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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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Logos

Can I put logos of firms Nokotiinus (talk) 11:22, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

@Nokotiinus: assuming that by "put" you mean "upload to Commons", the rules are virtually the same as for any other file.

• They must be in scope. We don't want the logo of every insignificant 3-person business or virtually unknown product in the world.
• The file content must be "free" in both its "home" country and in the U.S. That is, it must be either in the public domain or free-licensed. In general, for logos (except for the handful that are free-licensed) this means very old or quite simple (just text, for example).
• The one thing that is different from other files is that, in addition to all other concerns, logos should be tagged with {{Trademarked}}.

Jmabel ! talk 21:58, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

ClimeNews

Megkérdőjelezték, hogy a cikk/jelölt témaválasztása enciklopédiába való-e, azaz hogy megfelel-e a „Nevezetesség” irányelvben leírtaknak. Amiben segíthetsz: kiegészítheted az irányelvnek megfelelő forrásokkal, vagy a tartalmat bedolgozhatod egy a témakört összefoglaló cikkbe. Ha vitatni akarod mindezt, a vitalapon tedd. (2025 júniusából)

A vitalapra nem reagál senki. Mit tehetünk még, hogy a Megkérdőjelezést levegyék? Rampi65 (talk) 20:18, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

@Rampi65: I believe you are on the wrong website. Perhaps you meant to ask this at the Hungarian-language Wikipedia? - Jmabel ! talk 22:00, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

Wny I couldn't submit pictures

When I was sharing pictures on Wekipedia, it failed to upload my picture. It says: There was an error in your submission. You are already uploading the file "FullSizeRender.jpeg".

Honestly, it's my own work, and my first time to upload. No one can upload it before me. Why does it happened? N00800032 (talk) 08:03, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

@N00800032: Hi, Please use another meaningful name. Thanks, Yann (talk) 09:49, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

File names should describe what the file shows. - Jmabel ! talk 20:56, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

How do I post pictures if it's public domain?

Please i need it right now Kampotcitizen (talk) 09:28, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

@Kampotcitizen: Hi, Which pictures? How do you know that they are in the public domain? Please see Special:UploadWizard. Yann (talk) 09:46, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

And also probably see Commons:Uploading works by a third party. - Jmabel ! talk 20:57, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

How to tag suspected non-free files

Occasionally I come across an image on Commons with very dubious licensing info. Often these files seem to be taken from other (non-freely-licensed) websites, presumably without permission. Is there a way to tag such files so the community can review their licensing status? 98.170.164.88 10:19, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

Yes, use deletion requests, COM:DR. Write a good rationale and include any links to alleged external sources (if applicable) to help with the review. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 12:06, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

Picture of a car

Can the image from this page be used here?:

https://www.volkswagen-newsroom.com/de/bilder/detail/polo-ii-sprint-1983-84837 Ettiwdreg (talk) 13:21, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

No, it can't. It's copyrighted, and the use rights granted by Volkswagen ("Rechte: Verwendung für Pressezwecke honorarfrei" = Rights: press / journalistic use free of charge) aren't compatible with free licenses. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 14:18, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

Neeed help in uploading file

Hello, I would like to include a picture of Aleksander Kaufman in a Wikipedia draft article I am working on. The image is available on the SEG website here: https://wiki.seg.org/wiki/Aleksander_Kaufman#/media/File:Alexander_A._Kaufman_headshot.png. According to the site, the image is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0). Could someone please help me upload this file to Wikimedia Commons under the correct license so I can use it in my draft article? I suggest using the following file description:

=={{int:filedesc}}==
{{Information
|description = Headshot of Aleksander A. Kaufman
|source      = [https://wiki.seg.org/wiki/Aleksander_Kaufman SEG Wiki]
|author      = Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG)
|date        = (publication date not specified)
|permission  = 
|other_versions = 
}}

=={{int:license-header}}==
{{CC-BY-SA-4.0}}

[[Category:Aleksander Kaufman]]

Thank you very much for your help! GITSK (talk) 19:05, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

@GITSK: Hi, We need a formal written permission for a license from the copyright holder via COM:VRT. Yann (talk) 19:30, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you. But then what does the phrase under the photo on the page mean:"Content is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC-BY-SA) unless otherwise noted."? GITSK (talk) 22:15, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

It's a claim, but with no source given on and image that is obviously not their own work, it is not a claim we can trust. - Jmabel ! talk 04:01, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

Here is the reply from SEG regarding the image:

You;​wiki

Dear Dr. Itskovich,

Thank you for your message and for your interest in including Aleksander Kaufman’s photo on Wikipedia.

