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William Salt Library question

Hi, I found a historic (c. 1762--1802), anonymous engraving of Lichfield Cathedral online. The image is part of the William Salt Library's collection. The Salt Library states that "permission to reproduce any image within the Staffordshire Views Collection must be obtained in writing from the Trustees of the William Salt Library prior to any publication, exhibition or display taking place." Obviously, I won't upload something that is from their collection, then. But how is it possible for the library to retain the rights to an anonymous engraving which is well outside of the period of copyright according to UK law? Just wondering. Theodore Christopher (talk) 03:02, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

@Theodore Christopher: It's not. If their claim is copyright-based, it is pure copyfraud. It is imaginable that they could have terms and conditions on the use of their website that require that users of the site comply to certain conditions, but those would be a non-copyright restriction, and almost certainly not one they could successfully enforce. I'd just ignore their claim, but it's up to you how you handle this. - Jmabel ! talk 05:54, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

Thanks! Theodore Christopher (talk) 00:53, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

NPOV

Can files from external websites include descriptions here (as written by the original author) that contain their opinions? Hypothetically, could a file taken by a right-wing person describe left-wing demonstrators as "cowards", "violent", or "destabilizing" if those hypothetical leftists were vandalizing property or attacking police officers? No visible faces can be seen though. Tbhotch™ 04:38, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

NPOV is not a policy here on Commons so the file description could contain the original author's words if those words are freely licensed. You can't include those descriptions in captions when using on the various Wikipedias though. Abzeronow (talk) 05:06, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

It's not exactly that NPOV is not a policy at all, as that we allow a lot more latitude on that than (for example) en-wiki. Quoting Commons:Project scope/Neutral point of view with respect to text (vs. files): …it may not always be possible for file names and related descriptive text to be "neutral". However, neutrality of description should be aimed at wherever possible, and in any event neither filenames nor text may be phrased in such a way as to constitute vandalism, attack or deliberate provocation.

If the original source is itself notable (and there are no license issues), then it is best practice to indicate what that original source said. For an extreme example, we have images uploaded here from the Bundesarchiv that follow the Bundesarchiv in preserving Nazi-era captions (with appropriate explanation as to the nature of those captions). However, if something similar were from a non-notable source, we typically would not preserve them, and even less so if they are only tangentially related to the images in question (i.e. a screed that accompanied a Flickr upload, and did not actually describe what you can see in the picture). There is no hard-and-fast rule against uploading such texts, but there is also no rule against someone removing them. Jmabel ! talk 06:07, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

Upload a MP4 video

Can I upload a MP4 video? NHNAnh (talk) 12:29, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

@NHNAnh: No, MP4 is not a free format, and therefore not allowed on Commons. You have to convert it to a free format, either locally, or with Video2Commons. Yann (talk) 18:22, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

mass uploading an internet archive collection

how do i upload an internet archive collection, specifically the MKULTRA files collection? ltbdl (talk) 18:14, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

Yes, you can upload these files as there are in the public domain. Please use {{PD-USGov-CIA}} for the license. Thanks, Yann (talk) 18:20, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

@Yann: i know i can upload these, i'm asking how to download and then upload all 1778 pdfs. ltbdl (talk) 18:21, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

Well, either you do it yourself with a bot (Commons:Bots/Requests), or you find someone else to do it for you (Commons:Batch uploading). There is a long waiting list there, and only a few people who could do it. Please see also Commons:Guide to batch uploading. Yann (talk) 18:34, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

It's possible to do with URL2Commons I have collected all links in the required format already here https://files.catbox.moe/upm5n2.txt but is there any more meaningful file names? Or does any have any descriptions about that file itself?

Here is how I do it for archive.org collections 1st I scroll the whole collection then run this script in browser console this is to stop archive.org removing the pages when you scroll because it does that to save memory then scroll all the way back up

const scroller = document.querySelector('app-root').shadowRoot.querySelector('collection-page').shadowRoot.querySelector('collection-browser').shadowRoot.querySelector('infinite-scroller').shadowRoot;
const observer = new MutationObserver((mutations) => {
    // Now re-adding the pages when archive.org removes them so we can download all at the same time
    for (const mutation of mutations) {
        if (mutation.type === 'childList') {
            for (const node of mutation.removedNodes) {
                mutation.target.appendChild(node);
            }
        }
    }
});
observer.observe(scroller, { childList: true, subtree: true });

Next this is to copy the URLS and files names

let files = [];
for(const d of document.querySelector('app-root').shadowRoot.querySelector('collection-page').shadowRoot.querySelector('collection-browser').shadowRoot.querySelector('infinite-scroller').shadowRoot.querySelectorAll('tile-dispatcher')){
	const elem = d.shadowRoot.getElementById('container').getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
	const url = elem.href;
	const title = elem.ariaLabel.replace(': ', '-_').replaceAll(' ', '_') ;
	if(!title.includes('Index')) files.push(url.replace('details', 'download') + '/' + url.split('/').pop() + '.pdf' + ' ' + title + '.pdf');
}
console.log(files.join('\n'));

 $999$REAL 💬 ⬆   23:46, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

error

I am attempting to update my father's wikipedia page and received this error - what does this mean on widipedia [ae0e22c8-62f8-4d77-b08d-13d3f863e82e] Caught exception of type TypeError Tlfarah (talk) 19:02, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

@Tlfarah: this looks like a question for the English Wikipedia help desk, en:help desk. TSventon (talk) 20:55, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

Tif or PNG?

I'm converting large topographic maps (https://www.linz.govt.nz/products-services/maps/new-zealand-topographic-maps/topo50-map-chooser/) for use on Wikipedia and I've been converting to png, but should I keep the files as tif? PNG has better browser support but I don't know if having a higher quality tif file that is downgraded into a jpeg/png via Wikimedia software is better. Traumnovelle (talk) 20:15, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

Hi, Actually converting a TIFF file to a PNG one should not reduce the quality, as PNG is a lossless format. Best would be to upload a PNG and a JPEG versions. Yann (talk) 20:18, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

I should upload a PNG and JPEG of the image? What's the purpose of the JPEG file duplicate? Traumnovelle (talk) 20:21, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

I think that JPEG can be advantageous for people on slower or bandwith-limited (mobile) connections by virtue of their reduced size. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 20:31, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

@Traumnovelle: I would upload them as TIFFs, unless they're so large that thumbnails don't get generated or something. PNGs would be fine too, but if you've already got them as TIFF I don't think there's much benefit to doing the work to convert them. JPEG thumbs will be generated by Commons in either case. Are they GeoTIFFs? I seem to remember some discussion about how there is more metadata in those than can be replicated in PNG metadata. Sam Wilson 01:15, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

