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Lizenzangabe

Guten Tag, ich möchte eine Bilddatei hochladen. Die Organisation die die Datei zur Verfügung stellt hat als Lizenangabe NoC-NC/1.0 Die Beschreibung des Lizenses findet sich unter http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/ Nun finde ich nicht den entsprechenden Lizenzangabe in der List und von Hand lässt sich die erwähnte Lizenz nicht eingeben. Man darf alles mit der Datei machen, nur nicht für kommerzielle Zwecke. Peer Schilperoord (talk) 20:51, 17 January 2026 (UTC)

@Peer Schilperoord Sorry, you can't upload it. Images on Commons must be allowed for commercial use. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 21:29, 17 January 2026 (UTC)

@Peer Schilperoord Aus meiner Sicht ist das eine unsinnige Lizenz. Meines Wissens hatten wir schon öfter die Lizenz als Diskussionsthema. Wenn etwas keinen Urheberrechtsschutz hat (no copyright), kann der kommerzielle Nutzen nicht noch eingeschränkt werden. Das ist in etwa dasselbe, wenn jemand auf ein gemeinfreies Werk eine CC-Lizenz ohne eigenen Input klatscht. Siehe Commons:Village_pump/Copyright/Archive/2023/07#Copyrighted_documents_where_copyright_vanished.

Wir können es mal an einem Beispiel veranschaulichen: Nehmen wir an, die Datei ist eine eingescannte Buchseite eines Buches von 1869. Das abgebildete Werk ist also gemeinfrei. Ein simpler Scan ist eine technische Reproduktion, die kein eigenes Urheberrecht erzeugt (also kein Copyright und keine möglichen Einschränkungen). Ein geschütztes Werk hingegen kann ein Rechteinhaber unter einer nichtkommerziellen Lizenz freigeben (bspw. CC-BY-NC-SA). Aber dann ist eben das Werk urheberrechtlich geschützt. Ich frage mich, was die Rechtsgrundlage des Anspruchs auf ausschließlich nichtkommerzielle Nutzung ist, wenn kein Copyright besteht. --PantheraLeo1359531 😺 (talk) 18:30, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

Es kommt drauf an, welchen Rechtsschutz das betreffende Werk an sich besitzt, aber "kein Urheberrechtsschutz" und "nur nichtkommerzielle Nutzung" widerspricht sich aus meiner Sicht. --PantheraLeo1359531 😺 (talk) 18:38, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

Und ob eine einfache technische Reproduktion des abgebildeten Werkes erzeugt wurde, oder ein "kreativer Input", wie etwa ein Foto eines 3D-Objekts es sein kann --PantheraLeo1359531 😺 (talk) 18:50, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

Das Foto, das ich veröffentlichen möchte, stammt aus einem Buch aus 1817, es ist im Besitz einer Bibliothek. Dieser hat mit Google das Buch eingescannt. Meine Beobachtung ist, dass Inhalte von Büchern die von Google eingescannt werden und veröffentlicht sind, nicht kommerziell genutzt werden dürfen. Das wird einem im Vorspann des Scans mitgeteilt. Die Bibliothek hat bestätigt, dass ich den Googlescan nicht auf Wikipedia veröffentlichen darf. Jetzt habe ich bei dieser Bibliothek einen Scan in Auftrag gegeben (6.00 €) und werde herausfinden ob ich von dieser Bibliothek die Genehmigung bekomme, den Scan auf Wikipedia veröffentlichen darf. --Peer Schilperoord (talk) 10:20, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

I cannot add my picture with select media files or flickr

I cannot add my pictures, does someone know why this happens? Foxfoxfoxfoxfox (talk) 14:46, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

Assuming you used the Upload Wizard, how far did you get? Are stuck on the upload step? Were there any error messages? --rimshot^talk 15:16, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

I couldnt click the Select Media Files To Share Button because it would'nt work and not even Flickr worked and there wasn't even an error message Foxfoxfoxfoxfox (talk) 15:20, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

I guess this didn't start to work in the meantime. The upload button is really a normal file upload, so you should at least get your browser's file selection. If this doesn't even work, that's quite strange. Can you upload files anywhere else? What browser are you using? --rimshot^talk 14:29, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

Download content

Hello, I hope you are doing well. I am currently working on a short film and need to include a news clip about Brexit to play in the background of a scene. Is it possible to download video content from your website? If so, how does the process work? I would also like to confirm if I am permitted to download and edit the video for my project. Thank you for your help. Floren1988 (talk) 18:16, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

@Floren1988: It would help if you would say what video you are talking about but the answer in general with reference to permissions is, yes, as long as you conform to the relevant license(s).

To download, normally on the file page you would click on "original file". Just what you do from there will depend on your browser, but typically that will open the video in the browser, and you can then right-click and select "Save video as..." - Jmabel ! talk 20:42, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

Thank you so much for your quick reply.

These are the videos I am taking about:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brexit_Demonstration_March.webm

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brexit_Protests.webm

When I save the video the file I download is .webm, is there any way I can get an .mp4 or .mov file in HD?

How should I credit you?

Thank you so much for your help!

Carlos. ~2026-43287-9 (talk) 20:51, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

@Floren1988: There are plenty of tools with which you can convert video formats; I can't particularly recommend one over another, but someone else may have thoughts on that. Given that the file both come from Flickr (sources linked on their respective file pages), you might want to download them in whatever format is available on Flickr, and leave Commons and our particular transcoding out of the picture entirely.

You don't credit us, you credit the party that licensed the video. In this particular case, that would be "ChiralJon, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons" (with the "via Wikimedia Commons" really being just a courtesy). In general, I suggest you read closely pages from which you are downloading material. The file pages are each quite clear and specific about the terms of the licenses they offer, and content on Commons may have quite a variety of licenses; conveniently, it is the same license and author for both of these files.

By the way, it would really be helpful if you would stay logged in when responding to a discussion you started. I'm assuming Floren1988 and ~2026-43287-9 are the same person, but things like this can cause a lot of confusion. - Jmabel ! talk 00:39, 21 January 2026 (UTC)

@Jmabel Sorry for the late reply! Yes, Floren 1988 and 2026-43287-9 are the same person! Sorry, I'm new here. Thank you so much for your help! Have a nice week! Floren1988 (talk) 09:21, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

Internet images?

Sounds like a stupid question.. but.. if somebody from the internet (for example, Reddit) says I can use their image here, can I? Do they need to do anything specific? Like prove it's theirs or something? Or is it impossible? Thank you, OliviaRigby (talk) 05:18, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

Not a stupid question. Please read COM:THIRD. You should understand that a permission "for usage on Wikipedia" is not sufficient. It would have to be freely licensed (and if there is significant doubt that the reddit user is not the author, we cannot host it here). Abzeronow (talk) 05:56, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

Upload enquiry

Can I upload photos of buildings? (Like train stations, buildings under construction etc.) Brickynoid (talk) 08:44, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

Well, you won't get more than a clear it depends on your question as it stands. You did not mention a whole lot of data needed to answer in detail, especially the country / location of shot and the age of the building.

There's a comprehensive overview on copyright matters at Commons:Copyright rules by subject matter, also with a section #buildings. That section refers to COM:Freedom of panorama (short: FOP), which is itself an overview of the FOP rules among the Commons:Copyright rules by territory. You might also want to give Commons:Threshold of originality (short: TOO) a read.

This knowledge held within those explanatory pages is only part of the deal, though. You will still have to be compliant with COM:Licensing, easiest if the photos were taken by yourself. Otherwise, you must respect the procedures outlined in COM:THIRD.

Last, but not least, bear COM:SCOPE, especially COM:EDUSE, in mind. No one needs badly skewed, blurred/unsharp or AI-generated images here.

So, to sum up:

1. respect local copyright statutes

• be observant of FOP and/or TOO rules

2. be wary of third-party copyrights

• prefer own images, if possible

3. keep also non copyright-pertinent site rules in mind

4.Commons:CARES!

Then yes, building images are welcomed on Commons. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 09:02, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

Hi Duc,

The building in question is wikipedia: Boon Lay MRT station, which opened in 1990. Brickynoid (talk) 09:54, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

Per COM:FOP Singapore, you should be in the clear when speaking about your own photos, or stuff that is already freely licensed. In fact, there's already some imagery available: Category:Boon Lay MRT Station. Just avoid uploading images where e.g. advertising billboards or artistic vehicle liveries are prominently visible, please, that would easily be a copyright infringement against the IP rights of the artists who made the displayed works (reference page: COM:De minimis). Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 10:16, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

Copyright Question

Hi can i upload the Badge of the Volunteer Fire Departements of Austria? Im not sure if its Open source But it should be the same License as any other Official Badges like the Bundesadler or the Badge of the Police or? StVeit Maps (talk) 08:58, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

There are a lot of factors involved. Probably better to ask this at COM:Village pump/Copyright, and if you are talking about an existing online image, it will help a lot to link the page where you found the image (or if it's your own photo of the badge, say that). - Jmabel ! talk 20:07, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

Uploading a demonstration of a meme

I plan to upload a video of me performing the 6-7 meme for use. I am concerned whether this would affect any sort of copyright laws since my video was performed on my bedroom with books in the background. Is this okay? Kpubkalanami (talk) 13:10, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

@Kpubkalanami: Books in the background shouldn't be a problem; other things might be, hard to say without seeing the video. - Jmabel ! talk 20:09, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

Audio Copyright

In The Mikado wikipedia, there's a audio which is outdated (airs from The Mikado 1914 i think), there is other audio which is on Internet archive, is a audio from 1907, im trying to find out if i can use it to post it here Jackieyuan123 (talk) 13:16, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

If the audio copyright has expired, it can be uploaded here to Commons. Note that it needs to be public domain in the source country as well if recorded elsewhere than the US, so that info is needed as well. (1907 issued recordings, for example, would be free from copyright in both the US and UK.) See Commons:Copyright rules by territory if more information is needed. (As to what recordings should be used in a Wikipedia article, that's best discussed on the talk page of the article there.) -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 19:44, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

Painting

Am I permitted to upload a photo of a painting done by my deceased father- in-law of the Vor Frue Kirke in Skive, Denmark? JFJ- NEW YORK (talk) 19:13, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

Maybe! Some more details would be helpful, such as if you are legal heir to your father-in-law's work, and when he died. -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 19:37, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