The headshot you referenced is currently available on the SEG Wiki under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license. This license allows anyone to reuse, share, or upload the image to Wikimedia Commons (or other platforms), provided the proper attribution is maintained.

Because SEG does not maintain an official Wikimedia Commons account at this time, we are not in a position to upload the file directly. However, you are welcome to upload it yourself using the SEG Wiki page as the source and citing the Society of Exploration Geophysicists as the author, consistent with the licensing terms.

If Wikimedia Commons requests confirmation of licensing, the CC BY-SA designation on the SEG Wiki page serves as the licensing statement.

Kind regards,

SEG Wiki Team GITSK (talk) 20:42, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello @GITSK, both the site you linked and the uploader of the image to that site are unlikely to be the copyright holder of the image. As Yann mentioned above, you will need to get permission from the original photographer/copyright holder in order to upload the image here. Thanks. Tvpuppy (talk) 20:05, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

Oftentimes when a site (especially wikis) is marked as being being under a Creative Commons license, that typically applies to the text. Images can be sourced from all over the place and may or may not be freely licensed (and generally, the safest bet is to assume the images are not freely licensed unless you have evidence otherwise). ~Kevin Payravi (talk) 23:01, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you, I sent the request to SEG. GITSK (talk) 00:06, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

How to upload MP4 video file

How to upload MP4 video file, We are this issue , we are not uploading mp4 Satyamsc (talk) 03:48, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

@Satyamsc: Commons does not support MP4 (it's still a proprietary format). See Commons:Video for further information. - Jmabel ! talk 04:03, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

User upload view stats?

Hello! Back in April, Archives of Ontario shared online that their most viewed upload was File:Portrait of a woman holding a baby (I0024828).jpg. I know that Mediaviews Analysis allows you to see viewership for uploads, but is there a way to query across an uploader's images, or across a category? -- Nick Moreau (talk) 14:54, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

How to Properly Create a New Page for a Visual Artist

Hello,

I would like to contribute a new Wikipedia page for a visual artist who I believe meets the notability criteria. Could someone please guide me through the correct and accepted process for creating a new article?

Specifically, I’d like to know:

• What are the notability requirements for visual artists?
• Are there any templates or formats I should follow?
• Should I start in my sandbox or go through Articles for Creation?
• What kinds of sources are considered acceptable for establishing notability?

Thank you for your time and help!

Best regards,

Artmiamimagazine Artmiamimagazine (talk) 21:03, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

The notability etc. questions are only relevant for Wikipedia, not for Commons. Please refer to en:Wikipedia:Notability and its subpages for EN-WP rules. If you happen to be interested in a German article, read de:WP:Relevanzkriterien, you may also consult the de:WP:Relevanzcheck for a tentative opinion about encyclopaedic relevance according to German WP conventions. French people have their page at fr:Wikipédia:Notoriété, Spaniards at es:Wikipedia:Artículos sin relevancia aparente, all other languages are also linked through d:Q4657574. Assumming that only EN-WP is relevant at the moment: other technicalities and knowledge about creating articles can be found through en:Help:Introduction to editing with Wiki Markup/5. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 22:06, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

Thanks, Yes, it will be just EN-WP. I will take the best way for mem sandbox, any suggestion or Do I have to make another question? Artmiamimagazine (talk) 12:33, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

Take a look at en:Help:Your first article (I missed this page before, it summarise help and guidances) and en:Wikipedia:Article wizard (linked from the introductory page given above) for a step-by-step guidance. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 12:40, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

*me Artmiamimagazine (talk) 12:47, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

Como se baja una imagen de mi galeria

como bajo una imagen de mi galería? Jorge Rossi Silva (talk) 03:22, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

@Jorge Rossi Silva: Con la sola excepción de archivos SVG, se bajan imágenes de Commons en la manera normal para tu navegadora. En casi todas las navegadoras para ordenador personal:

• Haga clic en la foto en la galería para navigar a la página del archivo
• Haga clic en la foto allí para obtener la resolución completa
• Haga clic derecho y elija "guardar en disco..."

Jmabel ! talk 03:33, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

License issue

i this image(File:Flowers outside mosque, Palmerston North - 2019-03-18.webp) on "National Library of New Zealand" official site.

