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Display error

There is a problem with File:Drapeau de Vaudreuil-Soulanges.svg, how do I fix it? YanikB (talk) 15:49, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

Courtesy link: File:Drapeau de Vaudreuil-Soulanges.svg. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:51, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

@YanikB: This "XML Parsing Error: prefix not bound to a namespace" was mentioned at Commons:Village pump/Technical/Archive/2024/07#SVG abruptly not displaying, with a suggested solution. -- Asclepias (talk) 17:49, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

Merci Asclepias, la note technique n'explique pas comment retirer l'attribut sodipodi:nodetypes. Savez vous comment faire ? --YanikB (talk) 18:28, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

YanikB, Non je ne sais pas, mais c'est possible d'ouvrir une nouvelle section sur Commons:Village pump/Technical pour demander de l'aide. Une réponse n'y est pas garantie, mais il y a peut-être aussi autre chose à ce sujet dans les archives. -- Asclepias (talk) 20:18, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

W'll see Commons:Village_pump/Technical#Removal_of_sodipodi:nodetypes_attribute.YanikB (talk) 20:50, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

I quickly got an answer that will surely be useful to several. YanikB (talk) 10:55, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

@YanikB : D'autres fichiers .svg du même utilisateur semblent présenter le problème d'affichage, probablement dû à une cause semblable. Si tu disposes des outils nécessaires pour appliquer la solution et si ça te tente.

• File:I-131-1.svg
• File:Blason de René-Édouard Caron.svg
• File:Coat of arms of Beauport.svg
• File:Coat of arms of Rivière-Ouelle.svg
• File:Banniere de Carillon.svg
• File:Banniere de Carillon (version de l'Assemblée nationale).svg
• File:Blason ville ca Vercheres.svg
• File:Carte ExpoCité.svg

-- Asclepias (talk) 15:30, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

No problem Asclepias. I'll do it as soon as I get Autopatrol rights. YanikB (talk) 20:56, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

@Asclepias Fait. Si tu en trouve d'autres, fait moi signe. :) YanikB (talk) 23:45, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

Excellent ! -- Asclepias (talk) 00:10, 29 November 2024 (UTC)

How do you upload a screenshot from a Youtube Video to Wikimedia Commons

Hey Y'all! I was wanting to upload a screenshot from a youtube video that is under the Creative Commons Attribution license to Wikimedia Commons. However I am not sure of the correct procedure to indicate its source and its license. If any one could provide a guide on how to upload images/screenshots from youtube videos under a creative commons license to Wikimedia Commons that would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

The title of the video I am referring to: "මේක අස්වැසුම නෙමෙයි ඇස්වැසුම සමෘද්ධියත් ප්‍රශස්තකරණය කරනවා - සුනිල් හදුන්නෙත්ති" Titanciwiki (talk) 02:12, 27 November 2024 (UTC)

@Titanciwiki This video? [1]. If so, File:Eddie Pepperell 2023.jpg is an example of a similar upload. I used Special:UploadWizard for that one. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 08:03, 27 November 2024 (UTC)

@Titanciwiki and @Gråbergs Gråa Sång: It is important to indicate which hour, minute, and second is screenshotted.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 09:12, 27 November 2024 (UTC)

I didn't know that (but it makes sense, it's a bit like citing a book without pagenumbers). Is it in guideline somewhere, or "just" good practice? Also, where do we put the timestamp? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 09:19, 27 November 2024 (UTC)

Timestamp really should be part of the source, just like you would do with a page number if the source were a book. - Jmabel ! talk 19:40, 27 November 2024 (UTC)

Like so:[2]? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 03:10, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

@Gråbergs Gråa Sång: I changed your "c." to "around", because "c." is rarely used for anything other than dates. - Jmabel ! talk 19:06, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

An old version deleted in 2022 is displayed

I don't know if this can be replicated by other users, but for me the File:Evelyn Salgado Pineda.jpg when it is displayed at 180px displays an old version that was deleted in 2022 [3] : [4]. Apparently it did not fix itself although a new version was uploaded in June 2024. -- Asclepias (talk) 16:00, 27 November 2024 (UTC)

@Asclepias: I see the correct file. This almost has to be a caching issue on your machine. Do you have this if you look with a different browser? - Jmabel ! talk 19:43, 27 November 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for looking. That is strange. There, it still displays to me the old deleted image of the woman in a black sweater, not the recent image of the woman in a green vest. I don't know how there can be a cache issue with an image deleted in 2022 that I had never looked at before recently. The browser should not have the ability to find a version deleted two years ago. But you're right, it must be a cache issue of some sort, given that you see the recent image. Maybe the image will fix itself now that someone else looked at it. I'll post an update if it happens. -- Asclepias (talk) 20:44, 27 November 2024 (UTC)

@Asclepias: I see that where you linked, too. Very weird. Looks like a bug if you are a non-admin and are able to see that. - Jmabel ! talk 19:08, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