Overwrite Pictures

Hello, I uploaded the wrong pictures last week via commons and trying to overwrite! The thumbnail old picture still shows up on the file and, if I click on date/time that's the updated picture from today. They are not matching. When will the updated picture show up on the file. Can you help? Thanks F.E. Johnson Jr. (talk) 20:48, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

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The first two I tried seem to have their thumbnails updated already. It might be just your browser cache, using Ctrl-F5 should refresh the images on your screen. If you have problems with a particular image, you could try purging the cache. --rimshot^talk 21:50, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

Bizarre, if I click on the trophy picture that you show on the left. The ruler on the left of the picture (old picture) shows up as I changed it to the new picture without the ruler on the left side. F.E. Johnson Jr. (talk) 21:58, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

Example: File:Forest E Johnson 1936 won Albany - New York Motorboat Race, Inboard, Class E.jpp

It was updated today with the new file picture, but the old pictures show up with the ruler on the left side in the picture. Am I doing something wrong? F.E. Johnson Jr. (talk) 22:09, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

@F.E. Johnson Jr.: It's just a caching issue. Look at it with any other device or browser. - Jmabel ! talk 01:10, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

Yes, thank you. How can I delete the older version as they still show up? F.E. Johnson Jr. (talk) 18:43, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

@F.E. Johnson Jr. Because it is a caching issue, the old versions which are held in the cache will expire when the cache expires, you are neither able to do anything nor need to do anything. w:en:Cache (computing) will give you more information than you ever wanted to know. 🇵🇸‍🇺🇦 Timtrent 🇺🇦 talk to me 🇺🇦‍🇵🇸 19:16, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

Hi F.E. Johnson Jr. I don't think you can delete the older versions; only a Commons administrator like Jmabel can do that. I also don't think there's a need to delete anything. You can try clearing your browser's cache, but I don't think anything needs to be done here at Commons. For future reference, though, I think it's OK to upload updated versions and crops like these as separate files; you can then conenct the files together using templates like Template:Retouched image or Template:Extracted from. Uploading such things as separate files can make it easier for others to use the version they prefer. -- Marchjuly (talk) 19:20, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

For File:Forest E Johnson won 1934 Floridian Hotel Trophy Regatta.jpg, it is clearly a different photo of the same object, so I've hidden that. For File:02 FEJ First Win.jpg, the claim of "own work" is implausbile (certainly you did not take a photo in 1934), so I don't see how you could possibly be in a position to offer a CC license. Until that is sorted out, I'm not touching it. - Jmabel ! talk 20:25, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

This is a picture provided by his son as he has his collection of photos. Can we not use them?  F.E. Johnson Jr. (talk) 15:22, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

@F.E. Johnson Jr. Each photograph needs to be treated on its individual merits. For some there is heredity; for some copyright was not asserted (in geographies and eras which require assertion); for some copyright has expired; for some the copyright will persist.

That's fine but requires research and, where appropriate, permissions from the copyright owners lodged with COM:VRT.

The copyright owner is usually, but not always, the photographer. It is wisest to start by assuming that the photographer owns the copyright. However, as an example, news media pictures are often taken under a contract which passes the copyright to the news media. When contracting with a photoshoot photographer is can be that the contract transfers the copyright to the person/organisation commissioning thge photoshoot.

Thus we return to dealing with each picture as an individual item. 🇵🇸‍🇺🇦 Timtrent 🇺🇦 talk to me 🇺🇦‍🇵🇸 16:16, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

@F.E. Johnson Jr. I find I am displeased. https://www.forestjohnson.com/yachting/ suggests that an editor with that username on enWiki will know about the laws of copyright.

w:en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Forest Johnson Photography tells me that this is likely to be you.

You appear to be being economical with the truth over this. An uncharitable person might view that as deceptive. Having worked with you in good faith to seek to help because of my own interest in boat designs and designers, I feel badly let down. 🇵🇸‍🇺🇦 Timtrent 🇺🇦 talk to me 🇺🇦‍🇵🇸 18:25, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

Add source of images

I was notified in the images that I put on my account that because these images are themselves made of other images I should mention the origin of these other images. but there are all mine. I did not find a way to mention this in the copyrights.

This is the link https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Herve_Lebret#Source_of_derivative_work_is_not_properly_indicated:_File:Street_Art_Mosaic_-_style_de_Waldo.jpg

Can you help ? Herve Lebret (talk) 06:55, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

@Herve Lebret: are you saying all of the artwork is yours, or just all of the photos? - Jmabel ! talk 07:21, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

All the photos are mine. But I am not the author of the works of course. But street art is free of being captured, right ? Herve Lebret (talk) 10:23, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

@Herve Lebret: Bonjour, Les oeuvres d'art urbain ne peuvent pas nécessairement et universellement être republiées sur des photographies si la permission explicite des auteurs des oeuvres d'art n'a pas été obtenue. Ça dépend des dispositions spécifiques de la loi du pays dans lequel vous souhaitez publier les photographies.

Par exemple, c'est interdit aux États-Unis. Puisque Wikimedia est basée aux États-Unis, Commons devrait donc en principe refuser toutes ces photographies. Toutefois, dans la pratique, la plupart des administrateurs de Commons ne tiennent pas compte de cette interdiction et acceptent de tolérer ces photographies sur Commons, mais à certaines conditions. Cette pratique actuelle très spéciale de Commons peut se résumer en disant que sont tolérées les photographies qui ont été prises dans un pays dont la loi permettrait la libre publication de ces photographies à l'intérieur de ce pays. Cette pratique de Commons est très complexe puisque cela implique de connaître les lois des différents pays. Il existe sur Commons une page intitulée «Liberté de panorama». En cliquant sur un pays dans la liste, cela mène à un résumé approximatif de ce que permettrait ou ne permettrait pas la loi de ce pays.

Par exemple, pour la Suisse, la section correspondante est «Commons:Copyright rules by territory/Switzerland/fr#Liberté de panorama». Les photographies d'art urbain prises en Suisse sont ainsi actuelllement tolérées sur Commons, à condition de s'en tenir aux dispositions particulières de ce que permet la loi suisse. Même chose, mutatis mutandis, pour les photographies prises dans d'autres pays. Ainsi, de manière générale, Commons tolère les photographies d'oeuvres d'art prises en Suisse ou en Turquie, mais n'accepte pas ces photographies prises en France ou aux États-Unis. Vous pouvez lire les détails relatifs à chaque pays, car il existe de nombreuses subtilités et conditions particulières. Plusieurs pays permettent la publication de photographies de certains types d'oeuvres, par exemple de sculptures, mais pas celles d'autres types d'oeuvres, par exemple de peintures murales.

De plus, il faut tenir compte d'une couche supplémentaire de droits d'auteur dans les cas où l'artiste d'art urbain a lui-même reproduit, adapté ou utilisé sans autorisation une oeuvre préexistante non libre de quelqu'un d'autre, par exemple des photographies préexistantes non libres, des personnages ou des images de bandes dessinées, de films, de jeux videos, etc. Sur ce sujet, voir aussi la page «Commons:Œuvres dérivées».

En conclusion, il faudrait faire un ménage dans les fichiers pour supprimer au moins toutes les images qui ne correspondent pas à ces conditions, en tenant compte des pays et de ce que les oeuvres contiennent. Pour les images qui resteront après ce ménage, veuillez indiquer les lieux, les villes ou au moins les pays où furent prises les photographies et, lorsqu'il y a lieu, l'origine des oeuvres préexistantes telles les images dérivées de photos, films, jeux, et la raison pour laquelle elles sont libres, si elles le sont. -- Asclepias (talk) 15:03, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

Similarly for the map at File:Mosaic Street Art - Style de La Grenouille Masquée.jpg.

Also: are these all in France (we have to work out what copyright laws apply, so country is important).

Also: part of why I don't know the answer to the prior question is that you did not use even the most basic categories. - Jmabel ! talk 07:24, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

No not all the pictures were not taken in France, some in Switzerland, some in the USA, some in Turkey but they are all mine... I did not know what categories to put them in. Street Art ? Art urbain in French ? I hope this helps and solves the issues. Herve Lebret (talk) 10:29, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

Do you want me to tell you in which cuntries the pictures were taken individually or there is no need as long as I took and own them ? Herve Lebret (talk) 10:30, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

I added the 4 following categories to all pictures

Category:Street Art

Category:Urban art

Category:Mosaics

Category:Mosaic artists

I hope this makes my contribution better

Thanks a lot for your comments Herve Lebret (talk) 10:54, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

@Herve Lebret: I'm afraid you accidentally wandered into a very tricky area of copyright law with your first contributions here. As Asclepias ably explains above, the situations of whether we can host these varies, depending on which country they were taken in. (A further issue that he didn't mention is that we might be able to keep some of these because the depicted works might be below the threshold of originality—see Commons:Seuil d’originalité in French—in their respective countries but, for example, the map I referred to above certainly cannot be, nor can the image at lower right of File:Mosaic Street Art - Style de Morèje.jpg.)

Most of these categories you added are reasonable, but Category:Mosaic artists is almost certainly wrong: unless I am missing something, none of these depict artists. Probably the most valuable missing category to add to each of the images that can be retained is the most specific geographic category that can be added, and the most specific "Art in LOCATION" category that can be added, if that is less specific.

Also, if one of the photos is "mostly OK" in terms of threshold of originality ("TOO"), we (or you) can re-upload with a Gaussian blur over the offending portion.

If (understandably) it is beyond you to work out what can be kept and what cannot, once we know where each of these was taken, someone experienced can work it out. You can ping me or (presumably) Asclepias. If there are files that obviously have problems that cannot be fixed by blurs, please feel free to mark them for deletion yourself; you being a French-speaker, Commons:Critères de suppression rapide provides the most appropriate explanation of how to do that.

You might want to read COM:THIRD, which talks about the issues involved in uploading works where the creative elements are not entirely your own. However, that is more focused on people who want to upload either logos or photos taken by other people, because those are the situations in which this most commonly arises.

