerdante (talk) 12:42, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

"Don’t respond"—OK. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:21, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

AI-brain goes kablooeyzzitz Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 14:56, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

Help with categories of locations

Hi all. Help please. I've started this category here: Category:National Eisteddfod of Wales by location, and used a pipe to list the town / village / city - on around 40 Eisteddfods (Welsh festivals), so that the English name of the location appears. For example, the first one, [[Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru Aberdâr 1861|Aberdare]] should appear as 'Aberdare' (the English name of the town Aberdâr), all alphabetically listed. Many thanks. Llywelyn2000 (talk) 18:21, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

@Llywelyn2000: The above doesn't make sense. There is no page Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru Aberdâr 1861, so the example you give is just a link to nothing. But I also don't see that source text anywhere on the category page you link above.

Could you please link to where you have done something that doesn't work the way you expect, so I don't have to sort through all your edits trying to find it? Thanks. - Jmabel ! talk 21:46, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

I guess the user believed that the sort key would be shown instead of the name of the category. In the example, they expected Category:Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru Aberdâr 1861 to be shown as "Aberdare" in Category:National Eisteddfod of Wales by location. -- Asclepias (talk) 23:22, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

@Llywelyn2000: Hi. What you added there is a sort key. It serves to change the order in which a category is listed in the parent category. It does not change the name displayed for the category. If the names of the categories are in Welsh, the logical thing would be to leave them sorted by the Welsh names. Which in this case probably does not require sort keys because the names of the categories all begin with the same three words and diverge only with the names of the locations. Using sort keys in English for categories in Welsh would be confusing. -- Asclepias (talk) 23:22, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

Thanks indeed! I'll remove the pipe if the name that follows is different. I thought, maybe having the locations listed with their English name would be useful. Cheers! Llywelyn2000 (talk) 06:59, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

@Llywelyn2000: Sorry, I gave partly wrong advice about not using sort keys. That would place the names in correct order, but without the letter separators, as they would all be under the letter E for Eisteddfod. Also, that could be impractical for category names with y and yr. So, yes, sort keys are useful for all those categories, consistent with the Welsh location names in the categories. Another possible solution might be to rename the categories to add the English names and then a sorting order in English would be understandable. -- Asclepias (talk) 09:35, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

Edit my username name

Is it possible to put a space between my user name so it reads SELECTOR 44? SELECTOR44 (talk) 20:47, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello and welcome @SELECTOR44, please see m:Changing username on how to change your username. Thanks. Tvpuppy (talk) 21:31, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

Do you want to change your actual username or just how it appears when signing, because if it’s the latter, then it’s as simple as setting a different signature in the Preferences page.

Anohthterwikipedian (talk) 21:42, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

Easy, but also really confusing when there is a slight difference between the signature and the actual account name. - Jmabel ! talk 21:48, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

Free depiction

Let’s assume I make a non‐free pixel art game. I then release a trailer for the game on Youtube and license the video under the CC SA‐1.0 license. The trailer includes every single variation of every single sprite for a certain character in game. Does this mean that that character is under a free license, or just that every single official depiction of them is? Also, what does it even mean for something to have a free depiction? As in, if a non‐free character has a free depiction, what can and can’t I do with it? Anohthterwikipedian (talk) 22:16, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

Is this a hypothetical, or has this actually happened? This is a page for help in using Commons. - Jmabel ! talk 04:30, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

Oh, then disregard my first question. But still though, what does it mean when something has a free depiction, and what can or can’t I do with it?

Anohthterwikipedian (talk) 05:48, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

Commons:Free depictions of non-free works. - Jmabel ! talk 20:53, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

I checked the page, but it doesn’t tell me what I can and can’t do with a free depiction of a character.

