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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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 $999$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)

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)

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)

Thanks a lot. Will do. Nando Patat (talk) 08:47, 11 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)

Also, just to note that not all active enforcement of Creative Commons terms constitutes copyleft trolling. When a licensee uses an image with no attribution at all, particularly in a commercial context, that is typically viewed as straightforward infringement rather than any form of entrapment; while not everyone would actively encourage such enforcement, the majority can at least understand or tolerate it as a normal consequence of licence misuse. Copyleft trolling generally refers to cases where the licensor intentionally makes the terms difficult to follow or uses obscure requirements to manufacture violations, or pursues users over small technical issues (for example minor typos in attribution), and does so indiscriminately against anyone regardless of context (personal use, commercial reuse by companies, etc.). Given that you prefer not to identify the photographer and have mentioned seeking legal advice, it is difficult for others here to assess whether this is a case of problematic behaviour or simply a matter of standard copyright enforcement. At this point, I have some doubts that your sole purpose here is to "warn us". --Jonatan Svensson Glad (talk) 02:13, 12 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)

  @California Broker: Oh, yeah. The thumb automatically sets the width of the image to 250px and the height is just whatever keeps the same proportions as the original. So tall/narrow images come out looking huge. Panoramas that are very wide and short come out looking tiny. It's working as intended, it's just not really made for images that have odd proportions. GMG^talk 13:22, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

  Thanks! You have been very helpful and have explained the technicalities well. Obviously you have a lot of experience at Wikipedia. Now I got a good handle on this.--California Broker (talk) 13:41, 11 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)

The correct venue would be en:WP:Help Desk. The reference desk is for questions about subjects other than Wikipedia. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:18, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

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

Thank you! Mjkettle01 (talk) 08:07, 11 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)

Of course. Thanks. GPSLeo (talk) 18:08, 11 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)

Thank you, all clear. I’ll reupload the corrected file. Maria Luisa Viggiano (talk) 18:26, 12 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)

@Maria Luisa Viggiano: It seems like you tried to rename the section headers, which triggered our abuse filter, like in this attempted edit: Special:AbuseLog/12738052. Please do not rename the section headers like =={{int:filedesc}}== in your attempted edit, as they are used for translation purposes. Your edits shouldn't be blocked as long as you don't mess with the section headers. HyperAnd (talk) 00:38, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the clarification.

I understand now that I should not modify the section headers, and that this is what triggered the abuse filter.

I will update only the file description content without changing any headers.

If you notice anything else that needs to be corrected so the file complies with Commons policies, please let me know.

Thanks again for your help!

— LuisaViggiano ~2025-40308-23 (talk) 18:14, 12 December 2025 (UTC)

Uploading Orphaned Works

Can I upload orphaned works? In this case, photographs/photograph albums that have no identifiable creator or owner because they are old and have been through many hands before landing up on eBay. I am talking 80 plus years old in most cases. MingeTheMerciless (talk) 02:14, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

In general, no. There are some countries where this is OK because their terms of copyright for photographs ~80 years ago were short, and began with creation of the work but, for example, unpublished works from the U.S. are protected for 120 years from creation. - Jmabel ! talk 04:54, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

Uploading a picture

How to upload a picture Mozescarmel (talk) 04:49, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

@Mozescarmel: COM:First steps. - Jmabel ! talk 04:55, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

Can I take a screenshot from a youtube video?

I found that the famous YouTuber Beluga was missing a picture on his Wikipedia page, so I intended to upload a picture of him. To do this, I went to one of the videos on his YouTube channel called "Beluga Face Reveal". I took a screenshot of the video in which there was a picture of him. I went to Wikipedia and intended to send the video, but since it is not possible to upload a picture without the person's permission, it seems that the terms of sending the picture do not clearly prohibit the use of a screenshot of a YouTube video, so I decided to check the matter myself and send a question here. Should I publish the picture on the page, or is it copyrighted? And are there other reasons why I should share / not share the picture? VikepediaYuser (talk) 14:27, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

Please read Commons:Screenshots. EugeneZelenko (talk) 14:39, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

Key question: is there any indication that the YouTube video in question is free-licensed? - Jmabel ! talk 19:53, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

Do citations from sources count as including works from others?

