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A Few Questions

1. I have a photo of a building (the Titanic Museum, Belfast) that I don't know if I am allowed to upload.
2. I have photos of unidentified flowers, what should I upload them as? (or should I even upload them?)

Thanks, WalnutBloom (talk) 12:10, 10 May 2026 (UTC)

@WalnutBloom: Hi, and welcome. 1) Yes, per COM:FOP Ireland. 2) See en:WP:BOTANY.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 14:24, 10 May 2026 (UTC)

I don't see anything obviously helpful at en:WP:BOTANY. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 14:37, 10 May 2026 (UTC)

Per Category:Unidentified plants, at least people do upload pics of unidentified plants. Perhaps some get deleted per COM:SCOPE, but that's me speculating. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 14:35, 10 May 2026 (UTC)

Welcome! I’m new here as well but I think it’s worth uploading the unidentified flowers. Write as much as you know about them (where it was taken, even the time of year if you know it). Ideally someone with botanical knowledge will come along and identify them. Good luck! Stampdragon (talk) 16:05, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Cleaning up descriptions?

Does a page with a description section like this need cleaning up? (File:St. Nicholas (serial) (1873) (14597542849).jpg) Do you keep the text that appeared after the image, which is sometimes nonsensensical? Any tips on these kind of pages is appreciated! Stampdragon (talk) 14:45, 17 May 2026 (UTC)

@Stampdragon: Hi, and welcome. That is how it appears on Flickr; you can leave it well enough alone. Also, you did not need to categorize this page.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 16:21, 17 May 2026 (UTC)

@Jeff G.: you did not need to categorize this page: Stampdragon just removed the cat check template, presumably because they (correctly, I think) considered the page to be already sufficiently categorized. - Jmabel ! talk 20:56, 17 May 2026 (UTC)

Awesome - thank you so much for your help! Stampdragon (talk) 16:02, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

I want to upload a Picture of Vuttikorn Inthraphuvasak for his Wikipedia page

Only thing is, the picture i am planning on using isn't mine, rather from this website: https://51gt3.com/en/racer/vutthikorn-inthraphuvasak

How could this work since I would like to upload it to his wikipedia page :]

regards, F1fan00 (talk) 10:23, 18 May 2026 (UTC)

You can't. Neither Commons nor Wikipedia allows fair-use pictures of living people. If you want, you can try to contact him and point him to Wikipedia:A picture of you, maybe he likes the idea. More guidance at COM:THIRD. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 11:55, 18 May 2026 (UTC)

ok, i don't how exactly how i would be able to get in touch with Vutthikorn, so i will hold off for now F1fan00 (talk) 12:03, 18 May 2026 (UTC)

also forgot to ping @Gråbergs Gråa Sång F1fan00 (talk) 12:10, 18 May 2026 (UTC)

Forgot to ping @F1fan00 Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 12:01, 18 May 2026 (UTC)

@F1fan00: in general, if you have any plans to upload third-party photographs, I strongly recommend reading COM:THIRD. Except for things that are so old they are clearly in the public domain (e.g. 18th-century prints) or where there is already an explicit free license available, this is one of the most difficult Commons tasks to do correctly. - Jmabel ! talk 02:42, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

aight, thanks for telling me so I can see if it is able to be uploaded @Jmabel F1fan00 (talk) 11:47, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

Actor in costume

Hello! I uploaded this picture recently of an actress in costume, taken during the 'bows' after a play. I received a question on my talk page on en-wiki about removing the picture, as the costumes are original to the play. Can anyone advise on how this intersects with COM:COSTUME? The character the actor was playing is clearly in the public domain, but I'm not certain how that impacts the costumes. Thanks. Ganesha811 (talk) 19:50, 18 May 2026 (UTC)

That seems like a custom design for that specific play. I suspect a costume designer put considerable creative thought into the look and feel of this design for this particular character and the role the character plays, as well as how the costume is perceived by the audience. I'd thus assume it to be copyright protected as a (or part of a) creative work. It's also a considerable part of the image (so not de-minimis or anything) and probably not in a public space etc.. I wouldn't want to step into a court trying to convince the judge of this being copyright free. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 22:55, 18 May 2026 (UTC)

Disagree. I'm not aware of any precedent for this interpretation of U.S. copyright law for a costume that is essentially normal human clothing. If it were, almost the entire history of photography of theater would be in trouble. (The same would be the case for many concert performances, most parades, etc.) France has something like this level of protection for clothing; I believe the U.S. does not.

@Ganesha811: I suggest you take this to COM:Village pump/Copyright where you will probably get a more informed opinion than from either User:TheDJ or myself. (I presume that TheDJ is, like myself, reasonably knowledgeable about copyright, but not a copyright lawyer or anything close to on. I would hope neither of us would "step into a court trying to convince a judge" of anything. In the unlikely event that TheDJ is actually a lawyer, my apologies, and if that is true then you should take his advice.) - Jmabel ! talk 03:00, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

Thank you both for your replies. I'll ask at that forum for help as well. Ganesha811 (talk) 03:10, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

Some categories show blue triangles and can expand. Why?