Thank you for your sincere effort to make good contributions here. As I said above, I'm afraid you accidentally wandered into a very tricky area with your first contributions. - Jmabel ! talk 21:00, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

@Asclepias @Jmabel Wouah I was not expecting such a deep and tricky analysis so it may take me a little time to fully react and propose solutions ! Before mentioning what I am thinking of let me add a few more questions to help me answer correctly :

- street artists are not traditional artists (like architects for which I am aware publishing pictures of their building looks similarly problematic) because 1- they are most of the time anonymous 2- they probably cannot prove they are the authors of their work 3- there is a debate about the legality of their work in the streets so even if they accepted the publication what is the value of that ? !!

- I have never seen them complaining about the publication of the works they did by others and there are thousands of these online so a publication here would not be original or new but would have precedents. Does this situation helps in some way or another ? I mean, the fact they implicitely accept publication by never complaining (versus an explicit authorization?)

- Finally, as I am in contact with most of them, would asking for an authorization help and if yes, in which way ? A message to me from them ? A mention on picture like "publication authorized by the author" ?

- Last but less important, coming back on the comments about the categories : "Mosaic artists", I would claim all these creators are artists, some even recognized in galleries. But I agree art is a trick domain. Also about geographies, most of them even if a majority of their work is in their native country travel a lot and put mosaics in many different countries so I am less sure about the geography as a category here.

Again many thanks for the comments but I need to double think about the way to solve all this and your reactions here will certainly help. Herve Lebret (talk) 13:48, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

@Herve Lebret: Toute oeuvre créative, quelle qu'elle soit, est protégée par les droits d'auteur. Y compris les oeuvres d'art urbain, les oeuvres anonymes, les oeuvres qui se trouvent à des endroits non permis, les oeuvres dites non traditionnelles, les oeuvres dites non artistiques, etc. Les critères pour qu'une oeuvre soit protégée par droits d'auteur sont simplement qu'elle soit créative au-dessus d'un seuil minimal, exprimant la personnalité de son auteur. Tout autre argument qui tendrait à contrevenir aux droits d'auteur ne peut pas être retenu. Un auteur qui publie anonymement pourra toujours choisir de se faire connaître, et d'assumer les conséquences s'il y a lieu. Ou ses droits peuvent être gérés par un tiers. Le pseudonymat n'est pas nécessairement l'anonymat. Si une oeuvre se trouve en un endroit sans permission du propriétaire des lieux, elle peut en être enlevée, mais cela n'empêche pas nécessairement l'auteur d'avoir des droits d'auteur. Ça peut aussi dépendre des pays et de chaque cas. La page de Wikipédia fr:Statut juridique de l'art urbain en France contient des commentaires un peu obscurs à ce sujet. Quoiqu'il en soit, Commons considère généralement que les droits d'auteur existent. Des arguments pour contrevenir aux droits d'auteur, du type «l'auteur ne se plaindra pas» etc., sont explicitement rejetés par Commons (sauf, par exception, dans le cas très particulier mentionné précédemment, pour tolérer certaines photos qui contreviennent au droit états-unien mais qui seraient librement publiables dans les pays où elles ont été prises).

Une autorisation explicite écrite provenant de l'auteur lui-même est en effet la solution idéale à utiliser normalement. Il faut pouvoir vérifier que l'autorisation provient bien de l'auteur. (Voir VRT.) Évidemment, le problème dans ce cas-ci est que la plupart des auteurs de ces oeuvres peuvent vouloir demeurer anonymes, ce qui rend difficile la vérification des autorisations. Sans trop s'avancer ici, il y aurait peut-être des solutions possibles qui pourraient être envisagées si vous réussissez à obtenir l'accord des membres de l'équipe VRT, avec qui il vous faudrait en discuter (Voir VRT/Noticeboard.) Mais ce n'est pas gagné d'avance.

Le commentaire de Jmabel au sujet de la catégorie «Mosaic artists» ne signifie pas que ces auteurs ne sont pas qualifiés d'artistes. Il signifie simplement que cette catégorie n'est pas pour les oeuvres, elle est pour les personnes. Elle a pour fonction de contenir les sous-catégories relatives aux personnes. Elle peut aussi contenir des photos des personnes pour lesquelles il n'existe pas de sous-catégorie. Mais pas des photos qui montrent seulement des oeuvres, qui se classent plutôt dans les catégories relatives aux oeuvres, comme par exemple «Mosaics in Geneva», «Street art in Lyon», ainsi que dans les sous-catégories des artistes, lorsqu'elles existent. Il s'agit simplement de la manière d'organiser les catégories des personnes et les catégories des oeuvres. Pour des artistes dont on a des images de plusieurs oeuvres, on pourra avoir une catégorie au nom de la personne, qui pourra inclure une sous-catégorie «works by <nom de l'artiste>» ou «mosaics by <nom de l'artiste>». -- Asclepias (talk) 17:59, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

Fremdsprache

was muss ich einstellen, damit ich die texte standardmäßig in deutsch habe? Berti 1220 (talk) 08:42, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

Subject: Objection to the use of the term “dissident” in reference to the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church

Representation

I respectfully submit this representation seeking correction of the terminology used in this article with reference to the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, particularly the use of the term “dissident” to describe it.

1. Factual and Legal Position in India

The Hon’ble Supreme Court of India, through a series of final and binding judgments (notably culminating in 2017 and thereafter), has conclusively held that:

The Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, governed by the 1934 Constitution, is the lawful, original, and official Malankara Church for purposes of administration, governance, and representation in India. Parallel constitutions framed by the Jacobite faction have been declared invalid. All appeals, review petitions, and curative petitions have been dismissed.

These judgments are final and constitute the law of the land in India. Consequently, describing the legally recognized Malankara Church as a “dissident faction” is factually incorrect in the present context.

2. Problem with the Term “Dissident”

The term dissident is:

Evaluative and judgmental, rather than purely descriptive Historically contested Legally obsolete in the Indian context after final judicial determinations

Wikipedia’s Neutral Point of View (NPOV) policy cautions against the use of labels that carry implicit value judgments, especially when such labels are disputed or contradicted by authoritative sources.

3. Distinction Between Historical Narratives and Present Reality

It is acknowledged that some historical or ecclesiastical sources—particularly older or external academic works—may have described the Catholicate movement as a “dissident” development in the early 20th century.

However:

Such descriptions reflect specific historiographical perspectives, not settled facts They predate decisive legal findings They should not be stated as Wikipedia’s own voice without clear attribution and contextual balance

Wikipedia policy requires that significant, authoritative developments—including final constitutional court judgments—be reflected in article framing.

4. Suggested Neutral and Accurate Framing (Policy-Compliant)

Instead of asserting the term “dissident” as fact, the article may adopt language such as:

“The Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, which is legally recognized by Indian courts as the official Malankara Church, emerged following the establishment of the Catholicate in the early 20th century.”

If historical viewpoints are to be retained, they should be clearly attributed, for example:

“Some early historians described the Catholicate movement as dissident; however, Indian courts have conclusively recognized the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church as the lawful and original Malankara Church.”

This approach:

Maintains neutrality Respects verifiability Avoids pejorative or misleading labels Reflects current authoritative findings

5. Request

I therefore respectfully request that:

The term “dissident” be removed or appropriately qualified The article be updated to reflect the final legal position in India Disputed historical descriptions, if retained, be clearly attributed and balanced

This correction would enhance the article’s accuracy, neutrality, and compliance with Wikipedia’s core content policies.

Thank you for your time and consideration. Rajan Pappachan (talk) 10:17, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

@Rajan Pappachan: Does this refer to some particular page or pages on this site (Wikimedia Commons) or are you perhaps asking this on the wrong website? - Jmabel ! talk 21:06, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

EP cover

I'm making a Wikipedia page for the EP "Patched up" by beabadoobee. Can I upload its cover for the infobox? Nob7752 (talk) 10:42, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

@Nob7752: Probably not on this site (Commons) unless it is very visually simple, but if you are doing this on the English-language Wikipedia, then you can probably do it there (not here!) on a "fair use" basis. If you model your approach closely on en:File:Meet the Beatles.jpg, you can probably skip reading the relevant en-wiki policy documents, but YMMV. - Jmabel ! talk 21:12, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

SkySonic render

im currently trying to edit the page for the Rafael SkySonic interceptor and i am wondering whether i can use the render provided by rafael on their website Wikiexplained (talk) 11:39, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

@Wikiexplained: assume you can't upload the media to Commons, unless the source has a free license (the Israeli defence forces do publish some imagery under suitable free licenses e.g. on Flickr, so you may get lucky). Refer to COM:THIRD for that case, as it would be media from a third-party source. On EN-WP specifically, you can proceed along the guideline en:WP:FAIRUSE, but such fair use is definitively prohibited on Commons. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 18:14, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

Multiple uploads of a video

Hi. I was wondering that there is no suitable image for en:Young Stunners on Wikipedia. Recently, I came across one of their music videos, which is uploaded by their official channel as well as the sponsored brand on YouTube. The brand one is under CC license, so can we use a screenshot from it to depict the image(s) of the singers? A similar query is at en:Talk:Dora and the Search for Sol Dorado#CC License?, where I have highlighted that the film trailer has one official upload on YouTube under CC License. Thank you! M. Billoo 12:43, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

@M.Billoo2000: the only doubt here is whether the person who uploaded under the CC license had authority to do so. We've had times when we decided (for example) that for some U.S.-based company we would not accept that an subsidiary in (say) India could offer a license that was not otherwise offered.