They come as both TIF and geoTIF. I am taking much larger maps and cropping them to cover a specific area for use in a Wikipedia article, so converting to PNG isn't anymore time consuming and I'm not sure if any retained metadata would still be helpful. Traumnovelle (talk) 05:34, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

@Traumnovelle: In that case, it sounds like PNG would be fine. But you say that it'd be a higher quality TIFF, do you mean you'd upload higher resolution or color depth if it's TIFF? Sam Wilson 09:22, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

I just assumed that TIFF was a higher quality format than PNG, but it seems in this instance with what I am doing the difference is negligible and the greater browser support that PNG has is more ideal. Traumnovelle (talk) 09:25, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

Upload files

Can you help me to upload the files please Paul728 (talk) 02:30, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

@Paul728: You may find COM:First steps helpful. There's also a lot of useful links in the welcome message on your talk page, User talk:Paul728. If you still can't proceed, please describe what you were trying to do and what your actual problems are. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 02:32, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

Is it appropriate to edit / modify someone else's uploaded photo?

Specifically, I'm looking at some photos that are quality image candidates and sometimes a simple crop (or small rotation) might help improve the photo, but I'm unsure if it's appropriate to make these types of edits to someone else's photo. Thanks for any suggestions/advice. Pdanese (talk) 23:18, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

Outside of QIC, certainly yes, upload it as a new version and use {{Retouched picture}} (that's what the free licenses are for, too, actually). Editing a QIC, though, may be unwise. Post a comment describing your issues and leave the editing of QIC candidates to the actual uploader; this may be the better approach. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 23:57, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

@Grand-Duc and Pdanese: new version there is rather ambiguous. If you mean upload a different version under a new filename, I completely agree. If you mean overwrite it with a new version, I disagree. Commons:Overwriting existing files urges a lot of caution, and specifically says, "Consult the creator or original uploader first as they are likely to do a better job of fixing issues". If the creator of the photo is still here on Commons, I would strongly recommend following that last piece of advice. - Jmabel ! talk 01:32, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Ups, my bad. I indeed meant to advise executing the upload as a new file, sorry for the misunderstanding. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 02:00, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Crosswiki accounts

For unknown reasons this temporary account is not synchronizing with the one the software created for me on other Wikinedia wikis, anyone have an idea what is going on there? ~2025-37860-19 (talk) 23:54, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

I would say that if you want account coherence, you should almost certainly create a proper account. - Jmabel ! talk 01:33, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

I am not a regular by any measure, and I have no interest in the social media side of things either, so no. ~2025-37860-19 (talk) 04:18, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Ordinary accounts are not only for "regular" users. They are for anyone. It's technical, not social. They just give access to some features and provide more privacy than temporary accounts (whose IPs are semi-available) and they allow coherence even if you use several devices.

Maybe you used different devices. Maybe cookies were deleted. Anything that may have affected the cookies. Maybe other possibilities. -- Asclepias (talk) 11:48, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Worth examining, though the other cookie is still active. ~2025-37860-19 (talk) 20:56, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

My understanding is that the temporary accounts are global, but depending on how your browser handles 3rd party cookies, it might not allow the different projects to see the cookie due to different URLs. All the Best -- Chuck ^Talk 21:14, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Receiver block diagram animation

Are there royalty free receiver block diagram animations we can use for our ham radio club for educational purposes? ~2025-37970-49 (talk) 14:43, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

File description of deleted image

I've been using a downloaded version of File:Gn-elf.jpg as an avatar in various places for years, because I thought it was cute. The image was on Commons for nearly a decade and was deleted last year.

I am not asking that it be re-instated, but would an administrator please tell me the description of what that object is, and where the image originally came from? A reverse image search shows only links back to the deleted version on Commons. ~Anachronist (talk) 16:14, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

@Anachronist: I'm afraid the description was just a repeat of the filename, and source was "own photo". - Jmabel ! talk 19:33, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

You can get one of them for $0,13. Unfortunately, you'll have to take at least 1440. --rimshot^talk 21:24, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Well, that's helpful, thanks. At least I now know what it is: "High Quality 2-Inch Cute Hedgehog TPR Flashing Puffer Ball with Eyes Colorful Light-Up Toy". ~Anachronist (talk) 05:22, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

Old commons account was Tiamat

And all the photos I uploaded under that name have been moved to User:Tiamat~commonswiki. And I want them to be associated with my Global User name which is my Wikipedia English name User:Tiamut. Can anyone help me fix this? Tiamut (talk) 16:57, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

@Tiamut: Can't be done, but you can make the user page and user talk page of that account redirect to your current account, and you can also mention the account on your current user page. - Jmabel ! talk 19:40, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for the suggestion. Tiamut (talk) 10:14, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

Bert Convey Wiki Page

Bert Convey (1933-1991) is best known as the handsome host and a frequent panelist on a bevy of television game shows in the 60's, 70', and 80's.

Sadly, he's unrecognizable in the single black and white photo from a one-time acting 1960 appearance on his wiki page where he's depicted looking weathered and stunned and scruffy stunned in a pith helmet, beard and military... rather than his curly locks, stellar smile, and usual dapper manner of dress.

Countless full-color photos capturing a better and more up-to-date likeness of Mr. Convey as he should be remembered as his sensational handsome self are available online... and would serve a tremendous and more fitting tribute to this fine gentleman who passed at the early age of 57.

Plus Wikipedia readers are far more likely recognize him as he appeared at the height of his memorable television career.

I'd like to see how we can replace the existing photo with this one that captures Mr. Convey at his very best.

https://matchgame.fandom.com/wiki/Bert_Convy?file=3127_123031562541.jpg

How can I make that happen? Alley Ascot (talk) 23:25, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Hi Alley Ascot. Any images you find of Convy online or otherwise are going to need to be licensed in accordance with Commons:Licensing for them to be OK to upload to Commons because Commons doesn't accept fair use content of any type. What this means is that you're going to need to look for images in which it's clearly stated that the copyright holder of the image has released under a copyright license that is free enough (i.e., with minimal restrictions) for Commons' purposes or which states the image is considered to be within the en:public domain (i.e., either never was or is no longer eligible for copyright protection). If you find an image somewhere and there's no mention of it being released in such a way, you should assume it's under copyright protection and, thus, not OK to upload. It's also important to understand that the copyright holder of an image is typically considered to the be the original creator of the image; so, for example, the copyright holder of a photo of Convy would be the person who took the photo, while the copyright holder of a screenshot from a TV show or movie that Convy appeared in would be producer of the show or movie. Lots of fans upload images of their favorites to social media or other websites, but this doesn't make them the copyright holder of the image; so, care is needed when it comes to random images like the one you linked to above, and it's better to look for images uploaded or published by their copyright holders instead.

