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Plate images

I deleted all the above, and a few others, as the plate designs are property of the various states an provinces from which they come. Barring specific release from those entities, these are not public domain images. Sometimes release is granted. For example, I obtained release from Province of Quebec government regarding road signs of theirs (see User:Durin/Text to Government Québec). We can't assume these images are PD without their specific acknowledgment. Also, in a number of cases these images were tagged as works of the U.S. government. They were not; they're works of the respective state governments, and the law granting PD status to the images does not apply to state works. Regards, --Durin 16:28, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Image:Swallow_chicks444-2.jpg

I don't think Image:Swallow_chicks444-2.jpg is an FP on Commons is it? At least this one didn't pass. I'm guessing the template was there from en and it just coincides with the template on Commons. --Dori - Talk 15:29, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Image:Tibetanmusicalscore.jpg

Hi. Image:Tibetanmusicalscore.jpg which you uploaded has no information on what is shown in the image. If you can add a description or further information, please do so. Thanks, -- Infrogmation 18:00, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Chinese language translations

Hey, thanks for volunteering on the help desk. Do you have any ideas as to what would be a good way to make this work? I haven't yet worked with another user on something like this, so if you have, I'd like to hear your thoughts. BrokenSphere 14:44, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

OK. Basically there are 2 groups of photos for which I need translation. One group is the ones I plan to upload here, the other group is of the nearby label/caption to ID what the subject is, which I am not planning to upload. Here are 2 possibilities for upload & ID that I thought of, if you can think of others, let me know.

I know for some that the file names will have to be changed, so I could do what happened before when someone from HK was able to point out specific streets that I had uploaded under generic names, i.e. after he made corrective edits, I reuploaded them using the correct street names and used the {{badname}} tag to get rid of the dupes. This process though gets a little more cumbersome with the second group since the pic has to be gotten rid of but not replaced. I guess I could tag these with {{delete}} and give my own reasons.

I could upload all pics for translation to a folder in a Fotki account that I have and number them, send you the link, and you could PM me back as to what they are by number. However since it's a public folder, if I post the link to the whole folder, then anyone can backtrack along the URL and check out my other vacation photos. What I could do is host them there, but post the individual URL of each pic in a numbered list, like this:

1. DSCF4782.jpg

This way it makes it harder for someone to go back into the public section of my account, for one since my username isn't displayed. You could then make an edit as to what #1 is, and so on.

Personally I think option #2 (upload to Fotki and post the pics here) is better as it avoids having to upload to Commons and do the whole badname tag/reupload bit. Another thing is I've been uploading a few dozen other pics on a daily basis, so these would start to get buried among those, although I do track of my uploads. BrokenSphere 15:19, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

OK, I will work on going through to sort out what needs to be translated and uploaded and will email you them when ready. I did upload the following so far using generic names, so you can go ahead and edit the descriptions accordingly:

• 1
• 2

Thanks. BrokenSphere 22:41, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

I assume that you're talking about these 2. I've been logging what my travel pics are of and where they are for 3 years now. As for whether or not I can distinguish whether something is genuinely identifying the subject in question or blatant advertising, all I can say is that at the time I took the photo it was in good faith that it was the former. If you put 2 texts in front of me in Chinese and to use the 2 examples, one is a poem and the other's an ad, I couldn't tell you which was which just looking at them. I'm assuming that you would be in the same situation as me if the text was written in Cyrillic or Arabic and you couldn't distinguish one word in either language from the other. Your patience and forbearance is appreciated if you still want to continue with this project, but if you'd rather not, I can ask around to see if anyone else can help out. BrokenSphere 01:10, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Image:David Suzuki sig.jpg

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Recovery

Thanks for recovering image:atlas moon.jpg (not a FP candidate for sure, but someone seemed to be missing it). Could you have a look at these images as well: Image:69th INF REG COA.gif Image:Accettura-Stemma.gif Image:Alkyne.png Image:AÅngström.jpg

Thanks in advance, Finn Rindahl (talk) 11:52, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

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Copyrighted Flickr images

Ah, sorry! I uploaded loads of images of the same Flickr user which are creative commons. I see the last few I uploaded where a different licence.. Probably because he shot the photos in a museum.. Sorry, I'll watch more closely in future.. Ruigeroeland (talk) 10:35, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