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Cossey_Arboretum Three entries have expandable blue triangle icons. Most do not. I cannot figure out why they are different. Cossey25 (talk) 20:46, 18 May 2026 (UTC)

@Cossey25 if the category entries have subcategories, they are blue and you can click to expand and show those subcategories. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 22:44, 18 May 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for looking-- Tree 132 has a gray triangle and these categories:

Category:Cossey Section Tree Fredericksburg

Category:Cossey Arboretum

Tree 133 has a blue triangle and these categories:

Category:Cossey Arboretum

Category:Cossey Section 001

How do I change 133 to match? Cossey25 (talk) 00:38, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

Tree 132 has a gray triangle and these categories:

Category:Cossey Section Tree Fredericksburg

Category:Cossey Arboretum

Tree 133 has a blue triangle and these categories:

Category:Cossey Arboretum

Category:Cossey Section 001

How do I change 133? Cossey25 (talk) 00:41, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

• Actually, "Tree 132" and "Tree 133" do not have those categories, those are the parent categories of "Tree 132" and "Tree 133".
• The "blue triangle" only appears if a category has subcategories. In this case, "Tree 132" has no subcategories, so a "gray triangle" is displayed next to it. "Tree 133" has 1 subcategory, which is Category:Cossey Section 001, so a "blue triangle" is displayed next to it.
• By the way, seeing Category:Cossey Section 001, it seems perhaps you misunderstood how categories work. When you add categories to a category, you are adding the parent categories that the category belongs, not the subcategories that belong to that category. See Commons:Categories for more details.
• This means the subcategories of Category:Cossey Section 001 cannot be its parent categories at the same time. So, the category needs to be fixed.

Thanks. Tvpuppy (talk) 02:19, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

I was misunderstanding categories. Thanks! Cossey25 (talk) 04:43, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

In‐scope loophole

Say on another Wikimedia wiki we have 2 freely licenced files, A & B. A’s only transclusion is in B. B’s only transclusion is in A. Per COM:INUSE, they should be moved to Commons, as they are transcluded in a page that isn’t a user page, a talk page, an inactive sandbox or draft, an automatically generated project, an explicitly non‐in‐scope project, or a project only edited by the creator. Couldn’t a bad actor abuse this to get any file they want onto Commons? ANOTHERWlKlPEDlAN _{wɑit thɑt’s ɑ typo} 20:59, 18 May 2026 (UTC) ANOTHERWlKlPEDlAN _{wɑit thɑt’s ɑ typo} 20:59, 18 May 2026 (UTC)

It's not exactly a loophole, it's the reason we exist. Can this be used in bad faith? Yes. Is this used in bad faith sometimes? Yes. Do they tend to last that long? Not really. If the file is under fair use, then it should stay on the local project. Copyright will always overrule SCOPE. (also, if it's only used in a draft that's about to get deleted for advertising or vandalism, it will get deleted here too. All the Best -- Chuck ^Talk 21:25, 18 May 2026 (UTC)

@Alachuckthebuck: I was more so talking about a person abusing this method to upload freely licensed personal files, as obviously copyrighted media is still copyrighted.

ANOTHERWlKlPEDlAN _{wɑit thɑt’s ɑ typo} 22:07, 18 May 2026 (UTC) ANOTHERWlKlPEDlAN _{wɑit thɑt’s ɑ typo} 22:07, 18 May 2026 (UTC)

@Anohthterwikipedian: Do you have a case in mind where this has occurred and files were kept on this basis, or is this a hypothetical? - Jmabel ! talk 03:03, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

@Jmabel: Just a hypothetical. Got the idea while moving these files.

ANOTHERWlKlPEDlAN _{wɑit thɑt’s ɑ typo} 07:14, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

I think the closest thing to this is Commons:Categories for discussion/2025/04/Category:Redmond and Bluu, though it was eventually deleted. HyperAnd [talk] 02:37, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

How can two files each be transcluded in the other? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:07, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

@Pigsonthewing: By linking file A to file B, and vice versa. An example would be here & here.

ANOTHERWlKlPEDlAN _{wɑit thɑt’s ɑ typo} 20:59, 19 May 2026 (UTC) ANOTHERWlKlPEDlAN _{wɑit thɑt’s ɑ typo} 20:59, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

Certainly the trivial case of having a derivative work (or being a derivative work) or another version of the file is not a basis to keep. - Jmabel ! talk 21:40, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

INUSE doesn't apply when the only use is in the commons file namespace. All the Best -- Chuck ^Talk 21:52, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

You wrote "A’s only transclusion is in B. B’s only transclusion is in A". That's not what's happening there. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:58, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

Also, in addition to the issue @Pigsonthewing found, there's 10 difference templates saying it's under a noncommercial license. this isn't a scope issue , it's a copyright issue. All the Best -- Chuck ^Talk 22:10, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

@Alachuckthebuck: There is also 1 template saying it’s under a free licence, which means it can be kept (see COM:Multi-licensing). But my question still stands though; Couldn’t a bad actor transclude a freely licensed personal photo in a freely licensed personal photo to get it onto Commons?

ANOTHERWlKlPEDlAN _{wɑit thɑt’s ɑ typo} 01:51, 20 May 2026 (UTC) ANOTHERWlKlPEDlAN _{wɑit thɑt’s ɑ typo} 01:51, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

@Anohthterwikipedian: Please take a look at COM:NOTUSED, "bad actor" is likely leading to "not legitimately in use". Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 02:59, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

I think a more reasonable set of questions would be: Why, if you are not trying to be disruptive:

1. are you posting as User:Anohthterwikipedian when that account was renamed in March to User:Star walker?
2. are you using as an example an image uploaded by your account, without revealing that it is yours?
3. have you uploaded what purports to be an April 2026 image with a v1.0 CC licence which has been deprecated for new uses for over two decades?
4. Have you tagged the image with being under multiple, redundant licences?

-- Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:10, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

@Pigsonthewing:

1. I forgot to change my signature due to laziness. I’ve changed it now.
2. It was only meant to be an example of a file being transcluded in another file (for non‐disruptive reasons), not of someone abusing this to get it onto Commons.
3. Just because it’s been deprecated doesn’t mean it can’t have new uses, and for personal reasons I can’t disclose why I licensed it that way.
4. I multi‐licensed the work so it can be used in non‐commercial settings.

Star
Walker 20:28, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

@Star walker: at a certain point, weird behavior (such as using fi rather than "fi", and plenty else here) becomes indistinguishable from trolling. Do not expect that you can continue both to do this and be treated by other contributors with collegial respect. - Jmabel ! talk 01:58, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

@Jmabel: I understand. I’ll stop being a nuisance now.

