What are the difference between these two categories: Category:Footwear by brand and Category:Shoes_by_brand ? Dubidubno (talk) 22:50, 2 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Dubidubno: Hi, and welcome. Shoes are just one type of footwear.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 17:19, 3 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
So everything in the Shoes by brand category should also be in the Footwear by brand category? Dubidubno (talk) 23:35, 3 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
@Dubidubno: Does Special:Diff/1191154317 answer your question? I presume that is all that is needed. - Jmabel ! talk 04:05, 4 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
I'm not sure I understand what you mean, Jmabel. Dubidubno (talk) 20:23, 4 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
@Dubidubno: Did you look at the diff? If you did, and you don't see how that solves the problem, then probably you should stay away from trying to improve categorization until you understand it better. - Jmabel ! talk 21:18, 4 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
I have looked at what are in the two categories. What diff are you specifically reffering to? Dubidubno (talk) 15:41, 12 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
@Dubidubno: Special:Diff/1191154317, the only diff in this thread. - Jmabel ! talk 17:59, 12 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
Ah, right I see whaht you mean now. Adding Shoes by brand to category Footwear by brand is useful. Dubidubno (talk) 19:31, 16 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

Как мониторить айфон без доступа Elenazab1986 (talk) 18:43, 11 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

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That does not sound to me like a question with any relation to this website (Wikimedia Commons). - Jmabel ! talk 21:59, 11 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
@MaverickMatthews: I cannot imagine what any of this could have to do with this website. Are you familiar with the scope of this site? - Jmabel ! talk 05:24, 15 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
I am a highly visible public figure currently touring the country. I have produced some of the largest shows on television including Duck Dynasty. I meet all your qualifications. I would like to request the addition of a “Maverick Matthews” page. If this was unclear then let’s move forward with this clarity. Thanks. MaverickMatthews (talk) 18:27, 17 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
@MaverickMatthews: you're giving me the feeling that you're mistaking the media repository Wikimedia Commons (this site here) with a Wikipedia edition (the place for textual content in article form). Please visit the Wikipedia edition in the language(s) that is/are relevant to you if you want to follow up on your endeavour of an article about yourself. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 18:33, 17 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
The problem here isn’t my perception of your scope - it’s in the coding of your sites. . I followed all the prompts to “submit a page” for consideration or however it is phased and that’s how I ended up here. Perhaps your gateway to information doesn’t have a clear path to contribution. Anyway I’m kind of over it now. My agents say they will take care of it. You may either help or continue go pigeon hole me. You could have easily just redirected. Clearly y’all love this minutia of uncharitable confusion. Good luck. MaverickMatthews (talk) 18:49, 17 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
@MaverickMatthews: Please be aware that paid editing is highly discouraged if not wholly forbidden. So your agent may be blocked unless they disclose the connection with you. Also writing articles when there is a conflict of interest is also not welcome. Thanks, Yann (talk) 19:10, 17 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
@MaverickMatthews: I like Duck Dynasty, but please see en:WP:PAID and en:WP:COI in reference to potential canonical name en:Maverick Matthews.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 07:43, 18 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

You see i try to put a map file i made on map chart one i tried was uuh list of countries ruled by a military junta in Africa and i uploaded it but it said failed to upload Dommer simpson (talk) 14:16, 15 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Dommer simpson: Actually, I see nothing. This right here appears to be your first edit on this site (Wikimedia Commons). Can you be more specific about what you are trying to do? If you are trying to upload a file and that is failing, what upload tool exactly are you using (URL of tool, or name of tool)? What error message, exactly, are you getting? "it said failed to upload" isn't enough for anyone to work out what is happening here. - Jmabel ! talk 21:12, 15 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
Obviously i used the upload button Dommer simpson (talk) 10:59, 17 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

They say we cant upload logos, but what about the Red Arrows, since they have a logo on them, are we allowed to post them or are we not?

