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ico format[edit]

"Wikimedia Commons does not accept filenames that end in the extension ".ico". Please convert videos to an allowed format before uploading, or reference help on other file types."

Why is Commons calling my the image i'm trying to upload a video? Trade (talk) 20:30, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No idea about the video thing, but .ico is not an allowed file format. Where does this image come from? If you created it yourself, you should be able to save it as PNG. Otherwise I would wonder about the license. --rimshottalk 23:21, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Trade: I don't think that message is calling your .ico file a video. Rather, it's saying that if it's a video you'll need to convert it, and otherwise you'll probably need to look at the list of file types. If you have a suggestion for how to improve the message, you could put an {{Edit request}} at MediaWiki talk:Mwe-upwiz-upload-error-bad-filename-extension. The last discussion on the subject seems to have been Commons:Village pump/Technical/Archive/2023/12#Improving MP4 error message. --bjh21 (talk) 11:39, 28 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Just an idle disinterested bystander hoping my 2¢ will assist in understanding how the uninformed may read the message: “Please convert videos to an allowed format before uploading, or reference help on other file types.” To me this suggests that Wikimedia thinks this type of file is a video. Images can definitely be “converted” as well. I would change “videos” to “media” for clarity (covering images, videos, audio, drawings, etc.) As far as `.ico` files, specifically: to my ear this is suggestive of a platform-specific icon file and I see no good argument that this be hosted on WMF unless as part of a platform-specific bundle of some sort, like an open source OS image. That said, I personally prefer magic-number file identification, rather than assuming filename extensions are correct. That said, this is purely my personal opinion, and I am not affiliated at all with WMF. -Loren Osborn (linux_dr) (talk) 16:37, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

British Newspaper Archive[edit]

Hi, I hope someone could help. I wanted to go thorough the British Newspaper Archive and wanted to take some screen shots of old articles. I was wondering what the rules were about that and can they be included on wiki commons? If I credit the newspaper and date them? Liverpolitan1980 (talk) 14:14, 29 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Liverpolitan1980: They would have to be out of copyright. Per COM:UK, that means anonymous photographs published in those newspapers before 1 January 1953; read that overview concerning texts.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 14:30, 29 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Jeff G. Thank you. I was hoping to take screenshots of old newspapers from the British Newspaper Archive. So it would be text from official newspapers - some of them don't exist any more though. So I'm a bit confused about the rules. Liverpolitan1980 (talk) 13:50, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Liverpolitan1980: Even if the newspapers don't publish any more, someone or something probably inherited their intellectual property - that's who would need to give permission for the text.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:59, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Uploading made files[edit]

If it is an SVG file, that I edited which is in the Wikimedia, how can I upload? Mr.Zoom1 (talk) 21:20, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  • @Mr.Zoom1: Are you talking about a derivative work where the original that it is based on is here on Commons? Or are you talking about something else, and if so what? If it's on Commons, it would help to link the file page of the file in question. - Jmabel ! talk 07:47, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Is there some way I could get temporary deletion privilege for categories?[edit]

Hi, there is a user User:JuTa here on Wikimedia who has created a massive amount of wrong name categories, I've come across at least a hundred name categories they have created that make no sense and are not actual names, I've been going trought and trying to delete as many as possible but it's getting very tiring emptying them out and nominating them all for speedy deletion manually. Is there some way I could be given the power to delete them right away, only just for a while to clean up this mess? StarTrekker (talk) 22:42, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Only if you manage to get yourself elected as an admin. --Rosenzweig τ 23:07, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Is being an admit really the only way? I don't feel comfortable with so much power/responsibility, I just want to be able to clean this up.StarTrekker (talk) 23:34, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@StarTrekker: This is the way. (sorry for mixing scifi universes, but this really is the only way.)   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 00:56, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Can some Admin who speaks German please reason with JuTa?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 01:16, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Jeff G.: JuTa is a former Commons bureaucrat and admin who hasn't been active on Commons or his home wiki in about two years. —RP88 (talk) 01:50, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@StarTrekker: Could you give at least a representative sample of the categories you are talking about, so we can get a sense of this before suggesting a course of action? I don't want to presume either that you are right or wrong.
Keep in mind that even an admin is not normally allowed to just go around deleting catogories on the basis of their individual opinion. - Jmabel ! talk 07:45, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Jmabel: Some examples that I have recently nominated for deletion include: Category:Alexander George Morison (given name), Category:Edward Alexander Newell (given name), Category:HMikkelsen (surname), Category:Y Goud (surname), Category:Tiesssink (surname), Category:Johan Peter Fürchtegott (given name), Category:Johan Marie Jacques Hubert (given name), Category:Johan Lindström (given name), Category:Petr Stepanovich (given name), Category:Petr Vasilyevich (given name), Category:Vasily Vasilyevich (given name). Some of these are obvious mistakes that the creator seems to have not bothered to fix, while others seem to display a complete lack of understanding of what a given name is or how patronymics work.StarTrekker (talk) 16:01, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Got it. So you are talking categories for given names that aren't really given names. Are they empty categories? If so, you can mark them for speedy deletion as described at Template:How to delete empty categories. If not, then you'd first have to correctly recategorize their content. - Jmabel ! talk 16:10, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Well I guess that's what I'm going to have to do. Will be a lot of work but someone has to do it.StarTrekker (talk) 17:15, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I tried uploading a video when it was done uploading it stated processing file failed what is the cause[edit]

I tried uploading a video when it was done uploading it stated processing file failed what is the cause Dagentle (talk) 02:35, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I tried uploading a video and I got this error file didn't pass file verification...what should I do Dagentle (talk) 03:12, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Dagentle: Which file? What was the exact error message?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 08:34, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
"did not pass file verification" very likely was the exact error message.
If you have exiftool or ffmpeg you can look into the metadata of the video. This metadat is likely the cause. You could try to upload a version of the video with the metadata stripped (or part thereof). Or you could try to reencode the video (for example with ffmpeg) with a higher or lower bitrate. This will likely "solve" the verification problem.
For a real solution you would need to open a ticket at phabricator, provide extensive information and then probably wait months or years for a fix of the MW software. C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 09:29, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@C.Suthorn this can take long is there no other short way that can be done....or is it because of the size of the video...its 1.4GB Dagentle (talk) 10:52, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The error message shows, that file size was not the problem. Verification starts after upload is completed. It is probably a false positive in the verfication, so changing anything in the file will likely make the file pass verification (unless it does really contain malicious code). C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 11:54, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Jeff G. webm video file....the error message is file didn't pass file verification Dagentle (talk) 10:51, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Dagentle: Where did you get the content? How did you convert it to webm format? If you tried using Video2commons, please see the error messages on Commons talk:Video2commons. If not, please try that.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 12:36, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Video uploading[edit]