Star
Walker 02:37, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

"personal reasons I can’t disclose why I licensed it that way" won't wash.

I didn't ask why you multi‐licensed the work; I asked why you did so with redundant licences. In any case the first, open, licence allows its use in non‐commercial settings. You have been here long enough to know this.

You have now amended the name in your sig; but made it pale yellow on white, which makes it unreadable for many. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:15, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

@Pigsonthewing: The wikitext calls it "gold". @Star walker: See my sig for a way to make a similar color stand out while being non-stacked and usable in dark mode with standard blue/purple "non-clicked"/"clicked" coloring.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:02, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

@Pigsonthewing: I thought that Sharealike was a viral licence, meaning that a file licensed with it could not be used in non‐commercial settings?

Star
Walker 21:00, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

@Pigsonthewing: And as to why I licensed it under the CC-SA-1.0 licence, it’s because I don’t want nor need attribution for my work, but I do want any further derivatives of it be equally free. Because CC-BY-SA requires attribution and CC-0 allows non-free derivatives, the only licence that works is CC-SA-1.0.

Star
Walker 10:28, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

I’ve just realised that by moving both files here, the files would no longer be hosted on their original wiki, meaning we can technically delete them as out of scope after uploading them. Basically, the loophole is counteracted by another loophole. ANOTHERWlKlPEDlAN _{wɑit thɑt’s ɑ typo} 09:38, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Appropriate/High Quality photos

Hello, I'm a new user and I have some photos of various creatures I found tidepooling in southern California I'd like to upload. What constitutes a high quality photo, or one that is worth uploading at all? I have some pretty clear photos of birds and snails, but I also have a photo of a brittle sea star being held in hand which is clear but maybe the hand is distracting? I also have various photos of the sea which I assume aren't worthy.

Additionally, I have identified the birds and sea star but not the snail. Does that change anything? Benjaminaventi (talk) 16:04, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

Err on the side of inclusion, but ask yourself if the pictures show us anything new - maybe the first pic of a species, or the first in a particular country or region. Or a plumage variation or unusual behaviour. Maybe the hand-held pic shows a feature that a "wild" photo does not?

For the unidentified, there are Category:Unidentified animals and its subcategories.

You can also usefully post to COM:iNaturalist. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:06, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

@Benjaminaventi: roughly how many photos (that are potentially useful to Commons) are you talking about? - Jmabel ! talk 21:53, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

Only around 3-5 maybe? why? Benjaminaventi (talk) 01:19, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

@Benjaminaventi: We have a help page, Commons:Image guidelines, there's a section about general quality criteria (Commons:Image guidelines#Quality and featured photographic images). While that section is geared towards images whose photographers plan a candidacy for quality assessments, the advices about lighting, sharpness, composition, editing and blur are generally valid for every media. On the other side, as Andy said, it's usual to "Err on the side of inclusion", as long as your images aren't not totally lacking in sharpness, so that nobody has a chance to discern the depicted motif. BTW, 3-5 images is the amount that gets uploaded every 10 seconds or less at any time of day, so you may upload anyway, the data amount is virtually negligible in regard to curating and quality assurance tasks. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 02:06, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Yes. I was expecting to hear a number more like "80" or "250". For a handful of images, don't sweat it. As long as they are free-licensed and more-or-less in scope, there is no real downside. - Jmabel ! talk 14:18, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

haha yeah I figured I'd only upload the best ones anyways. Good to know, thanks! Benjaminaventi (talk) 16:14, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Upload corporate logo

Hi! I am a brand marketing leader at Life is Good and we want to upload our company logo since we've rebranded. How can I go about doing this? Rachaelangelina (talk) 19:10, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

@Rachaelangelina: I'm assuming this is the clothing retailer and that the logo is the one at upper left here. I'm also assuming that you are mostly concerned with having it on the English-language Wikipedia (en-wiki). If either of those assumptions is wrong, let me know, because it could affect the answer.

That logo is complex enough that it presumably has copyright protection 'as well as trademark, so the only way we could host it on Commons is if the company were willing to free-license the logo (which, honestly, I wouldn't recommend). If you did that, you could upload it to Commons with the appropriate license plus {{Trademarked}}, indicating that someone else could use the image freely (in the cases of most licenses, with attribution) but not in a way that would create any confusion with your brand.

More likely, you'd want to leave Commons out entirely, not grant a license, and use it on en-wiki under their allowance for using non-free logos. en:Template:Logo rationale is probably self-explanatory; if not, then en:Wikipedia:Non-free content will probably help you out; failing that, ask further questions on en-wiki, not Commons.

en-wiki is much tighter than Commons about the potential conflicts of interest involved in people editing as a company employee. Before you make any edits there, I strongly advise you to read en:WP:COI (on conflicts of interest) and en:WP:PAID (on paid editing). Among other things, these describe required disclosures, and if you edit there without disclosing first, you are in serious danger of having your account blocked on that wiki.

I hope that all helps. And I'm sorry this is a little difficult. - Jmabel ! talk 22:10, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

Weird incorrect spellings in image? Multiple versions

This question involves three files:

• File:Greecemap.gif from 2007
• File:Greecemap.svg from 2011
• File:Greecemap-en.svg from 2013

These files depict the city-states & regions of Ancient Greece. The problem is that the 2013 file spells at least two completely wrong. "Tessaly" should be "Thessaly". I think what has happened is that the 2011 Russian file has been translated into the 2013 English file.

Is there any way to correct the 2013 image? I don't understand how these issues could have been introduced. JordyGrey (talk) 22:17, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

Changing text in an SVG should be more or less trivial. Assuming the SVG is correctly constructed, that is literal text inside the file. - Jmabel ! talk 14:21, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Sorry, but I have absolutely no idea how to do that... I tried opening a downloaded copy in Notepad & Notepad++ but that didn't work, so I have no clue what to do.