2008 Olympics countdown clocks in HKG

I presume that the structure is the same as the English one, but would need some help navigating my way to the relevant Help Desk section, if that's what you had in mind. Thanks. BrokenSphere 16:03, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Japanese flags

Dear Sir,

Is User Knua correct to place a mass DR on this subject Its a good question here on Japanese flags. Are they copyrightable or not. PS: Kanonkas suggested I ask you. Thank You, --Leoboudv (talk) 20:19, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

re Rollback

 Done. Cirt (talk) 08:12, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

No worries. Cirt (talk) 10:23, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

re: Moving an image

Because MediaWiki File-move system is not enabled now. It is also for me. just tag {{Rename media}}. Bot will automatically move files. Regards.--Kwj2772 (msg) 13:32, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Use of JPEG

Please do not use JPEG for non-photographic data. -- C. A. Russell (talk) 15:37, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

PD-1923 in Chinese

Hi, I noticed something weird with the translations of {{PD-1923}}: the zh-hans and zh-hant on Template:PD-1923/lang both point to Template:PD-1923/zh (rather than /zh-hans or /zh-hant). My guess is this was a typo, but since I don't speak Chinese, I may be completely wrong. Would you mind checking, and correcting if needed? Thanks, Pruneau^talk 14:08, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

License migration

I dropped a note here. Perhaps you can help. --Nevit Dilmen (talk) 11:47, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

File tagging File:ZooKeys_logo.JPG

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Category:Air France Flight 447

Would you like to add Chinese text descriptions to Category:Air France Flight 447 (the category, its images, and its subcategories)? Please make sure that the English, French, and Portuguese texts are on top. WhisperToMe (talk) 22:14, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

categories

Um, why are you reverting BotMultichill? All those images lack real categories. They should be categorized by species name... I'm planning to all of them when I finish up some other stuff. You shouldn't have revert though, he's just going to tag them again. Rocket000 (talk) 07:27, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

File:Kongyu 2000, People's Liberation Army Air Force, China.jpg

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File:Motuweta isolata.JPG

Just a note that this file doesn't have sufficient permission (check the ticket). Stifle (talk) 16:45, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

We're scientists. We don't "steal" other people's images and release them to public domain without permission. The author of the image, Chris Winks, gave permission to his colleague Stephen Thrope (User talk:Stho002) to release the image. Just give it a few for Chris to send an email over to OTRS. P.S. Scientists hate red tape. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 05:35, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

The image hasn't been released to the public domain, either by the author or by someone else; it has been given permission to upload. You know as well as I do that that won't do. Stifle (talk) 09:25, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Images from ZooKeys

Just wanted to thank you for the great images from ZooKeys! I have made articles on all of the moth species you added on wikipedia. Could I ask you a favour though? Would it be possible to let me know (on commons or wikipedia) when you add new pictures of moths or butterflies? At the moment I have to sift though the whole category when I want to see which pictures are new.. Cheers and thanks for the great work! Ruigeroeland (talk) 10:40, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Zookeys

Hello, I have uploaded File:Longiflagrum amphibium.png and I have tentatively exported it in 300 dpi. I hope it is all right, but I would like to receive comments from you to be sure. Thank you. --Snek01 (talk) 12:26, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

ZooKeys images

I'm planning on extracting some images from the ZooKeys PDFs to upload. Is someone else supposed to be doing this (with access to the originals) and just hasn't yet or is there some other reason? Rocket000 (talk) 00:22, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

Only 1-17? There's 38 out now. I think I will upload some (I'll be sure to check for duplicates beforehand). Thanks. Rocket000 (talk) 20:47, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

I'll be more than happy to do the uploads for you. If there's a lot of cropping to do, you can make a request at Commons:Graphic Lab, but I can't guarantee anyone will do it (cropping doesn't seem to be a popular task). You can send me whatever you have left to do at brad9626gmail.com (wiki mail doesn't allow attachments). Rocket000 (talk) 08:11, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

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Thanks

Thanks for adding the Zookeys templates. I keep forgetting that.--Obsidi♠n^Soul 04:45, 18 August 2012 (UTC)

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Help!!

hello i have my own right's in these FF. Files here in wiki, actually im only new member so i quite not familiar to some issues here, Although, i create these file i have my OWN rights to these Files but some Members here Trying to delete these Files for a Copyright reason but these file had been here for over a MONTHS! But i Made these Files ,, so What can i do Can you Help? Can you help me in this Following issues?