That raises an intriguing technicality. If you see the deleted ("black sweater") image at the specific url for the 180px .jpg image, but you see the current ("green vest") image in the 180px thumbnail displayed through wikicode in this section here, then what is the specific 180px .jpg url that you get when you ask the url of that "green vest" 180px thumbnail? I suppose that, for a user viewing Commons on the same machine and the same browser, the two different 180px .jpg images cannot occupy the exact same url at the same time, or can they? (That would be a Schrödinger's cat image, showing one state or the other depending on the observation.) -- Asclepias (talk) 15:36, 29 November 2024 (UTC)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Evelyn_Salgado_Pineda.jpg/270px-Evelyn_Salgado_Pineda.jpg. So it's not using a 180px image. - Jmabel ! talk 18:49, 29 November 2024 (UTC)

Oh, that's interesting. So, the wiki code set at 180px leads you to the url of a 270px image of the new photo. Me, I still get the old image in the thumbnail set at 180px and it leads to the url of the 180px image of the old photo. Thank you for having participated in this little experiment. -- Asclepias (talk) 19:25, 29 November 2024 (UTC)

FoP?

Another user is planning on expanding Western Motel and I have photos and video clips of an exhibit covering the topic. The museum recreated the painting and made a room where people could actually spend the night. If I uploaded this one for example, is it copyrighted since it's not the actual painting? APK (talk) 09:30, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

@APK: If it's a recent work, it's copyrighted, whereas the Hopper painting may or may not be. To illustrate the article about the painting itself, you might as well use an image of the painting itself, not an image of a recent work that is different from the painting. With some research, you could find if the Hopper painting is accepted as public domain on Commons, as other Hopper paintings, e.g. Nighthawks. -- Asclepias (talk) 14:14, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

The image in question is independent of the painting. The image or video in question would be used to illustrate a section in the article about the painting to discuss a museum exhibit about hospitality and art. The exhibit creates an actual hotel room[5] for guests to sleep in based on the original design of the painting. Since it's a real, working hotel room within a museum environment, wouldn't images of the room be acceptable to use? That's the question. For example, see Category:Interiors of hotels. The difference is that this is a hotel room created inside of a museum. Viriditas (talk) 22:35, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

That's a good question. The thing is that it is not just a room, but it is designed as a part of the exhibition and it is derived from the painting. Two possible issues are is there a copyright on it as an artistically creative exhibit and how is it affected by the copyright of the painting from which it is derived? The question might get more attention at the specialized discussion page Commons:Village pump/Copyright. -- Asclepias (talk) 23:57, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

I want to change my user name to my real name

please I want to change my user name to my real name how do I go about it. Because I'm seeing my page isn't available Jaytourspics (talk) 18:35, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

@Jaytourspics: when you say it "isn't available" if you mean someone else already has it, then you are out of luck. Otherwise, see meta:Steward requests/Username changes. - Jmabel ! talk 19:15, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

I want my personal photo uploaded, undeleted

I have tried to upload my portrait three times, but it has been deleted immediately after uploading it. If it is for copyright, it is okay with me because it is my personal picture and no one is uploading it against my will. Arammala (talk) 08:09, 29 November 2024 (UTC)

@Arammala: Wikimedia Commons is not a social media, and we do not accept personal pictures without educational use, unless people are already contributors. Please read COM:SCOPE before uploading anything. Yann (talk) 09:28, 29 November 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, I understand. The photo will be used in another Wikipedia project, it is needed. Arammala (talk) 13:40, 29 November 2024 (UTC)

Your account does not show up as having any contributions to any other WMF projects, not even creation of a user page. What do you feel qualifies you as a "contributor"? Or are you the subject of an existing article? (If so, what article?)

Also, unless these are selfies: if the picture is in scope for some reason, permission (presumably via COM:VRT) has to come from the photographer, not the subject of the photo (unless copyright has been formally transferred to you, in which case use VRT to show the formal transfer). - Jmabel ! talk 18:55, 29 November 2024 (UTC)

The article which I am the subject of it is not confirmed yet is entitled Aram Mala Nuri-is still receiving feedback. Moreover, I am the photographer of the photo and I am its subject, which means I have full ownership as copyright issues. If this photo is being deleted the person who is writing the article in Wikipedia cannot edit the article and submit it for revisions. Arammala (talk) 14:46, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

@Arammala: I don't really see how it would be any harder to first get the article accepted and then add photos but, yes, if the article is accepted then these photos are certainly in scope. Could you please provide a link to the draft in progress? - Jmabel ! talk 17:35, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

Okay, if the article will be accepted I can then upload the photo. Here is the link of the article, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Zhewar_H._Ali/sandbox Arammala (talk) 12:55, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

@Zhewar H. Ali: you might want to look into how references are normally formatted. Normally, references should be mainly inline; also, following (for example the "cite web" template with more or less the same content outside of the template is actively confusing. And when using non-English references, you certainly want to use the "language" parameter. - Jmabel ! talk 19:36, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

Publicar logos simples con EXIF:”Screenshot"

Buenas ,se puede publicar logos simples (below too) si el EXIF indica que publiqué con "Screenshot"?? AbchyZa22 (talk) 12:51, 29 November 2024 (UTC)