Could you help me fix it? Or should I ask someone at Wikipedia:SVG help?

Thanks, JordyGrey (talk) 01:05, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

These are the changes:

.gif → en.svg

Mt Olympus → M Olimpus

Thessaly → Tessaly

Patroe → Patras

Marathan → Marathon

Thasos → Tasos

Athos → M Athos

Chois → Chios

Some of the changes (i.e. marathon) are better in the svg, but idk about some of them. JordyGrey (talk) 01:22, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

@JordyGry: if you cannot do this yourself, and no one steps in here, ask at Commons:Graphic Lab/Map workshop. - Jmabel ! talk 02:02, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

Can I upload this map?

I'm new to Wikipedia/Wikimedia in general so I have a question about a specific image. It's a map of protected areas that part of the UN puts out in periodic updates. The map ("Map of protected areas and OECMs") is included in their latest update along with a citation and download link - https://www.protectedplanet.net/en/monthly-release-news/may-2026-update-of-the-wdpca-and-gd-pame. Can I upload the image/map and include it on the 30 by 30 page (the focus of the update)? It seems like they want people to use the map, but when I search Google it doesn't show up as having a Creative Commons license. Advice? Naturedata (talk) 03:15, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

The data provider allows only non-commercial usage, see https://www.protectedplanet.net/en/legal . Those legal mentions make it utterly clear that the graphic is not to be uploaded to Commons. You may use instead a classic link as reference, for instance. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 03:30, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Ok, thank you! Naturedata (talk) 03:35, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Upload File

Hi I wanted to know about the procedure of uploading a file about myself. Please guide. Thank you Amit I Amit Dhanda (talk) 09:41, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

@I Amit Dhanda: You almost certainly should not do this unless you are either a significantly active participant in Wikimedia projects (clearly you are not) or either you or the photographer have at least a near-encyclopedic level of notability (you know better than I do whether that applies) and can document that notability from independent third-party sources. It will simply be deleted as an unused personal picture. (Also: if the picture was taken by someone else, they almost certainly own the copyright, not you.) - Jmabel ! talk 14:27, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Rühen_Ehrendenkmal_WK1u2.jpg

Hallo Amit, wir besitzen in Rühen ein zweites Ehren/Denk-/Mahnmal und dieses ist hier in der "Commens: Wiki" nirgend wo zu finden. Das würde ich gerne zusammen mit Deiner/Eurer Wiki-Unterstützung erstmals hier als Bild-Datei ergänzen (die Bilddatei liegt mir vor als jpg-file vor habe ich gestern Abend selbst erzeugt). Das eine Denkmal befindet sich unter diesem Link und kann zu 90% der Inhalte Paste&Copy übernommen werden. Bis auf den Namen und natürlich das Bild. Hier der Link zu dem bereits bestehenden Denkmal von 1813 den wir als Absprungbasis nehmen könnten, wenn möglich: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Ruhen_Denkmal.jpg Wie gehe ich hier am besten vor? was wäre der erste Schritt? Die Datei irgend wo ablegen? aber wohin? das neue Bild vom zweiten Denk-/Mahnmal was ich hier erstmals anlegen möchte, habe ich analog formuliert: siehe hier: Rühen_Ehrendenkmal_WK1u2.jpg Marc Volz (talk) 12:52, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Ist erledigt. File:Rühen Ehrendenkmal Mahnmal des 1. und 2. Weltkrieges.jpg. --AxelHH (talk) 20:16, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

License of pictures to be uploaded

Hello! I'm making an article about an artist, a living person. I have an oral permission from a photographer, who took pictures of the artist, for placing the pictures into the article. The pictures are on the photographer's X account in public access, but not noted as "public domain" or "CC0 1.0 Universal" etc. Is it enough, if the photographer makes a comment to the post with the picture, noting the "public domain" or "CC0 1.0 Universal" etc information? Or must the post with the picture be edited with the new license information? Or any other way? Mirenathecat (talk) 13:25, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Something like File:Twitter licencing permission example.jpg works, even if the license is in a comment. Or you can point the photographer to COM:VRT/CONSENT. I assume you have seen COM:WKL. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 14:18, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Aha, thank you so much, I'll study the resources you're mentioning!

And what if the pictures have the author's marks/signatures on them? Is it allowed, or should they be deleted? Mirenathecat (talk) 14:29, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

@Mirenathecat: I'm not at all sure what problem you think there is with this, could you be more specific why you think this might be a problem? Signatures cannot be copyrighted. However: if the photos show artworks, then we need a license from the artist as well. - Jmabel ! talk 14:34, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

I mean photographers usually put a mark on their photos to identify their authorship. If it's not a problem, then ok, great, thank you! Mirenathecat (talk) 14:44, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

@Mirenathecat: you can note that by using {{Watermarked}}. - Jmabel ! talk 02:05, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

(cross-posted) @Mirenathecat: I strongly recommend against CC-0 or PD for any professional artist. Use CC-BY-4.0 or CC-BY-SA-4.0. Under CC-0 or PD, people may legally reuse the work without crediting anyone at all. - Jmabel ! talk 14:31, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

I see, thank you so much! Mirenathecat (talk) 14:44, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Hello, I need help adding structured data to File:Chris_Meniw.jpg.

I need to add: - copyright status: copyrighted (P6216) - copyright license: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (P275 = Q20007257) I am the uploader and copyright holder but my account is new and the Abuse Filter is blocking the save. Can someone help me add this data? Thank you. EditorLatam2026 (talk) 14:11, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

convenience link: File:Chris_Meniw.jpg and could someone else please follow through, I'm out the door right now. - Jmabel ! talk 14:35, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Oh, wait: don't worry, I see what you want, a bot will take care of that, just not instantly. - Jmabel ! talk 14:38, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Thank you so much Jmabel EditorLatam2026 (talk) 15:45, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Yikes…CropTool mistake?