I want to upload one of my school papers I wrote, but I have citations from sources that would not be eligible to upload to Wikimedia. Does this fall under including somebody else's work in mine, and I would I call this entirely mine? Arc is Cool (talk) 19:07, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

Do you really mean quotations or citations? Ruslik (talk) 19:34, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

I have both in there. Arc is Cool (talk) 14:13, 12 December 2025 (UTC)

@Arc is Cool: Your school paper is almost certainly not in Commons' scope. - Jmabel ! talk 19:54, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

So, does that mean that I cannot upload it? Arc is Cool (talk) 14:14, 12 December 2025 (UTC)

@Arc is Cool: It's not clear how this would be educationally useful for a broad audience. GMG^talk 14:16, 12 December 2025 (UTC)

@Arc is Cool: It almost certainly means you should not upload it. I can't say no student paper ever belongs here—for example, if there is a Wikipedia article about you and this paper was important in establishing your reputation in your field, then it would probably be in scope—but anything much short of that would not belong here. - Jmabel ! talk 21:09, 12 December 2025 (UTC)

Uploading image for article

Hello!

I would like to upload a new image for an article on one of the MacArthur Fellows. their website they give permission for images downloaded to be used with their permission if they are captioned with the following: © John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation–used with permission.

I wanted to double check that I am allowed to use this image on Wikipedia.

Thank you! 303Edits (talk) 21:59, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

@303Edits: Welcome to Wikimedia Commons! For the future, it's often helpful to link to the page you're looking at. I found this page that outlines usage rules for MacArthur's content, which is what I'm guessing you are referring to.

For the MacArthur fellow images specifically, it looks like they release them under CC BY 4.0, which is good and compatible with Wikimedia Commons. However, they also try to say that the photos are for use by "media organizations" specifically, which would be an incompatible restriction. This is a bit of a sticky situation since one isn't supposed to add additional restrictions on top of a CC license, but we may have to consider their intent. There is a discussion on exactly this happening here. Perhaps others can chime in with their thoughts. ~Kevin Payravi (talk) 22:24, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

And that discussion has come to the conclusion that, barring less ambiguous permission from the MacArthur Foundation, we can't use these. - Jmabel ! talk 22:02, 12 December 2025 (UTC)

how can i overwrite existing files?

how can i overwrite existing files? I read the Commons:Overwriting existing files but I couldn't find a step by step instructions. I also posted a question using the help me template on my talk page but no one came to help. Super ninja2 (talk) 22:17, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

Hi Super ninja2. Commons generally perfers that files not be overwritten whenever possible because overwriting will authomatically replace the older version the file with the new one wherever the file is being used by other WMF projects, which might not always be desirable. Overwritting is usually only considered OK when making minor changes, but the file remains essentially the same file. What file do you want to overwrite and why? If you can provide more details, someone might be able to help you figure things out. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:24, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

You can make requests at COM:OWR if you want a particular file to be overwritten, although I could also look at it here and add the template if it's only a minor change. Abzeronow (talk) 23:21, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

addition of photo and references to F Stuart Chapin III

The following references would be usefully added to the wikipedia entry about me:

• Chapin, F.S., III, G.R.Shaver, A.E. Giblin, K.G. Nadelhoffer, and J.A. Laundre. 1995. Responses of arctic tundra to experimental and observed changes in climate. Ecology 76:694-711.
• Chapin, F.S., III. 2020. Grassroots Stewardship: Sustainability within Our Reach. Oxford University Press, New York.
• Chapin, F.S. III 2024. Transformative Earth Stewardship: Principles for shaping a sustainable future for nature and society. Earth Stewardship DOI: 10.1002/eas2.12023.

I have already made minor edits to the current text I didn't understand how to upload a photo of myself. Fschapiniii (talk) 00:09, 12 December 2025 (UTC)

• @Fschapiniii: this is not wikipedia, this is Wikimedia Commons. For matters relating to that article in the English-language Wikipedia, you can post at en:Talk:F. Stuart Chapin III. You should not be directly editing the article about yourself: see en:WP:AUTOBIOGRAPHY and en:WP:COI.
• As for uploading a photo, yes, Commons is the place to do that, but we need the permission of the copyright-holder which, except, for selfies, will almost never be the subject of the photo. If you have a self-taken photo to upload, them just start at COM:First steps, but if it was taken by someone else you will want to read COM:THIRD, because otherwise there is close to 100% chance it will end up deleted.
• Thanks for trying to help out, and I know it can be tricky to plunge into an unfamiliar environment and try to make changes, even if they are in an article about yourself. - Jmabel ! talk 06:15, 12 December 2025 (UTC)

  • en:WP:AUTOBIOGRAPHY: "In clear-cut cases, it is permissible to edit pages connected to yourself. So, you can revert vandalism; but of course it has to be simple, obvious vandalism and not a content dispute. Similarly, you should feel free to remove obviously mistaken facts about yourself, such as marital status, current employer, place of birth, and so on."
  • en:WP:COI: "Editors who have a general conflict of interest may make unambiguously uncontroversial edits..."