¿Como no? - Jmabel ! talk 18:56, 29 November 2024 (UTC)

USERNAME CHANGE

ALL CONCERNED: Is it possible to change my username? When I created the account I was married and had legally changed my surname to MANGINO. I am now divorced, and legally reverted back to my maiden name, McSORLEY, in 2018. I updated my email address to [redacted]. Please advise if this is possible. If NOT, please delete this account and I will create a new account. Thank you. TracyAnne Tamangino (talk) 17:41, 29 November 2024 (UTC)

@Tamangino: There is another thread on this topic about three above this one. You would want to go to meta:Steward requests/Username changes. Abzeronow (talk) 17:57, 29 November 2024 (UTC)

Copyright on anime figurines

Hello. As a preface, I am writing this hastily at work, and likewise have not read pages beyond the FAQ and some of enwiki’s image policy pages. I read a line there (which I cannot find again for the life of me) that read something like “photos of three-dimensional objects almost always generate a new copyright.” Are there no exemptions to this rule? I note the established File:Akihabara August 2014 09.JPG image and far more recent File:Reimu Hakurei cosplayer and Reimu Fumo.jpg, but I wish to be absolutely sure about this policy before I go ahead and crosspost a public domain Flickr image for my userspace. (Image in question would be two Nendoroids—or another type of figurine, not sure which image I would want yet—so, naturally, the portrayed characters are under copyright. The crux of this question is: would a photo of these figurines not be under the same copyright?) Thanks in advance! Velvetune (talk) 02:45, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

@Velvetune: A photo of a three-dimensional, copyrighted object ends up involving two copyrights: the copyright of the underlying work, plus the copyright of the photo. Both must be licensed by their respective owners. - Jmabel ! talk 18:25, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

@Jmabel, this is what makes most sense to me, but I’m having trouble wrapping my head around why that then wouldn’t be cause to delete the latter image and resize the former one (fair use, it’s used in a few places) for non-free content, as neither underlying work is free. Velvetune (talk) 19:51, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

My prior comment was just a general statement. I hadn't looked at the files in question. The former looks to me like it should be deleted, unless it is somehow covered by Freedom of Panorama in the country in which it was taken (I didn't look to see what country; there are few places where this would be OK, though). The latter might be trickier, I don't know enough about the character(s) in question to say what is or isn't copyrightable there. - Jmabel ! talk 22:03, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

The latter involves a character from en:Touhou Project, the doll would pose an issue but not the cosplay, IMHO. Abzeronow (talk) 00:00, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

Took a look around. COM:TOYS puts it in 50/50 territory, from what I can understand—the former photo was assuredly taken in Japan, where they likewise don't fall under copyright (Indeed, some countries, such as Japan, generally consider toys to be utilitarian objects and therefore ineligible for copyright,) but Commons servers are in America, where that doesn't fly. The first linked image was kept under de minimis in the past, but in any case, it rules out any image I was considering. Thank you both for your help; I think I'll just pick a photo of, like, a library instead, haha! Velvetune (talk) 07:27, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

Logo de IDM en Líbano

Buenas se puede publicar el logo de IDM en Líbano (https://www.idm.net.lb/), si es logo simple se puede publicar con {{PD-textlogo}} (si es below too en USA)?? AbchyZa22 (talk) 14:15, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

Para Libano, no tengo idea. Si no está en Commons:Threshold of originality, no sabemos la ley para el país. - Jmabel ! talk 18:28, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

Why is my page requesting for active deletion?

Upon creation of my account page, somebody has requested for speedy deletion of my account despite following all the criteria. What changes do I have to make to keep my account visible on Wikidata? Please, advise. Dr. Mojibul Haque (talk) 16:10, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

If this is a question about Wikidata, you really need to ask on Wikidata. wikidata:Wikidata:Project_chat. - Jmabel ! talk 18:29, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

"Main subject visible in this work"

Hello all,

I was uploading a few pictures yesterday of libraries in my hometown and was able to successfully search in the "Main subject visible in this work" to select the library depicted for all except one - North Park Branch Library. The file is here. I went to add a Wikidata item for the library, but did not know if the wikidata item and the wikimedia commons dropdown box were related. Anyway, the question that I am asking is how to add the "main subject visible in this work" to a file post-upload

Thanks so much!

JuxtaposedJacob (talk) | :) | he/him | 17:08, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

• Yes, that is populated from Wikidata. Probably there is no Wikidata item for that library branch. - Jmabel ! talk 18:30, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

  @Jmabel

  I went and created the item in Wikidata; is there a way to link the two post-upload? JuxtaposedJacob (talk) | :) | he/him | 06:20, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

  @JuxtaposedJacob: absolutely! Go to File:North Park Branch Library.jpg, click the "Structured data" tab (next to "File information") and if you've already edited Wikidata, the interface should be reasonably familiar (though not identical). - Jmabel ! talk 06:28, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

  @Jmabel

  Thanks friend!