I just discovered CropTool and used it to crop an image from a magazine. File:Easter Morning - Harriet Repplier, 1909.jpeg The categories were automatically added to include the ones used for the whole magazine, which clearly don’t apply to this one image. Can someone explain what I did wrong? Thanks so much! Stampdragon (talk) 14:23, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

@Stampdragon: You did nothing wrong. It can't guess what to write about an image. Edit the new page yourself. - Jmabel ! talk 14:36, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Deleting these categories won’t delete the categories on the PDF file? Stampdragon (talk) 16:00, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

@Stampdragon: Why would deleting categories from one file remove them from another? - Jmabel ! talk 02:06, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

I have no idea lol! I have a newbie’s fear of messing something up! Thank you for your help! I altered the categories and all went well. Stampdragon (talk) 15:17, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

Stampdragon, no, CropTool duplicated them on the new file. You can safely edit the new file page.
@Jmabel, one might assume the categories are transcluded from a template, but that's not the case here. - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 14:09, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

Thanks so much for your patient understanding - I truly appreciate the help! I did delete the extra categories and it worked out just like you said. Thank you! Stampdragon (talk) 15:18, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

Picture Change

Hello, I've been trying to contact you for a while to change my profile picture on Wikipedia. The current picture on the page is very old, and I would like to post a recent picture of myself. Ayhameer (talk) 19:34, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

@Ayhameer: Hi, and welcome. You are welcome to upload a selfie, or a properly licensed picture, as a new filename. If you didn't take the picture, see COM:THIRD.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 20:16, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Tere

kuidas oma konto sulgeda? Sillaotshanna (talk) 23:15, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Going by Google Translate, I think this is someone asking in Estonian how to close their account. Since there is no such thing here as closing an account, I'm not sure what they actually might want to do. @Taivo, can you help out here? - Jmabel ! talk 02:10, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

Kontot ei ole tehnilises mõttes võimalik sulgeda. Sa võid lihtsalt oma kontot mitte kunagi kasutada. Taivo (talk) 20:15, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

A 20 May 2026 website update caused the "switch file" buttons to dissapear

So I'm kinda autoconfirmed on Wiki Commons, but haven't published any pictures yet, and I'm South American, so I will try to keep it consistent while uploading. I like navigating through random images, but at some point, the directional buttons that are used to switch between files are gone. Why? - SimpleObjects-9ei (talk) 00:23, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

@SimpleObjects-9ei: I've been on the site for 2 decades, but I'm not sure what you mean by "directional buttons that are used to switch between files", unless you are talking about the "slideshow" (which appears to be working as it should). I'm not aware of any "directional buttons" related to Special:Random/File. Can you give some more context here? - Jmabel ! talk 02:15, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

No idea what caused it, but this sounds like a glitch I was experiencing in Media Viewer for the past week or so (here on category pages and in enWP articles): no previous- & next-image arrows or ##/## counter shown. I found a sort of workaround: going into full-screen mode would make them appear, allowing navigation from then on in the session (even after exiting full-screen), but the counter did not refresh. Anyway, it cleared up for me just a day or two ago.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 00:57, 29 May 2026 (UTC)

uploading a picture question

Hi! My name is Molly Burnett, and I am trying to change my wikipedia picture. (my user name is my dog Eloise, but I promise - it's me lol) My current wiki picture is about 17 years old, and because I'm an actress - its so helpful to have a current photo up. Plus the picture thats currently up is, well.... lets just call it what it is - its rough. The new picture I am trying to upload however is one that I took - so I own the rights to everything! I uploaded it (I think) I've never edited a wikipedia page before. Can someone help me? Did I do it correctly? PLEASE HELP LOL Eloisevictoriaj (talk) 02:20, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

@Eloisevictoriaj Welcome! I see you uploaded File:Molly Burnett.jpg. I also see the same picture at https://www.instagram.com/mollyburnett/p/DVt004YEv7u/.

The basic assumption on this website is that copyright belongs to the photographer, which is not obviously you, though you might have used a tripod or something, I can't know that. What is needed is the photographer putting a license Commons can use on it. If that's you, you can do it like this: File:Instagram licencing permission example.jpg. If not, you can point the photographer to COM:VRT/CONSENT.

More alternatives and further guidance at Wikipedia:A picture of you and COM:THIRD. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 04:40, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

How to clear Wikipedia edit summary history?

Hello, when I add an image to a page on Wikipedia, that is, when I make an edit and click the Publish button, it asks me to enter an edit summary, which I do. However, previously written edit summaries appear again in this field. How can I delete these old summaries? These are not stored in browser cookies. EDCrasher (talk) 15:18, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

@EDCrasher that's your browser remembering that, and it depends on which browser. But generally when you reset the cookies for the website, it will also throw away that memory. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 11:09, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

I reset the cookies, and I even tried a different browser, but it still didn’t get deleted. EDCrasher (talk) 11:13, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

In at least some browsers, you can press the down arrow ↓ or alt+down arrow button in the edit summary field to select the first saved edit summary, then press shift+delete to delete one saved edit description, then either repeat pressing shift+delete until you delete them all, or selectively pick which saved edit description you want to keep or delete.

In Firefox, you can either press ctrl+shift+del, or go into Settings → Privacy & Security → Browser Privacy → History and press the Clear History button, then select only Saved form info, to delete saved form entries. However, this is not selective to a particular website, such as Wikipedia, but applies to all websites, so it might not be what you want.

– b_jonas 08:23, 27 May 2026 (UTC)

Dear @B jonas,

This information is not stored in the browser; it is stored in my account. Likewise, when I log in from my phone, the summaries I previously wrote also appear there. EDCrasher (talk) 08:32, 27 May 2026 (UTC)

Is this image suitable to be uploaded to Wikipedia?