What will be the file extention name while video uploading ?? It's not supported mp4. Dgmkoushik (talk) 14:47, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Dgmkoushik: Commons does not support MP4 because it is a patented format. COM:VIDEO may help answer your question, but you can't just change the extension, you need to actually convert the file format. - Jmabel ! talk 15:50, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you 2409:40E6:29:EE1C:E400:A108:FE2A:A70F 15:59, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete File[edit]

please delete the file

File: Sajida Mohamed Signature.svg

i uploaded it a wrong file MAL MALDIVE (talk) 19:53, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@MAL MALDIVE: I've deleted this recently uploaded file that you uploaded per your request, per COM:CSD#G7. —RP88 (talk) 19:57, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Please delete the File Template:TUTRA PAHARI.jpg
I uploaded it a wrong file Template:TUTRA PAHARI.jpg TUTRA PAHARI TEMPLE (talk) 02:50, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@TUTRA PAHARI TEMPLE: I assume that is File:TUTRA PAHARI TEMPLE.jpg. You uploaded it in 2021; the grace period to change your mind is only a week. If you like, you can nominate it for deletion, just like anyone else could. - Jmabel ! talk 07:19, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@TUTRA PAHARI TEMPLE: ,@Jmabel: See Commons:Deletion_requests/File:TUTRA_PAHARI_TEMPLE.jpg Wouter (talk) 09:51, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Il nuovo documento di una carta d'identità[edit]

Mi serve per un aggiornamento del nuovo programma di identificazione il protocollo AOuth Pubblico pensiero (talk) 21:41, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The new document of an identity card
I need the AOuth protocol for an update of the new identification program
translator: Google Translate via   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 00:27, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Pubblico pensiero: Ciao e benvenuto. Puoi consultare la documentazione per OAuth su mw:Help:OAuth o mw:Help:OAuth/it. Se stai cercando un press pass. Consulta la n:WN:AP o la m:Wikinews accreditation policy/it.

Hi, and welcome. You can see the documentation for OAuth at mw:Help:OAuth or mw:Help:OAuth/it. If you are looking for a press pass. Please see n:WN:AP or m:Wikinews accreditation policy/it.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 00:27, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fecha concurso Folklore 2024[edit]

Por qué no me recibieron la fotografía cuando aun no se había cumplido el plazo del concurso Wiki LOves Folklore. Eran las 11:35 cuando subí la foto La Dolorosa y Jesus crucificado de Guamal Magadalena.

Según sus reglas el concurso se cerraba a las 11:53 de la noche del 31 de marzo Nilvasofi (talk) 04:41, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Nilvasofi: Commons:Wiki_Loves_Folklore_2024/es : «Fecha límite para los envíos: 31 de marzo de 2024 23:59 (UTC)». UTC = tiempo universal coordinado. Hora de Colombia = UTC-5. 23:59 UTC = 18:59 en Colombia. File:Encuentro de la Dolorosa y su Hijo Procesión de la Semana Santa de Guamal.png uploaded 23:30 31 de marzo 2024 en Colombia = 04:30 1 de abril 2024 UTC. If you want to contact the Wiki Loves Folklore team, please see Commons:Wiki_Loves_Folklore_2024/Contact/es. -- Asclepias (talk) 06:27, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Upload picture of a public hiking map[edit]

Hi I just uploaded a picture of a public hiking map, that is standing outdoors in a small town in Germany. Is that even allowed or is there a copyright issue, because my picture is showing the work of someone else? Upload in question: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Region_Map_Westlausitz_Arnsdorf-Alte-Dittersbacher-Stra%C3%9Fe.jpeg WingedOutlawMedia (talk) 12:58, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@WingedOutlawMedia: Should be fine. Germany has very broad Freedom of Panorama. - Jmabel ! talk 17:28, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Possible copyright issue[edit]

Hi, I've recently noticed that there is a photo of former Supreme Court of Canada judge de Grandpré, labelled as "public domain", but I don't see the basis for it. It says it was taken in 1968 by "Inconnu" (ie "unknown") and was copied from the webpage of the Barreau de Montréal. Without knowing who took it, it's conceivable that the photographer is still alive, and if deceased, that the 50 year period hasn't expired yet? Could someone who knows more about image copyright take a look at it? Image is : File:Louis-Philippe de Grandpré, 1968.png Thanks Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 13:42, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Mr Serjeant Buzfuz: Apparently the source was this webpage at Barreau de Montréal and the uploader upscaled the image, resulting in the poor quality on Commons. The Barreau de Montréal webpage has no detail about the photo. I don't know where the uploader took the year 1968. Maybe it was made up to try to fit into the applicable rules for works of unknown authorship. Anyway, from the looks of the image, that year seems about right, give or take a few years. But a few years can make a difference for the copyright status. A photo of unknown authorship created before 1949 (per the former version of former section 10 of the Copyright Act, in force before 1999, see also Template:PD-Canada) or published before 1970 (per the former version of section 6.1 of the Copyright Act, in force before 2020, see also Template:PD-Canada-anon) is out of copyright in Canada, because its copyright was already expired before the changes to the Copyright Act which came into force in 1999 and 2020 respectively and which were not retroactive. For the discussion, let's accept the year 1968 for the creation and for the publication of the photo File:Louis-Philippe de Grandpré, 1968.png. If it was really of unknown authorship, it could be in the public domain in Canada as Template:PD-Canada-anon, but the Template:PD-Canada and Template:PD-1996 used by the uploader would not be the correct templates. Can the photo be considered of unknown authorship? Per the copyright law of Canada, unknown means that it is not commonly known. Then, what exactly makes it "commonly known" or not? This photo is apparently a studio photo by a professional photographer. The author was certainly known at least to the person who commissioned it. It was certainly not secret. The photographer is possibly identified on the back of the copies. It is possible that the author could be identified with a diligent research. Is it "commonly known" or not? I don't know. -- Asclepias (talk) 16:14, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I changed the status template to Canada-anon so that it can at least be consistent with the uploader's statements about the author and the year. -- Asclepias (talk) 11:29, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Incorrect photo of Richard D. Webb[edit]

The portrait photo at the top of the Richard D. Webb Wikipedia page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_D._Webb -- is incorrect. It is a photo of John Brown (another abolitionist), but not Richard D. Webb. Several images of Richard D. Webb are visible here, which will show that the image you currently are displaying is incorrect: https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth-oai:mc87qc49h