  JuxtaposedJacob (talk) | :) | he/him | 06:31, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

Regarding title cards/links in PD videos

Hey all, I wanted to upload some videos of a tornado event caught on surveillance footage here under {{PD-automated}}. However, the videos contain title cards, and include a link to the website of the uploader at the end. I am wondering, does that make those videos exempt to that PD criteria, and do they need to be edited out, or are they fine to include in the upload? Some videos that I am talking about include:

St. John's Security Camera Footage

Joplin Tornado: East Middle School Surveillance Footage

Thanks in advance! ChrisWx ☁️ (talk - contribs) 20:40, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

Link to website should not be a problem. I don't have time to watch them through right now, but offhand the titles look below the threshold of originality for the U.S. - Jmabel ! talk 17:39, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

Fotoğraf indirme

Ben fotoğeaf indirmeyi bir türlü beceremedim lütfen yardım edin bana Özgürpınar (talk) 15:47, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

You'll probably have to be a lot more specific about what happened for anyone to help you. - Jmabel ! talk 17:42, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

Şöyle ki, fotoğraf indirebilmek için "indir" butonu olması gerekmez mi? Ben mi bulamadım acaba? Özgürpınar (talk) 18:43, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

Any time you see an image in your browser, your computer has downloaded it.

Assuming you are on a PC, you normally save a file to your computer's hard drive by right-clicking on it and then selecting "Save image as..." from the right-click menu. This is note specific to Commons, this should work on any site on the web that has not actively prevented it.

In addition, on Commons, if you want out highest-resolution version of an image so that you can download that, you can either click on the image or click on the last entry in the line immediately under the image (e.g. "Size of this preview: 800 × 533 pixels. Other resolutions: 320 × 213 pixels | 640 × 427 pixels | 1,024 × 683 pixels | 1,280 × 853 pixels | 2,560 × 1,707 pixels | 6,000 × 4,000 pixels."). Either will load the full-resolution version, which you can then right-click and selecting "Save image as..." from the right-click menu.

Apologies that I cannot reply in Turkish, but I'd be relying on machine translation which I'm sure you can as easily do yourself. - Jmabel ! talk 01:40, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

چگونه گالری بسازیم

چگونه گالری بسازیم ARYAN.TAVT (talk) 19:38, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

This appears to be someone writing in Farsi asking how to create a gallery. It is not clear whether they mean a "gallery page" (main-space page on Commons: Commons:Galleries) or a wikimedia gallery (w:Help:Gallery tag, ). Ebrahim, Mhhossein or Satdeep Gill, can one of you help them out? - Jmabel ! talk 01:51, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

@ARYAN.TAVT سلام۔ من فارسی کمی صحبت می کنم۔ کجا می خواہی بسازی گالری؟ - Satdeep Gill (talk) 03:49, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

The copyright dilemma in SVG military insignia

I'm interested in uploading self-made SVG versions of the Turkish military insignia to feature in Wikipedia (regiment-level bodies). The issue is that (on the contrary to most countries) the Turkish copyright law does not consider government emblems/works created by pubic servants in public domain. They also don't have licenses on government websites. Therefore, as a Commons newbie, I cannot find any way to legitimately upload such content. Some people I have seen just credited such works for themselves, and claimed they are the sole owners of the work, but I think such an action would not be allowed. Thanks! AscendencyXXIV (talk) 22:51, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

@AscendencyXXIV: actually, the majority of countries in the worlld are more like Turkey on this. - Jmabel ! talk 01:54, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

Term of protection for anonymous works in Turkey is 70 years, so presumably anything of this sort before 1954 is out of copyright there. However, I'm wondering if the URAA means that anything 1939-1954 is still copyrighted in the U.S. That's subtle, and might better be a question for Commons:Village pump/Copyright. - Jmabel ! talk 02:02, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, I'll forward the case there! AscendencyXXIV (talk) 02:20, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

School logo,

would the school logo count as something that cannot go through customs? as long as it has a link to the original website in sources 47k500and8edits for christmas (talk) 00:07, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

@47k500and8edits for christmas: What do you mean by a logo "going through customs"? Makes no sense to me at all. - Jmabel ! talk 01:52, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

YouTube CC licenses?

Hello. This might be a mobile-only issue, but for some reason, YouTube CC licenses appear to no longer be visible at the bottom of the description of YouTube videos. Any idea where to check the license now? I don't think it's a case of YouTube suddenly removing the feature because you can still search for 'Creative Commons' videos. Starklinson (talk) 03:49, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

I have the same issue on a mobile device, are you using the YouTube app (either Google Play or Apple App Store) or the YouTube website? -- Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 04:30, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

@Starklinson: The licence is still visible for me using Firefox on Linux. For example, on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYCjGfQJ4kw I can click "...more" at the end of the description below the video and "Licence Creative Commons Attribution Licence (reuse allowed)" appears at the bottom of the expanded description. So it looke like this is indeed a mobile-only issue. --bjh21 (talk) 14:09, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

thank,

you becaus on youtube l want to watch videos on youtube 41.113.211.245 13:36, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