English Wikipedia, on the other hand, does allow fair use images to be uploaded and used as non-free content, but English Wikipedia's non-free content use policy is really restrictive by design, and free equivalent images (even when they're not the best available image one can find) are pretty always preferable to anything that's non-free. While it might seem wrong to you since you seem to be a huge fan of Convy, Wikipedia doesn't need an image showing Convy at his best; it just needs one that acceptably licensed and sufficient enough to serve the encyclopedic purpose of primary identification, which File:Bert Convy 1976 CBS publicity.jpg is more than capable of doing. English Wikipedia articles (text or images) aren't intended to pay tribute to their subjects; they're only intended to provide an encyclopedic summary/overview of the subject in a neutral tone that reflects what reliable sources have written or said about the subject. -- Marchjuly (talk) 05:29, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

Well how 1976 and 1960 look same to you anyway the publicity photos then that was sent to newspapers looks like they was always black n white you don't see any original color copies dont know why they probably sent them only to magazines well the color publicity photos looked real dull too don't know why here's a real good color portrait from 1962 don't know why ABC n CBS didn't take better photos of him well they sure knew how to take great photos when they had someone pretty anyway for color photos why not look for magazines that didn't have copyright notices not all magazines was copyrighted even up to Feb 1989 like these https://archive.org/details/pro-wrestling-illustrated-1989-02-lex-lugar thanks to Mr. Stanley Weston for not copyrighting his magazines he's the one who took that color photo of Sonny Liston in 1962

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  ABC 1983
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  ABC 1977
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  CBS 1977

 $999$REAL 💬 ⬆   21:56, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

@Alley Ascot: you asked this question in more than one place. I know I already answered it elsewhere. Please do not do that. It wastes the time of those of us who volunteer to answer questions here. - Jmabel ! talk 05:32, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

"Contributions"

On en:Wikipedia, there's an easy-to-find link "Contributions" to all my contributions, sorted by date, most recent first. I'm sure there's something similar here on Commons, but I can't find it. Any advice will be welcome. Maproom (talk) 09:00, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

There is: Special:Contributions. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 09:20, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

@Maproom: assuming you have the default skin, it is in the dropdown at upper right with a small icon of a person. - Jmabel ! talk 20:55, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

Grand-Duc, Jmabel: thank you both! Maproom (talk) 23:39, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

Lack of Freedom of Panorama in Italy

As stated on Commons, Italy does not have general FOP for buildings. Still, I am surprised by the overwhelming number of files that show theoretically-copyrighted architecture in Italy, like Vela Scampia.jpg, More than meets the eye MAXXI Roma 2015.jpg and Kronplatz Messner Mountain Museum.jpg. There is also no FOP for public interiors in Italy, and still there is a quite extensive number of files showing public interiors, like Neubautrakt_Klinikum_Bozen_2023.jpg and Ospedale San Gerardo-Interior.jpg.

I am considering uploading new files of various buildings in Italy to Commons and quite insecure: On one hand, de-jure, each image would need to be checked whether the displayed building is copyrighted or not; on the other hand, the sheer number of files on Commons that did not consider the lack of FOP convey the feeling that the lack of FOP is not really intensivelly enforced. --Aciarium (talk) 12:06, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

@Aciarium: You're right in that "each image would need to be checked whether the displayed building is copyrighted or not". And you're right in that a "sheer number of files on Commons" exist that are probable right infringements. Their numbers grow faster than people can check them. Thus, you're strongly encouraged to actually engage in starting such checks, namely: open deletion requests when you think that a certain image has a motif protected by copyrights! DR opened in good faith are a sensible and needed process of quality assurance. I did so on File:Kronplatz Messner Mountain Museum.jpg, the others may be below a relevant COM:TOO. But if you're not convinced with the TOO argument, feel free to open a DR on them! It's certainly arguable. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 12:24, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

@Grand-Duc Thank you for your clarification, this makes more sense to me now. However, I still have difficulties to assess whether a certain motif exceeds TOO. I agree that very simple hospital hallways would fall under the TOO, but I am unsure about buildings like Krankenhaus Bozen or Walther Park. Kind regards, --Aciarium (talk) 12:42, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

As I wrote before: DR opened in good faith are a sensible and needed process of quality assurance. So, if you're simply bold and go forward with a DR for those cases where you're having doubts, then you will get an opportunity to learn about the practices around TOO. The ability of better gauging TOO comes with the practice after viewing hundreds of files, opening DR and assessing their outcomes - I did and am still doing the same. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 13:17, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

That sounds like a good strategy to improve! Thank you and best regards, Aciarium (talk) 16:54, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

@Aciarium and Grand-Duc: but on the other hand, please don't open a couple of dozen borderline cases at once as a means of educating yourself. - Jmabel ! talk 20:57, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

How to restore original black and white version of an image?

A few years ago, there was a bit of back and forth concerning this image of Vladimir Horowitz.

Vladimir Horowitz LOC 3b00629

Someone had produced a colorized version, but another user and I reverted them back to the original. Nevertheless, I only noticed today that the colorized version is the only one still visible in Wikipedia main spaces (e.g. Horowitz's English Wikipedia article). How does one restore the original version to display in these projects? Thanks. —CurryTime7-24 (talk) 20:40, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

@CurryTime7-24: I cannot replicate what you are seeing. Perhaps a caching issue? Could you try all means of purging caches and/or try looking with a different browser or device? - Jmabel ! talk 21:01, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

Image of Liz Murrill

Hello, I was wondering if I could upload an image of Liz Murrill, specifically this one that first appears when you look on the page. I do not know if this does not follow copyright law. RaveCrowny (talk) 21:40, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

@RaveCrowny: I see absolutely no indication that the image there is either in the public domain or free-licensed, so no, (unless I'm missing something) you cannot upload this. You might want to read COM:THIRD. - Jmabel ! talk 01:37, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Resultado do concurso

Olá, bom dia! Gostaria de saber onde acesso o resultado do concurso. Aroeira2025 (talk) 08:43, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Is Wikipedia : Wiki Loves Monuments 2025/Brazil/Awards what you're after? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 20:17, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

That link does not work. Should it be Category:Winners of Wiki Loves Monuments 2025 in Brazil? Wouter (talk) 20:39, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

@Wouterhagens Sorry, wasn't paying attention. Wikipédia:Wiki Loves Monuments 2025/Brasil/Prêmios was the intent. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 05:47, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

Download File

I would like to use the image “File:Dülmen, St.-Viktor-Kirche, Innenansicht, Krippe -- 2018 -- 0614.jpg,” with permission and proper attribution. I have downloaded files from Wikimedia before, but cannot figure out how to download this one. Would you please tell me how? Thanks. TildonJr no (talk) 20:54, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Just click on the photo on the filepage. Then the full resolution will be loaded into your browser and you can save it in the various ways you system supports, like drang and drop or right click. GPSLeo (talk) 22:22, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Thank you. TildonJr no (talk) 23:14, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Cat-a-lot throttled down?