But unable to find a relavent template lisence for it. 獅眠洞 (talk) 04:56, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello @獅眠洞, at the National Library of New Zealand page, if you visit the indicated source link: https://manawatuheritage.pncc.govt.nz/item/dda66756-52ae-4f11-996e-e1c2d79220ce, and under “Object rights”, click the link “By Attribution Alone”, then you can see the image is under {{CC-BY-4.0}}. Also, the original JPG is available to download on the link I mentioned above, so there is no need to upload the lower quality WEBP version. Thanks. Tvpuppy (talk) 05:17, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

I had several images which are permission through social media app but I asked to upload images under CC by Sa lisence can it be also uploaded in this licence. 獅眠洞 (talk) 05:59, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

I asked the legitimate author of the image to upload on commons under cc by Sa licence. They give me permission but I am confused to Upload under CC by 4.0 or not 獅眠洞 (talk) 06:01, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

example :- File:Mezquita-MarDelPlata -Argentina.jpg 獅眠洞 (talk) 06:02, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

@獅眠洞, uploading works by a third party is complicated. Make sure you read Commons:Uploading works by a third party#If you need to obtain a license for copyrighted work first. Unfortunately, I don’t think the author’s statement on Instagram for this image is enough as a permission to upload it to Commons.

If you needed help obtaining permission, I recommend using this new page: Commons:Permission requests, where you can request other more experienced users to help you obtain proper permission from the author. Thanks. Tvpuppy (talk) 13:07, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

@Tvpuppy, I unable to upload it under different format, does I re-uploaded and then place are duplicate template?? 獅眠洞 (talk) 06:05, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

@獅眠洞 Yes, just upload the JPG version separately, and place a {{Duplicate}} template on the WEBP version you already uploaded. Tvpuppy (talk) 12:49, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

Can an image taken around 1937 in Egypt be uploaded?

Can this image taken around 1937 in Egypt be uploaded and considered copyright-free? The approximate date is based on the fact that the person appearing in it was reportedly 10 years old at the time, according to sources. Even if this source is not entirely accurate, the subject’s appearance and an estimated age suggest that the image is over 50 years old. The individual was born in 1927, which supports the conclusion that the photo dates to around 1937. Given its age and origin, would this image fall under the public domain according to Egyptian copyright law, which generally protects works for the life of the author plus 50 years? Yoteb (talk) 14:15, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

• Maybe! Some more info would be helpful. When where was it previously published? "For non-creative photographic or audiovisual works copyright has expired in Egypt if published prior to 1987 and copyright has expired in the U.S. if published prior to 1981." Commons:Copyright rules by territory/Egypt -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 14:47, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

Yoteb, please link to a source with context, not only to the jpg image. -- Asclepias (talk) 16:17, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

@Asclepias, The image has been uploaded on multiple platforms and websites, including Afkarnews (13 years ago, Mashregnews (13 years ago), Mustafa-Ismailblog (11years ago) and IQNA (9 years ago), where it is described as showing a 10-year-old Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad with his teacher.

The Image has also been upload on many YouTube videos which are even older, such as: 1 (15 years ago) and 2 (12 years ago) Yoteb (talk) 04:14, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

None of which amounts to evidence of publication before 1981. - Jmabel ! talk 17:53, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

How can i request to rename a picture file?

How can I request a file renaming? On an airplane post I accidentally said 777-200ER when it is a 777-200 not an ER Gymrat16 (talk) 19:18, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello @Gymrat16, you can rename a file by following the instructions at Commons:File renaming#How to rename a file. Thanks. Tvpuppy (talk) 19:31, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

ZoomViewer broken?

I clicked the ZoomViewer button on File:Friedenspalast_Den_Haag.jpg, but got "The URL you have requested, https://zoomviewer.toolforge.org/index.php?f=Friedenspalast_Den_Haag.jpg&flash=no, doesn't seem to actually exist." -- Steven Sun (talk) 02:23, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

It seems to be working now. -- Steven Sun (talk) 14:23, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

Radhe Ahirwar

Radhe Ahirwar sironj Attitude girl 840 (talk) 04:24, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

@Attitude girl 840 It's unclear what you're asking, if you're asking anything. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 06:40, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

Cannot see the description i had written while uploaded pic with UploadWizard

I had uploaded some pics of monuments recently, using the UploadWizard. I had made sure to write a description for each pic while uploading. The uploads were successful but i cannot see any of the descriptions had written.

I am navigating to User UPloads and clicking on the filenames. Under File Information, Captions, the description is the stanard text "Add a one line explanation"

If i need to edit here, why was i requested to add descr while uploading too ? What am i missing here ? (i am a newbie) Biscuit-1729 (talk) 05:46, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

At least one of your files has a description; can you give examples of those that do not? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:31, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

Thanks Andy. I now realize that i am expecting the "description" i had entered while uploading to automatically appear in the descr field under "Captions".