Because this issue of who has authority can be a bit subtle, this question might better be asked at COM:VP/C. - Jmabel ! talk 21:17, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

common domain pictures

Photographic pictures taken in 1880s are now I believe deemed public domain. Leopoldo Traversi also died in 1941. It has been over 70 years since his death. Are this pictures considered public domain? These pictures are now available in Italian Geographic society archive. Zenithmuhaba (talk) 07:10, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

@Zenithmuhaba: Hi, Yes, these should be fine. Yann (talk) 08:44, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

@Yann: Does URAA need to be considered here? If the photos were subject to 70 p.m.a., they would've still be under copyright protection on January 1, 1996, wouldn't they? FWIW, en:Leopoldo Traversi was Italian. -- Marchjuly (talk) 20:58, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

No. It is said above "taken in 1880s", so they are out of copyright since long. And Italy has a short copyright duration, so they wouldn't be affected by URAA even if taken at the end of his life in 1941. Yann (talk) 21:02, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply. The pictures were taken in 1880s by Leopoldo Traversi in Ethiopia. Not much is talked about them since. I came across them and wanted to post them here since the copyright has expired. Zenithmuhaba (talk) 05:22, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

The pictures have been uploaded. Check them out here https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=50&user=Zenithmuhaba&ilshowall=1 Zenithmuhaba (talk) 06:27, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

@Zenithmuhaba: These still need categories. Also, the placement of miscellaneous content outside of the {{Information}} template is rather odd. And what is a "date of resumption"? - Jmabel ! talk 20:02, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

image of Rocío Wanninkhof

I want to put a photo of Rocío Wanninkhof on your website; it's an image that has appeared in all Spanish media outlets. It's purely for informational purposes. It's such a widely seen photo that no newspaper can claim ownership. KykoMary (talk) 08:29, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

@KykoMary: Hi, It is not sufficient for Commons, where we need a en:free license from the copyright holder. Yann (talk) 08:43, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

But in English Wikipedia it is sufficient. They explain that the image is not free, but it does´nt matter. I don`t understand. Thanks! KykoMary (talk) 09:54, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

@KykoMary: On the English Wikipedia, rules are different. There fair use is allowed, but it is not on Commons. Yann (talk) 10:01, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

Source of derivative work is not properly indicated: File:Asnan camp néolithique dit de l'éperon barré du Montgué représentation artistique 23.06.2024 ERNOUF Guillaume.jpg

Bonjour, pour répondre à la demande : "While the description page states who made this derivative work, it currently doesn't specify who created the original work, so the overall copyright status is unclear. If you did not create the original work depicted in this image, you will need to specify the owner of the copyright." j'ai adapté le code pour lever l'ambiguité sur le copyright. Est-ce bon pour vous ? Merci d'avance pour votre expertise. Saint Germinais (talk) 09:29, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

voici le code corrigé

== Summary ==

{{Information

|description=

Français : Représentation artistique du camp néolithique de l'éperon barré du Montgué à Asnan. Cette œuvre est une création numérique réalisée via Photoshop (IA générative pour les personnages) basée sur un travail préparatoire de l'auteur.

|date=2024-06-09 12:56:01

|source=Own work (All source elements and background work also created by the same author)

|author=ERNOUF Guillaume

|permission=

|other_versions=File:Asnan camp néolithique dit de l'éperon barré du Montgué représentation artistique (support) 16.06.2024 ERNOUF Guillaume.jpg

}}

Camera location	47° 18′ 50.18″ N, 3° 33′ 02.33″ E	View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap

I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:

Saint Germinais (talk) 09:29, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

Le fichier en question : File:Asnan camp néolithique dit de l'éperon barré du Montgué représentation artistique 16.06.2024 ERNOUF Guillaume.jpg Saint Germinais (talk) 09:31, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

Convenience link: File:Asnan camp néolithique dit de l'éperon barré du Montgué représentation artistique 16.06.2024 ERNOUF Guillaume.jpg. - Jmabel ! talk 18:26, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

@Saint Germinais: Il semble que vous ayez modifié la page du fichier avec succès. De quelle aide avez-vous besoin exactement ? - Jmabel ! talk 18:29, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

Copyright of old photos in Archive.org?

How would I go about finding the copyright status of photos that now, as far as I can tell, only exist in Archive.org? I'd like to be able to add 1-3 photos from here - [1] - to an article I'm working on, primarily those showing the yellow steam locomotive and carriage. The photos must have been taken between 1966 and 1974. Anothersignalman (talk) 20:10, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

@Anothersignalman: Hi, 1966 and 1974 are not so old for copyright purpose. Please see Commons:Copyright rules by territory/Australia for relevant copyright rules. Yann (talk) 21:06, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

Thanks, but I was thinking more along the lines of how do I trace the owner? Anothersignalman (talk) 21:23, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

The newspaper credited the photos "courtesy of the Griffith family", so I suppose the best option is to try to contact that family. -- Asclepias (talk) 21:52, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

About statues in Chinese temples

For statues of Buddhas or deities inside or outside halls in Chinese temples, should the "Template:FoP-China" be added? Huangdan2060 (talk) 05:24, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

@Huangdan2060: Here's how it looks to me:

• If the statues are old enough to be out of copyright, then FoP is completely irrelevant.
• If they are copyrighted and you can attribute the author then, yes, {{FoP-China}} would be appropriate (but probably not mandatory; an FoP tag is basically an explanation of why something doesn't need licensing).
• If they are copyrighted and you cannot attribute the author, then it would appear FoP does not apply, and you are simply violating copyright with such a photo.

If you want other opinions, you will generally get more informed opinions at COM:VP/C than at the general help desk. If you post there, please link this discussion. - Jmabel ! talk 20:10, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for your detailed explanation. I understand now. Based on your answer, I’ve come to realize that most of the thousands of Buddha statue photos I uploaded may actually be infringing, since the majority of the statues were created within the past 30 years. Very few date back to the Republican era (1912–1949) or earlier (before 1911), and those are mostly housed in museums. Huangdan2060 (talk) 03:44, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

Archivo

descargar Daniel Martínez2245 (talk) 06:27, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

¿Qué es tu pregunta? Se descarga un archivo de Commons más o menos como cualquier otro archivo del Internet. - Jmabel ! talk 20:13, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

Uploading images

Hi, there is a Church in Germany that holds many images of my community in diaspora, the images are available on their website, but they are not in the public domain. They own the images.

I wonder if I can contact them and ask them to use their images to upload here on Commons, and if that would be OK to do? Or would the images still not be allowed on Commons? Wlaak (talk) 11:04, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

It is not clear wheather the church owns the copyright but not photographers. Ruslik (talk) 19:49, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

If I contact and ask them, and it turns out they do own the copyright, hypothetically now because I have not asked them yet, would it then be OK to upload to commons, if I get their permission? Or would there still be some sort of issue or rule stopping me from uploading? Wlaak (talk) 19:51, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

@Wlaak: Please read Commons:Uploading works by a third party. If you still have questions after that, feel free to ask. - Jmabel ! talk 20:15, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

Uploaded video with wrong setting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Protests_in_Minneapolis_under_one_hour_after_the_killing_of_Alex_Pretti.webm

If you can please change to "a person I know sent me the video", that would be appreciated. Alexandraaaacs1989 (talk) 20:00, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

@Alexandraaaacs1989: That in no way gives it a CC-0 license. - Jmabel ! talk 21:27, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

Welp, he have 7 days to get and send a permission Trade (talk) 21:31, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

1. I explicitly asked the person if they would give CC0 permission to upload the video and they said yes.

2. I'll get them to send the email soon. If so, will that resolve these concerns? Alexandraaaacs1989 (talk) 22:05, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

@Alexandraaaacs1989: If the author of any media diligently forwards any licensing agreement to VRT, then that individual is following the proper way to resolve copyright concerns, yes. And while that obviously entails that the author's name or pseudonym is communicated to the permissions team, the volunteers staffing that communication service are bound to secrecy and privacy per the WMF's rules, preserving any anonymity towards the general public that may be wanted. Last, even if media get deleted, they can be restored without issues. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 22:16, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

Grand-Duc, COM:VRT:
Emails are handled by community volunteers. VRTS tickets in the permissions-commons queue are visible to all volunteers who have access to that queue. The Wikimedia Foundation cannot guarantee confidential treatment of any sensitive information you include in your message, although all volunteers are required to treat it with confidentiality. Users should be careful of revealing personally-identifying information of subjects or creators, particularly names, physical addresses, and emails.- Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 01:04, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

That's not a contradiction to what I wrote: the volunteers staffing that communication service are bound to secrecy and privacy per the WMF's rules, preserving any anonymity towards the general public that may be wanted. is the same as although all volunteers are required to treat it with confidentiality. But as the WMF is neither providing nor managing the actual devices used to access the message queues, it doesn't have the actual (technical) power to guarantee the confidentiality of data. The latter would need a managed IT environment as found in larger corporations or government bodies, where professionals are dedicated in managing and mitigating dangers to security. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 01:16, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

lost edit

i joined wikipedia yesterday after visiting the berlin group on thursday. unfortunately, i just spent 6 hours re-writing the "Phytochrome" article but couldn't see how to save a temporary version: i failed, and it seems that the new text has been lost in the process. any suggestions? i think that this is such an obvious potential problem for newbies that the non-obvious solution should be shown fairly prominently. Photochrom (talk) 01:01, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

Photochrom, always regularly copy-paste your work into notepad.. Or edit in userspace (e.g. w:en:User:Photochrom/Sandbox) and save often.
You appear to be in the wrong place though. Wikipedia support is at w:en:Wikipedia:Teahouse. This is Wikimedia Commons, we deal with images and other media. - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 01:11, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

ah, sorry, i'm new here!

is "notepad" a wikipedia facility or do you just mean "a notepad"? and i had no idea what "sandbox" is! ~2026-56072-1 (talk) 12:30, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

@Photochrom: "Sandboxes" are user subpages you can create in your user space in each Wikimedia website. You can use them for example to work on your projects. You can see en:Wikipedia:User pages for details. (Remember to use your permanent account.) -- Asclepias (talk) 13:10, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

Photochrom, I mean just any plain text editor on your computer/tablet/phone. - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 17:55, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

File name too long to use move script?

I attempted to use the move procedure on the following File:2016-09-07_09_39_10_View_north_at_the_northeast_end_of_Covington_Road_and_the_south_end_of_Maryland_State_Route_382_(Croom_Road)_as_it_crosses_County_Line_Creek_from_Charles_County,_Maryland_into_Baden_and_Aquasco_in_Prince_Georges_County,_Maryland.jpg

I wanted to add an apostrophe in Georges as the name of the county is Prince George's County, Maryland (not sure how to link to the enwiki for it.) I have done this procedure at least 8 or nine times over the last day, but it would not do it. Not only can't I insert a ' into the file name as part of the move procedure, I have to delete 3 characters before I can insert any letter in the name. It appears that the move script can't handle the longest possible file name. What is the proper procedure here? Naraht (talk) 04:36, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

The proper procedure is to leave the name alone. It is perfectly clear, even if it leaves out an apostrophe. - Jmabel ! talk 06:21, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

Jmabel The county name is mispelled. There is an apostrophe and as such it is just as mispelled as the other proper noun examples in section 3. IMO, I feel it is just as misspelled as File:Ayres Rock 3.png.Naraht (talk) 15:14, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

1. I understood you the first time, and consider it too minor to merit a move. That doesn't mean you can't convince someone else, but i would decline this move. - Jmabel ! talk 00:27, 27 January 2026 (UTC)
   • To be more specific: the file has been at this name for over 8 years, and filename stability is more important than an edit this minor. - Jmabel ! talk 00:37, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

     Stability is not mentioned at all in the move procedure.Naraht (talk) 00:41, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

     • Commons aims to provide stable filenames as there might be external file clients and file moving involves significant human and computing resources - Commons:File renaming. - Jmabel ! talk 22:08, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

       I stand corrected. I also feel that since mispellings count as one of the "Widely undisputed", this one should be done. I consider George's vs. Georges to be at the same level as Washington vs. Washignton, and you apparently don't. I don't think either of us is going to convince the other.