I'm trying to upload an image of Look Mum No Computer for the UK's Eurovision page, however I'm unsure if the image I have falls under the usage criteria or not. Does it fall under the usage? Image link is https://photos.ebu.ch/media/image?src=thumbs/38855_1250_m.jpg&1779381955 for reference. Cheers and thanks. Joeball 7 (talk) 16:50, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

Hello Joeball 7, for uploading, you've got to differentiate between the projects. This one here is Wikimedia Commons, whose upload policies are chiefly regulated by COM:Licensing, COM:SCOPE and COM:Fair use. These rules are incompatible to the EBU media use terms from https://photos.ebu.ch/en/terms - in short, you can't upload that artist image here.

You can give en:WP:FAIR a read, but I'd say that, as it is a reasonable assumption that a free alternative illustration of that artist can be produced (lots of ESC participants actually have freely licensed images), there's no chance of being able to justify that upload on the English Wikipedia.

So, to summarise: the media pool of the EBU is off-limits for Wikimedia's projects and any upload taken from there amounts to a (forbidden and unwanted) copyright violation. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 17:43, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up! Joeball 7 (talk) 18:42, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

copyright on signature or pictures

How can I use the signature of the person or pictures? I got the signature from merch I had purchased or pics I had taken or screenshots of live streams. But I can get permission from the creator if I need to. I am writing it on someone else. Any help is much appreciated! Raiyarayne (talk) 19:36, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

@Raiyarayne: this depends on the country. In some countries signatures are ineligible for copyright protection, but in some they can be copyrighted. See Commons:When to use the PD-signature tag. MKFI (talk) 06:15, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

Speedy Deletion Notice on My File – CSD F10 – Requesting Assistance

Hello,

I am writing regarding a speedy deletion notice (CSD F10) placed on my uploaded file:

File: কাজী আ্যাডাম Kazi Adam Poet Of Bangladesh, kaziiadam.jpg

I would like to clarify the following points:

1. I am the original photographer of this image. I took this photo myself. 2. The subject of the photo is Kazi Adam, a notable Bangladeshi poet. 3. I am currently in the process of creating a Wikipedia article about him on the Bengali Wikipedia (bn.wikipedia.org). 4. I am willing to release this image under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

I kindly request that the deletion be paused or reconsidered to allow me time to complete the Wikipedia article, after which this image will be directly used to illustrate the article.

Thank you for your time and assistance.

Sincerely, Kaziiadam (Wikimedia Commons username) ~2026-30471-01 (talk) 11:21, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

@~2026-30471-01, Kaziiadam: Hi, and welcome. File:কাজী অ্যাডাম Kazi Adam Poet Of Bangladesh, kaziiadam.jpg appears to have been a selfie that qualified for COM:CSD#F10 and was deleted. All of your contributions on Wikidata were deleted. Please login and review COM:PS and d:Wikidata:Notability.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:04, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

System error

I cannot upload a picture. Please fix it. Request served via cp3071 cp3071, Varnish XID 167568159 Error: 503, Backend fetch failed at Fri, 22 May 2026 14:30:07 GMT

Sensitive client information Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 14:28, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

@Meneerke bloem: That looks like a bug, please see mw:How to report a bug.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 15:56, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

User Profile

How can I make changes to my User Profile? NSL1951 (talk) 22:43, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

Occasionally, new users are stopped from making certain changes in the short term. I made a blank user page for you, so you should be able to edit it. You can take a look at Commons:User pages, which is a brief essay that gives an overview of best practices and things you can do to make your user page your own. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:21, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

@NSL1951: Hi, and welcome. We do not have profiles here. Social networks have profiles.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 14:57, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

Photo

Moved from MediaWiki talk:Gadget-RotateLink.js#Photo. Nemoralis (talk) 10:58, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

How do I change the photo of me on this page?? Loraofficial (talk) 21:14, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

What? Nemoralis (talk) 22:16, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

@Loraofficial: this is not the way. You may upload a replacement that is licensed and in scope, and try to get the Wikipedias to use that instead.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 14:03, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

I want to upload a photo from my phone. How do I upload a new photo? I am 43 and in this photo I am 25. How is this ok? I don't even look like that anymore. Loraofficial (talk) 10:52, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

If the new photo is a selfie/self portrait, go to Special:UploadWizard (or go to the home page and press "upload") and upload your own photo. If somebody else took a photo of you, see COM:THIRD. HyperAnd [talk] 12:25, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

How do I upload a logo under the PD-textlogo license?

Hello, I want to upload the 2026 SVG version of the Google Forms logo to Wikimedia Commons, but I am not sure which licensing options I should select during the upload process. I believe the logo may qualify for the PD-textlogo license because it mainly consists of simple geometric shapes and text, but I am unsure how to properly choose the correct license settings on Commons.

Could someone explain which options I should select while uploading? EDCrasher (talk) 12:01, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

In Special:UploadWizard: This work was created by someone else and it is free to share. > This work is not protected by copyright law > Enter {{PD-textlogo}} in the textbox under Add a specific public domain tag, if applicable. HyperAnd [talk] 12:16, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

I’m going to add two tags should there be a space between them? EDCrasher (talk) 12:22, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

Doesn't really matter. If it looks wrong, you can edit it after uploading. HyperAnd [talk] 12:28, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

I’ve uploaded it; could you please check it?