Can't use cat-a-lot this night. Say, if I mark 10 files for edit and press go, it processes two or three and than hangs up. As if throttled by design. Temporary glitch, or? Retired electrician (talk) 22:32, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Not my experience using it. Anyone else having problems? - Jmabel ! talk 06:50, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

Request for review — file pending review over 9 days

Hello, I uploaded the following file more than nine days ago, but it is still pending review: File:Md_Khairul_Alam_Mahfuj.png

All required license, description and metadata are provided. Could someone kindly review and approve the file at your earliest convenience?

Thank you in advance for your help. মোঃ খায়রুল আলম (মাহফুজ) (talk) 08:27, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

@মোঃ খায়রুল আলম (মাহফুজ): I'm not sure what you mean by "review". If the photo you uploaded is your "own work" and you want to release under a {{cc-by-sa-4.0}}, you certainly can do so. If you're worried about others questioning whether you're the copyright holder of the photo, you can use COM:RELGEN to verify your copyright status, or you can send a COM:CONSENT email to Wikimedia VRT. However, you should take a look at COM:SCOPE because Commons is really not a place to upload files that are mainly for personal use (i.e., don't have a reasonable expection of educational use). One of your other file uploads, File:Portrait of Md Khairul Alam Mahfuj.jpg, has already been tagged for speedy deletion per COM:F10, most likely because the educational value of the image is unclear. Why did you upload these photos to Commons and how do you intend to use them? -- Marchjuly (talk) 10:12, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

Hello Marchjuly,

Thank you for your message. This is my own photograph and I uploaded it under CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

My intention is to use it for educational and informational purposes related to my profile as a musical artist.

Please let me know if any additional information is required.

Thank you. মোঃ খায়রুল আলম (মাহফুজ) (talk) 10:19, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

Hi মোঃ খায়রুল আলম (মাহফুজ). Can you clarify what you mean by profile as a musical artist? If you mean your profile on some kind of social media account or personal website, then your photos are almost certainly going to be considered to be out of scope and not OK for Commons. If you mean is some kind of Wikipedia article, then you might be misunderstanding some important things about Wikipedia since none of the different language Wikipedias are intended to be places to upload personal profiles or promote oneself. -- Marchjuly (talk) 10:31, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

@Marchjuly

This image (File:Md_Khairul_Alam_Mahfuj.png) is my own work and I have uploaded it under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

My intention is to use it strictly for educational and encyclopedic purposes, such as in Wikipedia articles related to Bangladeshi musicians.

It is not intended for personal promotion or social media use.

Please let me know if any additional information or clarification is required.

Thank you very much for your time and guidance. Siyam1120 (talk) 10:39, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

Each of the local Wikipedias are different; they have their own respective policies/guidelines and their own respective communities applying/enforcing them. On English Wikipedia, for example, any type of en:WP:NAMECHECKING tends to be frowned upon and considered unacceptable; so, even individuals mentioned in list-type articles (e.g., en:List of Bangladeshi people) are, for the most part, expected to meet one of English Wikipedia's notability guidelines for it to be considered OK for their name to be added to the article. I don't know how other the Wikipedias operate when it comes to such things, but English Wikipedia is pretty restrictive when it comes to adding your name to English Wikipedia articles; at the very least, you would be considered to have a conflict of interest when it comes to trying to create or add content about yourself on English Wikipedia. Once again, none of this has anything really to do with Commons, other than perhaps whether the Commons community feels your uploads satisfy COM:SCOPE.

The account you used to post the above is different from মোঃ খায়রুল আলম (মাহফুজ), the one you used to post your other comments. Assuming you're the same person, you should be careful about creating multiple accounts because it can often lead to misunderstanding and confusion as well as claims of sock puppetry. If you're the same person, you should try to stick to using only one account as much as possible, particulary when commenting in the same discussion. -- Marchjuly (talk) 13:54, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

Image Use understanding

Hi, i would like to include this very old newspaper image in the Article James_Cook_Observatory. The image is located at https://photonews.org.nz/gisborne/issue/GPN209_19711103/GPN209_19711103_023a.jpg on the web page https://photonews.org.nz/gisborne/issue/GPN209_19711103/t1-body-d16.html

the license as displayed at the bottom of the page is CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 NZ Thanks! Angusb111 (talk) 13:27, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

Hi Angusb111. As explained in COM:LJ, any type of Creative Commons license that places restrictions on commercial use (i.e., NC) or derviative use (i.e., ND) isn't free enough for Commons purposes, and content licensed as such shouldn't be uploaded to Commons. Now, one possibility could be that the site hosting the photo isn't its original copyright holder, which would mean that the license for the content of the website doesn't matter. If, for example, you can find the same photo being used somewhere else (online or in print) attributed to someone other than that website, then that might help establish the "true" en:provenance of the photo. Do you know anymore information about the photo such as when it was taken and who took it? Under NZ copyright law, an anonymous work is eligible for copyright protection for 50 years following the calendar year it was first published or created. If the photo was taken before January 1, 1945, then it could've entered into the public domain under NZ copyright law on January 1, 1996. The January 1, 1945, date is important because any copyrighted NZ work created on or after that date would've had its copyirght restored under US copyright law, and Commons policy requires the content host be acceptably licensed under the copyright laws of both the US and the country of first publication/creation. -- Marchjuly (talk) 13:44, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

Feliks PRUSAK

Dzień dobry, chciałbym wstawić zdjęcie profesora do jego biogramu zamieszczanego na stronie https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feliks_Prusak i nie wiem jak to zrobić. Zdjęcie otrzymałem od profesora. <phone number suppressed> <e-mail suppressed> Rafał.W-wa (talk) 13:46, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

Commons:Pierwsze kroki.