Thank you! Rebecca Abbott RLouiseAb (talk) 18:46, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

✓ Done Fixed. Yann (talk) 19:14, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Logo Creand[edit]

After talking with our legal department, we have decided to remove the "Creand" logo from Wikimedia Commons and the public domain to prevent it from being used by anyone. Please proceed with the removal of the logo: File:CREAND logo 2024.jpg. thanks a lot CREAND-Media (talk) 09:57, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@CREAND-Media: Hi,
This logo is very simple, and therefore not covered by copyright. It is also in use. So there is no valid reason for deleting it. Yann (talk) 10:03, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Convenience link: File:CREAND logo 2024.jpg.
To be clearer: even a very simple logo can be trademarked, but it cannot be copyrighted, and that is not a matter of any individual's or organization's choice. If your lawyers told you that you can copyright a logo that simple, you need new lawyers. - Jmabel ! talk 14:47, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@CREAND-Media: Even if all the above were not correct (and it is), you uploaded the file in 2020 with a "Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International" license. That licence is irrevocable. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:51, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Uploading files only granted for me[edit]

So, can I upload files only granted for me? I'm trying to upload app's pictures and author allowed me to. I've already done it a long time ago, but it got deleted. Edit Author might allow everyone to use it, but I don't know if he will even see my message.A.Granny.Player (talk) 12:02, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@A.Granny.Player: Hi, and welcome. What exact username or filename did you use? I can't find it among our hundreds of millions of files.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:19, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
There is no indication that this account ever has uploaded a file to Commons.
You can upload only images that belong in at least one of the following categories in both their country of origin and in the U.S.:
  • In the public domain, with a clear indication of why they are in the public domain.
  • Images that you created entirely yourself, or where any underlying elements that are not your own creation are in the public domain.
  • Images for which the holder of the copyright has already granted a sufficiently free license and where you can link a source to show that.
  • Images for which the holder of the copyright goes through the VRT process to offer a sufficiently free license (and, if necessary, to demonstrate that they are the copyright-holder).
  • Third-party images where you own the copyright; typically you need to go through VRT to provide documents that demonstrate how you came to own the copyright, though we usually waive that for heirs who are directly related to the original creator.
Obviously, there are some "mix-and-match" variants (e.g. a third party created a work using materials in the public domain, but combining them in a way that generates a copyright, and they then granted a free license; someone going through the VRT process to allow a particular Commons user to operate repeatedly on their behalf; etc.), but that's the gist of it. - Jmabel ! talk 14:57, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yony Orlando Calanche[edit]

¿Como hago Para que un archivo de audio de música MP3 de mi propiedad sea aceptado? Yony Orlando Calanche (talk) 16:50, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedia Commons tiene un alcance particular, donde los archivos deben tener un uso educativo real y los archivos no pueden ser de naturaleza autopromocional. (via google translate) Abzeronow (talk) 17:54, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment This user is blocked for advertising after warning. Yann (talk) 12:02, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Quadratic equation[edit]

Relationship between roots and coefficients of a quadratic equation Lasgidi9 (talk) 17:49, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Lasgidi9: this question appears to have nothing to do with Wikimedia Commons. - Jmabel ! talk 20:59, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Just searching titles of galleries and categories[edit]

Hi. If I use the custom search feature just for galleries and categories containing the word "postcard" it includes results from the contents of both. Although I just want it to be confined to searching titles. So is there a way to exclude page contents from the search and just confine it to titles? Adamant1 (talk) 02:56, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Adamant1: intitle:postcard -- Asclepias (talk) 04:54, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Asclepias: Sweet, thanks. --Adamant1 (talk) 04:55, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Photo of modelplane[edit]

Hi, I found a photo of a model plane called the Moskito on a online store page. The product is no longer sold and I am writing an article regarding the bankruptcy of the company. Am I able to use this image or not?

[1]https://www.digitec.ch/en/s1/product/tobyrich-mosquito-park-flyer-rc-aircrafts-6809760 K208 (talk) 11:48, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@K208: No, you can't. Even if the company is out of business, the copyright still exists. It is owned by whoever takes over the company assets. Yann (talk) 12:01, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
There is also the copyright of the photo to consider, see COM:NETC.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 00:06, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Edit count[edit]

Is there a way to see how many edits I completed in the last months? My xtools won't show me. Thanks for your time. Wolverine XI 08:46, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

FWIW, the link "Recent activity" gives the number of your "actions in the last 30 days". -- Asclepias (talk) 11:43, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I meant last few months (i.e. June 2023 to April 2024). Wolverine XI 11:50, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Based on the documentation of XTools, I wonder if you could obtain a result by:
1) Opting in by creating User:Wolverine XI/EditCounterGlobalOptIn.js
and then
2) Using the specific page for months https://xtools.wmcloud.org/ec-monthcounts/commons.wikimedia.org/Wolverine XI
I suppose it may not show either because of the total edits but it may be worth a test. -- Asclepias (talk) 13:09, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Doesn't work. Wolverine XI 16:41, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Wolverine XI: Sadly, your number of edits is uncountably high, termed by X as "too many" and "substantially high".   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 16:49, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
There must be another tool; I'll keep searching the wiki. Wolverine XI 17:14, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AContributions&target=Wolverine+XI&namespace=all&tagfilter=&start=2024-04-01&end=2024-04-04&limit=1000 C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 19:55, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category number of files discrepancy[edit]

Problem: There is a discrepancy between the category number of files when logged-in (50) and when not logged-in (15). Solution:? Elena Regina 97 (talk) 09:07, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Elena Regina 97: It would help a lot to say what category. Also, are you saying this is about the total number of files in a category, or how many are displayed on a page? If the latter, what device are you on? - Jmabel ! talk 10:13, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, total number: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Elena_Regina_photos_1001%E2%80%932000 Elena Regina 97 (talk) 10:19, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You categorized this images today. Probably you see, when logged out a cached version of the category and when logged in the live version. In a day or two the cache should be up to date also. C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 10:25, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Elena Regina: I see 50 files there, whether or not I'm logged in. Based on the naming and contents, if that could be up to 1000, only 200 would show at a time.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:30, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Cat-a-lot[edit]