- OsamuBinDazai (Wikipedia newbie) OsamuBinDazai (talk) 20:58, 15 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

@OsamuBinDazai: "the Red Arrows" is really vague, can you provide a link to what you are talking about?
Some logos are simple enough to be below the threshold of originality. Those are trademarked but not copyrighted; we can host them.
Also, some Wikipedias host low-resolution non-free logos specifically for use in particular articles; that does not involve this site (Wikimedia Commons). For example, you can see the English-language Wikipedia's policy on this at en:Wikipedia:Logos. - Jmabel ! talk 21:21, 15 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
sorry about that, i meant the Red Arrows as in the British Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team. They have the RAF logo on the side of the aircraft. OsamuBinDazai (talk) 15:32, 16 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
@OsamuBinDazai: the RAF logo, File:Logo of the Royal Air Force.svg, is on Commons as it was judged to be below the threshold of originality, so that shouldn't be a problem. Whether to upload photos which include a "trivial" amount of copyrighted material is explained at Commons:De minimis. TSventon (talk) 20:33, 16 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

there is a website called pexels which has free pictures but it has its own license but it dosent specify whats its name (please anybody that knows the name answer) Dommer simpson (talk) 14:13, 17 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Dommer simpson: Hi, and welcome. Please read {{Pexels}}.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 14:18, 17 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hello, could someone help make {{AI modified}} into a translatable template? I tried a bit myself, but I don't think I did it right. Any help would be appreciated! Nosferattus (talk) 00:45, 18 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

I am just sign up and want to know how to find copyright free content Singharunesh (talk) 03:03, 18 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Singharunesh:
  1. Not a lot is truly copyright-free unless it is very old or very simple (so simple it is not eligible for copyright). I would guess that more than half of Commons content is copyrighted but free-licensed and most of the rest is so old that its copyright has expired.
  2. Generally if you do not really know just what you are doing, looking around the Internet for content that is in the public domain (that is, content that has no copyright) is going to be very frustrating. Probably about 95% of what is on the Internet is copyrighted and not free-licensed.
  3. So I don't think I can answer your question directly, but I'm going to suggest reading COM:THIRD, which might give you a good starting point for thinking about this from a more productive angle.
  4. That said, you might look at https://bsu.libguides.com/c.php?g=1186851&p=8680401 (though I believe they are wrong about Unsplash, which is no longer public domain), or any of a number of other lists of sites you might find by typing public domain sources into a search engine.
Jmabel ! talk 07:16, 18 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
@Singharunesh: Hi, and welcome. In addition to the above, if you want to find copyright free content here, see Category:Public domain and the children thereof. Also, if you want to read about the public domain, see en:Public domain.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 08:11, 18 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

Bonjour. Hi.

Il s'agit d'une question technique. It is about a technical issue.
Quand je tente d'ajouter un catégorie pour une image, le système me suggère automatiquement (en grisé) une suite pour ce que je suis en train de taper (fins de mots, de phrases etc) en rapport avec une catégorie déjà existante.
When I try to categorize, the system suggests me some ends of words (in grey) in the window, related to an existing category.
Mais quand je continue à écrire la suggestion se transforme sans raison et efface ce que j'ai déjà écrit, parfois même au milieu d'un mot.
But when I continue writing, the suggestion suddenly suppresses what is already written by me.
Exemple/example:
Si je veux taper le mot "photograph", j'écris "phot" et le système me propose "phot(ograph)"
If I wish to type "photograph", I type "phot" and the system suggests "phot(ograph)"
Mais si je poursuis, la suggestion saute et je me retrouve avec, disons, "(aph)" sans raison au début de la fenêtre et le remplissage utile devient impossible.
But if I continue, the suggestion suppresses all and keeps only a part of it at the beginning of the window (say "(aph)") and the categorization is impossible.
Quel paramètre dois-je corriger ?
What kind of parameter should I correct ?
Merci
Thanks

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@~2026-24056-76 Perhaps these belong to Category:Red, white, and blue bunting in the United States? Thanks. Tvpuppy (talk) 18:06, 19 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
+1 - Jmabel ! talk 01:13, 20 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