Google Forms icon (2026).svg EDCrasher (talk) 12:40, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

how can i make battles

i want to create battles like those things but idk how Fiction Battles (talk) 15:22, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

Fiction Battles, Wikimedia is for educational content. Please read COM:Project scope. - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 15:46, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

Multilingual galleries

Hello, I am looking for the best way to create multilingual galleries where all images have multiple descriptions and visitors can choose their preferred language. The language select feature would provide an easy solution for it, but I could not find the right template to create the file descriptions inside the galleries. The goal would be that 1) only one language is visible and 2) the language name is not indicated before the content. I tried the {{Multilingual description}} template, but this one displays in front of each text the language name. I tried the {{LangSwitch}} template, but this one does not work with the language select feature, but fixed to the selected surface language of the user. Do I really need to use the Translate extension for this purpose? Thank you for your advice! Samat (talk) 20:43, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

Base Mérimée images

Good evening everyone, is it possible to upload these images (see link). Thanks, Fort esc (talk) 21:26, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

@Fort esc: Bonjour, Probablement que non. Il n'y a en fait pas assez d'informations pour déterminer le statut de ces images. En particulier, ni la date, ni l'auteur ne sont mentionnés. La seule mention est "© Monuments historiques, 1992.", ce qui n'est pas acceptable pour Commons. Désolé. Yann (talk) 21:53, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

Corrupted video?

Is it just on my end, or is File:Owens Bay Fox Pups (53369021529).webm 0.0s long? If it is corrupted, it should be deleted, right? LetmeEditit (talk) 09:47, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

Looks wrong to me, too. @LetmeEditit (or anyone else): feel free to nominate it for deletion. - Jmabel ! talk 18:17, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

I've uploaded it to File:Red fox pups playing along Owens Bay Nature Trail (53369021529).webm, guess we can just delete the old file. - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 19:16, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

Blason de Raucourt 54610

Bonjour, j'ai uploadé le blason officiel de ce village aujourd'hui :

Official coat of arms of the Commune of Raucourt 54610, Meurthe et Moselle, France since 1986

2 autres versions de ce blason sont disponibles sur wiki commons : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raucourt_(Meurthe-et-Moselle)#/media/Fichier:Blason_ville_fr_Raucourt_(Meurthe-et-Moselle).svg et https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blason_Raucourt_54.svg

Pour éviter toute confusion, comment peut-on supprimer les versions non officielles de wikipedia ? Lezardes (talk) 13:16, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

I have edited Wikidata, which will fix a lot of them, but the rest need to be done by hand. I don't think the Delinker would be an acceptable way to handle replacing an SVG with a PNG, which could be controversial on some Wikipedias. Someone with good French may wan to communicate further with Lezardes about this. - Jmabel ! talk 18:26, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

OK, thank you Jmabel ! I was not sure for the file format Lezardes (talk) 18:35, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

Now it's done, the right file is uploaded in .svg format. and the french page https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raucourt_(Meurthe-et-Moselle) is updated too. Thanks again for your help ! Lezardes (talk) 19:12, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

Crazy captcha

Before I was able to submit an entry just now, I was presented a weird kind of captcha with twelve blurry images and the task to check some of them for certain criteria. Some of the images I could hardly tell what they were supposed to depict, but the worst was the task. Since I am writing from Germany, I was given the task in German. I am a native German speaker with a university degree, so I do believe I speak a bit of German. The task was this:

"Wählen Sie alle Gegenstände aus, die zum Abprallen von Oberflächen gedacht sind."

What on earth is this sentence supposed to mean? Who produces this kind of sentence? And even if I come up with a faint idea of what it might be meant to say, how am I supposed to solve this captcha if I can't even tell what half the images are supposed to depict?

Most captchas have a button to open a new one if the current one doesn't work. Yes, there was such a button. And the same captcha kept coming up again and again.

BTW, has anyone given a thought to accessibility around here? I did not see the choice of an audio captcha. If I can hardly do it, how are visually impaired people supposed to solve such a ridiculous puzzle? --~2026-27914-20 (talk) 20:59, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

@2026-27914-20: That's pretty awful. I assume you made it through, since you are writing here. I'm guessing they wanted you to select things like rubber balls or such.

Usually if you fail one Captcha it just gives you another. Did that not happen?

Also: there is not much we can do for you about this on the Help desk. Maybe COM:Village pump/Technical, but I'd make a strong guess that this is entirely outside of Commons purview and is a Wikimedia Foundation-level issue. - Jmabel ! talk 21:16, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

 Comment, regarding the accessibility issue, according to mw:Product Safety and Integrity/Anti-abuse signals/hCaptcha#How hCaptcha works, it appears there is a text-based challenge for users with accessibility needs. Thanks. Tvpuppy (talk) 21:29, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

~2026-27914-20, Wählen Sie alle Gegenstände aus, die zum Abprallen von Oberflächen gedacht sind."
Select all the objects that are designed to bounce off of surfaces. My German is poor and I needed to look up some words, but I do understand it. There were presumably images of things like category:bouncy balls, category:space hoppers and w:Flex-Foot Cheetahs. Maybe category:tennis balls and category:clappers.
I just tried to register an account in an incognito tab, but I wasn't presented any captcha. - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 22:49, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

@Alexis Jazz: Now that you give me the English, it makes sense immediately. Which means to say: The German sentence is probably an unidiomatic literal translation from English that doesn't make much sense in German.

@Jmabel: Yes, it did give me another captcha. With exactly the same instructions and the same assortment of images. Yes, I eventually made it through at third try or so, but if you don't really understand what the sentence is trying to say PLUS you can't tell what half the images are supposed to be, it's just really annoying.