File not uploading

I would like to upload this file from Flickr. It looks like it has the right CC license, it showed up on WikiShootMe, and (as far as I can tell) contains no copyrighted material. Can someone tell me why it isn't working? Thank you, Packer1028 (talk) 06:05, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

@Packer1028: what means of uploading are you using. Did you get any error message? - Jmabel ! talk 06:30, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

403 Forbidden. Using the direct-from-Flickr method. Packer1028 (talk) 06:32, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

Try it again. I've granted you autopatroller and that might help. Abzeronow (talk) 17:04, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia entry on Erich Wolfgang KORNGOLD

Please could the following German-language biography of Erich Wolfgang Korngold, written by my late husband, be added to the Bibliography in the entry for the composer: KORNGOLD. Musik ist Musik, by Guy Wagner, Matthers & Seitz, Berlin; ISBN 978 3 88221897 8, (Hardcover, 2008).

Thank you in advance, Ariel Wagner <EMAIL ADDRESS SUPPRESSED> 2001:7E8:C250:A600:A526:5A6:8F7B:BABB 13:18, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

You'd probably want to take that up on Wikipedia. This is Wikimedia Commons (umbrella'd by the same foundation, but a separate project). - Jmabel ! talk 20:08, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

I am writing to a technical issue with the blue share button on my account.it's not responding

I Salma kyari (talk) 18:40, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

@Salma kyari: I'm not aware of a "blue share button" on Commons. Could you be more specific about on what page or in what context you see that button? - Jmabel ! talk 20:11, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

Award inclusion in a photograph - what release to provide?

Hello, I uploaded a photograph to Wikimedia, for which the photographer is currently preparing a copyright release for his photograph. The photograph is of a person holding a Saturn Award (trophy) that the person received. The Saturn Awards director is willing to provide a release for the inclusion of the award - what type of release would be needed? Karamel patti (talk) 03:34, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

@Karamel patti See Commons:Licensing#Well-known_licenses. You can direct the photographer to COM:VRT/CONSENT. Wikipedia:A picture of you may also be of interest. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 10:31, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

ทุนนักพัฒนาเว็บไซต์

มีทุนสนับสนุนไหม Tuedonbang (talk) 07:17, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

@Tuedonbang: Funding from whom, to whom, for what? - Jmabel ! talk 19:32, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

ปัญหาตรวจสอบสิทธิ์2FAที่GitHub

ฉันใช้10แอปแล้วยังตั้งค่าไม่ได้เลย Tuedonbang (talk) 07:20, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

Something is wrong with this image

When I open the following file: File:Die andere Bibliothek Band 470 Nummer 1991.jpg I see "Create" in the menu line above, it should be "Edit" instead. There is something missing, how to fix? --Wurgl (talk) 08:12, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

There are 380 problems of this kind: quarry:query/88395 --Wurgl (talk) 09:01, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

Like your query says, they are "images on Commons with missing description page". It looks like a sort of occasional bug. Many images currently listed there are part of rapid mass uploads by bots. Maybe a page was occasionally skipped. Fortunately, 380 images seems a relatively small number compared with the number of images uploaded. I don't know if it is necessary to create the description pages manually or if there is some automated procedure that takes care of fixing that. If it needs to be done manually, it is probably possible to figure out what goes in the page by a combination of looking at the information in the upload log and the information in the pages of related images uploaded by the uploader near the same time. Or simply notify the uploader and ask that they create the page. You could ask also at Commons:Village pump/Technical. See also recent discussions at Commons:Upload Wizard feedback#Missing (description) page after Upload and phabricator T374235. -- Asclepias (talk) 10:55, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

In a query on the command line I added img_timestamp and it starts with 20200924161905 (and ends with 20241203101928) … so I doubt the existence of some automagic procedure. Feel free to move this section to some better page. --Wurgl (talk) 11:49, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

I've fixed the ones uploaded by GeographBot, since I know where to get good descriptions for them. --bjh21 (talk) 17:51, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! I added the actor and the date in the query. So maybe some more data can be added. --Wurgl (talk) 10:21, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

See also the list Files without file pages by Achim55, who seems to have been tracking this since April 2023. That list is apparently updated a few times each month. The history of the page allows to see the evolution of the situation, with some files added and some files removed when users create the description pages. -- Asclepias (talk) 13:28, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

Is file collage allowed?