Am I the only one experiencing problems with Cat-a-lot? It does not seem to work properly for me and it gets stuck halfway through the task. Thanks in advance, Alavense (talk) 10:27, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've been having problems off and on for at least a few days with it not allowing me to move categories. Although it seems to be fine with moving files for some reason. --Adamant1 (talk) 11:51, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Are you moving or copying files? I copy files and receive minimal issues. However, there is one annoying issue I have with cat-a-lot: it doesn't always copy every page I select, making me more likely to carry out the action repeatedly. Wolverine XI 12:05, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, I did not make it clear that yes, it does happen mainly when I try to move (or copy) categories, not files. Alavense (talk) 14:20, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I've also found it useless lately for categorizing categories. - Jmabel ! talk 15:22, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

ma bio personnelle supprimé[edit]

Bonjour je me présente Gamal Abina j'ai rédigé ma bio afin de dire qui je suis elle à était supprimé, comment dois faire pour modifier les caractères qui poserai problème. avez vous un service téléphonique  ? merci Gamal Abina (talk) 13:37, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Gamal Abina: Bonjour,
Vous parlez probablement de Wikipédia, et non de Wikimedia Commons, mais dans les deux cas, nous n'acceptons pas les biographies de personnes non notables. Les projets Wikimedia ne sont pas un réseau social. Cordialement, Yann (talk) 14:15, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Bonsoir,
il se trouve que je suis un simple citoyen journaliste qui à derrière lui plus de 900 émissions de tv en France et dans le monde et 1 500 émissions de radio.
je suis humble, mais il se trouve que l'on me consulte pour des conférences un peu partout, plus encore je serai en septembre invité officiellement à l'université de Genève pour participer à un conférence sur la géopolitique.
14 ans de médias et des débat sur France 2, on un impacte significatif. Pour Finir je suis porte parole du MDC et c'est à ce titre que l'on m'invite tous les jours à la TV et la radio.
Vous ne me connaissais sans doute pas, mais le public oui.
cordialement.
Gamal Abina porte parole du Mouvement des Droits Civiques. Gamal Abina (talk) 18:44, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Gamal Abina: Bonjour, Apparemment, vous n'avez pas publié de biographie ici sur le site de Commons, ce qui de toutes façons n'est pas le bon endroit pour une page de biographie, puisque le site de Commons est une banque d'images. Vous parlez probablement plutôt de la page Gamal Abina sur le site de Wikipédia, qui y a été supprimée relativement aux critères d'admissibilité de Wikipédia. Après vous être familiarisé avec ces critères, pour plus de détails vous pouvez vous adresser à Wikipédia, par exemple au Forum des nouveaux de Wikipédia. -- Asclepias (talk) 14:40, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright to assign[edit]

We wish to upload photographs of scientific facilities that have been taken by individual staff members as part of our project. To facilitate this process, one person is responsible for uploading and assigning metadata. The individual staff members are aware that any photo will be made freely available (i.e. they do not retain copyright) but we are not sure which CC license to use. Can you help? Km4water (talk) 21:01, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This does not make sense. Only the holder of the copyright can issue a CC license. You say that "the individual staff members … do not retain copyright". So is this work for hire? (That is, have the staff members signed a contractual document assigning the copyrights of these works?) Or do you mean to say something else?- Jmabel ! talk 05:39, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Km4water: If your company is the copyright holder, you will probably need to follow the process at COM:VRT, explaining the situation in an email. You can decide on any licence from the set we accept here on Commons. CC by-sa 4-0 is the default. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:43, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Km4water: Assuming you address the issue of who owns the copyright to these photos, then with regards to choice of Creative Commons license I suggest the following three. These three are the latest version in their class and address the most common reuse cases:
—RP88 (talk) 20:12, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Upload Wizard: create description trouble[edit]

When I use Upload Wizard, create description doesn't work with "←↓↑→ key" & "enter key". Can't move mouse pointer with "←↓↑→ key", and can't create new line with enter key. Is this bug or not bug? PC info: Windows 10, Lenovo Legion 560 Pro, Microsoft Edge ver.123.0.2420.65 official build 64bit. RuinDig (talk) 04:16, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Akira Toriyama[edit]

Buenas, una pregunta en que año estará al Dominio Público los personajes de Dragon Ball que fueron creados por Akira Toriyama (falleció en Japón el 1 de marzo de 2024)?? AbchyZa22 (talk) 09:54, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Para Japón, su trabajo será de dominio público en 2095. En los Estados Unidos, su trabajo también será de dominio público en 2095. Sin embargo, podría ser más largo para el anime basado en su trabajo que se publicó después de 1991.(via Google Translate) Abzeronow (talk) 16:35, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Abzeronow: ¿Como lo de "después de 1991"? - Jmabel ! talk 16:42, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Anime would have other creators than Toriyama, and it would be considered a corporate work in the US so my thinking was anime based off Toriyama's work from after 1991 would possibly still be in copyright after 2095 because of the 95 year publication rule for corporate works. Feel free to correct me though. Abzeronow (talk) 16:46, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

J Parkers Imagery[edit]

Hi there,

I represent www.jparkers.co.uk and have requested the deletion of all images uploaded by user https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ser_Amantio_di_Nicolao

Is there any way we can expedite this as we need to have all images removed (they were originally uploaded to our Flickr account but have since been deleted due to copyright restrictions)

Thanks JonathanBJP01 (talk) 10:26, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@JonathanBJP01: Hi,
On what ground do you want to delete these files? They were published under a free license on Flickr, and that license is irrevocable.
And this user uploaded images from different photographers, so I don't see any valid reason why you could request deletion. Regards, Yann (talk) 10:54, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Yann,
In essence, these images were uploaded to our Flickr account by mistake by a junior employee, as they were muddled up with a set of photographs that were owned by jparkers.
We do not own these images, we have purchased the licenses but do not have the rights listed.
Therefore the image owners (our suppliers) have demanded we get these taken down as soon as possible.
Appreciate your comments re free license completely but this was a genuine mistake i'm afraid.
p.s. sorry for multiple deletion requests!
Many thanks
Jonathan JonathanBJP01 (talk) 11:11, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@JonathanBJP01: Searching for author=jparkers.co.uk gives 475 images. So I suggest creating one deletion request for them all. Could you please confirm the number of images involved? Yann (talk) 11:25, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Yann,
Many thanks for your response.
Indeed, all 475 will need deleting - i tried to do this before but couldn't get my head round creating one request for all of them (hence the individual requests)
Many thanks
Jonathan JonathanBJP01 (talk) 11:54, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi @Yann just wanted to confirm - did you want me to raise the one deletion request for them all or will this be raised by you.
Many thanks
Jonathan JonathanBJP01 (talk) 12:46, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@JonathanBJP01: I can do it for you, but I would like first a confirmation that all images mentioned as from jparkers.co.uk are involved, or only a subset? Yann (talk) 14:13, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi@Yann apologies i received an email from Wiki support who have submitted the deletion notification for all 475 images.
I'd like to thank you for your help in this matter.
Many thanks and regards
Jonathan JonathanBJP01 (talk) 14:25, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
For the record: Commons:Deletion requests/Files found with "jparkers.co.uk". DRs are usually processed after a week for discussion, but if the license is not valid in the first place, I don't see any objection. Sorry for the procedure, but we have regularly people requesting deletion without valid reason. Yann (talk) 14:33, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
And please stop creating individual deletion requests. This makes dealing with the issue more complicated. Yann (talk) 11:07, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Does the first bracket "(" need to be separated by a space from the previous letter?[edit]