       Additionally, I'm surprised that no one else has chimed in. I'd appreciate a third opinion on *either* side.

       Even so the fact that the Move script/program can't handle something that long is a separate concern. Naraht (talk) 22:27, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

2. There is not, nor has there ever been, a File:Ayres Rock 3.png. - Jmabel ! talk 00:27, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

   File:Ayres Rock 3.png is example of spelling issue in the move procedure.Naraht (talk) 00:40, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

About the bot "Emijrpbot"

How to hide the edits of the bot "Emijrpbot" displayed in the "Watchlist"? Huangdan2060 (talk) 04:46, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

@Huangdan2060: you could filter out the tag "Bot adding SDC" (that's what I'd recommend), or you could choose not to see any edits by bots, but I don't think there is a way to filter this bot and not others that might use that same tag. We don't have a way to filter out on individual account. - Jmabel ! talk 06:26, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

@Jmabel: How to filter? Could you please explain the steps in detail? Thank you. Huangdan2060 (talk) 07:08, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

Huangdan2060, click "tags" on the right. Type "SDC". Select "Bot adding SDC" and click "Exclude selected". - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 18:05, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

@Huangdan2060 You can also save this filter setting as default, by clicking the ribbon icon (next to the trashcan icon), enter a name and select "Set as default". Thanks. Tvpuppy (talk) 18:10, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

Thank you. Huangdan2060 (talk) 13:42, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for telling me the detailed steps, they worked. Huangdan2060 (talk) 13:41, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

メールの件

何か質問がきたようなのですが、内容がわからず困ってます。ぉ援助ください。 また、他言語で読めないのですが、翻訳する方法を教えてください 又五郎ずんと (talk) 06:52, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

@Yasu: can you help this person? I can see there is going to be some back-and-forth, better handled by a native Japanese-speaker. - Jmabel ! talk 00:30, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

@又五郎ずんと: メールというのはどのような内容でしょうか？ 差し障りのない範囲で構いませんので、メールの件名や送信元など、もう少し詳しい情報をいただけると、お力になれる手がかりになると思います。Yasu (talk) 15:04, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

Question regarding the 50-year copyright protection for photographic works in China.

Moved to Commons talk:Copyright rules by territory/China

Tvpuppy (talk) 15:34, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

Upload plant photos taken by researchers

Can you upload a photo of a plant species to Wikimedia in order to create an article for that species? The photo and article do not include a creative commons licence, butthe photo has a water mark with the name of the author crediting its source MikePT97 (talk) 14:21, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

You can't, see COM:CARES and COM:THIRD. Crediting a source is often mandatory anyway, but the copyrights still matters and that can't be circumvented by any simple credit. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 15:09, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

Help needed with search

I am presently trying to cat pictures by Frank Scholten, the cat [[:Category:Photographs by Frank Scholten]] presently has more than 24,000 pictures in it. My problem is that when I search for, say "Scholten Nebi Musa" I get 242 results, but I only find 237 to put into [[:Category:Photographs of Nabi Musa festival by Frank Scholten (1921-23)]] How can I search inside the [[:Category:Photographs by Frank Scholten]] ? Is that possible? Huldra (talk) 22:42, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

@Huldra: incategory:"Photographs by Frank Scholten" as one of your search terms. - Jmabel ! talk 00:34, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

Unsubscribe

I see a $2.75 charge on my Visa account this month, reference7032. I did not subscribe to your service, and would like to know how to cancel it. Harold Nevin [EMAIL ADDRESS SUPPRESSED] ~2026-57807-0 (talk) 03:53, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

@~2026-57807-0 Commons do not provide any paid-for services. This link may or may not be related to your question: https://wikimediafoundation.org/give/manage-your-donation/ Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 13:01, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

Здравствуйте? Как я могу добавить видео в формате MOV?

Здравствуйте? Как я могу добавить видео в формате MOV? Azamat Kuatovich (talk) 05:50, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

@Azamat Kuatovich You can't, see Commons:Video#Video_formats. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 12:57, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

ファイルをアップロードする際のエラー

音声のファイルです。 mp3のファイルをアップロードしようとすると「ファイルの拡張子「mp3」がMIMEタイプ「video/mp4」と一致しません。」と言われます。mp4のファイルをアップロードしようとすると「このウィキは、「.mp4」という拡張子を持つファイル名を受け入れていません。」と言われます。 どうすればアップロードできますか。 JPN yuki (talk) 08:12, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

I used Google Translate to understand the posting and I'll also use it to translate my answer back into Japanese.

I think that there's a mismatch between the visible file extension and what is actually coded into the byte data. You may use the en:VLC media player and check the codec informations (Tools menu - Codec information on the English GUI) to see for sure what's happening. In any case, you will need to recode your file into e.g. OGA Vorbis or actual MP3, see also Commons:File types#Sound.

表示されているファイル拡張子と、実際にバイトデータにコード化されている内容が一致していないのではないかと思います。en:VLC media player をご利用いただき、コーデック情報（英語GUIの場合は「ツール」メニューの「コーデック情報」）を確認していただければ、何が起こっているのか確実に確認できます。いずれにせよ、ファイルをOGA Vorbisや実際のMP3などに再コード化する必要があります。Commons:File types#Soundもご参照ください。よろしくお願いいたします。Grand-Duc (talk) 12:30, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

Question

How con i put a foto in a wikipedia page??????? Augustitrico 19 (talk) 14:45, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

@Augustitrico 19 Some guidance: Wikipedia:Image use policy, Wikipedia:Política de uso de imágenes and COM:THIRD. If you can be more specific, you might get a more specific reply. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 16:34, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

Public domains in USA

Hi, if a photograph was taken in 1933 Turkey, and 70 years have passed since the image of that photograph, meaning it is now in public domain, but USA requires it to be taken before January 1, 1931 does that mean the image is not possible to have on Commons until two years? Wlaak (talk) 16:19, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

@Wlaak My understanding of Help:Public_domain#Published_outside_the_United_States is that yes, it does mean that. Also, PD in Turkey seems to be authors life + 70 years, unless the photo is anonymous. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 16:51, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

Thanks Wlaak (talk) 20:27, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

How to create GeoJSON .map files?

I have created a GeoJSON .map to be used in an article I recently created. However, I cannot figure out how I am supposed to create it here on Commons. The MediaWiki help page says simply to "create" the page with the Data:FILENAME.map syntax. But when I type that into the search field, it simply returns search results saying nothing was found with no option to create that page.

What am I missing? I was able to do this on my own five years ago ... that way, I think, but it's been so long I can't remember. Daniel Case (talk) 19:30, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

Go to Data:YOUR TITLE HERE.map. Click Create. Either paste the contents or start typing. - Jmabel ! talk 22:15, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

Thanks! But it should be possible to do with a link from the search results page, as well. Daniel Case (talk) 03:19, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

For me, Special:Search does offer to create the page. Which search do you have selected in your preferences? Are you defaulting to a different search?

You can also always just build the canonical URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data:YOUR_TITLE_HERE.map . - Jmabel ! talk 05:41, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

I have been wanting to do this too. I want to do it for the provinces of Japan. Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 05:43, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

PD-Israel or PD-Palestine and Copyright

Hi, I have uploaded File:His Holiness Mor Ignatius Elias III at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, 1930.png, but I am not sure which PD template applies, is it Israel or Palestine? The photograph is from 1930 in Jerusalem.

I also wonder how I enter CC BY-NC-ND and CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 licenses, I could not find any templates.

Wlaak (talk) 20:26, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

• Neither CC-BY-NC-ND nor CC-BY-NC-SA are acceptable licenses on Commons, except insofar as they may be offered in addition to an accepted license that meets the terms laid out at COM:L. - Jmabel ! talk 22:18, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

  Thanks Wlaak (talk) 23:20, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

I can only respond to your second concern: Commons does not allow NC or ND clauses. If you'd like, you can upload these to https://nccommons.org/, an unrelated but similar project. You can use the same login credentials that you have here to create an account there. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:19, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

Thanks Wlaak (talk) 23:20, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

@Wlaak: The State of Israel did not exist until 1948, so it must have been under the British Mandate - use {{PD-Palestine}}. See also COM:LJ.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 03:31, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

{{PD-Israel}} is also correct, Jeff. Israel is a successor state to Mandatory Palestine (the West Bank went to Jordan, and the Gaza strip went to Egypt). Abzeronow (talk) 04:23, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

Thank you both : Abzeronow and Jeff . I will just let it be as it is now, both licenses there Wlaak (talk) 13:10, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

Some people know nothing about space image processing

Duplicate of Administrators' noticeboard post. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:51, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

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So, i was minding my own buisiness, setting a file for deletion because it was from a copyrighted source, but then people defended it! even though the file had many operations done of it (like the artifact dots removed, stitched together and colour- adjusted) people thought that the copyright was bogus! even if the changes were even less, copyright is still copyright and it should be respected. (the thread is here Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Valhalla_crater_on_Callisto.jpg ) also, yann randomly tried to add an "invalid source" tag to one of my files (not the previous one) even though the source was RIGHT THERE!!! https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Valhalla_Callisto_VGR1.png&diff=prev&oldid=1154750838 also, he randomly changed the tag for this file File:Triton True Color.png from cc by 4.0 to nasa file!!! i made adjustments!!! THIS IS VANDALISM!!! and because he is an admin on wikimedia commons, he is getting no punishment! sorry im just mad ok bye Anonymsiy (talk) 07:34, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

another thing User talk:Anonymsiy#File source_is not properly indicated: File:Valhalla Callisto VGR1.png. Anonymsiy (talk) 07:50, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

Update: when i tried to revert the triton file to before (because it is my file, not to mention that i removed the lines out of the original nasa image so the og nasa image technically is mine too) yann reverted it back and warned me for an "edit war" you started it!!! god i love mod abuse!!! User_talk:Anonymsiy#c-Yann-20260128162400-Please do not edit war. Anonymsiy (talk) 16:30, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

This user also posted on Commons:Administrators' noticeboard. Yann (talk) 16:58, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

They obviously do not know what they are talking about. They already got several warnings. Yann (talk) 16:59, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

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Copyright help regarding File:Predrag Stojancev Coach 2026.jpg

--Nedeljko Simeunovic (talk) 08:45, 28 January 2026 (UTC) Hello, I have uploaded this image of Predrag Stojančev. I am in contact with the subject and he is the copyright holder. He will send a formal permission email to the VRT team (permissions-commons@wikimedia.org) shortly. Please add the Template:OPconfirm tag to the file to prevent deletion while the email is being processed. Thank you!