To answer yr Q, i am yet to figure out where to check for the "Descriptions" captured during upload Biscuit-1729 (talk) 03:19, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

@Biscuit-1729: Hi, There are the "descriptions" in the "Information" template in the main section of the description pages. And there are the "captions" in the "captions" section. Your files have the descriptions. Some files also have captions when added, as in this example. -- Asclepias (talk) 17:06, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

Thanks Asclepias, i understood the issue - am expecting the "description" i had entered to be automatically populated in the descr under "Caption". Yes, the first set of uploads has the Caption as i had to request for a filename change (under Move). Hence i had filled in tej captions. During subsequent uploads, i had used descriptive filenames, so did not check the captions. Biscuit-1729 (talk) 03:25, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

Subir logos modificados por Gemini AI

Buenas, se puede publicar logos modificados por Gemini AI (via Nano Banana) ,Gemini AI usa watermark pero el logo de Gemini es tipo de estrella pero transparente, por ejemplo si le pido a Gemini que elimina el símbolo del pelicano del logo de Hollister ,es posible publicar logos modificados?? AbchyZa22 (talk) 13:23, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

Better refrain from that. As for why: COM:SCOPE, this kind of images, modified logos, is mostly unsuited for Commons. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 14:17, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

Speedy delete bot

There was a bot that would automatically add notifications to user talk pages when their images were requested for speedy deletion (SD|F10) (SD|G10). The bot does not seem to be doing that anymore. Does anyone know if the bot was taken offline for some reason? It was a nice work saving feature. Regards, Nv8200pa (talk) 14:53, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

The Deletion Notification Bot has been stopped indefinitely. Anyway, I think it was not meant as a work-saving feature, but as a partial measure in some cases of nominators who forgot to place the required notifications after a certain delay. It is the obligation of the nominator to always immediately notify the uploaders on their talk pages. (Please add the notifications for your recent nominations.) -- Asclepias (talk) 16:48, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

Translation admin

Hi there, who can become a translation admin? Giorgx12 (talk) 15:41, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

Profile

Hello! , So I got like a welcome cmomment on my talk page, and on my talk page do I write about myself or what? thank you! Eva.Crok (talk) 16:30, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

@Eva.Crok Your talkpage, User talk:Eva.Crok, is basically where other people will write if they want to tell you something, and any discussion that follows. Your userpage, User:Eva.Crok, is a page where, if you like, you can write a little about who you are and what you do/intend to do on Commons. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 17:23, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

Contributions Missing

I have been a monthly contributor to Wikimedia, but I just logged in and nothing is reflected under my User Contributions page. I suspect that maybe two accounts exist and they need to be merged? Chznarles (talk) 16:31, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

I'm immediately realizing that Contributions does not mean Contributions. Chznarles (talk) 16:33, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

@Chznarles Correct! "Contributions" in the sense of [1] and [2] is a record of the edits etc you made. Anything monetary is not public info. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 17:17, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

hojibot man hastam khooda hafzi hameghan mobarak 84.47.254.183 04:56, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

Email permissioned image Upload

Hi I have a permission on my email the author of this image,

How did I give it here, It is a conversation.

He stated Hi {my name(not using here due to privacy)},

That is fine, on commons or Wikipedia, I don’t mind. If you can mention the source (website) that would be appreciated, but I’m not fanatic about that. If you can let me know when you have made the article, I would be very interested. I do make a financial contribution every month to Wikipedia and use it myself a lot for information. Great that you are making that article,.

Best wishes,

Ludo Kuipers

Plz tell me process?? 獅眠洞 (talk) 05:04, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

@獅眠洞 There are several ways. I see the picture in your link has a caption (The mosque in the town of Khovd: the town has a substantial number of Kazakh people, most of whom are Muslim.). You can ask the author to add this to the caption: "This picture is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Please credit Ludo Kuipers/ozoutback.com.au"

You can also ask the author to mail Commons, he can start with the blue button here: Commons:Volunteer_Response_Team#Declaration_of_consent_for_all_enquiries

More at Commons:Uploading works by a third party. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 05:56, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

Kan dere snu bildet?

Kan dere snu bildet? Kvitrud (talk) 05:30, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

@Kvitrud If you check under the picture at for example File:Gutt med bukk laget av Stinius Fredriksen i 1925.jpg, there is a link that says "(request rotation)", at least it says that when the page is in English. Does that help? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 06:05, 17 September 2025 (UTC)