User:P1340 have been in creating categories for Taiwanese celebrities but titles without a space (e.g., Category:Jess Lee(vocalist)), does the first bracket "(" need to be separated by a space from the previous letter? If yes, then can someone please help the creator?

Apart from this, his contributions here shows that he had done the same thing many times before, like Category:In the Morning of La Petite Mort(film), Category:Fragrance of the First Flower(film), Category:The Young Hoodlum(film), Category:Who Killed Cock Robin(Films of Taiwan), Category:Love Fool(Films of Taiwan). I'm worried that he'll continue to do this. If someone willing to mentor him, then I would suggest that they try to explain this thing to him in the simplest and most understandable way in order to learning how to clean up his own mess.--125.230.83.206 13:17, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There is nothing deeply wrong with this, but, yes, it is wrong, that is not how this punctuation mark works in English or (to my knowledge) any other language written in Latin characters. @P1340: please do not do this in the future. - Jmabel ! talk 16:45, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I am trying to[edit]

I am trying to Jorunn Valle (talk) 13:48, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed. -- Asclepias (talk) 14:15, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Which hyperlinks should not be included to wiki files?[edit]

Is it considered legitimate to include scihub, libgen, anna's archive, yts etc. hyperlinks to wiki file pages? Elena Regina (talk) 13:51, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You can add external links if there is a reason to do so. For example, to cite a source or re-use or any other reason that is consistent with the Commons principles. If there is no legitimate reason for a link, you should refrain from doing so. Now, there are links that are considered illegal in some jurisdictions. Adding such a link can be risky, you could be prosecuted. However, not by and on commons, but by the representatives of that jurisdiction. Whether you do something like this should depend on your own judgement as to whether it could have negative consequences for you. However, these possible negative consequences are not caused by Commons or Wikipedia, but by an external organisation over which Commons has no influence. If, on the other hand, you insert a link to a legitimate site for which there is no legitimate reason on Commons, you may be sanctioned, not because of the linked site, but because of the inappropriateness of inserting a link at all, regardless of the link target. C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 15:21, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Elena Regina: can you give a context for where and how you plan to use these links? Obviously, the technical ability to make external links exists for a reason, but there are limits one where and for what purposes they should be used. - Jmabel ! talk 16:49, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Can you please clarify your reply and specify which limits and purposes? Elena Regina (talk) 17:52, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Elena Regina: No, I'm not here to write you a custom manual covering everything someone might want to do with external links. Tell me what you want to do with the links, and I'll help you work out whether that is valid and (if so) how best to do it. - Jmabel ! talk 20:35, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Is there any wiki page or tutorial to consult about this specific subject? Elena Regina (talk) 09:01, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Elena Regina: Not to my knowledge. It would be an odd angle to come at the topic. Usually help is about "I'm trying to do such-and-such, how do I do it?" not "What is a full list of problems for which this particular tool is a good solution." - 17:28, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/External_links
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:External_links#Links_to_be_considered
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:External_links#Links_normally_to_be_avoided
It would be interesting to know whether these principles should be applied in all wikis, including Wikimedia Commons, or only within Wikipedia. Elena Regina (talk) 22:15, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The contest vertical lines.[edit]

Iam trying to send in photos to the contest of April, Vertical lines, but I don't find a place to send them in? Jorunn Valle (talk) 13:51, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Lijova1: You are probably talking of Commons:Photo challenge. A first step is that the photos have to be uploaded to Commons. Looking at your list of contributions, it seems that you already uploaded the photos. So, that first step is done. The second step is that, on the page Commons:Photo challenge, you can click on the link located at the end of the section "2024 – April – Vertical lines", below the photos of that section. That will take you to the edit box for that page and you follow the instructions for how to format the insertion of your entries there. -- Asclepias (talk) 14:31, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fishy own work claim[edit]

Hello everyone, I've noticed instances where images are uploaded by undisclosed paid editors, who claim them as their own work. For example, there is this file uploaded by a possible undisclosed paid editor, along with this one and this one, uploaded by now-blocked sock accounts on enwiki. Neither of these images can be located elsewhere on the internet, suggesting that they were likely provided by the individuals who hired these editors to create articles.

In such cases, should these images still be considered as potential copyright violations, warranting speedy deletion, or should they be nominated for deletion? Thank you, GSS (talk) 17:09, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@GSS: Hi,
Yes, these images are suspicious. If you find an earlier copy on the Internet, please tag them for speedy deletion under a copyright violation rationale. If you don't find a copy, please create a regular deletion request. Yann (talk) 17:28, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for looking at it, Yann. I tried but couldn't find the exact version. Instead, I found this, which is a cropped version of file:Niharika Chouksey.jpg. Can such files still be tagged for speedy deletion even if they are not the same size? I understand that if an image is uploaded to Commons after modification, it would obviously be a case of copyright violation. But what about in reverse, like the one I just shared, where the image on the internet is cropped, but here on Commons, we seem to have the original copy? I want to understand this for future cases.
As for the other two images, they aren't available on the internet. I would have tagged them for missing permission if they weren't uploaded as own work, but since the uploader falsely claimed them as their own work, I will nominate them for deletion and let others decide. GSS (talk) 18:11, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@GSS: This is not the source of Commons image, so a regular DR is better. Yann (talk) 18:25, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Done, have nominated all three images for deletion. Thank you for your assistance. GSS (talk) 18:44, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Did I fix the bird photos I updated[edit]