• File:World Ethnics.jpg
• File:Filipino Traditonal Fashion Timeline.jpg
• File:The Filipino Indigenous and ethnic groups.jpg

I hope these issues might solve by this, Thank you very much Philipandrew (talk) 09:32, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

Image:OSH2003_busiest_tower.jpg

A (belated) thanks on editing this in order to try to make it better. Unfortunately, at the time of taking the picture, we only thought about its usefulness to us and didn't have a copy w/o people in the foreground. I thought of cropping it that way myself, but decided not to, as the cropped version doesn't provide the reference to the ground, and so it's more difficult to judge the tower height... I wish I knew how to edit myself out of that picture :-) BACbKA (talk) 10:25, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

File:U limi.jpg

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Calliopejen1 (talk) 21:42, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

Passport issues

Firstly, the BlackBerry OS is proprietary, so the screen needs to be blacked out.

Secondly, I think the photo needs to be cropped, or the phone extracted from the image itself. ViperSnake151 (talk) 19:19, 26 September 2014 (UTC)

Please see COM:DW and Commons:Screenshots ViperSnake151 (talk) 19:12, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

Please help

I'm noticing a message in File:Fatimah Calligraphy.png saying that the permission has not been received by the Commons OTRS team. But I'm sure about it and I've sent the mentioned mail Aug 28, 2014 at 8:53 AM, as my mail sent items box says. I've got some questions:

• Should I send it once again?
• As the creator of this file, I've presented a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license for the file. I can't understand why should I send such an email to say I am the copyright holder and I let every one use this file according to the license conditions! I've said it already by the license! Thanks Mhhossein (talk) 05:05, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

ZooKeys Images

I was looking for ZooKeys images for this article (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3286260/) to use in some species pages on Wikipedia but they don't seem to be in Wikimedia Commons. Are ZooKeys images added automatically? Llivermore (talk) 14:11, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

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Lhmartin (talk) 13:54, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

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Kelly (talk) 07:14, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

Image of Scolopendra cataracta from ZooKeys?

Hi... I'm looking for an image of the new specis Scolopendra cataracta reported in ZooKeys (doi = 10.3897/zookeys.590.7950) and discussed in the media here with a ZooKeys image. Any chance of an image for use in my new article and maybe DYK at en:WP? Thanks, EdChem (talk) 15:58, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

File:Korean Air Lines Flight 007 flight data.jpg

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Jcb (talk) 15:35, 29 April 2017 (UTC)

File:Moxostoma valenciennesi.jpg

This and similar images are marked PD-not-renewed but I don't see evidence they were ever published. They also say that there is permission from NY to use them but that is not reflected at the source page (archive version). Can you provide more information about either their copyright status or the permission granted? Thanks, Calliopejen1 (talk) 18:21, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

Hmm perhaps some or all of these images were published in Biological Survey [of the Waters of New York State]/Biological Survey of the Upper Hudson Watershed.[1][2] TBD whether the copyright was renewed on these books. I'm guessing it wasn't. Calliopejen1 (talk) 18:25, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

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Taivo (talk) 11:28, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

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Commons:Village pump/Proposals#Aggressive wording on speedy deletion template(s)

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Speedy versus Nomination

Greetings: Please only use speedy deletion for obvious, provable copyright violations. Use Deletion Nomination for anything which may or might require discussion, consideration or need to be documented carefully, e.g. based on prior actions, or similar. Cheers! Ellin Beltz (talk) 18:48, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

File:HKIA March 26, 2020 shops.jpg

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A1Cafel (talk) 13:16, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

File:HKIA March 26, 2020 flights cancelled.jpg

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A1Cafel (talk) 13:16, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

Copyright status: File:Kaitlyn Verfuerth.jpg

Copyright status: File:Kaitlyn Verfuerth.jpg

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File:Przemyśl Główny news stand.jpg

