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- How to add a copyright tag to an existing image
- On the description page of the image (the one whose name starts File:), click Edit this page.
- From the page Wikipedia:File copyright tags, choose the appropriate tag:
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- For a work downloaded from the internet, please understand that the vast majority of images from the internet are not appropriate for use on Wikipedia. Exceptions include images from flickr that have an acceptable license, images that are in the public domain because of their age or because they were created by the United States federal government, or images used under a claim of fair use. If you do not know what you are doing, please post a link to the image here and ask BEFORE uploading it.
- For an image created by someone else who has licensed their image under the GFDL, an acceptable Creative Commons license, or has released their image into the public domain, this permission must be documented. Please see Requesting copyright permission for more information.
- Type the name of the tag (e.g.; {{GFDL-self}}), not forgetting {{ before and }} after, in the edit box on the image's description page.
- Remove any existing tag complaining that the image has no tag (for example, {{untagged}})
- Hit Save page.
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Accidentally uploaded an image I was trying to use in my teahouse profile!
Please delete the image https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:File-Acapulco_sunset_summer.jpg
I was trying to select an image for my teahouse profile on Wikipedia commons and somehow I uploaded the image! Please delete it- I'm perfectly OK with it! I guess it's a newbie mistake! I love Wikipedia and editing articles! I will stay away from media, for now :) Thanks, Zara (CRFZara) — Preceding unsigned comment added by CRFZara (talk • contribs) 08:08, 5 April 2016 (UTC+9)
- Hi CRFZara. I've tagged the file with {{db-f8}} per WP:F8 since the same file exists on Wikimedia Commons. For furture reference, you do not need to re-upload any files you find on Wikimedia Commons locally to English Wikipedia. All you need to do is add the file's markup to the article, etc. where you want to use it. You can find out more about this at Help:Files. In addition, if you mistakenly upload something similar in the future, you can tag it for speedy deletion yourself if it meets the conditions listed in WP:F8. Finally, please try to remember to always sign any posts you make to talk pages or noticeboards such as this. There are a number of ways to do this, but the most common is 4 tilde. Signing not only lets other editors know who made the post, but also when it was made. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:04, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
Uploaded one of my own photos
How do I upload one of my own photos? It does not have a copyright.
Thanks! Beezing (talk) 00:15, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
- Any image you take has a copyright and you own it. You can decide to licence the image under a number of different restrictive or non-restrictive licences but we only accept non-restrictives ones such as {{cc-by-2.0}} or {{cc-by-sa-2.0}} or higher, i.e., 3.0 or 4.0 or {{attribution}}. The Creative Commons tags are most commonly used and are recommended but you can see most of the free licences at WP:TAGS/FL and the ones on the commons are at c:COM:TAGS and some are slightly different and theirs is a very long list. It is best you upload such images to the commons where others can use them for other language projects not just the enwiki. ww2censor (talk) 10:08, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
i found a "free" image.. how can you help me know if it works for Wiki..?
i found a "free" image.. how can you help me know if it works for Wiki..? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Organist00 (talk • contribs) 02:07, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
- Can you link to it? Also I assume "free" as in free - some people think it means "freely available".Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 09:13, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
Icons for the Disinfectant antivirus software
For the Disinfectant software, there is a color icon and a B&W icon. Would either of these two icons be below the threshold of originality for the US? --Elegie (talk) 04:34, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
- As a follow-up, my guess is that the color icon is copyrightable, but that the B&W icon just might be below the US TOO. --Elegie (talk) 04:35, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
Request to checking eligibility of an image
I would like to get this image from a 1901 French magazine checked for eligibility for use in an article I am working on. I have discussed my concerns on its talk page. I am confident it would not be appropriate for Wikimedia Commons as it is was placed in the public domain by the French National Library for non-commercial use. Because of its age, have I used the correct licence for acceptable use on Wikipedia? If not, I'd rather have it deleted now than use it in a GA-nominated article and then have it removed later. Many thanks Parkywiki (talk) 02:06, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
- It was published before 1923, so PD-US works for using it on en.wiki. However, I question how the French can put it to PD and then claim only for non-commercial use. PD means there are zero restrictions on the image use. The situation sounds similar to the National Portrait Gallery and Wikimedia Foundation copyright dispute, in which there the NPG claimed that their hi-res scans of works that were clear in the PD were copyrighted. For the time being please use the image here, but you might want to ask at Commons to get clarity on the French PD/copyright issue. --MASEM (t) 02:13, 11 April 2016 (UTC)