See the last three posts on my talk page and can someone confirm if I correctly inputted the source info and if not correctly format it? URLs have been added. LegalSmeagolian (talk) 21:24, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@LegalSmeagolian: The links to the sources were missing. There are 177 million observations on iNaturalist. The sourcing is fine now. However, there is another problem. File:Red-and-black Thrush.jpg and File:Sichuan Partridge.jpg are under the non-commercial license CC BY-NC and they cannot be on Wikimedia Commons. You should probably nominate them for speedy deletion. -- Asclepias (talk) 23:04, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

is it okay to upload a photo from a yearbook pre-1989?[edit]

i'd like to upload a few photos from a yearbook, but im not sure about copyright. i saw that yearbooks from before 1989 are copyright protected, but i dont know if this means i can upload the photos Bst9jkj (talk) 02:42, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

edit: i meant "yearbooks from before 1989 are not copyright protected" Bst9jkj (talk) 02:43, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It depends on the country. Assuming your talking about the United States then its copyrighted if there is a notice. Otherwise it probably isn't. --Adamant1 (talk) 02:45, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • It depends. See Commons:Hirtle_chart if it is a US publication. Commons:Copyright_rules_by_territory for other countries. -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 02:57, 6 April 2024 (UTC== Please get rid of misleading information on a file
    @Bst9jkj: if you are not talking U.S., then you are probably on the wrong track with this.
    Assuming you are talking U.S.: if you have the yearbook at hand, you should easily be able to determine whether the book has a copyright notice. If it is before 1978 and there is no notice then, yes, it should all be in the public domain. If it is between the start if 1979 and February 28, 1989 and there is no notice, it is highly probable that it is in the public domain. Technically, they could have registered it within five years; personally, I'm not aware of anyone ever doing that for a school yearbook, though someone may know otherwise. - Jmabel ! talk 17:33, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please remove information currently on a file (at the bottom of the page) that doesn't make any sense[edit]

This is the file: File:Young Christian Lady Photographer Drowns.jpg

In the "File usage on Commons" section it incorrectly states:

The following page uses this file: File:HEADLINE - "LEEDS LADY DROWNED OFF FILEY BRIGG - Photographing the Breakers" (Yorkshire post April 18, 1900).jpg (file redirect)"

WRONG!

That file no longer exists so please remove that misleading information which is currently on this file: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Young_Christian_Lady_Photographer_Drowns.jpg

Thank you 175.38.37.197 07:26, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

But the redirect does exist. You can see it by visiting https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:HEADLINE_-_%22LEEDS_LADY_DROWNED_OFF_FILEY_BRIGG_-_Photographing_the_Breakers%22_(Yorkshire_post_April_18,_1900).jpg&redirect=no. --bjh21 (talk) 10:00, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It looks like the redirect has now been deleted. - Jmabel ! talk 17:36, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category section on a file is in RED[edit]

Please check Category section in this file: File:Young Christian Lady Photographer Drowns.jpg

It is in RED

Also, in the "File use on Commons" section of this file - please remove the incorrect link to a file that does not exist!!!

Thanks 175.38.37.197 08:13, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The former was because you had put the file in the category "Women with cameras Category: Drowning in engravings", which doesn't exist. Túrelio has replaced it with Category:Women with cameras. Yann has now deleted the redirect at File:HEADLINE - "LEEDS LADY DROWNED OFF FILEY BRIGG - Photographing the Breakers" (Yorkshire post April 18, 1900).jpg so it doesn't appear in the list of uses of the file any more. --bjh21 (talk) 12:19, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Why do I get 2 different files when I use my log in name and my ordinary computer[edit]

When I use my log in name User:Srbernadette

to access this file: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Young_Christian_Lady_Photographer_Drowns.jpg


there is NOTHING under the "File usage on Commons" section

BUT

When I go to access the same file with this "identification" 175.38.37.197 11:33, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I get this page:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Young_Christian_Lady_Photographer_Drowns.jpg

which DOES have the incorrect link to a file which no longer exists

Please explain (and thanks, I am losing my mind and please be patient with me!)

175.38.37.197 11:31, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Srbernadette: Bonjour,
Cela est probablement à cause du cache de votre navigateur. Voyez COM:CACHE ou en français Commons:FAQ/fr. Yann (talk) 11:40, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Will it the problem go away in a few hours. I cannot work out how to "purge". Thanks Srbernadette (talk) 11:45, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

When I log in to a file it is perfect. When I then log out and go back to the same file it has the old incorrect LINK at the bottom of the file so I cannot send it to a friend.

Please help 175.38.37.197 11:49, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

See the answer above. Please do not open a new section for the same issue. Thanks, Yann (talk) 11:54, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

about image uploading[edit]

I'm going to post a text image that shows a chart of characters from a recently premiered work. (Think the image is like File:Homestuck Troll symbols.png) Used font is distributed under the MIT license. That image doesn't include a picture of a character, and I was wondering if I could upload the image. --린눈라단 (talk) 09:21, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Why not? Though the answer would be much more certain if we were able to see the actual image. Ruslik (talk) 19:52, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Now, I uploaded the image. --린눈라단 (talk) 02:31, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
No copyright problem, but awful choice of font, and why is this an image at all? If this is needed, why not just create a table on the relevant web page? - Jmabel ! talk 15:21, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Because making mediawiki tables were hard to make for me. I'll think about using tables in other articles later. Thank you for your feedback! --린눈라단 (talk) 19:06, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Cómo subir una fotografía?[edit]

Cómo subir una fotografía? Escriba de Amon (talk) 11:59, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Está aquí. --린눈라단 (talk) 12:42, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Imagen no visualizada[edit]

Acabé, en "Taller" mi página y decidí trasladarla definitivamente. No obstante, poco antes de hacerlo, consulté de nuevo en "Taller" para un último vistazo. Mi sorpresa fué que una imagen (fotografía del personaje) no se mostraba y, en su lugar, aparecía el nombre y fechas en un marco en donde estaba dicha imagen. ¿Qué ha pasado? ¿Qué debo hacer? Larua46 (talk) 11:05, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Larua46: Casi no hay posibilidades de que alguien pueda ayudarlo aquí si no proporciona los enlaces relevantes (o tal vez si desean tomarse el tiempo para buscar en el historial de sus contribuciones). Por favor proporcione enlaces. - Jmabel ! talk 15:24, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Загрузка редактированных изображений[edit]

Я сделал ретушь изображения под лицензией cc by 2.0. Как правильно указать первоисточник?

