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Images from other language versions of Wikipedia: clarification sought
If a Wikipedia page in one language has no image, and the page on the same topic in another does have one, is it acceptable (and is it possible, and if so how) to simply link to the same image file – assuming, obviously, that the uploaders of the image in the second language went through the proper copyright process?
(My specific situation: I am editing the page on Reepicheep. The Italian version of the page has an image of the character excerpted from the 2010 Voyage of the Dawn Treader film. I haven't found any images of the character on English-language Wikipedia or Wikimedia.)
—VeryRarelyStable (talk) 10:56, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
- Since I haven't had an answer in over a month, I'm guessing this isn't possible. That's a nuisance. —VeryRarelyStable (talk) 01:44, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
- @VeryRarelyStable: Apologies that nobody has responded to you. You can link to a file on another language Wikipedia. For example; fr:Fichier:ABC7 Logo.png. However, you can't display it here. Maybe there is a way, but I'm not aware of it. If there were a way though, there would be problems. In most cases, such images on another project are likely to be non-free; otherwise they would be on Commons. Using them in articles here would not be permitted because there would be no fair use rationale for their use, which is required by WP:NFCC #10c. If there's a file on another language Wikipedia which you wish to use here, I recommend you either move it to Commons (if it is free license) or upload a copy here under a non-free license, while complying with WP:NFCC policy. --Hammersoft (talk) 01:57, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
Picture on Satyagraha
Hello everybody!
I've got a question! :-)
I drew a picture for illustration purposes for the article Satyagraha. The picture is an interpretation of the Satyagraha doctrine and it is derived from Gandhi's writings on that subject. The sources are named in the description page (book, pages, chapter...).
There also exists a german version of it, which is already used in the german Wikipedia article on the same subject (w:de:Satyagraha). I drew both pictures, the german and the english version.
The reason for this is, that in my opinion there could be problems with photographies like File:Mg-satyagraha.jpg, for example, with freedom of panorama in many countries. So an alternative illustration with no copyright could be a solution here. I am convinced that an illustration can help to understand the subject.
If it is mentioned, that this is a possible graphical interpretation, I think nobody would have problems with it. I even tried to use the pictures from the original texts ("Leafes like from a tree" or "Truth and Ahimsa are like two sides of the same coin") as good as I could.
My question is: Is the english picture good enough for the english Wikipedia? :-)
For example, there is already an over ten year old picture about the Electrical grid from which the original drawing stems from me. The picture there is also an illustration (and an interpretation) like this. This is no joke, you can compare the usernames of File:Electricity_Grid_Schematic_English.svg and the original source de:Datei:Stromversorgung.png. :-)
I would accept a no, when you tell me the reasons why. I would have no problems with that! I prefer to ask specialists first, especially when I am new to a place like the english Wikipedia! And lastly I hope, my English is not too bad to understand in details. :-)
Friendly Greetings, Quark48 (talk) 10:19, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
- Links to previous discussions above, recommending checking here. Thank you. --Ronz (talk) 16:41, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
Quality of images
What is the policy on the technical quality of images? Or the illustrative quality?
Let's say (entirely hypothetically) that there's an editor with no talent at photography. Yet she insists on taking photos and uploading them, even though better ones are available? She regularly puts her photos into articles, and reacts as if it were a personal slight upon her when they are replaced with better ones. She seems unable or unwilling to listen and learn. What to do? Tony May (talk) 00:57, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
- I think that should be a matter for editorial judgement and tact, not policy. —David Eppstein (talk) 01:06, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
- Like all other content disputes, this is best handled using the WP:Dispute resolution processes. If the other editor is unwilling to engage in discussion and dispute resolution, the dispute becomes a conduct issue and can be dealt with at an adminstrators' noticeboard. --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 02:22, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
Slidshows
I am seeing some slidshows added to articles using the automated portal coding. How do other feel about slidshows ...think like gallaries we need to supress there use? See example at the bottom of Casablanca. What can we do about randon slidshow spaming?--Moxy (talk) 11:38, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
- We certainly don't need to "suppress" galleries (see WP:GALLERY), but I don't like slideshows - they should be converted to galleries. Moxy, your tiresome one-person crusade against images should stop! Johnbod (talk) 12:53, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
- I will continue to make sure accessibility concerns are fixed dispite some people not caring.....as for conversions a few of these could be turned into galleries but the problem is we have no associated text so it will take some work to cleanup all the spamming. - Moxy (talk) 15:59, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
- The pictures on the India page, on the talk page of which Moxy has made a paternalistic post, change every day as a result of coding. They are not exactly a typical slide show. A gallery would would clutter up the page. The pictures have stood in the FA for some seven years, the result of a year-long RFC. On a broad canvas such as India's the pictures cannot be precisely correlated to the text, but they are generally related. All pictures in the Economy section, for example, have some bearing on the economy. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 05:43, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
- For this page's roll of honor, I would like to commend Kate Sheppard posthumously for having completed two years of appearing twice in Women's suffrage in New Zealand, once in the lead, and then again in the gallery, in the same pictorial representation, but in such contrasting visual effect as to have garnered the recommendation: "See Women's suffrage in New Zealand for an example of an informative and well-crafted gallery." (Wikipedia:Image_use_policy#Image_galleries) Fowler&fowler«Talk» 10:08, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
- The pictures on the India page, on the talk page of which Moxy has made a paternalistic post, change every day as a result of coding. They are not exactly a typical slide show. A gallery would would clutter up the page. The pictures have stood in the FA for some seven years, the result of a year-long RFC. On a broad canvas such as India's the pictures cannot be precisely correlated to the text, but they are generally related. All pictures in the Economy section, for example, have some bearing on the economy. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 05:43, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
- I will continue to make sure accessibility concerns are fixed dispite some people not caring.....as for conversions a few of these could be turned into galleries but the problem is we have no associated text so it will take some work to cleanup all the spamming. - Moxy (talk) 15:59, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
- Well, I won't argue with the Fowlers, but I'm sure we can all agree that if captioned "slidshows" were available, this might alter things considerably - I take it that at present this option does not exist? Johnbod (talk) 14:16, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
- Just tried. It does seem to work:
Fowler&fowler«Talk» 14:30, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
- Need to also look at the mobile version as seen here...this is the version /format problem I saw thus why I removed it from a few articles.--Moxy 🍁 15:25, 7 April 2019 (UTC)