Mon grand-père maternel a servi, durant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale, à bord du Contre Torpilleur TIGRE. Je détiens de la copie du témoignage de satisfaction du Capitaine de Frégate GRAS commandant le bâtiment. Ce témoignage a été adressé à mon grand-père, le 26 avril 1944 à l'issue du combat du TIGRE contre 20 avions torpilleurs. Je suis surpris de ne pas pouvoir déposer la photo de ce témoignage sur votre site, à l'endroit où est développée l'histoire du TIGRE. Arnaud SADE (talk) 18:10, 19 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Arnaud SADE: Il y a probablement un problème de fr:droits d'auteur qui interdit le téléversement sur Commons. Si toutefois ce texte est en-dessous d'une limite créative (voir COM:TOO France), on peut pour autant envisager une publication ici. Est-ce qu'il y a moyen d'un téléversement sur un hébergeur d'image quelconque pour montrer le document et pouvoir juger le cas précis? Salutations, Grand-Duc (talk) 19:36, 19 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
Ce document est une propriété personnelle, héritée de mon grand-père maternel. Je ne vois pas où est le problème ? Faites ce que vous voulez : ma seule intention était d'apporter un témoignage historique, concernant ma famile. Arnaud SADE (talk) 21:32, 19 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
@Arnaud SADE: Posséder une copie d'un document historique ne fait pas de vous le propriétaire des droits d'auteur. De même, posséder un DVD du dernier film ne vous donne pas la permission de distribuer le film. Cordialement, Yann (talk) 09:09, 20 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
This request probably concerns File:Temoignage Satisfaction du Capitaine de Fregate GRAS.jpg.
@Arnaud SADE: La source, l'auteur et la licence ne sont pas corrects. J'ai corrigé cela pour vous. Cordialement, Yann (talk) 19:46, 19 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
Bonjour Arnaud, je tombe sur votre question par hasard. Je voulais juste vous dire que je connais (un peu) ce navire, construit entre les 2 guerres aux ACB, dont mon grand-père était sous-directeur, détenteur à l'é^poque d'un record de vitesse, et dont il y a dans ma famille une des veritables "tapes de bouche" ... Amusant !!! LE PAGE Christophe (talk) 14:34, 24 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

Any idea how to deal with the occurrence of Location in the Information template (incategory:Pages_using_Information_template_with_incorrect_parameter insource:/location *=/i)? Could these occurrences be modified to something useful by a bot? Leyo 19:39, 19 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

Could just move it to at the tail end of the description (with appropriate adjustment to the wikisyntax). So if there is "|location=FOO" that becomes "Location: FOO" at the end of the description. - Jmabel ! talk 01:17, 20 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
You mean just outside of the Information template? --Leyo 21:07, 20 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
@Leyo: No, inside the "description" argument in the Information template, presumably with a <br> before it. - Jmabel ! talk 23:42, 20 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
Okay, that would be fine to me. Is there a bot that can do this? --Leyo 08:52, 21 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
Not readily, presumably someone would need to program it, but you can make a request.
With a lot of cleverness, VFC or AWB could probably be made to do this (using regular expressions) but it would be a royal pain to work it out, and especially to test to eliminate false positives. Better done by a bot overtly programmed for the task. - Jmabel ! talk 16:24, 21 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

I was looking at Wikipedia, and clicked on something, and now everything has been replaced by "Wikimedia Commons." I don't want an account with "Wikimedia Commons." Mevsherd (talk) 00:39, 20 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

If you have an account on Wikipedia (in any language) that is also an account on Wikimedia Commons, as well as Wikipedia in every other language, Wiktionary, etc. So if you access a page on any of these sites, it is the same account. See meta:Help:Unified login, meta:Special:GlobalContributions/Mevsherd. - Jmabel ! talk 01:23, 20 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
Uh, welcome to Wikimedia Commons! This is just a glorified free stock media site. You might've clicked on some image on Wikipedia and clicked "More details", which usually sends you to Wikimedia Commons. You can go to the Main Page and scroll down to the bottom to find a link back to Wikipedia. HyperAnd [talk] 06:02, 20 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hice mi primer archivo que subi es un articulo para enciclopedia. Tengo mas articulos que subir este primero esta bien? Iarbos (talk) 11:24, 20 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

Getting Started

I uploaded my first file; it's an encyclopedia article. I have more articles to upload; is this first one okay?

@Iarbos: Hola y bienvenido. Tu borrador de artículo aún se encuentra en es:Usuario:Iarbos/Taller. Es muy breve. Te sugiero que te refieras al "Dr. Franco" en tercera persona en lugar de en primera persona con el verbo "Trabajó". Consulta también en:WP:AUTO.