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2024-04-07_162412_%D0%A0%D0%B8%D0%BC%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%BA._%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F_(%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%83%D1%88%D1%8C).jpg Krasattache89 (talk) 12:51, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Krasattache89: (I read the question via Google Translate.) If the original source is on Commons, {{Derived from}} (with a reciprocal {{Derivative works}}. If it is not on Commons, just list it as your source. - Jmabel ! talk 15:27, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment créer un compte sur votre site internet et page[edit]

quel est le processus clair possible pour réussir à travailler dans tous les comptes 41.82.214.165 14:04, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ici. Yann (talk) 14:56, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright help regarding File:My Little Grey Home in the West.jpg[edit]

Can this image be on Commons? It is public domain in New Zealand. --TheSwamphen (talk) 23:15, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If the image needs to be deleted can it be moved to Wikipedia as a non-free image? TheSwamphen (talk) 05:19, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • It would seem to me that under the URAA copyright restoration, it would be copyrighted in the U.S. until circa 2045 (hard to be precise because it is a circa date on the work). So it probably needs to be deleted and restored some time in 20+ years. - 04:14, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

Pregunta por los derechos de una fotografía[edit]

Hola, tengo una duda al respecto con subir una fotografía de un futbolista (Kang Ju-hyok), un fotógrafo le saco una fotografía y la subió a su cuenta de Twitter, le pregunte por mensaje privado si es posible subir su foto en Wikipedia y por mensaje privado me dijo que sí, en ese caso podré subir la fotografía? y bajo en que categoría entraría.


Saludos y gracias por leerme. FutbolRPDC (talk) 03:34, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@FutbolRPDC: Hiciste la pregunta equivocada. El problema no es si es posible subir la foto en Wikipedia; es si el ofrecerá una licencia libre. Y la comunicación por mensaje privado no sirve. Necesita o indicar la licencia en el lugar (visible al público) que sirve como fuente para la imagen o enviar un email como explica en Commons:Equipo de respuesta voluntaria. - Jmabel ! talk 04:23, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Y hay otro problema. ¿Entiendo correctamente que su correspondencia era con el futbolista mismo? No es probable que el suyecto de la foto posee los derechos del autor para la foto. Normalmente, los derechos estos pertienen al fotógrafo. - Jmabel ! talk 04:29, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Quiero agradecerte por responder a mis preguntas y aclarar algunas de mis dudas. Quiero señalar que mi comunicación no es directamente con el futbolista en cuestión, sino con un fotógrafo que tomó la fotografía durante un entrenamiento. Este fotógrafo me concedió permiso para utilizar la fotografía a través de un mensaje privado en Twitter. Sin embargo, al leer tu respuesta, me pregunto si eso no es suficiente. Lamento si mis errores de concepto o la falta de claridad en mi mensaje han causado confusión. Soy nuevo en este ámbito y agradezco mucho tu paciencia y disposición para ayudar. FutbolRPDC (talk) 05:07, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Of/in[edit]

I guess this is more to do with language than with categorization, but, not being a native speaker, I always seem to struggle when it comes to deciding whether to use "of" or "in" for places belonging to other places. I'm pretty sure about provinces (Provinces of X country) and populated places (Populated places in X province), but what about other entities such as communes or prefectures, for instance? Should I use "or" or "in"? Is there a rule of thumb for these? Thanks in advance. Alavense (talk) 18:58, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Alavense: it's not necessarily easier for native speakers, because in most cases both prepositions are valid. I'd say you'd do best to look for the most parallel case you can find and follow it. The one rule of thumb I can think of is that if it is a type of administrative entity that partitions a larger administrative entity, use "of" (counties of X province, Departments of France). - Jmabel ! talk 19:11, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your reply, Jmabel. Kind regards! Alavense (talk) 19:49, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Alavense: Also, if it's something that could easily move elsewhere, it is usually "in" (automobiles in France). Also, "people of France" typically would mean someone connected to France, no matter where they are at the moment; "people in France" would mean people in France at the moment, no matter how casual their connection to France. I haven't looked, but "people in France" might be a subcat of "people of France", but not vice versa, and "people of France" could easily be a parent category of a category for an individual person, but "people in France" could not be. - Jmabel ! talk 19:54, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Can a PD picture be put back into copyright?[edit]

Discussion on en-WP. A user is displeased he uploaded a pd-image, File:Mohamedu Shitta Mosque.jpg, wants it removed. If you have any wisdom to share, please do. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 19:24, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Their Creative Commons license for the restoration is irrevocable. It's in use so I imagine a courtesy deletion request would be denied. Abzeronow (talk) 19:38, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
That's what I'm guessing, but you never know with courtesy deletions. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 19:41, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I also doubt their restoration claim. Applying some standard filters to an old image does not create anything original. Ruslik (talk) 19:41, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps the best that the uploader can hope for here is to use something along the lines of {{Licensed PD-Art}} for their "restoration", but I agree with those posting above that it's quite stretch for the uploader to try and claim a new copyright was generated by their efforts. They also need to understand that accusing Commons, Wikipedia, or the WMF of "piracy" like they seem to have been doing in the discusison at en:WP:MCQ and believing that Commons owes them some form of compensation is not going to get them very far in trying to resolve this matter. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:53, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Governments have legal power to do so and occasionally have restored copyright of copyright expired works. Individual users have no legal ability to revoke a free license which they have specifically authorized. -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 19:55, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    It may help to "recognise" their claim to an original work and revert the image to the original CC-by-SA licence, just to calm the situation down. While there is a sliver of an argument regarding the cropping in particular being a "creative act", there is none regarding their publication of the image under licence on Wikipedia. JimKillock (talk) 08:44, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    They claim to have retouched it (though no specific information about what aspects or how), not just cropped it. Depending on those details, those might be protectable in this derivative-work and therefore the CC nature of this file is legitimate even though the original is PD. DMacks (talk) 14:06, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Noting for the record the uploader has now made multiple unambiguous legal threats on enwiki against various editors there related to this image. DMacks (talk) 14:13, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Yeah, good block there in enwiki. They're sadly mistaken if they believe they will get any kind of monetary compensation for the image from WMF. I'm also skeptical about their claim of restoration but I'm inclined to leave the license as it is as it accurately describes a public domain photograph that has been restored. Abzeronow (talk) 16:31, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    If it helps there are now two versions of the PD poscard uploaded, version one and version two that can be cropped and retouched if preferred. There is a bit of damage to the face on these. JimKillock (talk) 20:07, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I did advise them to be careful with respect to en:WP:NLT because it seem as if they were moving closer and closer to violating it with every new post they made. Not sure if they saw what I posted or did see it and decided to continue on anyway, but they had entered en:WP:IDHT territory long before that final post and probably would've ended up blocked for some other reason if they were allowed to continue on. For all the time they spent posting on English Wikipedia about that image, they don't seem to have ever tried to resolve things on Commons despite being advised to do so many times. Perhaps, they will do so now. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:08, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Where do I put my country when signing up[edit]

Frankmontana Frankmontana (talk) 23:57, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If you want, you can go to your user page: User:frankmontana and add {{User is from|1=}} and put where you are from with a two-letter code, such as US for the United States or TW for Taiwan. Not all places are supported at the moment. You can see many similar templates here: Category:Location user templates. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:26, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
But the answer to the un-asked question is that you don't need to declare a country at all. DMacks (talk) 01:47, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ausschnitte einer bereits vorhandenen Landkarte (Orte)[edit]

Hallo, bin in der Hilfe nicht fündig geworden - es betrifft das triviale Problem der "Lizenzvererbung" - diverse Ausschnitte der Quelldatei werden separat benötigt.