@Nedeljko Simeunovic Assuming he does it correctly, it should sort itself out, even if the pic is temporarily removed. Note however that there is no "for the purpose of being used on Wikipedia.", it's Commons:Licensing#Well-known_licenses or nothing. Consider pointing the subject to Wikipedia:A picture of you. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 10:41, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

Question about FOP US

File:Booming Ben, the last heath hen.jpg is taken in the US and is an image of a statue/sculpture taken presumably not by its creator. The creator is Todd McGrain, who was born in 1961, so I don't think it was made before 1978. Due to this, it wouldn't be covered by freedom of panorama, would it? COM:FOP US says it's not OK. HurricaneZeta (talk) 20:47, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

No FoP for sculptures in the U.S., so if (as you seem pretty confident) it is a copyrighted sculpture, it should be nominated for deletion. - Jmabel ! talk 21:21, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

Thanks, done. HurricaneZeta (talk) 22:24, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

Uploading logos for athletics page

I work at a college athletics department and would like to update the logo files. Zbell34 (talk) 22:10, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

@Zbell34 Read COM:TOO. If they are too complex then the copyright owner must give permission, no exceptions. That is unlikely to be you. Pease read COM:VRT.

There is no "Doctrine of Fair Use" on Wikimedia Commons. There is on the English Language Wikipedia. 🇵🇸‍🇺🇦 Timtrent 🇺🇦 talk to me 🇺🇦‍🇵🇸 22:40, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

Our athletics-specific marks are not yet copyrighted. I am the creator. Zbell34 (talk) 22:52, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

Hi Zbell34. Under en:US copyright law. content exhibiting enough creativity becomes (I believe) eligible for copyright protection as soon as its transfixed/published in some type of tangible medium. Current US copyright law no longer requires en:copyright formalities be completed in order for something to be considered eligible for copyright protection. Have these logo files been already released somewhere online like the college's or its athletic department's official website (including social media accounts)?

In addition, although the creator of content tends to be considered its copyright holder, a person creating a logo themselves on behalf of their employer as part of their job (e.g., a en:work for hire arrangement or a en:copyright transfer agreement) might not be the sole or even a partial copyright holder. Since most universities and colleges maintain careful control over their branding and monetize it where they can as much as they can, you might want to check on this with whoever is in charge of your athletic department. Is your college or its athletic department claiming copyright authorship over the school's other athletic logos and branding?

In principle, Commons will only be able to host these logo files if (1) they're too simple to be eligible for copyright protection under US copyright law and the copyright laws of the country of first publication (the latter only matter if you're college is located outside the US) or (2) the COM:CONSENT of the copyright holder or copyright holders (in the case of a shared ownership) can be verified in some way. It will be kind of easy to assess (1) if the logo can be seen somewhere online, but (2) is something that could require email verification of some kind.

Finally, with respect to English Wikipedia (assuming that's where you want to use the logo files), you might want to take a close look at en:Wikipedia:Conflict of interest and en:Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure because both of those would apply to your situation if you intend on editing there. Commons isn't really too concerned that you want to upload logo files of the athletic department you work for; it's mainly concerned with the copyright status of the photos. English Wikipedia, though, has it's own policies and guidelines with respect to employees trying to edit/create content about their employers, and you'll need to make sure you apply to comply with those policies and guideline to avoid problems on English Wikipedia. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:01, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

Image Upload Flagged for Abuse

Hello,

My recent attempted upload has been flagged for abuse, which I believe to be in error (though understandable), and I am also unable to file a report in response to this action.

I believe the image I created is a healthy expression of opposition to the fascism of the United States government and the violent acts perpetrated by ICE in its interests.

Please let me know if I can provide further info, and more is below.

Thank you.

-- T

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Below is the response I attempted to submit:

Pages trying to edit:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Beware_of_ICE.png&redirect=no&action=edit&redlink=1 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Beware_of_ICE_01.svg&redirect=no&action=edit&redlink=1

Description of action and reason for flagging:

Attempting to upload a satirical anti-ICE image. LT 257, 257a, which are not publicly available. It also cited no confirmed email, but I have since confirmed and had a separate upload complete successfully.

Other info:

I suspect this may have something to do with the image containing depictions of swastikas that are clearly suggestive of the fascist nature of ICE. TrevorSalmon (talk) 20:56, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

I've nominated File:Porter & Pretti & Good. Ice Murders Name List.png for deletion.

@TrevorSalmon: thanks for trying to contribute to the project, but please familiarize yourself with COM:SCOPE before uploading further files. - Jmabel ! talk 00:45, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

The filter is unrelated to the issue(s) posited. While your edits were not the intended target, that they were disallowed appears fortuitous, as they were not appropriate for the Commons (or likely any WMF project). The Commons is a file repository for in-scope media, not a soapbox. No filter adjustment or user whitelisting needed at this time. Эlcobbola _talk 14:59, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

Ah, thank you for the info. I very much misunderstood the scope and should have given the page a closer read. Thank you all for your hard work! TrevorSalmon (talk) 19:21, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

Photo file sizes

What is the minimum and maximum size for a photo to be used in an article on wikipedia? Both file sizes and pixels would be helpful since the instructions I read on wiki were not. Thank you. Emanresu0 (talk) 23:34, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

@Emanresu0: Hi, There is no minimum or maximum. But please always upload the image in its original resolution. Then cropping can be done with [2]. The software MediaWiki takes care of resizing whenever it is needed. Please see Commons:First steps/Reuse#Embedding Commons media in Wikimedia projects for details. Yann (talk) 23:45, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

Thank you. Your reply makes it so much easier than wading through all the instructions. Is there anything I need to do to be sure the photos do not get published until I am ready to publish the article that I am working on in my Sandbox? I want to be sure I see what the entire article will appear like, with the photos, before I publish it. It sounds like uploading it to the Commons makes it immediately public. Emanresu0 (talk) 00:29, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

@Emanresu0: Anything you upload to Commons is immediately public and may be reused by anyone, not just your particular Wikipedia article. - Jmabel ! talk 00:48, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

Emanresu0, if you need to make minor adjustments to a photo after uploading (for example crop it a little more) you can overwrite the file. You can also just upload more files. There is no requirement to insert all the photos you upload in your article. - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 01:01, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

@Emanresu0: See also COM:HR.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 03:59, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

Photos

How do I upload photos to my Sandbox or elsewhere so that they are NOT published until I am ready to publish the article that will include the photos? Emanresu0 (talk) 01:37, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

@Emanresu0: Sorry, you can't do that here.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 04:00, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

@Emanresu0: I suspect from the question that you have some misconceptions about how Wikimedia projects work. You should probably read Commons:Ownership of pages and files. It probably won't address all of this, but it may give you some good clues. - Jmabel ! talk 05:33, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

Pubblicazione pagina

Ho pubblicato una pagina, intitolata "Paolo Farina" (docente, scrittore, giornalista, dirigente scolastico), ma non la vedo. Sarà andata in moderazione? Mi direte quando sarà online o se è stata rifiutata? Grazie. Piero Farinelli (talk) 12:48, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

Page Published

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I published a page titled "Paolo Farina" (teacher, writer, journalist, school principal), but I don't see it. Has it gone through moderation? Will you let me know when it goes live or if it was rejected?

Thank you.

translator: Google Translate via   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 14:04, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

@Piero Farinelli: Ciao e benvenuto. L'ho trovato per te su it:Utente:Piero Farinelli/Sandbox su Wikipedia in italiano. Nota che non accettiamo biografie e Wikipedia non accetta autobiografie; vedi COM:NOT e en:WP:AUTO per i dettagli.

Hi, and welcome. I found it for you at it:Utente:Piero Farinelli/Sandbox on Italian Wikipedia. Note that we do not accept biographies, and Wikipedia doesn't accept autobiographies; see COM:NOT and en:WP:AUTO for details.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 14:04, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

w:it:Wikipedia:Autobiografie è probabilmente più facile da leggere. (is probably easier to digest) - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 14:20, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

@Alexis Jazz: Grazie. I made some redirects there.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 14:35, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

Obtaining consent for deleted photos

I uploaded photos for an article and had the photographer give consent. She indicated she gave consent, but I just recently got notified the photographs were deleted with the following description: Removing photo name.jpg; it has been deleted from Commons by Krd because: No ticket permission since 27 December 2025. How does the photographer give consent to use the photos now? Kstrine320 (talk) 20:17, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

Hi @Kstrine320, I have had a similar issue as you before. You can leave a comment at Commons:Volunteer Response Team/Noticeboard and let them know about the ticket you had opened for the photos. Hope this helps! Surayeproject3 (talk) 21:39, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

@Kstrine320: when you say, "She indicated she gave consent," do you mean she already went through the COM:VRT process, or that she just orally said it was OK, or what? - Jmabel ! talk 23:48, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

@Jmabel: She indicated she completed the wizard to provide consent. Evidently, something went wrong, though. Now, if I try to upload the photos again, I get an error message telling me the photos already exist, and that I shouldn't upload them again. It gives me the option to request the photo to be undeleted. Do I need to do that, and then, if they approve the request, have the photographer try to give consent again? Kstrine320 (talk) 01:55, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

Please do not upload the files again. They can be undeleted once this is sorted out.