If I were to mash more than two pre-uploaded wikimedia files into one, would that be allowed? With appropriate credit and all. Deiadameian (talk) 10:21, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

@Deiadameian Commons:Collages may be of help to you. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 10:28, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. Deiadameian (talk) 10:32, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

I submitted but pics aren’t showing

I posted pics and it didn’t show them Bryan Briglio (talk) 11:51, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for notifying! I tagged that crap for deletion because it lacks any COM:EDUSE. Commons is not your personal free web host. --Achim55 (talk) 12:14, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

Go to hell Bryan Briglio (talk) 12:21, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

Notified user to remain civil. Abzeronow (talk) 17:55, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

But, really, the use of the word "crap" here by Achim55 wasn't the most civil, either. - Jmabel ! talk 19:34, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

Not that I disagree with the assessment, just the wording. - Jmabel ! talk 19:36, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

Cities in New York (state) by year

Some other user has created categories for the cities of Long Beach, New York, Utica, New York and Yonkers, New York by specific years. Unfortunately, there seems to be no way to move these categories into alphabetical order. In the Category:2021 in New York (state) by city, for example, every other city is in alphabetical order. How can we fix this issue? --DanTD (talk) 12:42, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

@DanTD: I'd have expected https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Yonkers_NY_year&diff=prev&oldid=965335666 to fix it for Yonkers, but if it does there is a caching issue and it will take time to percolate. If it doesn't I'd also like to understand why. Anyway, that step was certainly necessary, even if not sufficient. - Jmabel ! talk 19:46, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

@Jmabel: did similar for Long Beach. Abzeronow (talk) 19:49, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

@Abzeronow: And I just did something similar for Utica, and I got the same lack of results. I could've swore there was a fourth city category that needed this fix. --DanTD (talk) 00:03, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

Is it possible to rename files?

Greetings, I was wondering if this could be done because it appears that an image of a submarine has been misidentified.

A couple months back, an IP user removed this file (File:HMS Resolution (S22) in 1977.jpg) from the respective sub's article and the article about her class stating that the sub in the photo is actually USS Lafayette (SSBN-616). After doing some investigating it appears this IP user is correct.

Has I'm not too familiar with Wikimedia commons, if it is possible to rename a file, what should I do next? Earle Bartibus Huxley (talk) 15:22, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

@Earle Bartibus Huxley Most of us can only request a file to be renamed, see Commons:File_renaming#How_to_rename_a_file. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 16:08, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

Oh I see. Thank you very much for the link. Earle Bartibus Huxley (talk) 18:02, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

How to upload file about me?

How to upload file about me? Dr. Choi Seung-hoon (talk) 21:44, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

@Dr. Choi Seung-hoon: Hi, Do not upload file about you. Please read the warning on your talk page. Thanks, Yann (talk) 21:48, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

Uploading pictures to wikimedia commons

Can I upload the images I took at the Santa Fe College Teaching Zoo? Aweatherspoon (talk) 21:48, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

@Aweatherspoon: Quite likely, but where you took them is not very informative in deciding if they are OK. Have you looked at Commons' scope? Also, if they are pictures of other people's copyrighted material (e.g. any but the most trivial signs, or other people's artwork), that would be a problem. - Jmabel ! talk 20:08, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

VRT and whatnot

If someone licenses a low-res copy of an image through VRT, is it permitted to upload otherwise identical higher-res versions of the same image? JayCubby (talk) 02:45, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

Take for instance Category:Photographs by Paul Weinberg JayCubby (talk) 02:46, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

@JayCubby: there is no universal answer to that. Take up the specific case at COM:Volunteer Response Team/Noticeboard. - Jmabel ! talk 20:10, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

What about my photo

I have already filled up a photo on 1st December. I want to use it in Wikipedia item Nechay Olivér but there was no any reflection about "Nechay- photo from a gallery.jpg" and I can not find to use it to improve that. May I expect a confirmation about its usable permission? With compliments Phomalike (talk) 10:20, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

Is it licensed under a license that lets anyone to use it? If not, you can't use it and if you do, you might get in big trouble. Gnu779 (talk) 13:40, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

@Phomalike: If you look at your filter log, you can see that you triggered a filter for small files by new users. It says that it issued a warning, but apparently it disallowed the upload. Maybe the people at Commons:Village pump/Technical could tell you more about this type of situation. -- Asclepias (talk) 14:09, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

@Phomalike: as you can imagine, there is a reason we prevent cross-wiki uploads of small files by relatively new users: most of them are copyright violations.

Is this a photo you took yourself? If not where does it come from (URL of web page, if it was online)? - Jmabel ! talk 20:13, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

This Photo came out in a Hungarian Journal of "Növényvédelem" 2024, 85 [N. S. 60]: 11. 514-518 but it is available in printed form in Hungarian. Please find the attached copy of this containing this photo. Internet adaptation will be available later as an archive Journal item.

Please confirm anyone that I can use this in a Wikipedia item or not de jure. As I am not familiar in Licence regules, please indicate what I could apply in such a situation? Phomalike (talk) 09:22, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

So I suppose that it is a recent picture. For such an image, we require a formal written permission for a free license from the copyright holder. Please see COM:VRT for the procedure. Yann (talk) 09:32, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

In short, if you are not the copyright-holder there is no legitimate way to upload this to Commons without a license from the copyright-holder. - Jmabel ! talk 20:36, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

I will make a new page

Heya guys! I'm gonna make a new page for the icon pack of early releases for GNOME 2. All of them are from the GNOME archives and all of them are licensed by GNU GPL 2. Gnu779 (talk) 13:38, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