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Túrelio (talk) 08:28, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

File:Krakow war protest 9.jpg

File:Krakow war protest 9.jpg has been marked as a possible copyright violation. Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content—that is, images and other media files that can be used by anyone, for any purpose. Traditional copyright law does not grant these freedoms, and unless noted otherwise, everything you find on the web is copyrighted and not permitted here. For details on what is acceptable, please read Commons:Licensing. You may also find Commons:Copyright rules useful, or you can ask questions about Commons policies at the Commons:Help desk. If you are the copyright holder and the creator of the file, please read Commons:But it's my own work! for tips on how to provide evidence of that. The file you added has been deleted. If you have written permission from the copyright holder, please have them send us a free license release via COM:VRT. If you believe that the deletion was not in accordance with policy, you may request undeletion. (It is not necessary to request undeletion if using VRT; the file will be automatically restored at the conclusion of the process.) This file is a copyright violation for the following reason: The painting and its printed version on the two bags, which are the focus of the picture, are likely copyrighted. Warning: Wikimedia Commons takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

 

Veverve (talk) 11:20, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

File:Clara Cheung and Pakkin Leung.jpg

Hi! 請你睇睇，呢張相冇落CCBY水印啵。我諗最好徵求梁先生意見，請佢正式授權？ RZuo (talk) 16:25, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

Question about file name

Why did you name File:Western Nashville WV banner.jpg that? It is in Tennesee, not West Virginia. Bubba73 (talk) 03:53, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

File:22dec19-COP15-Adoption-of-the-Kunming-Montreal-Framework-8881.jpg

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File:Clara Cheung and Pakkin Leung.jpg

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A1Cafel (talk) 16:32, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

File:Pakkin Leung (梁柏堅) in UK.jpg

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File:Clara Cheung (張嘉莉) in UK.jpg

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Round 2 of Picture of the Year 2022 voting is open!

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Zookey file

Hi, sorry my bad English... I see in Category:Media from ZooKeys your contact, and I need help in this file http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.487.9262 - it's possible the upload here, in Commons? Thanks... André Koehne ^{TALK TO ME} 16:01, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

I upload the File:Gruna do Cantinho Cave in Zookey archive photo by E C Igual.png (I copy data from File:Scolopocryptops troglocaudatus Gruna do Cantinho Cave.jpg), please, review the file? André Koehne ^{TALK TO ME} 19:25, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

File:2024-05-11-solar-kp-index.png

Hello, this file that I uploaded was marked as a potential copyright violation, but it says in the original image on the website that it is free to use under CC BY 4.0, which is what I marked it as. A previous version of the image from May 10 uploaded by someone else was not marked for deletion. Did I do something wrong? Thank you, Maple Doctor (talk) 04:14, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

Is this allowed?

Hello, I am coming to you again because you have helped me in the past. I found this image on Twitter, and was wondering if the copyright status of it is acceptable for Wikimedia. It is from an observatory, so it might be public domain, but I don't know. Are you able to tell me if it's ok for me to add here? Thank you, Maple Doctor (talk) 04:52, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

OTRS

If you can it would be helpful for you to send an OTRS email to WikiCommons proofing that you are the copyright holder of your image File:P.J. Akeeagok.jpg. The email template you need to fill out and the email to sent it to is here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Email_templates This would be helpful to make sure the images never get deleted. --142.167.24.113 01:04, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

No I don't need to. I took the photo myself. Check EXIF and you'll find that this photo is consistent with the photos I upload (same phone model, with properly tagged dates, latitude and longitude). I was at an event and took all of those photos. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 01:40, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

Diamond python en.wiki

When you use a picture even under general use licensing you still need to give correct information. I have updated the pic for MissD from "Aussieherps.com" not ozipythons.com I know this as it is my picture. It even stated it below from the archives section underneath. Please only use the internet for WIKI type projects if you are going to give correct credits. 202.160.109.96 11:19, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

It was not me who initially uploaded this file. That person was User:Viridae. I merely transferred the file from Wikipedia to Commons. If you're looking for someone to rant, at least find the right person. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 21:38, 16 August 2024 (UTC)

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