I am not a member of the VRT, but I'm an admin; I'm going to try to get as far through this as we can without involving VRT (because they are always backlogged). Then I'll give you solid next steps.

I presume this is about:

• File:Holly Kim at event - Speaking to attendees.jpg
• File:Holly Kim Speaking at Democratic Party of Illinois 1.jpg
• File:Holly Kim Speaking at Democratic Party of Illinois 2.jpg

I see that none of those ever got as far as having a ticket number. You say the photographer "completed the wizard". Do you know whether she sent the email? If she sent it, did she ever get any acknowledgment, even an auto-generated acknowledgment, that it had been received? - Jmabel ! talk 02:34, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

@Jmabel: Thank you for your help with this. I do not know exactly what she did. I gave her instructions about providing consent, and then she texted that she completed it. Evidently, she missed a step, or didn't send the email. Now, she said she tried again with the wizard, but the photos don't come up. I'm assuming that's because they've been deleted, so I need to determine what to do to allow her to provide consent. Kstrine320 (talk) 17:32, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

@Kstrine320: If there was an automatic reply, there may be an unlabeled ticket number in that reply, maybe 16 or 17 digits long; can you or she find such?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 16:05, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

@Kstrine320: I don't know why this failed for her. I just tried using the Wizard with the filenames above and it works fine for me. Offhand, I can think of five ways this can be addressed, any of which would be fine:

• Try again, because it should work.
• If the email is in her "sent" folder, she can just send it again, to the address indicated in COM:VRT.
• Fill out the Wizard using example.jpg in lieu of the proper file names, then edit in the names of the three files I mentioned here before sending.
• Copy-paste from Commons:Volunteer_Response_Team#Email_message_template_for_release_of_rights_to_a_file, with appropriate choices and filling in the blanks.
• You can do one of the above yourself, send her the draft and have her send it from her email account.

In any case, I would suggest to you that you ask her to cc you, so that this time you are in the loop and can see what is going on. - Jmabel ! talk 00:31, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

OUT OF SCOPE???

Hi I do not understand what this (Out of scope) means Does it means that all of my images are to be deleted because someone does not like meditation?

Out of scope: unused images of religious/esoteric topics, mostly figures of people meditating.

File:Be careful where you meditate.jpg File:The ultimate goal of meditation.jpg File:Silver Thread Silver Tether.png File:Meditation Silver-Rope.jpg File:Spiritual Silver Rope.jpg File:Zen ZenneS x1000 BG Yellow.png File:Zen ZenneS x1000 BG White.png File:Zen ZenneS x1000 BG Pink.png File:Zen ZenneS x1000 BG Blue.png File:Zen ZenneS x1000 BG Green.png File:Zen ZenneS x1000 BG Black.png File:Starman 78.jpg

Thanks Bondigoldwiki (talk) 04:00, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

This is about Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Bondigoldwiki.
Bondigoldwiki,

• File:Leben Yoghurt.jpg is an AI image generated from the prompt "Generate a 600 gram container of leben yoghurt".
• File:The ultimate goal of meditation.jpg "a person meditating with light starting to come out of their heart and fill their entire body"

Can you explain what makes these images educational? - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 05:06, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

Leben is a form of probiotic yoghurt, which is different from Kefir, Acidophilus, Bulgaricum, Bifido etc.

If people think that all yogurts are the same, then they are misinformed. Bondigoldwiki (talk) 05:55, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

Why use AI when you could take an actual photo of Leben Yoghurt? Personal artwork is not in scope per COM:SCOPE. Abzeronow (talk) 06:00, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

Hi, I did do that with the leben, and I edited the image but it was declined due to copyright. So I went to PLAN B. Bondigoldwiki (talk) 06:03, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

File:The ultimate goal of meditation.jpg

Hi, One of the main goals of meditation is "enlightenment" - but HOW do you portray that in an image?

The second image "Be careful where you meditate.jpg" is because over the last 50++ years I have met people who go off to remote and dangerous places to meditate (including 1 guy who went into the jungle in India and never came out), so I want people to think about their own safety instead of think that God will save them (which sadly I have met many people who think like this). Bondigoldwiki (talk) 06:08, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

Bondigoldwiki,
File:Be careful where you meditate.jpg shows a woman in a forest, meditating on a big rock in the middle of a stream, realistic art style, with a tiger's head poking out from behind a tree. It's almost comedy, but not quite. The image is too busy to illustrate the danger. I'd say skip the AI and lean into it. Make it a cartoon, give the tiger a bib, knife and fork and make the tiger drool. And then actually use the image on a meditation guide.
Hi, One of the main goals of meditation is "enlightenment" - but HOW do you portray that in an image?
I'm not sure you can, as it's a state of mind. So maybe that's forcing a square peg in a round hole. I didn't even realize that's what File:The ultimate goal of meditation.jpg was supposed to portray. I think I'd go with a photo of a Buddhist monk, meditating at dawn with closed eyes and a faint smile. I'm 1 Buddhist monk short to take such a picture.
because over the last 50++ years
You've been meditating for over 50 years yet the potential deletion of some AI images on the internet clearly gets your goat. I'm from a different generation, in my language we say: "chill bro" - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 15:34, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

Hi, My goat is upset because I got conflicting messages which were not as clear as I would like to see, for example.

I click the link and I go to a page with dozens of other topics which are not related to me and I did not see the relevance of clicking in the first place.

Plus I have been working online for almost 30 years and ambiguity is rampant and annoying to anyone who understands how precious time is.

When I said I have been meditating, I did not say that I was enlightened, but I have met people who are including the Dalai Lama and Sai Baba et al.

ON TOP of that you have wikipedia where many alternate "links" (subjects) are rubbished as pseudo-science and false information and even outright derogatory inclusions.

So I am just being cautious.

Hope this helps

Regards Bondigoldwiki (talk) 16:17, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

Another point is that I get a request to TALK to someone and I go to the https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Signatures page and there is 600 pages of information instead of a simple LINK to the person who made the request.

Regarding ambiguity, I got an email from you and clicked the link and then I saw this in BOLD BIG letters.

Uploading photo of my father for his page on wikipedia

and I have NO idea what that is about???

Can you see how confusing it is? Bondigoldwiki (talk) 16:24, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

Bondigoldwiki, I didn't email you. - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 16:45, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

Alexis, there is 1 other thing you should know.

In 2023 I fell forward and hit my head, got knocked out and then smashed my head on the concrete (cement) floor.

I was in hospital for 3 months and the doctors all said that I would be the village idiot for the rest of my life because of the brain damage I suffered.

I have used herbal medicines and minerals to rebuild my "brain" to the point that I am now able to be at least 80% functional compared to before my accident.

This event (somehow) also affected my personality - and my most beautiful wife persisted in helping me heal and support me during this time.

I am not offering this as an excuse for my behavior, only that the me in 2026 (Jan) is different from the me in (JAN) 2023.

But I am still working on improving.

++ It can get very frustrating knowing that you know something but you cannot remember what it is.

Merci Bouquet

That is thank you plus a bunch of flowers.

Ciao Bondigoldwiki (talk) 16:55, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

Bondigoldwiki, thanks for the flowers.
For the Leben yoghurt, you should find a cup with a label that is mostly text. You can also find an angle and/or use bokeh to ensure any graphics on the label are not visible or out of focus. See for example File:Tomato soup in a can pull open top.jpg (soup can where the graphic on the label is out of focus) and File:Tomato soup in a can ingredient list.jpg (side of the soup can without graphics or creative text, just a list of ingredients). - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 18:26, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

<redacted> ~2026-67848-2 (talk) 06:31, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

Hi, I do not unnderstand what <redacted> means? There are no words Bondigoldwiki (talk) 06:47, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

That's a French phone number. Now hidden. Yann (talk) 09:39, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

I still do not know what that means? Bondigoldwiki (talk) 16:07, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

@Bondigoldwiki: See wikt:redacted.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 16:11, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

I clicked the LINK "PING" and TALK TO ME and I cannot see any way to start a conversation with you - all I get is a hundred thousand lines of blurb which does not make any sense.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Reply_to

Is there a simple CLICK link which connects with you directly without the history of the universe page?

Thanks Bondigoldwiki (talk) 16:27, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

@Bondigoldwiki: Sure: CLICK HERE to start a new section on my user talk page User talk:Jeff G.. My ping link points to Template:Reply to, which explains how that template works; my "talk to me" link points to User:Jeff G./talk, which in most cases will be a bluelinked redirect to said user talk page (unless you have clicked on it before, making it purple). I'm sorry for any confusion.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 16:53, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

NP, TY Bondigoldwiki (talk) 06:45, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

We redact phone numbers and email addresses that people give us in the clear, to frustrate robocallers and spammers.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 16:56, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

OK but how do I contact you guys when you ask me to TALK or contact you ??? Bondigoldwiki (talk) 16:59, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

@Bondigoldwiki: In many cases, you may reply like you just did. However, if the person you are replying to does not monitor that page religiously, they may not read what you wrote as quickly as you would like; that's why the echo extension was developed.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 17:08, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

Thank you kindly Bondigoldwiki (talk) 17:14, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

@Bondigoldwiki: your sentence "So I went to PLAN B." is telltale. Please take note of Commons:CARES, you can't use generative AI software to circumvent limitations resulting from copyrights. That would cause problems with either the intellectual property of the original designers of any model of the depiction or conflict with the Commons:Project scope, which basically says that random phantasies (be they produced by software or humans) are not within the purview of Commons' project aims.

There are motifs and subjects that simply are nigh impossible to capture in an image and hence to illustrate. Enlightenment and philosophical topics are certainly chief candidates for such "un-illustratable" topics. We simply have to put up with such limitations in our redactional Wikimedia work.

On to something else. If I understood the implications of some postings above, English may not be your, Bondigoldwiki's, mother tongue. It is the official policy that Commons is multilingual, so please(!) feel confident in using whatever language suits you best, that must not be the unofficial lingua franca English. At least for the languages with large communities of maternal speakers (e.g. the European ones, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, standard Arabic and likely also Hebrew), there are active contributors around who can serve as interpreters. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 17:43, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

May I ask WHY am I dealing with 4 or 5 people and repeating myself?

PLAN B was because I tried to use an EDITED image and your system declined my post, so in order to INFORM the public of another probiotic called LEBEN, I had an image generated WHICH BTW was NOT to circumvent anything.