(za pośrednictwem Tłumacza Google) Nie czytam ani nie piszę po polsku, ale prawdopodobnie jest tu pewien problem. Chyba że zdjęcie Twojego profesora to selfie, profesor prawdopodobnie nie posiada praw autorskich. Będzie tu problem z licencją. Możesz przeczytać COM:THIRD, niestety niedostępne po polsku, ale może narzędzie do tłumaczenia by się przydało. Byłoby o wiele prościej, gdybyś sam zrobił zdjęcie profesora i je przesłał.

(I don't read or write Polish, but there is likely to be an issue here. Unless your professor's photo is a selfie, the professor probably does not own the copyright. There is going to be a licensing problem here. You might want to read COM:THIRD, unfortunately not available in Polish but maybe a translation tool would help out. It would be much simpler if you take a picture of the professor yourself and upload that.) - Jmabel ! talk 19:19, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

Subject: Inquiry: How to Upload a New Article (Paisano Trailers)

Dear Wikipedia Help Desk Team, I am writing to inquire about the process for uploading a new article to Wikipedia. The article is for the company I work for, Paisano Trailers. We aim to create a concise, factual entry about the company. Could you please provide guidance or point me to the relevant resources regarding the steps I need to take to submit this article for review? Thank you for your time and assistance. Sincerely, Carlos Paisano Trailers (talk) 22:48, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

This is the help desk for Wikimedia Commons, a file depository.

If you want help for one of the language editions for the encyclopedia Wikipedia, there are separate help desks for each language edition, like for English Wikipedia.

If you want to start an article about your company on English Wikipedia, you should read the essay When your boss tells you to edit Wikipedia and the FAQ response to Can I start an article about myself or my company?

Your username representing a company would almost certainly break English Wikipedia rules about promotional usernames; you could request a name change. Lovelano (talk) 03:21, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

Company logo upload

I'm trying to understand how to upload our company logo on our Wikipedia page. I am being asked if I own it. I represent the company and yes, we own the logo rights. so do I choose this as my upload choice? Mary Melch (talk) 22:48, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

Hi Mary Melch. Either you or someone representing your company has already sent a COM:CONSENT email to Wikimedia VRT; so, now all you can do is wait for the email to be processed by a VRT member. However, and this is just my personal opinion, your company's logo (File:DAT-Belden Logo Full-C RGB.webp) might actually be too simple to be eligible for copyright protection under US copyright law because the en:threshold of originality US copyright law goes by is fairly high, and it takes quite a bit of creatively and complexity for logos to be eligible for copyright protection. Your company's logo seems faily simply to me with the only possibly copyright eligible element being the "b" part of the logo. Finally, and this is primarily related to English Wikipedia, as an employee of company you're going to be considered to have a en:Wikipedia:Conflict of interest regarding anything written about the company on English Wikipedia; moreover, you're also almost certainly going to need to comply with en:Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure. This last part is really important because a failure to properly declare your "paid status" is considered to be a violation of the Wikimedia Foundation's wmf:Terms of use and will lead to your account being blocked from editing on English Wikipedia. I will add some more information about this to your English Wikipedia user talk page; so, please take the time to read the post. -- Marchjuly (talk) 03:45, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

how to upload

I am unable upload MANAN67 (talk) 01:38, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

i just dont know how

nothing more than that MANAN67 (talk) 01:40, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

Hello and welcome @MANAN67, please read Commons:First steps. It is a tutorial on how to start contributing to Wikimedia Commons. Thanks. Tvpuppy (talk) 02:18, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

Is there a current events page?

I want to be able to see stuff on recent things happening but I'm not able to 1thyshyd234 (talk) 04:52, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

@1thyshyd234: that's not something we have on this site (Wikimedia Commons). You could always look at Special:NewFiles, but of course most won't have anything to do with events, and not all are recently photographed. - Jmabel ! talk 06:53, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

Copyright help regarding File:Frederik Næblerød Arken Museum of Contemporary Art Photo by Armin Tehrani 2025.jpg

The photographer who owns the copyright has sent an email to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org given permission and following the official Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International. The file should therefore not be deleted. I hope you can confirm.

--Moceroci (talk) 07:55, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

@Moceroci The process will run its course. If the permission sent is appropriate then that file, even if deleted, will be reinstated. There is nothing to do here. 🇵🇸‍🇺🇦 Timtrent 🇺🇦 talk to me 🇺🇦‍🇵🇸 09:31, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

@Moceroci and Timtrent: no, actually, there is something to do. Moceroci: you did not indicate what license is being offered (for which the VRT process is still in progress). If we have that, then there will be at least a 30-day grace period from upload for the VRT process to proceed. If no license is stated on the file page, then there is only a 7-day window. See COM:THIRD#still-needs-license. - Jmabel ! talk 02:03, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

Koch Traditional dress

Koch Traditional dress Koch Traditional dress (talk) 17:21, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

Koch Kingdom Koch tribet Mongolia Koch tribet. Koch Language. Nini Aapani korok tongw nini aapani kanni chumni tongw appani Callchar tongw Ning dongha Kocho Raja ni thi Koch Traditional dress (talk) 17:24, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

• (Machine translation) Koch Kingdom Koch tribute Mongolia Koch tribute. Koch Language. Your father's clothes are your father's clothes your father's callchar is your brother Kocho Raja's

• @Koch Traditional dress: Do you have a question about using Wikimedia Commons? -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 18:46, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

半年振りのupですが、書式が完全に変わって投稿出来ませんので、助けて下さい。

PC内のデーターから書きアドレスの画像をUPしょうととしました。

　UT1-439 【森永乳業】 A privately owned railroad container photographed in the Osaka Prefecture area of ​​Japan

しかし、『　このファイル名は不正な文字が含まれているか、不正な形式です。　』とのエラーでまったく作業が出来ません。念の為に『　【森永乳業】　』の【】を外して『　森永乳業　』の四文字に絞ってみましたが、やはりだめでした。お手数ですが

　UT1-439 【森永乳業】 A privately owned railroad container photographed in the Osaka Prefecture area of ​​Japan

でUPできるようにご指導お願いします。 Gazouya-japan (talk) 20:56, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

Hello @Gazouya-japan, it appears the filename you are trying to upload contained 2 "ZERO-WIDTH SPACE" characters between the word "of" and "Japan". Please remove these invalid space characters and try uploading again. The brackets you have used above should be fine. Thanks. Tvpuppy (talk) 23:49, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