Hi, and welcome. Your draft article is still at es:Usuario:Iarbos/Taller. It is very short. I suggest that you refer to "Dr. Franco" in third person rather than first person verb "Trabajó". See also en:WP:AUTO.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 12:38, 20 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
Hola Gracias Jejj fijate bien creo dice "Trabajó en el hospital...". Me falta aportes en Terapias alternativas y aportes en sexualidad. No se borra el Taller, esta bien como lo estoy haciendo? Iarbos Iarbos (talk) 13:35, 20 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
@Iarbos: Por favor, escriba al es:Wikipedia:Café/Archivo/Ayuda/Actual.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 14:21, 20 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
Y el taller ya esta borrado como uso indebido... well, back to English Whyiseverythingalreadyused (t · c · he/him) 13:58, 22 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hi all,

I work for Portland Thorns FC of the NWSL. One of our players is not a fan of the photos that are utilized on her page (to be fair they arent great and we have a full archive of more compelling ones). How could I go about providing those or uploading directly as a replacement to the current ones?

Appreciate any insights! Stumptown FC (talk) 16:38, 20 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Stumptown FC: Hi, and welcome. Please read COM:FS.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 21:24, 20 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
@Stumptown FC: I have a feeling it will be a little trickier than Jeff says, but not enormously trickier, since I presume you either hold the rights for the photos you want to upload or know exactly who does. You will almost certainly find COM:THIRD useful. One further word to the wise, though: don't fudge anything about who holds the copyright. Commons probably takes that more strictly than anyone else on the Internet. If (after reading COM:THIRD) you have any further questions related to that and as to just what Commons will need in terms of establishing that the copyrights are "clean", please feel more than free to get hold of me, probably best on my user talk page. - Jmabel ! talk 23:47, 20 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
@Stumptown FC A practical solution, from the Commons/WP perspective, is this: create a subpage at https://www.thorns.com/ with photos you like to "donate", and add the text "The photos on this page are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license."
Then you or anyone can upload them on Commons using a link to that page as a source, and then you can use them on WP. I/someone else here can probably help with the Commons/WP parts if you ask, provided you "fix" your website. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 05:38, 21 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
@Gråbergs Gråa Sång: your "practical solution" will work if they own the copyrights, but otherwise the offer of a license would not clearly come from the copyright-holder, as is required. - Jmabel ! talk 16:28, 21 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
Yeah, I'm assuming they wouldn't lie about these hypothetical pics. I can't guarantee they won't, obviously, but my assumption is that an org like that would think it's a bad idea. File:Shae Harvery Training.032426.FW001.jpg indicates that the OP does have access to relevant pics. But sure, they shouldn't state on their website that pics without a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license does have a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license, that might even be illegal. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 17:50, 21 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
Or you can just keep doing what you did with File:Shae Harvery Training.032426.FW001.jpg Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 05:54, 21 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
Hi Stumptown FC. I'm just going to add the following to everything that's been posted above. Wikimedia Commons is mainly concerned with the copyright status of the images it hosts and whether such images fall within its COM:SCOPE. However, there's no way to guarantee that any images you upload will end up being used on English Wikipedia or guarantee that they won't be used by websites or people not associated with English Wikipedia in any way. So, you might want to take a close look at COM:LJ, COM:REUSE and COM:ENFORCE because any images you upload to Commons under copyright licenses that meet COM:L could end up being used in ways that your organization and its players might not like.

When it comes to images used in English Wikipedia articles, there can sometimes be disagreements over which to use, and such disagreements typically need to resolved by establishing a consensus through article talk page discussion. If the images you upload are of a high-quality and not overtly promotional in nature, others should have no problem in using them; there is, however, always the possibility that someone might disagree and prefer a different image. So, please keep that in mind.