  Etc. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:05, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

Info Box

Hello,

I am trying to create a Wikipedia page about an actor and would like to know how to add an info box (or the little space with people's picture, name, height and age).

Thank you for your time,

Maëlyshouin. Maëlyshouin (talk) 16:09, 12 December 2025 (UTC)

@Maëlyshouin: you say "a Wikipedia page". Is this a question about Wikipedia (and if so in which language) or about Wikimedia Commons (the site where you are asking this)?

If this is about the English-language Wikipedia, my experience is that this is easier to do by editing source directly than with the Visual Editor. You will use en:Template:Infobox person; look at the source for almost any famous person to see how it is filled out. - Jmabel ! talk 22:12, 12 December 2025 (UTC)

Australian coin

Hi there. I have just uploaded a photograph I took of an Australian coin (File:Neighbours Australian One Dollar.jpg) and now I realise that probably was not allowed. Am I correct in thinking it is still a photograph of a copyrighted art work by Australian Royal Mint? If so, please could an admin speedy delete it?Raintheone (talk) 18:43, 12 December 2025 (UTC)

@Raintheone: Deleted. If you need to use it in an English-language Wikipedia article, see en:File:Australian Five Cents Rev.png for a good example of how to do that on the English-language Wikipedia (not on Commons). - Jmabel ! talk 22:18, 12 December 2025 (UTC)

Cambio nombre de usuario

Hola, quisiera pedir ayuda para cambiar el nombre de usuario de esta cuenta y otra. Por favor. Joaquintelchi (talk) 23:00, 12 December 2025 (UTC)

@Joaquintelchi: lea meta:Cambiando el nombre de usuario y pida el cambio en meta:Steward requests/Username changes. - Jmabel ! talk 00:33, 13 December 2025 (UTC)

Badges for Users making donations

It is common these days on many social media sites, for those making donations to have a 'Badge' graphic added alongside their username.

Perhaps a range of badges, different colors or ornation according to donation level and number of donations historically would encourage users to donate more and more regularly? Orca Boy (talk) 07:28, 13 December 2025 (UTC)

Hi Orca Boy. I believe donations are made to the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) as a whole and not to any of its individual projects per se; so, I don't think there would be anyway for Commons to really know who donated to the WMF unless the donater themselves made that information public. Individual projects aren't really in control of the donation process, at least that's my understanding of how things work; so, you'd probably need to propose your idea directly to the WMF itself. Finally, I'm a bit curious about File:Going Towards the Light 150x200.png that you uploaded to Commons. You've claimed the file as being your c:COM:Own work, but describe the file as also being "creative photography by BC Laker". Is this a photo you took yourself? Is BC Laker a person? Are you BC Laker? -- Marchjuly (talk) 09:16, 13 December 2025 (UTC)

It is my work.

"This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license," Is correct. Orca Boy (talk) 14:28, 13 December 2025 (UTC)

The Upload Wizard was used, and all attributions are correct. Orca Boy (talk) 14:49, 13 December 2025 (UTC)

User accounts are not tied to donations so there is no automated way to display donation levels. Additionally I suspect this proposal would be very controversial for many of us: quite frequently people contact Wikipedia help desk requesting changes or expressing dissatisfaction and then proclaim that "they will stop donating". And the response to that is that donating doesn't give any kind of privileges and we don't care if you donate or not. The foundation isn't lacking in money. MKFI (talk) 09:21, 13 December 2025 (UTC)

1. This is not a social media site.
2. In terms of your (or anyone's) participation in Commons, I truly do not care whether you gave money to WMF. No, let me change that: if you want something from me as an admin, and make a point of telling me that you gave money to WMF, I will feel like you are attempting to coerce me and will tell you to seek help elsewhere. - Jmabel ! talk 20:31, 13 December 2025 (UTC)

Can't find a wiki data entry I created

i created a wikidata entry but can't find it anymore. LizzyBrief (talk) 16:21, 13 December 2025 (UTC)

d:Q137371208 --Achim55 (talk) 16:35, 13 December 2025 (UTC)

In general, questions about Wikidata are better asked on Wikidata: wikidata:WD:Chat. - Jmabel ! talk 20:33, 13 December 2025 (UTC)

Erstellen von zusätzlichen Texten mit zusätzlich eingefügten Fotos zu bestehenden Texten

Ich möchte zu dem Herrenhaus Cadenberge, beschrieben unter dem Kapitel Gutspark Cadenberge , ein zusätzliches eigenes, von mir erstelltes Foto einstellen mit einer zusätzlichen Beschreibung.