Tvpuppy様

早速のお返事を有難うございます。ただ折角ながらご指摘の所を修正してみたのですが、私の技量不足のために残念ながら上手く出来ませんでした。

再度お手数をお掛けしますが、出来ましたら修正したお手本文を下記の『』内へ貼り付けていただけませんでしょうか？　お手本文をコピーして使わせていただきたく思いますので、宜しくお願いします。敬具

お手本文→『　』 Gazouya-japan (talk) 02:08, 7 December 2025 (UTC)

@Gazouya-japan No problem, the corrected filename is this:『UT1-439 【森永乳業】 A privately owned railroad container photographed in the Osaka Prefecture area of Japan』. Thanks. Tvpuppy (talk) 02:13, 7 December 2025 (UTC)

Tvpuppy様

ご多忙の中、迅速に何度もお付き合いをいただきありがとうござました。

お陰様で無事に解決して、作業を進めることが出来るようになり心より感謝申し上げます。この一週間に渡る悪戦苦闘からやっと開放され安堵いたしました。

また私のわかりにくい日本語も完璧にご理解頂きました事に、改めて心より感謝申し上げます。

お疲れ様でした。 Gazouya-japan (talk) 03:04, 7 December 2025 (UTC)

upload "film-poster-for-maisies-marriage-1923" ?

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/twenties-britain-part-one/censorship-of-married-love/

https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/film-poster-for-maisies-marriage-1923-based-on-marie-stopes-news-photo/2241492197

Piñanana (talk) 21:22, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

@Piñanana Per your first link: "All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated". By poster I assume you mean the thing of the right. Afaict, yes, you can upload that on Commons, but do it right. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:20, 7 December 2025 (UTC)

Upload image you can't find anywhere else on the Internet

As in title Frankinnit (talk) 22:46, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

@Frankinnit Are you the copyright owner? Then yes.

Is it "in copyright" whether you can find it or not? Then no. 🇵🇸‍🇺🇦 Timtrent 🇺🇦 talk to me 🇺🇦‍🇵🇸 23:11, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

More details, please. What country, what year, who is the photographer? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:15, 7 December 2025 (UTC)

I want to upload my photo

I want to upload my photo Teuku Agam Albanjari (talk) 20:19, 7 December 2025 (UTC)

By "my photo" do you mean a photograph of you or by you?

Also, have you read COM:First steps? - Jmabel ! talk 02:06, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

Add image

Add image ಅರುಣಾಚಲ ಶಿವ (talk) 22:31, 7 December 2025 (UTC)

@ಅರುಣಾಚಲ ಶಿವ: that is almost impossibly vague. You might be looking for COM:First steps. If you are looking for something else, you'll need to be more specific. - Jmabel ! talk 02:09, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

Uploading figures produced by a scientific collaboration

To whom it may concern.

I am a professional astronomer working at ESO, member of the steering committee of the the Lunar Gravitational Wave Antenna (LGWA) and coordinator of the communication and outreach activities of this project. The Collaboration is putting together a draft for a Wikipedia entry for LGWA. In this process we will need to upload a number of figures produced by the collaboration itself. Could you please advise me on the best way of specifying the information related to the licence? More specifically, if I upload the figures myself, should I indicate that I have created them? Or should instead the actual person that created the figures upload them? Of course it would be more practical for us to be treated as a collaboration rather than having single individuals uploading the required media.

Thanks a lot for your help,

Nando Nando Patat (talk) 14:37, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

@Nando Patat: Hi, If you want to upload works not under a free license and not created by you, you will need to verify your account via COM:VRT (permissions-commons@wikimedia.org). Or if the figures are already published somewhere under a free license, you could just upload them mentioning the source, and add a {{Licensereview}} template. Thanks for your future contributions, Yann (talk) 15:19, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

@Nando Patat: These aren't exactly third-party uploads, but probably much of the information at COM:THIRD will be relevant. I suggest you read that and come back here with more specific questions if that does not answer you to your satisfaction. - Jmabel ! talk 23:32, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

Also, it sounds like you are doing work on en-wiki that could fall under en:WP:AUTOBIOGRAPY and almost certainly falls under en:WP:COI. The latter is very important for you to read if you are in any way being paid for this work. At the very least, there are disclosures you need to make on en-wiki or you are likely to have your account there blocked. - Jmabel ! talk 23:36, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

Thanks, @Jmabel,

I have read and understood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:COI and will act accordingly. In any case I am not being paid for this. Several of the figures will be taken from the mission white paper, which was published in the open Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP), 2025. JCAP articles are CC BY 4.0 by default. For the other figures I am contacting the owners, asking to upload them under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence. That should address the matter. But, please, let me know, should I be missing something. Nando Patat (talk) 16:04, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

@Nando Patat: only further issue is that for anyone uploading previously published work, even their own work, if they upload anything where they can't cite a source that carries a clearly legitimate CC BY-SA 4.0 licence (including, if the website in question is under their control, adding one there ex post facto), then they should go through the COM:VRT process for those files. Otherwise, someone is likely to doubt whether the account that uploaded is legitimately the same person. I know it sounds petty to someone obviously legitimate, but we've had many false claims in similar cases, so we had to establish that policy. - Jmabel ! talk 21:37, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

@JmabelThanks a lot for your help and advice. The white paper was published on JCAP. There is an explicit note on the journal's website stating that the paper is "Published by IOP Publishing Ltd on behalf of Sissa Medialab. Original content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI." This can be checked at this link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1475-7516/2025/01/108 (bottom of the page). We would then use something like this for the figures: "This figure is taken from Ajith et al. (2025), JCAP. The article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0)."

Of course, the site is not under our control, as this is an international, open access refereed journal. Does this address the issue? Nando Patat (talk) 08:53, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

@Nando Patat: yes. If the work is online on that basis, anyone can upload content, indicate that as source, and use that license. No need for the uploader to have any particular relation to who created the content. Do remember to use the "attribution" parameter of {{CC-BY 4.0}} so that reusers will get the attribution right. - Jmabel ! talk 21:38, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

Not able upload image

Not able to uplaod image Nithyananda36024 (talk) 16:56, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

Hello and welcome @Nithyananda36024, your upload was blocked by the filter for uploading cross-wiki as a new user. Please try uploading your image to Commons directly using Special:UploadWizard. Thank you. Tvpuppy (talk) 21:06, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

Images enhanced using AI?