Bereits in Commons vorhandene historische Karten aus staatlichen Sammlungen zeigen meist ein größeres Territorium - z.B. ein Fürstentum in Gänze. Für eine Ortschronik oder Dokumentation soll aber nur der Nahbereich des Ortes als separater Ausschnitt verwendet werden und eine neue Datei mit Bezug zur Quelldatei soll dann verfügbar sein. Bspl. aus einem Stadtplan von Berlin 19. Jh. wird nur der Bereich um das Brandenburger Tor als Ausschnitt benötigt. Wie ist zu verfahren? EACC80 (talk) 07:15, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Für Karten, wie Sie sie beschreiben, sollten Sie problemlos die entsprechenden Kartenbereiche ausschneiden und unter derselben Lizenz wieder hochladen können. Es gibt sogar ein eigenes Werkzeug dafür auf Commons, das CropTool. Sollten Sie damit noch Schwierigkeiten haben, melden Sie sich einfach noch einmal, gerne auch im deutschsprachigen Forum oder unmittelbar auf meiner Diskussionsseite. Felix QW (talk) 08:55, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete information[edit]

On behalf of my company, they ask me to find out if it is possible to request to delete information from your page since data appears that is no longer real. It's possible? 2A0C:5A81:D612:5500:71D4:C25B:DF7F:32C4 09:18, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, This probably concerns Wikipedia, but you are on another project, Wikimedia Commons, which only concerns multimedia content. The best is to post a message on the talk page of the concerned article. If you could create an account, log in, and mention which article is this request about, we could help you better. Yann (talk) 10:53, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Change password[edit]

Hello Sorry for the maybe silly question. But how can I change my password? Postmoderne (talk) 10:13, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Postmoderne: Here. Yann (talk) 10:51, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you. Postmoderne (talk) 10:53, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Mass upload of copyright violations[edit]

Hello, folks. The user Fatima17321 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  has uploaded 23 files, none of which have valid licences and are obvious copyright violations. Is there a way to tag all of them for speedy deletion without having to do so manually? ArcticSeeress (talk) 12:25, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, with Help:VFC. Yann (talk) 12:33, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
✓ Done See Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Fatima17321‎. Yann (talk) 12:36, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, Yann. I'll remember this for the future. ArcticSeeress (talk) 12:49, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Help to edit interlanguage links.[edit]

Hello! I finished a translation of an english wiki "Arms industry"(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_industry) into chinese wiki "軍火工業"(https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%BB%8D%E7%81%AB%E5%B7%A5%E6%A5%AD), but I can not edit the interlanguage links, can anybody help me to do that? Caiptony (talk) 12:48, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Caiptony Check now, I hope I understood you correctly. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 14:32, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes yes, thank you for the help so much, dear friend from beautiful Sweden. I wish you all the best, friend. Caiptony (talk) 14:41, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Can I move this file here?[edit]

File: en:File:Curious George logo.png

I'm not sure if it meets the threshold of originality as it appears to just be text, but it has a rationale and anything so i want to check if it meets the threshold of originality before moving AuroraANovaUma (talk) 18:59, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@AuroraANovaUma Yes you can; it's below the US's threshold of originality. You'll have to request un-revdel of the old version at w:en:WP:REFUND, revert to the old version, and then move it, however. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 19:06, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'm now having troubles moving the file now. been a few hours and it will say "Can't import file because at least one of its file revisions is hidden." AuroraANovaUma (talk) 00:18, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Request for Review of Copyrighted Images on Solar Eclipse Article[edit]

We're currently addressing vandalism on the Solar eclipse of April 8, 2024 article, with several images posted from suspicious accounts. It appears that some images contain copyrighted material from MHT Aviation Photography, with one being a Photoshop file (File:April 2024 Solar Eclipse Phases New Hampshire.jpg) and the other having been edited with Adobe software (File:Totality - April 2024 Eclipse New Hampshire.jpg). As per Wikipedia's policy, copyrighted or partially copyrighted images are not permitted. Could someone review these images or flag them for further examination? Thank you. AceSeeker (talk) 21:21, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

NOTE: I POSTED IT AGAIN ON Village pump/Copyright AceSeeker (talk) 21:27, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment insérer des photos sur une page du Wikipédia de langue française[edit]

Bon petit après-midi de Montréal, bonjour, j’ai téléchargée de nombreuses photos ( que j’ai mise sous licence libre ) et que je je voudrais quand j’en aurai le temps, les mettre sur la page Longue-Pointe dans le Wikipédia de langue française. Auparavant j’avais travaillé à modifier le texte de la page. Plusieurs contributeurs ont travaillé très fort sur cette page. Il ne manque que quelques photos afin d’illustrer ce quartier ouvrier de Montréal. Merci de m’aider car j’ai faite la lecture de la page «  comment insérer une image » mais je ne comprends rien. Héron du fleuve (talk) 21:41, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

How do I upload a file?[edit]

hello, I am new to uploading files but not new to wikipedia, so I am here to ask for help on how to download a picture on wikipedia.

I'll be thankful if you want to help, thanks.

From - AikoWatahi-Kun (talk) 00:06, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @AikoWatahi-Kun
Please attempt to follow the instructions provided here. Regards Riad Salih (talk) 03:26, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Request to change one of the interlanguage links again.[edit]

Good day, I just changed the name of a wiki. But because of I don’t have the permission to edit interlanguage links, so can you help me to edit it please? (Just put "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%86%9B%E7%81%AB%E5%B7%A5%E4%B8%9A" into "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q392933", replace the old one "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%BB%8D%E7%81%AB%E5%B7%A5%E6%A5%AD" ) Caiptony (talk) 08:33, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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