Anohthterwikipedian (talk) 23:02, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

@Anohthterwikipedian: pretty much the same things you can do with any other similarly licensed (or similarly PD) image. Do you have some particular issue in mind that has to do with Commons, or is this a general legal question? If the latter, you really should seek advice from a lawyer, not from Commons' Help desk. - Jmabel ! talk 03:55, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

Not able to get an image that I used to routinely download

I teach a class in which the introductory notebook illustrates deep learning by accessing an image from wikimedia (with urllib.request.urlretrieve) and classifying it by a trained model. After 6 semesters of doing the same, today I got 'HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden'

Have you changed something? Kokaljfilipovic (talk) 03:51, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Kokaljfilipovic: Hard to say since that's a technical issue that most of us probably don't have much visibility into. But as a first step, I'd make sure you're following wmf:Policy:Wikimedia_Foundation_User-Agent_Policy in your requests and are providing a detailed, non-generic user agent (in case you aren't already). Even if your scripts were successfully pulling images before, my guess is that there are periodic changes on Wikimedia's side to prevent excessive use, especially in this era of AI-scrapers hammering the site. ~Kevin Payravi (talk) 05:03, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T400119

This is probably about phabricator:T400119 "Block traffic from user-agents not honoring our policy". MKFI (talk) 18:25, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

Voice of America videos

Wanted to license some screenshots from this VOA video (specifically from 1:31 to 1:43) under a public domain tag, but i'm not sure if it applies. Usually in VOA articles, images which were created by staff are tagged appropriately, but it doesn't seem so clear in videos uploaded to Youtube. Some clarification would be appreciated. Hsnkn (talk) 05:42, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

Well, "All text, audio and video material produced exclusively by the Voice of America is in the public domain." I see no indication in that video that that segment isn't, as in bought in from elsewhere, so I'd go with it. It's possible I'm not seeing something obvious, but if nobody points it out now, screenshots can always be deleted later if necessary. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 06:47, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

I'll go for it, thank you! Hsnkn (talk) 13:35, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

Les liens wikicomons

comment je peux récupérer le lien de mes photos televerser sur wikicomons ? Nicaciel (talk) 17:20, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

@Nicaciel: Bonjour, Ici : Special:ListFiles/Nicaciel. Yann (talk) 17:34, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

Publicar fotos modificadas por Gemini AI (via Nano Banana)

Buenas,Wikimedia Commons está permitido publicar fotografías modificadas por Gemini AI (via Nano Banana) porque Gemini implementó el Nano Banana (ese IA sirve para modificaciones o agregar un objeto en un logo oficial)?? AbchyZa22 (talk) 09:50, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

Downloading Google Authenticator

Hi, I am not technologically inclined. I am trying to download the Google Authenticator app but it does not seem to be happening. How do I know if the app is downloaded. I was advised that my SSN and DOB had been compromised in a TransUnion security breach. My Fidelity advisor suggested I download an Authenticator app. Since I utilize gmail and Chrome I felt the Google app would be best for me. Also, I read it is easy to install. The Fidelity representative said I would receive a 6 digit code. How do I get that? I have created a user name and password and thought I downloaded the app but do not know what to do next. Also, I am out of town doing this on a Mac laptop. At home, I almost always use a IMac, desktop computer. Will this transfer to all my devices, iPhone, Ipad and desktop? Please help! Thanks, Holly Burger Romeotraines (talk) 10:10, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

Using the Wikimedia Commons API

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T400119

Hello, my name is Barbara Fischer. I work for the German National Library (DNB). As a former WMDE employee and Wikimedian I ask on behalf of the DNB for support. The data aggregator and connector culturegraph (https://hub.culturegraph.org/page/about) empowered and mantained by the DNB is harvesting images on persons from Wikimedia Commons to illustrate via the application entity facts (https://www.dnb.de/EN/Professionell/Metadatendienste/Datenbezug/Entity-Facts/entityFacts_node.html)the auhtority file research tool GND explorer https://explore.gnd.network/en/. Since some weeks the access is denied. I will copy the corresponding lines here:

20250905-110328.161 INFO [default task-17901] [{}] [Root] Processing requested GND ID: 103247065820250905-110328.255 INFO [default task-17877] [{}] [EnrichmentRepository] Found 13 enrichments. Generating events ...20250905-110328.328 ERROR [default task-17877] [{}] [WikiCommonsApiDepictionGenerator] Wikimedia Commons API

javax.ws.rs.ForbiddenException: HTTP 403 Forbidden         at org.jboss.resteasy.client.jaxrs.internal.ClientInvocation.handleErrorStatus(ClientInvocation.java:221)         at org.jboss.resteasy.client.jaxrs.internal.ClientInvocation.extractResult(ClientInvocation.java:193)         at org.jboss.resteasy.client.jaxrs.internal.ClientInvocation.invoke(ClientInvocation.java:457)         at org.jboss.resteasy.client.jaxrs.internal.ClientInvocationBuilder.get(ClientInvocationBuilder.java:172)         at org.culturegraph.entityfacts.enrichment.WikiCommonsApiDepictionGenerator.askWikidata(WikiCommonsApiDepictionGenerator.java:211)         at org.culturegraph.entityfacts.enrichment.WikiCommonsApiDepictionGenerator.getDepictionEntity(WikiCommonsApiDepictionGenerator.java:91)         at org.culturegraph.entityfacts.enrichment.WikiCommonsApiDepictionGenerator.getDepictionEvents(WikiCommonsApiDepictionGenerator.java:42)         at org.culturegraph.entityfacts.enrichment.EnrichmentRepository.convertToEventList(EnrichmentRepository.java:138)         at org.culturegraph.entityfacts.enrichment.EnrichmentRepository.getAsEventList(EnrichmentRepository.java:78)         at org.culturegraph.entityfacts.usecases.EnrichRecord.enrich(EnrichRecord.java:25)         at org.culturegraph.entityfacts.controller.Root.processEntity(Root.java:197)         at org.culturegraph.entityfacts.controller.Root.getEntity(Root.java:149)

As we have not changed our procedures we would like to ask you for support. Our username for harvesting is: EntityFacts(metadatendienste@dnb.de). Please us know what we have to do in order to be able to harvest again. best regards fischerdata Fischerdata (talk) 12:16, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

@Fischerdata: there was just a similar question, see above: #Not able to get an image that I used to routinely download. No concrete answer yet, but please check wmf:Policy:Wikimedia Foundation User-Agent Policy first. MKFI (talk) 12:45, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

This is probably about phabricator:T400119 "Block traffic from user-agents not honoring our policy". MKFI (talk) 18:26, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

Questions

How do I write about myself Nana Egyir (talk) 14:36, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

On your user page. You might want to consider the project scope and Commons:What Commons is not first. Isderion (talk) 14:45, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

uploading images

upload image from wikipedia in Spanish Holis112233 (talk) 15:05, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

In spanish wikipedia, the upload wizard is disabled and a notice says "This Wikipedia does not allow locally uploaded files . Files must be uploaded to Commons , the repository shared by all Wikimedia Foundation projects , as long as they have a free license. You can use them here without any complications, and they will also be available to other Wikimedia Foundation projects."(Translated in english). So you have to upload here in commons. See Com:First steps/Uploading.––KEmel49(📝,📤) 18:57, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

“Non‐copyright”

If a person says that their works are “Non‐copyright”, what would that mean? As in, would it be sufficient permission to upload to Commons, and if so, would it be {{Copyrighted free use}} or {{Cc-zero}}? _{sorry for asking so much} Anohthterwikipedian (talk) 21:51, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

It would mean they know little or nothing about copyright. - Jmabel ! talk 22:51, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

But would it be sufficient permission?

Anohthterwikipedian (talk) 23:42, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

I would say not. Among other things, there is nothing there to make it clear that this is their own work. For all you know, they are putting up someone else's photo and saying falsely that it isn't copyrighted. - Jmabel ! talk 04:04, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

I meant, if a musician previously stated that their works are “non‐copyrighted”, would it be sufficient permission to upload their works on Commons?