Bei dem Bild handelt es sich um ein antikes Uhrwerk von 1866 . (File:Weule 1866.jpg) Leider funktioniert das absolut nicht, ich erhalte nur nicht nachvollziehbare Fehlermeldungen.

Wer kann mir diesbezüglich weiterhelfen ?

Vielen Dank für eine Rückmeldung.

Freundliche Grüße

Guido Friederich Cuxlandfeuer (talk) 20:44, 13 December 2025 (UTC)

Dies scheint eine Frage zu sein, die sich ausschließlich auf die deutsche Wikipedia bezieht und sollte dort gestellt werden. (Bilder von Commons können in jeder Wikipedia verwendet werden.) Vielleicht suchen Sie nach de:Wikipedia:Fragen zur Wikipedia oder d:Hilfe:Bilder

. - Jmabel ! talk 00:42, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

@Cuxlandfeuer:

Diese Datei Weule 1866.jpg wurde antragsgemäß gelöscht: Commons:Deletion requests/File:Weule 1866.jpg. Wie lauten denn die Fehlermeldungen? Grüße

, Grand-Duc (talk) 13:34, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

I Am Queen Mary (statue)

The article for this statue does not include a photo of it. (en:I Am Queen Mary (statue) )

The statue was placed in public, and later damaged and taken out of public view.

I just found that I took a couple of photos while it was exhibited, shortly before it was damaged. The photo is not very high resolution (and could be reduced), and since the article is about the work I thought it would be an acceptable use, but given that it's a modern art piece from a living artist who surely holds the rights, I wanted to check first.

Would a low-resolution image of the sculpture be acceptable? Mzedp (talk) 21:53, 13 December 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Mzedp: Thank you for your interest in uploading a photo of that statue! Unfortunately, Denmark does not have freedom of panorama for publicly displayed artworks, so we cannot host a photo of that statue here on Commons as the underlying statue has copyright protection. However, you can upload the photo to the English Wikipedia under their non-free content policy, which allows the English Wikipedia to host low-resolution images of copyrighted works in specific cases, such as to identify an artwork on the artwork's article. Note, the image should be no more than ~100,000 pixels total in size (width x height). Also note, you need to be autoconfirmed on the English Wikipedia in order to upload photos, so you will have to make 3 more edits (for a total of 10) before you are able to upload photos. ~Kevin Payravi (talk) 00:24, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

@Mzedp If you want to upload on en-WP per above, go to WP:FUW and pick Upload a non-free file. Also, you don't have to bother with the size, a bot will take care of that eventually. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 09:37, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

May I contact another user & how?

I wish to contact another user concerning an image they uploaded. Am I able to do this & how do I do it? Thanks in advance. Rbtohjmbro (talk) 22:09, 13 December 2025 (UTC)

@Rbtohjmbro: Every user has a talk page, located at "User talk:Username". Yours, for example, is at User talk:Rbtohjmbro (you can see it linked in your signature). You can leave a message on a user's talk page by clicking the "Add topic" button near the top of the talk page. Note, talk pages are public, so anyone can see your messages. ~Kevin Payravi (talk) 00:12, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

Also, if you and they have both enabled email for your accounts, then there should be an "email this user" option available when you visit their user page or user talk page. That is how to contact them more privately, if needed (though if there is no need for privacy, then almost all users prefer you use their user talk page). Jmabel ! talk 00:46, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

updated photo

I am trying to provide a an updated photo. I own the intellectual property rights to the photo and offer it now as a public domain photo. HDANESHMEYER (talk) 22:33, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

@HDANESHMEYER: Do you have a question? - Jmabel ! talk 00:35, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

This one? File:HDM 2024.jpg If so, you succeeded. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 08:02, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

Related discussion at Talk:Helen_Danesh-Meyer#Update_photo. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 08:24, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

Will you please help me download this human heart pumping? ~2025-40816-17 (talk) 06:49, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

i can't see my picture Dragon Lann (talk) 06:50, 15 December 2025 (UTC)