Hey,

I just want to know, Say I take a picture of an animal using my phone and I am not happy with the quality, and I use AI engine to enhance the quality without changing anything on the original image, is that still considered as AI generated image? Esethu Mayekiso (talk) 18:17, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

@Esethu Mayekiso: This is currently an area of controversy, where I don't think matters are well settled. Here's my take; only the second point is firmly policy:

• Does Commons already have a fair number of similar images that are not AI-enhanced? If so, just skip it, it won't add much to what we have.
• If you upload, you absolutely must include {{Retouched}} or another similar template acknowledging the AI-based retouching. You should also use either Category:Photos modified by AI or one of its subcategories.
• I strongly recommend that you first upload your original image, and then overwrite it with the AI-enhanced image using "Upload a new version of this file", which you should find on the file page under the File history. That lets others see what was really there in the documentary photo and what was AI enhancement. - Jmabel ! talk 23:54, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

Thank you very much, that was helpful Esethu Mayekiso (talk) 08:07, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

A photographer is using creative commons to entrap users

A photographer who posts their work prominently on Wikimedia is using Creative Commons to use those who use images for non-commercial purposes. Their entrapment is so prolific that several advice pages can be found online about how to respond. How can Wikimedia allow such entrapment to occur using its pages? ~2025-39002-43 (talk) 19:14, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

@~126;2025-39002-43: This is terribly vague, since you neither mention the user nor point to any of these "several advice pages". We have occasionally limited or banned users for overly harsh enforcement of licenses. However, if the issue is that people are reusing their photos without acknowledging the author that is copyright infringement pure and simple, and certainly within any photographer's right to enforce. - Jmabel ! talk 00:00, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

"This is terribly vague"

What a nasty way to respond to someone trying to do right thing. ~2025-39002-43 (talk) 11:15, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

Not at all. You still did not mention the account which you are accusing. This page is observed by administrators and other patrolling users, who might take appropriate measures. But that requires that the suspicion of inacceptable behaviour is specified and evidence is provided. --Túrelio (talk) 11:33, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

It is a nasty way to respond, the points you make are valid, but irrelevant to this. ~2025-39002-43 (talk) 13:08, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

We do have a policy on this: Commons:Copyleft trolling. MKFI (talk) 07:41, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for this, this is a very useful resource. I'm unable to see on this, not on the user's profile page, where or how to report them for copyleft trolling, might you be able to point me in the right direction? ~2025-39002-43 (talk) 11:27, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

You've got to step forth and name the alleged trapper. Without substantial evidence, your messages here are currently red herrings, currently not giving any reasons to act upon them. You should also name those "several advice pages". Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 11:41, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

OK, thanks. I'm currently seeking legal advice and so will hold back for now. ~2025-39002-43 (talk) 13:07, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

Possible violations of Commons:Copyleft trolling can be reported at COM:AN/U. Please be prepared that this might lead to longer debates depending on the circumstances. However, we cannot act as long no such case has been opened. Usually, we are not aware when a copyright holder seeks remedies of license violations except through such reports. --AFBorchert (talk) 00:10, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

How to upload image from authors own website

How would I be able to upload Naomi Jackson's author photos from their own website? I can't seem to find the code however the image it available for media use. Thanks! YNG8403 (talk) 19:40, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

@YNG8403: "Available for media use" is not enough. Please read COM:THIRD, where the section Is the content you want to upload already free-licensed or in the public domain? explicitly mentions this sort of thing as an example of what is not free enough for Commons.

From a narrowly technical point of view, to upload an image from a third-party site, typically you first download it to your computer or similar device, then upload to Commons. - Jmabel ! talk 00:04, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

Deleting Photos

-I request the deletion of the photos I uploaded. I am the photographer of these files. I request deletion due to privacy/personal rights concerns and withdrawal of consent. This file cannot remain under the CC license. Please delete under the COM:PRP and COM:CONSENT licenses. Ali Osman Dilekoğlu (talk) 12:17, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

That won't do, stop forum shopping, you've got all relevant explanations on User talk:Ali_Osman_Dilekoğlu#Stop. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 12:27, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

You cannot unilaterally revoke the CC license you added to the photographs. The photographs are staying. Abzeronow (talk) 04:07, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

It's about Sun Chaser.

That poster (or teaser poster since the official one didn't come out just yet) was from from the official account from the series creator. I admit, I didn't own the picture, nor the official poster of the series, but since noone didn't put the picture on that page, I had to do it, maam/sir.

Can somebody explain what to do with this? NahuelFanboy2004 (talk) 13:06, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

@NahuelFanboy2004 Assuming this is about the poster at Sun Chaser. If so, that pic can't be on Commons (unless some very unlikely stuff).

However, you can upload it on English Wikipedia. Go here: WP:FUW, pick Upload a non-free file > This is a copyrighted, non-free work, but I believe it is Fair Use. > This is the official cover art of a work. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 15:55, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

OK, Thank you. Hmm, I'll try if it does. NahuelFanboy2004 (talk) 18:30, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

presidents

I was just curious about the way the site treats different Presidents. The site describing Trump was full of loaded words for the purpose of making the President look bad, while the site describing Biden use words that were neutral or leaned heavily on praising his accomplishments while downplaying his mistakes and blunders. This is NOT reporting the facts, but is heavily biased writing. You want donations - be objective not biased when covering political issues! I have allowed my students to use Wikopedia when researching for papers, but will not allow it any more when covering political issues. Please clean up the bias coverage. ~2025-39653-84 (talk) 04:00, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

It would help if you named the files so others could check the descriptions. Abzeronow (talk) 04:10, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

If you are talking about English Wikipedia, you're on the wrong website. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 18:56, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

I assume by "Wikopedia" you mean "Wikipedia", probably the English-language Wikipedia; this site is Wikimedia Commons. - Jmabel ! talk 21:40, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

uploading svg versions of chemical structures

I like to upgrade chemical structures that are only presented in bitmap format. I draw them using chemsketch and then refine using affinity, then exporting to SVG. is it possible to upload such files to pages? Carpet marlborough (talk) 08:39, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

@Carpet marlborough: if I understand you correctly, yes. Assuming that by "page" you mean in Wikipedia, one doesn't upload a file to a page. One uploads a file to Commons (typically, for beginners, with Special:UploadWizard) and then editing the Wikipedia page to us that uploaded file. In my experience, the easiest way to replace an image on a Wikipedia page is to "edit source" rather than use the WYSIWYG editor, and simply substitute one filename for another. - Jmabel ! talk 21:48, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

Delete incorrect captions?