Anohthterwikipedian (talk) 07:38, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

I disagree with @Jmabel, and think that this does constitute as {{Copyrighted free use}}. In spirit it is saying that you are free to use it, even if the author is not well informed about proper copyright terminology. QuickQuokka ^{[⁠talk • contribs]} 13:28, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

@QuickQuokka: how would you know that the content in question is their own work, or that they are even claiming that it is? Think of all the people we deal with who think anything without an explicit copyright notice is copyright-free, or that anything from any government is copyright-free. Wouldn't they be likely to put it on their own site and say it was "non-copyright"? - Jmabel ! talk 19:52, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

In the specific example given after my "I would say not" remark, about a musician: if we have good reason to believe the work is entirely their own (including the composition), sure. But if I put up my own version of a Paul Simon song and say that is "non-copyright" then I'm just wrong. - Jmabel ! talk 19:54, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

@Jmabel: The question asks "If a person says that their works are 'Non‐copyright'", emphasis on their.

By saying this I assume they mean the original author of the work. If it's a derivative work (e.g. a Paul Simon cover), then that's a different story. I just assumed that the question refers to entirely original creations. QuickQuokka ^{[⁠talk • contribs]} 20:01, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

I have seen one YouTube channel which remixes copyrighted video game soundtracks which claims that their music is not copyrighted in the description, if that's what @Anohthterwikipedian was referring to. QuickQuokka ^{[⁠talk • contribs]} 20:02, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

To stop this pointless argument, yes, I very much meant a musician that solely posts their own original compositions.

Anohthterwikipedian (talk) 20:35, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

@Anohthterwikipedian: In that case I definitely think that's {{Copyrighted free use}} or even {{PD-Author}}. QuickQuokka ^{[⁠talk • contribs]} 20:43, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

Using HandBreak to convert mp4 to webm

Any recommendations what settings to use for the best result? Trade (talk) 22:23, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

Search by year in category

Is there a way to search PDF files within a category by the year of publication (or by other {{Book}} parameters such as publisher)? TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 22:49, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

It depends how well the data for them is structured. No magic is going to work out that a book was published in 1932 unless the templates and/or SDC are properly filled out. The following is all based on using the usual search here; there may be other tools that could be brought to bear.

You can limit to a category (but not its descendants) with incategory:; if you want descendants as well, use deepcategory:. You can specify filetype: to get just PDFs or just DJVUs, and avoid most extracted images (though there might be a stray PDF-as-image). For the year, I'm guessing you are best off with just the number and dealing with the false positives. In theory, you could do something like insource:"Publication date=1932" but I believe that would wouldn't match (for example) Publication date = 1932, so there might be a lot of false negatives.

Also, if the files are already directly or indirectly categorized by year, you can use deepcategory:"1932 books" as a search term, or maybe even deepcategory:"1932".

Also possibly worth knowing: if you specifically want to find ones where the description mentions 1932 but they are not directly or indirectly in Category:1932 books you can use 1932 -deepcategory:"1932 books". - - Jmabel ! talk 23:09, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

• Jmabel: Thanks for that idea! All of the formatting should be the same as all of the works were uploaded by the same user. There are no sub-categories or other categories, either; every book is only in one, 9,000-PDF category. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 00:57, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

User:Jmabel - thank you for that tip about deepcategory! I didn't know that existed. Very useful. -- Deadstar (msg) 08:52, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

What do you think about this?

What do you think about this? Is copyright ok?「File:ガラスのWikipediaロゴ.png」 偏微分演算子 (talk) 02:36, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

It wasn’t copyright that killed it, it was the fact that it was an AI-generated file.

Anohthterwikipedian (talk) 02:45, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

I got it now 偏微分演算子 (talk) 02:47, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

Should I revert my BOLDness?

I haven't contributed to Commons in a while and I'm quite rusty, so I noticed a copyvio at File:Caravan Palace - Lone Digger (Official Music Video).webm, so I nominated it for deletion and I com:BOLD​ly added a revision that removes the audio track, as I think that only the video itself is CC BY-SA, and not the audio, so that it could be revdelled instead of deleting the whole file.