The AI generated image was a stand-alone image and NOT based on any image that I uploaded so I do NOT see the issue with copyright that you are suggesting???

IF this image was illegal, then WHY is there an AI category in the submission form?

REQUEST

Can I just work with 1 person instead of the entire company?

Thank you Bondigoldwiki (talk) 06:41, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

The Wikimedia world is not a company with individual customer service desk representatives taking charge of or getting assigned to any individual. Every Wikimedian as you, I or the other participants on this page are has the same rights and duties while responding to inquiries. So, you cannot expect that responders stay the same, any Wikimedian who feels inclined to write something is free to do so.

I strongly suggest that you familiarise yourself with the Commons:Policies and guidelines, especially COM:SCOPE, COM:Licensing, COM:Derivative works and "what Commons is not".

This media repository here, Commons, suffers a lot from copyright violations (short: copyvio) that are uploaded by users who don't observe for whatever reason the copyright emphasis placed upon contributions. Thus, there are several procedures in place to deal with unwanted stuff, unwanted as copyvios or because the media don't fit within the project's aims (per COM:SCOPE). These procedures can be (semi-)automatic or human controlled redactional steps, it looks like at least some of your uploads were put into a human-controlled working queue, the deletion process (info: COM:DR).

Going on, about AI. The current generative software (example: en:Stable diffusion, or DALL-E, ChatGPT, etc.) is software that is based upon a HUGE heap of data, especially texts and also imagery. You can basically assume that e.g OpenAI's servers (the ChatGPT maker) have gulped down basically the whole internet, as long as it was text. Our of that data heap, the algorithms distilled statistical relationships between words and sentences, so that the software knows in a probabilistic way what words stand close together, enabling it to emulate human speech. The same holds true for imagery, there, the statistical models describe what colour values are expected for neighbouring pixels. Further reading: en:Large Language Model (LLM for short).

Any such LLM can be prompted to make an output, a copy of actual copyrighted works, there are papers out which demonstrate that the tested LLM will reliably reproduce novels like Harry Potter. This is due to a technique used besides statistics and probabilities, replicating human memorization - and the prominent LLM all have been trained with copyrighted material. Meta for instance was caught torrenting the complete assets of en:Anna's Archive, and IIRC Anthropic saved copies of pirated e-books for training their model "Claude". Roundabout a dozen cases went to court, judgements will come on in due time. This is the explanation why AI generated imagery is problematic on Commons on copyright grounds.

On the other hand, yes, there's an option to declare AI-made media in the upload form. Several jurisdictions mandate human creators, so software or animals can't claim copyrights. So, as long as no copyrighted model of and for an image to be uploaded here can be recognised, copyrights aren't a reason to refuse putting AI generated media into Commons - but these media must still comply with other rules, especially SCOPE!

The actual case of some yoghurt imagery would have been problematic on several grounds:

- Copyrights, the AI is likely to have learned the design from the actual product, so it's possible that its output is infringing upon intellectual property rights or people working for the yoghurt maker.

- Project scope, if the AI made a boilerplate yoghurt image. Such imagery has no educational value, as it's somewhat distant from reality (an AI phantasy), personal artwork or easily replaceable with actual photography.

- Being an abuse of Commons, per COM:NOT. Your answers hint at the existence of some pecuniary motivation like advertising some item, one can assume that a conflict of interests is present.

I hope that these explanations with a bit more details are helpful to you. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 07:40, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

Uploading photo of my father for his page on wikipedia

I want to upload photo of my father and his related detail pics but not alloed to upload, no copyrights we have for those, jhow could i add Thegpoorg (talk) 14:29, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

@Thegpoorg: Hi, and welcome. I am sorry to inform you that you have triggered Special:AbuseFilter/335 by trying to cross-wiki upload a file as a new user per proposal; you may upload the file here on Commons with Special:UploadWizard instead.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 16:59, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

@Thegpoorg: "no copyrights we have for those" is not very clear; if there is some language you write better than English, do feel free to use it (or to try putting your remarks in more than one language).

If what you mean by "no copyrights we have for those" is that the photographs are copyrighted and you do not own the copyrights, then we would need a license from the person who does own the copyright. No one else can grant a license.

If what you mean by "no copyrights we have for those" is that the photographs are not copyrighted, you would need to be able to explain why they are not copyrighted; that is an unusual situation, since in most countries on earth, photographs are automatically copyrighted when they are created, and that copyright typically lasts until 70 years after the death of the photographer. There are exceptions, but in most countries, almost all photographs from the last 70 years, and even many photographs that are well over 100 years old, are still copyrighted. - Jmabel ! talk 00:42, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

Copyright help regarding File:Obituary.png

I am trying to upload a file which is cut out from a PDF stored at the Bibliothèque National de France of a newspaper called Le Figaro. The date is April 15th 1888 and the article I cut out, an obituary of Alfred Nobel, is anonymous. As a tag, I gave the one corresponding to anonymous works older than 70 years, and as Source I gave Source gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France but I am still told that I have not provided appropriate information. Could you tell me what I might do?

--Falw (talk) 18:01, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

@Falw: Remove the line that says "Remove this line...". -- Asclepias (talk) 19:03, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

Done. I hope this works. Thanks a lot! Falw (talk) 22:40, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

Downloading images

Hi,

I'm currently writing a dissertation and I want to test a hypothesis using images on Wikimedia Commons. I'd like to download 1000 random photographs under Category:Love. I can compile a python script to do so, is this something I could do with a bot account or is it something that would not be allowed? Hiding (talk) 18:23, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

Hiding, you don't need a bot account for read-only operations. However, please limit how often your bot makes a request as to not cause a spike in server load. Pausing for 5 seconds after each request is plenty. If you don't need full-size images, consider downloading thumbnails instead. Links that may interest you: PagePile and PetScan. - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 23:38, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

File:Arsenal Bastille.jpg

Artist signature noted as illegible; it appears reasonably clear to me, on magnifying the image that it is engraved as Champin i.e. Jean-Jacques Champin (1796-1860) French painter, watercolorist, and lithographer known for his historical landscapes and portraits. ~2026-67773-9 (talk) 18:38, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

@2026-67773-9: you are doubtless correct; you can edit things like that yourself (this is a wiki), but in this case I'll do it for you. - Jmabel ! talk 01:02, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

I see: you tried to do this, didn't quite know how, and Asclepias has now fixed it for you. - Jmabel ! talk 01:05, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

Doppelte Kategorie

Hallo! Ich habe gerade entdeckt, dass eine Kategorie doppelt existiert: Category:Fleurs, fruits et feuillages choisis de l'ille de Java und Category:Fleurs, Fruits et Feuillages Choisis de l'Ile de Java

Wäre es nicht sinnvoll, das zusammenzulegen? Kann ich das tun oder muss das jemand mit höheren Rechten vornehmen?

Vielen Dank! Cuello de pepino (talk) 18:46, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

Abgesehen davon gibt es von der BHL weitaus höher aufgelöste Scans. Hat jemand einen Tipp, wie ich alle Dateien schneller überschreiben kann, als jeweils eine Überschreibung zu beantragen und diese händisch auszuführen? Cuello de pepino (talk) 18:53, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

Overwriting is a complicated matter; often we want both images, e.g.

• there might be different decisions about colors
• the generally less good version of something may be an accurate record of what is held by some particular archive.

There really are good reasons we no longer let most users overwrite content they didn't upload. We aren't exactly sure of the error rate we got, but it was certainly over 20% and might have approached 50%. You are bit short of the point where it would be appropriate to ask for the Commons:Patrol#Autopatrol right that would let you do this; the usual bar is 500 non-trivial edits.

As for the categories: they are not particularly well named, but Category:Fleurs, fruits et feuillages choisis de l'ille de Java is an 1880 edition of the work, whereas Category:Fleurs, Fruits et Feuillages Choisis de l'Ile de Java is an 1863 edition. I'll start a CfD to get this better sorted out, it looks like there may be at least one error in a choice of parent category as well. - Jmabel ! talk 01:22, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

Thank you very much for helping me with this issue. I was not aware of the fact that keeping multiple versions of the same artwork is desired.

However, the images in Category:Fleurs, Fruits et Feuillages Choisis de l'Ile de Java originate in the Biodiversity Heritage Library and they also provide jp2 files of the same scan with a significantly higher resolution. Do you think that these files would be of value for Wikimedia Commons? Do you think that jp2 files should generally be converted to png to prevent quality loss in comparison to jpg or is this just an unnecessary duplicate?

Maybe you can have a look at my previous edits since I am afraid to have caused trouble in Category:Flowering Plants and Ferns of New South Wales and on files like File:Muehlenbeckia adpressa - Curtis.jpg or File:Coccoloba pubescens PDold.jpg (just examples) by overwriting the majority of files with scans from apparently different archives. I want to point out that uploading and cropping all of these files was a lot of work so I would like you to not immediately revert my edits.

I am deeply sorry for causing so much trouble. Cuello de pepino (talk) 08:28, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

Does this qualify as {{PD-Shape}}?

File link. It's the cover of a book published in 1991 by the now defunct Colombian Institute of Culture. Colombiaball (talk) 01:34, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

Who can post?

Can anybody post in this forum? Even groups that are designated as terrorist organizations? Bahmanja (talk) 02:04, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

@Bahmanja: Yes, but they have to be on topic. However, you are free to try to get them blocked if they violate some rule or other.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 02:12, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

Individual users cannot go through every post and flag them. Site admin can block particular names/domains/users that are not allowed to post. My thinking is that terrorist organizations are one of them. If they are, is there a way that users can pass the names to the admin? Bahmanja (talk) 02:25, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

Tạo hình ảnh sĩ quan công an nhân dân Việt Nam

Tạo hình ảnh một sĩ quan công an nhân dân Việt Nam Đinh Hoàng Bảo Khanh (talk) 02:41, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

Upload

im trying to upload but when I select picture it switch on your page and image not shown Please help me to uload Culturexindia (talk) 02:56, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

Uncopyrighted files

Can I upload files that are not copyrighted? JUNGAL9992 (talk) 07:47, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

You probably should explain what you mean by "not copyrighted". COM:THIRD might be good reading here. Abzeronow (talk) 08:00, 1 February 2026 (UTC)