Hey, I'm trying to get the incorrect captions at TimedText:WIKITONGUES-_Aminah_Abba_speaking_Wolof.webm.en.srt deleted. I couldn't see a speedy deletion criterion for this so I went for regular deletion. But my edit to add the "delete" template is caught by an edit filter. Can someone help me out please? Jumbo T (talk) 14:21, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

I see: an abuse filter makes it impossible to start a DR for timed text. I'll see what I can do. - Jmabel ! talk 22:00, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

@Jumbo T: I've requested further help at Commons:Village pump/Technical#Abuse filter makes it impossible to start a DR for timed text. - Jmabel ! talk 22:06, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

Change name of my file

Can someone change the name of my file " File:1872 Heating-Stove.jpg " to " File: Heating-Stove 1872.jpg " because for whatever reason my file now does not work with the thumb feature. I suspect it's because the 1872 date of my file starts first in the file name. Maybe the thumb feature will work correctly if that date is at the end of the file name instead. Thanks. --California Broker (talk) 14:38, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

• @California Broker: Seems to be working fine for me. It may be an issue with your browser? GMG^talk 14:47, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

  No, not not browser - because I get the same result on all 3 of my PCs. This is what I got on en:User:California Broker/Sandbox 9 on a different PC from the original PC I used earlier. However, I do believe you gave me the solution and that is to use the " upright " feature. Thanks! Let's just leave it the way it is and I will use the the " upright " feature. Thanks!-California Broker (talk) 15:26, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

  User:California Broker/Sandbox 9 - And this is the same of what I got here on my third PC. Strange!!! But I do believe I have the solution with the "upright" parameter. That works just fine. Let's just leave the file the way it is. Thanks again! --California Broker (talk) 15:56, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

  I still don't see what the problem is. It displays fine for me. GMG^talk 17:55, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

  I took a screenshot of what Draft 9 displays om my 3 PCs and uploaded to my Flickr account]. My stove using the "thumb" parameter is 4 times larger than using the "upright" parameter. It shows this way for all 3 of my PCs for Draft 9 on my Wikipedia User:California Broker account. It will display correctly and the way I want to use it with the "upright" parameter you had used. I can adjust the size with this and display right ot left side. Thanks for hint. I will use the "upright" parameter for picture size and it solves all my problems. However the "thumb" size seems too big for what I think it should be. Maybe I am mistaking??? Maybe it is displaying correctly! What do you think? --California Broker (talk) 21:00, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

Changing school logo

Hello, I work for Isleworth & Syon School. I want to change the school's crest (uploaded in 2006) to its current crest. I can't seem to overwrite the other file. Any help is appreciated. Thank you. Mjkettle01 (talk) 15:43, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

That file is hosted under fair-use provisions on the English Wikipedia. A local en:Reference desk or similar may be a better venue to ask for help. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 16:38, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

@Mjkettle01 Done. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 18:54, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

My original artwork file is being blocked by automated filter

Hello. I am the author of the uploaded artwork file "Horizonte difuso.jpg". An automated filter is blocking my edits when I try to fix the file information.

This is an original painting and I would like help adjusting the description so it follows Commons policies.

Thank you. User: LuisaViggiano Maria Luisa Viggiano (talk) 19:17, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

Hello and welcome @Maria Luisa Viggiano, your edits were blocked by the filter because you were trying to edit the section headings. Please avoid changing the section headings (e.g. =={{int:filedesc}}==) or the templates (e.g. {{own}}) to plain English, these templates are there for translation reasons. Thank you. Tvpuppy (talk) 20:14, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

PD for being AI-generated, but it's not!

Hiya, I just uploaded File:Wes Hildreth 2004.jpg via UploadWizard, and one of the required fields was about which AI generated the image and who prompted it. This is not an AI image, so I don't know why that was a required field. Even though I entered "not applicable", the Commons page for that image still bears multiple licensing templates for AI images, but this is not an AI image, and I uploaded it with the proper PD-USGov template.

Why did the wizard automatically add AI licensing templates to this upload, and can this be fixed?

Thanks! BhamBoi (talk) 21:10, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

I must have chosen the wrong option at the very first question about the source. GPSLeo (talk) 21:24, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

(presumably "I" in GPSLeo's remark is meant to be "you"). - Jmabel ! talk 22:14, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

Picture

Hello, should I send this form (Commons:Wikimedia VRT release generator) to the person who I would like to use a photo of and ask them to complete it themselves?

If they respond through the form, how does emailing Wikipedia tie into it afterward? Thefinals626472 (talk) 22:07, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

@Thefinals626472: the form is just to help you/them draft the content of an email. - Jmabel ! talk 22:15, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

Should I ask them to fill it out and then tell me their responses? Thefinals626472 (talk) 22:17, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

No. The rights-holder, not you, is the person who must send the email. This sounds even more like you need to read COM:THIRD. - Jmabel ! talk 22:19, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

Thank you. Thefinals626472 (talk) 22:21, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

(cross-posted) You say, "the person who I would like to use a photo of". Is it a selfie? If not, that is probably not the permission you need (you need permission from the copyright-holder, not the subject of the photo). I recommend you read COM:THIRD before you possibly waste someone's time, effort, and good will. - Jmabel ! talk

Pedido de eliminação ficheiro Commons

Boa noite, peço o favor de eliminar no Commons o ficheiro em anexo, uma vez que cometi uma falha no carregamento. Só depois de gravado é que verifiquei o erro. Pretendo editar novamente o ficheiro de forma correta. Obrigado

File:Ivan Cristiano.jpg

Músico - bateria e percussão

Andregraca (talk) 23:12, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

@Andregraca: I'll delete it. In the future, if you want to delete your own recently uploaded file, just tag it with {{SD|G7}} or (equivalently) {{subst:my bad upload}} - Jmabel ! talk 23:22, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

Thanks Jmabel Andregraca (talk) 00:19, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

File:Horizonte difuso.jpg

Moved from Commons talk:Help desk. - Jmabel ! talk 23:18, 10 December 2025 (UTC)
Hello. I am the author of the uploaded artwork file "Horizonte difuso.jpg". An automated filter is blocking my edits when I try to fix the file information.

This is an original painting and I would like help adjusting the description so it follows Commons policies.

Could someone please help review my file?

Thank you. User: LuisaViggiano Maria Luisa Viggiano (talk) 19:12, 10 December 2025 (UTC) Jmabel ! talk 23:18, 10 December 2025 (UTC)