@Tvpuppy: Not sure if there was a text-based challenge. I only knew the audio up to now, and looked for that as an alternative. --~2026-27914-20 (talk) 11:56, 26 May 2026 (UTC)

uploading photos

May I upload photos which I have in archive as the legacy after my father? Eduardpetrovsky (talk) 10:09, 26 May 2026 (UTC)

@Eduardpetrovsky Assuming these pictures aren't so old they are in the public domain, do you mean that your father is the photographer and you inherited them? If so, Commons:Guidelines for heirs licensing inherited works had guidance. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 12:43, 26 May 2026 (UTC)

Many thanks. My father was the photographer, the pictures were taken in 1962-63 in Antarctica. He took tens of pictures. I scanned them and inherited after my father passed away. Eduardpetrovsky (talk) 12:54, 26 May 2026 (UTC)

@Eduardpetrovsky: if you are a single child and no spouse remains that could be a joint heir, then you are normally fully within your rights to do as you please with that inheritance, similar to media that you produced yourself. Follow the hints on the page Gråbergs Gråa Sånglinked above, prepare a scan of a document that demonstrates you as heir (to be eventually sent to COM:VRT, should that need arise). Slight caveat: you said that these photographs were made in Antarctica in the 1960's. Back then, there were barely any tourism or private ventures to travel to the region, most humans sent there were so on orders from official state agencies. It could be that official photographs from governmental expeditions have a copyright that resides not with the actual photographer, but within the agency behind the expedition. Just do a quick check about the circumstances of those shots, please! Historical imagery of Antarctica should be very valuable for us, the projects and research in general and most welcome, especially if the circumstances of the shots (location, date) can be documented! Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 15:55, 26 May 2026 (UTC)

Recherche d'un plan d'Alger d'avant 1960

Bonjour J'ai un peu de mal à trouver un plan d'Ager d'avant 1960

Pourriez m'aider en me donnant un lien direct SVP?

Par avance Merci

Louis Venturini <redacted> ~2026-31477-67 (talk) 20:04, 26 May 2026 (UTC)

Kai Musk Wikipedia Photo

Current image is inaccurate / AI-generated / not representative. Requesting replacement with authentic photo.

Real Photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kai_Musk.jpg KaiMusk (talk) 00:22, 27 May 2026 (UTC)

 Done Deleted. Yann (talk) 09:00, 27 May 2026 (UTC)

About Image upload

I want to upload University logo in the University wikimedia page. how to upload??Subhajitjapanese (talk) 06:18, 27 May 2026 (UTC)

In which project is that University page? Ruslik (talk) 20:15, 27 May 2026 (UTC)

Carico immagini

Perche tutte le altre immagini sono state caricate e le ultime invece no? Siba59 (talk) 12:06, 27 May 2026 (UTC)

Updating an Image

Hello there, i`m trying to change this file "File:Svwaldhof.svg" as it is not the correct crest of the SV Waldhof Mannheim. But i´m new to wikimedia commons and am not allowed to do it. I already uploaded the correct one under the file name "File:SV Waldhof Mannheim Wappen.png". As you may see it is just a small change but still a coorect one. I hope someone can help me solve this problem or just change it themselves. Thanks SV Waldhof Mannheim 07 (talk) 09:13, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

Hallo @SV Waldhof Mannheim 07:

Ich denke es ist für dich in Ordnung, wenn ich dir auf Deutsch antworte. Dein neuer Upload File:SV Waldhof Mannheim Wappen.png ist ein PNG-file, das andere eine SVG und darum kann man das auch nicht einfach so überschreiben. Du kannst deine Anfrage aber gerne an die Grafikwerkstatt richten, siehe COM:GL/I. Dort kann ein User deine Datei in eine SVG umwandeln und die alte Datei File:Svwaldhof.svg damit überschreiben. Ich sehe da nur minime Änderungen im Schriftzug, deswegen sollte ein Überschreiben auch kein Problem darstellen und der Dateiname braucht in den Sprachversionen auch nicht ausgetauscht zu werden. Beste Grüsse, זיו「Ziv」 • For love letters and other notes 10:04, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

ต้องการแก้ไขคำผิดชื่อหน้าไฟล์ต้องทำอย่าไร

File:Mr.Theerat Kobkokkruad-การเดินทางของกาลเวลา-ต้นกล้าบอมเบย์-Tonklabombay Bas8-TonklaBombay V8.jpg Tonkladonday 8 (talk) 17:26, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

@Tonkladonday 8: you can request that the file be moved (renamed); see COM:RENAME. (Sorry, that guideline does not appear to be available in Thai.)—Odysseus1479 (talk) 00:16, 29 May 2026 (UTC)

Uploading a photograph of an experiment

I am unable to upload a photograph of an experiment that I personally undertook in August 2025. This was solely my work, and the photograph was taken by me personally. Why does the system refuse to allow me to upload my own photograph of my own experiment? Matthewc777 (talk) 18:24, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

You tried doing a cross-wiki upload, which was blocked for new users after a proposal, because of the many problematic uploads that come from it. You may instead use the Upload Wizard to upload files. HyperAnd [talk] 21:39, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

Uploading photo of professeur Roger Motut

I can't upload pic Robert Motut (talk) 18:59, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

Photos from an old railway.

I seen photos I want to use for an article here and here one is from 1892 or 134 years old and the other was taken between 1891 and 1896 as that is when the streetcar was running. Would these photos fall under fair use due to their age? Wobs100 (talk) 22:27, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

It does say "copyright" on the bottom by the way. Wobs100 (talk) 22:30, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

I think you're conflating "fair use" with "public domain". We never accept fair use, but we do accept works that are in the public domain because of age. Do you know what countries these pictures are from, and when did the authors die? HyperAnd [talk] 22:42, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

The US and I don't know the author. Wobs100 (talk) 22:44, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

The uploader was JMCatrow Wobs100 (talk) 22:47, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

Hmm, this may fall under {{PD-US-expired}}, because this photo might be published before January 1st 1931, but if it was never published, it falls under {{PD-US-unpublished}} because it was created before 1906. HyperAnd [talk] 23:00, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

The streetcar itself is seen here but I couldn't find the other one elsewhere. Wobs100 (talk) 23:38, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

The other one was copied by Clowes Studio so it is published? Wobs100 (talk) 23:51, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

Images take long time to load

Hello, when browsing images on WikiCommons, I have recently noticed images taking take up to 6 seconds to load where as before I used to be able to rapidly cycle through images in a category. I like to look through images but now it is painful. I wonder why this is and if there is something to fix this. Knowledoulos (talk) 00:18, 29 May 2026 (UTC)