I then checked Commons' policy on BOLDness and noticed that it is discourages here unlike on Wikipedia. Should I revert this edit? QuickQuokka ^{[⁠talk • contribs]} 13:25, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

While the discussion is open, it's ok either way, imho. I think that you can leave your version as it is if you want, but if another user believes that they must revert to the previous version, they can do that too. After the DR concludes, the audio version can be kept permanently or deleted permanently. -- Asclepias (talk) 13:57, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

To be clear, I think that in this particular case, it did not seem necessary to publish a new version unless the DR concludes as delete, because it will have to be reverted if the DR concludes as keep. But now that the new version is published, in good faith, it does not seem necessary to republish the other version unless the DR concludes as keep, because it will have to be reverted and deleted if the DR concludes as delete. -- Asclepias (talk) 15:08, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

I think in this case, it’s fine. There is a genuine copyright concern for the video and what you did is easily revertible anyways. Tvpuppy (talk) 14:08, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

Uploaded by Category:Burscheid photographs taken on 2025-09-10 , but

On the page Category:North Rhine-Westphalia photographs taken on 2025-09-10 the link to it does not appear. Please help me find and correct my mistake. With respect and gratitude Алексей Потупин дипломированный географ 1974 (talk) 17:38, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

@Velopilger: Category:Burscheid photographs taken on 2025-09-10 attempts to use a template that does not exist (and which I would think should not exist; I can't think of any good reason to slice categories for pictures taken in Burscheid down to a single day). - Jmabel ! talk 19:59, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

I apologize, but I am not a programmer. I was hoping that programmers would help me here to correct my unknown mistake, as it happened once before. Sorry for disturbing the respected community. But this is only the beginning of posting photos on Burscheid. It is a pity that no one can help. By the way, today I posted photos of Dusseldorf and, as usual, everything is fine...Алексей Потупин дипломированный географ 1974 (talk) 20:25, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

@Velopilger Perhaps it got fixed already but it looks fine to me. Sounds like it could be some cache issues, so in the future, maybe try purging or “null edit” the page (edit and submit the page without changing anything) to refresh it. Thanks. Tvpuppy (talk) 20:40, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you very much, everything worked, my deepest bow.Алексей Потупин дипломированный географ 1974 (talk) 20:46, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

Huh, looks like Template:Burscheid photographs taken on navbox had not immediately shown up as existing, no idea why.

I still say, on a non-technical level, this is awfully narrow slicing. To the best of my knowledge we don't break down photographs in, say, California to single-day categories. Do we really need to do this for Burscheid? - Jmabel ! talk 21:52, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

I agree with Jmabel above. I don’t really understand the purpose of this category being so specific, since I don’t think there will be a significant difference between, for example, photographs of Burscheid of 2025-09-10 and 2025-09-11. Tvpuppy (talk) 22:11, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

I will accept your quite reasonable information in the following photographs of Burscheid. Velopilger (talk) 16:09, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

whyd i get a warning and then get instantly blocked

so i made and edit to refried beans as a JOKE, and got completely blocked from editing after getting a warning, which means you arent banned but dont do it again and i cant send an apeal because of how PETTY the mods are. now ik im gonna get even more banned after sending this but pettiness is for losers and i just felt i had to state this LimeSoda1 (talk) 22:09, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

@LimeSoda1: This is not the site where you should ask about your block. Go back to the English Wikipedia and follow the instructions on how to appeal a block, en:Wikipedia:Guide to appealing blocks. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 22:17, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

File:Bolzano ciimitero Tomba famiglia Pan Ignaz Gabloner.jpg

This foto of mine was flagges as created by KI. It is just a normal foto I took like thousands before, please delete this category. ManfredK (talk) 21:10, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

convenience link: File:Bolzano ciimitero Tomba famiglia Pan Ignaz Gabloner.jpg. Please link files when referring to them. - Jmabel ! talk 22:11, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

@ManfredK: can you indicate the edit where this occurred? I see no evidence of this in the file history. - Jmabel ! talk 22:11, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

@ManfredK: It looks like you added yourself the template PD-algorithm when you uploaded the file. You can just remove it. -- Asclepias (talk) 22:21, 11 September 2025 (UTC)