@Gnu779: a "new page" meaning a Commons gallery page, or what? - Jmabel ! talk 20:14, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

A gallery page, of course. Gnu779 (talk) 12:13, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

@Gnu779: And your question then is...? - Jmabel ! talk 20:37, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

Can I make that page? Please make it and I'll give you the icons. Gnu779 (talk) 14:11, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

Uploading better versions of an image

Is there an efficient way to upload an alternate version of an image (that is, one that isn't compliant with the overwriting guidelines) and integrate it with existing ones? The best I've found so far is copying the description of the original file into Special:Upload. JayCubby (talk) 17:05, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

JayCubby, I'm not sure what you're asking and I think these type of questions are best suited for COM:HD. Ratekreel (talk) 19:06, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

Disregard above reply, I thought we were on Commons:Overwriting existing files/Requests. Ratekreel (talk) 19:21, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

@JayCubby: that is pretty much what I do. Express the connection by linking the two using {{Other version}} or a more specialized template pair ({{Extracted images}} / {{Extracted from}}; {{Derivative works}} / {{Derived from}}; etc.) - Jmabel ! talk 20:18, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

how to modify a map range for an animal ?

Good evening, So I'm in Québec 3 hours from Montréal (a bit more north) and for the last 10 years, we've been seeing turkey vultures. However, the map on the Turkey vulture wiki does not seem to indicate that our range has turkey vultures in the summer. I've never contributed to wikipédia, but I would love to help since this animal is one of animals showing signs of the climate changes. (mostly due to how, in my father's younger days, there was a LOT of snow and never seeing these birds. Nowadays we see them every summer when it's time to fill the freezer with the farm stuff) 70.81.176.44 00:25, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

By "the Turkey vulture wiki" I'm guessing you mean en:Turkey vulture, the "Turkey vulture" page on the English-language Wikipedia. (If you meant something else, please clarify!) And in that case, you must mean this map which, interestingly, was last modified less than 2 weeks ago by MPF.

There are basically three possibilities here; for all of these, providing a citeable source for the expanded range rather than just anecdotal evidence would be good, but might not be necessary.

1. contact MPF and see if they can/will help you.
2. put in a request at Commons:Graphic Lab/Map workshop.
3. create your own version of the map. This one may be a little tricky though. To upload content at all, you need to create an account, but because you are not an established user, you won't be able to overwrite someone else's file, so you'd have to upload your version with a different file name. You would link back to File:Turkeyvulturerange.jpg using {{derived from|Turkeyvulturerange.jpg}} and ideally add {{derivative works|YOUR FILE NAME HERE.EXT}} to File:Turkeyvulturerange.jpg. Then you could go back to the English-language Wikipedia and propose changing the article to use your map (or just make the edit in the article yourself).

I'd recommend going with one of the first two possibilities: replacing existing images with derivative works is relatively advanced stuff, not usually where anyone starts their involvement with Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia.

In any case, I recommend creating an account (and providing your email address as part of setting up the account: it will not be shown publicly) if you are going to become at all involved here. It makes it much easier for other editors to communicate with you. - Jmabel ! talk 01:03, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

It's a bit of a difficult case, as we have to rely on published information for maps. Submit your sightings to your local bird club (remember to give them accurate location data!), and eventually (yes, it'll be slow!) the information about the expanded range will work into maps published in bird field guides, etc., and when they do, we can revise our map here. I'll check other recent maps though and see if there is anything that already gives more up-to-date information than our map has. Thanks for bringing this up! - MPF (talk) 10:12, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

I've updated it from iNaturalist observations; this can be risky for some species, but with a conspicuous easily-recognised species like this, it does give reasonably safe results by taking the denser observations while ignoring outliers (the mapped observations will also be weak in sparsely-populated areas with few observers like southern South America). - MPF (talk) 20:45, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

ABOUT IMAGE UPLOAD

Hello all, I want to upload image which is my profile pic image. even though I have clicked it by myself wikipedia says "We could not determine whether this file is suitable for Wikimedia Commons. Please only upload photos that you took yourself with your camera" help me to upload my image HardikKansara106 (talk) 02:41, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

@HardikKansara106: Hi, and welcome. I am sorry to inform you that you have triggered Special:AbuseFilter/153 by trying to cross-wiki upload a smaller (<50,000 bytes or <2,000,000 pixels) jpg photo as a new user. The photo you tried to upload is smaller. Usually when someone uploads a smaller photo, it is a copyright violation taken from the web. You have also triggered that same filter by trying to cross-wiki upload a png image as a new user. Such uploads of png images are not allowed at all. You indicated each is your own work. Usually when someone uploads a png image, it's a copyright violation taken from the web. Please upload the full-size original of each per COM:HR, including any metadata, but it may be judged too complex to be under TOO in the country of origin, so you (or the photographer or designer) may need to license them on your official website or social media or send permission via VRT. Also, any png image will look fuzzy when scaled down (due to design decisions discussed in phab:T192744) or jaggy when scaled up, so you may want to upload an svg or jpg version, too. If you use our Upload Wizard instead, you should be able to avoid that filter. Also, we do not have profiles here like en:User:HardikKansara106/sandbox. Social networks have profiles.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 11:06, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

How do I request that a Deletion requests be ended?

Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:PLANS Guangxi (LHD-32), This discussion has taken too long and has already reached a good conclusion and solution. How can I ask other administrators to help end the discussion? --Cwek (talk) 08:07, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

@Cwek: Post a request at Commons:Administrators' noticeboard. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:03, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

SVG upload error

Hi all

I'm trying to help UN FAO upload some maps to Commons but I'm getting an error I've never seen before, the error happens when I try to upload the SVG files, does anyone know what the issue is and can someone suggest steps to fix them? I'm not very technical so a vague answer isn't really going to help a lot :)

The error message is maybe 20 pages long so I'll just copy the start of it in below.

Found href to unsafe data: URI target <image http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink:href=@data:;base64,

Thanks so much

. John Cummings (talk) 09:04, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

@John Cummings: Try asking at Commons:Village pump/Technical. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:04, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

Extracting an image from a larger photo

What is the correct procedure for creating a new, cropped image that highlights one individual seen in a larger file? I am hoping to extract a zoomed-in picture of the architect Gaetano Pesce from either this or this source photograph for use in en:Gaetano Pesce article (and likely elsewhere). -- Cl3phact0 (talk) 10:40, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

@Cl3phact0: If you use the crop tool, it will do everything necessary for you. Don't forget to check "upload as a new image" rather than "overwrite original". Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:01, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

That is exactly what I was looking for, thank you. I had no idea it was such a simple matter. I've now made tightly cropped versions of both of the above examples (here and here, if anyone is interested in the subject). Cheers, Cl3phact0 (talk) 16:25, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

Conflict of interest

Why am i being told that this page is to be deleted when i just made it and saying conflict of interest, what specifically is the matter? is it the name or the content and how can i the changed? Apostle John Enumah (talk) 16:16, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

@Apostle John Enumah: I doubt if anyone here on Wikimedia Commons can tell you much more about why a page on English Wikipedia (en:User:Apostle John Enumah) was deleted. You might be able to get a useful answer from the help desk or Teahouse on English Wikipedia, or by replying to Deb's message on your English Wikipedia user talk page. --bjh21 (talk) 18:04, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

Actually, I can tell you. Your user page was made to look like a Wikipedia article. You can't sneak an article about yourself, written by yourself, into Wikipedia by calling it a user page. - Jmabel ! talk 20:44, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

I’m not too familiar with these words you’re using, trying to understand.

but in response, it’s a page about my pastor, why is it that it’s a COI when other pastors have the same?? 2A00:23A8:951:1E01:C111:4015:4668:6647 20:48, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

You can't write objectively about your pastor, since it is a matter that is close to you. There are also notability requirements that your pastor would have to meet to have an article about them. Abzeronow (talk) 22:39, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

So to make it clear, the main reason why it was taken down is because there are requirements my pastor would have to meet? Which requirements are those exactly? 2A02:C7C:52E0:5700:607E:2727:B90A:30C5 22:41, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

I'm not an admin at enwiki so I can't say for sure what was the main reason, the COI could have been it. @Bastique: who might have some insight here. Abzeronow (talk) 22:51, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

Are you tagging me because I'm a pastor with no article? 😅 Bastique ^{☎ let's talk!} 05:58, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

@Apostle John Enumah: assuming the non-logged-in remarks are also from you: if you want to argue the case, you'll have to do that on the relevant website, the English-language Wikipedia, not here on Commons. You initially were asked simply why you were being told this; I hoped to spare you referral to a different site than where you asked by answering that question where you asked this. But this is like if you went to the electric company to ask why your gas bill was high, and they told you what they figured was the answer, and you started trying to argue the gas bill with them. We can't help you change your gas bill. - Jmabel ! talk 23:37, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

Please help me?

I tried to make a gallery atricle. But the filter 257 just wrote me off. Isn't there any way to fix this? Thanks! Fonmonica (talk) 23:01, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

@Fonmonica: This is a nearly new account; that's an unusual thing for a new user to be doing. What is the gallery you were trying to create?

Filter 257 is intended to prevent certain recurring attempts by certain long-term abusers of Commons to create certain types of pages. If your intentions were good, this could well be a false positive. It looks like this filter is maintained by Elcobbola, who may be able to tell you more. - Jmabel ! talk 23:47, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

Indeffed.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 10:48, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

Завантаження фото померлого військового

Добрий день. Яким чином можна завантажити фото померлого військового? Я зробив статтю для нього - це вчитель моєї школи, зараз я в ній працюю (uk:Левковський_Максим_Васильович). Фото надала його матір і дає дозвіл на використання, фото зробила його військова частина. Письмовий дозвіл від матері можу отримати. Просто не дуже розумію, чи потрібно завантажувати під вільною ліцензією в Commons чи через добропорядне використання на Українську Вікіпедію. Nikita.opanasiuk (talk) 13:27, 6 December 2024 (UTC)