It's also important to understand that the types of images Commons is able to host are licensed with very minimal restrictions in place, which means pretty much anyone anywhere in the world can download them and reuse them in any way they want as long as they comply with the terms of the licensing. My suggestion to you before uploading anything would be to consult with your organizations PR department or legal department since hopefully those people will be familiar with things like image copyright and what it means to release images under a particular type of license. The types of copyright licenses that are free enough for Commons are pretty much non-revocable; so, it can be hard to get images uploaded to Commons under such licenses deleted after the fact. -- Marchjuly (talk) 06:22, 22 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
While there is no guarantee that uploaded pics will be used, it's quite common that pics of living people on en-WP are pretty low-quality (if en-WP has them at all), and if a better one (subjective, of course) is correctly provided, it probably will be used. Category:Portland Thorns FC players has a lot of people in it, and it's probable some leadimages could be improved, though I see several that IMO look pretty good, "at work" so to speak. Studio pics like https://www.thorns.com/roster wouldn't necessarily be preferred by Wikipedians as leadimages, but this is me speculating. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 06:41, 22 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

BEN BILGILENDIRICI METIN YAZIYORUM AMA SUREKLI KARISIYOR NSIL SIZINKI GIBI YAPABILIRIM YARDIMCI OLUR MUSUNUZ BANA MÜZİK KURDU (talk) 17:40, 20 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

WRITING INFORMATIONAL TEXT

I'm writing informational text, but it keeps getting mixed up. How can I make it like yours? Can you help me?

@MÜZİK KURDU: Merhaba ve hoş geldiniz. CAPS LOCK tuşunuz takılı kalmış. Ne tür bir bilgi metni yazmaya çalışıyorsunuz, nereye? Ne sonuç alıyorsunuz ve ne sonuç bekliyordunuz?

Hi, and welcome. Your CAPS LOCK key is stuck. What informational text are you trying to write, where? What result are you getting, and what result did you expect?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 21:31, 20 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
"Where" meaning "please link the page". - Jmabel ! talk 23:49, 20 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hello everyone! Would it be allowed to upload this animation under PD-USGov-FAA? (I originally found it on the FAA website regarding lessons learned) GDuwenTell me! 20:15, 20 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

@GDuwen: It is not clear whether all (or, really, any) of the content there comes from U.S. government sources. I would suggest you contact them and ask them to clarify whether that video, or elements of that video, might be copyrighted. - Jmabel ! talk 23:52, 20 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
 Comment, I can see most of the animation uses imagery from Google Earth, so those elements are likely to be copyrighted by Google and are unlikely to be PD-USGov. Thanks. Tvpuppy (talk) 00:27, 21 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
Thanks, that would settle the matter as a "No" right there. - Jmabel ! talk 05:10, 21 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
Yea, that's what was stopping me from uploading it mostly. AI came up with it being "layered copyright licenses" (in short, all but the maps would be copyright-free, but through fair use or what have you the animation would be either free or a gray zone there). The images of Google Maps are coming from other sources rather than the Google company itself, but I guess the copyright would be coming from NASA, Airbus or whoever was the provider. GDuwenTell me! 17:34, 22 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

I have 3 screenshots of 4 pages from this book that was published in 1896. The screenshots were taken of the Internet Archive web site (archive.org), link below. Is it okay to upload them, and if so what accreditation do I give?

[1] Dromedary32 (talk) 14:44, 21 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Dromedary32: Yes, this is in the public domain. The best would be to upload the whole books (2 volumes). Yann (talk) 14:54, 21 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
@Dromedary32: As for indicating the source (which I'm guessing is what you meant by "accreditation"; maybe you meant to type "attribution"?), the ideal way is probably {{Cite book}}, complete with a URL. - Jmabel ! talk 16:33, 21 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

Ich möchte ein Bild eines Zertifikates mit einem alten Label-Logo drauf hochladen (aus den 1990er-Jahren), um einerseits die Geschichte des aktuellen Labels zu dokumentieren und um andererseits es mit dem Beitrag zum Gründer zu verknüpfen. Das Foto des Zertifikates habe ich selbst gemacht. Darf ich das? Liititom (talk) 17:27, 21 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Liititom: Sorry, you may not yet. Please have the copyright holder see VRT.
Entschuldigung, das ist möglicherweise noch nicht der Fall. Bitte wenden Sie sich an den Urheberrechtsinhaber unter VRT/de.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 21:06, 21 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
Ich versuche es hier zu erklären (in meinem schlectem Ausländerdeutsch). Das Logo selbst (oder andere Elemente des Zertifikats) könnten die „Schöpfungshöhe“ überschreiten, in welchem ​​Fall sie eigene Urheberrechte hätten, auch wenn Sie das Foto davon gemacht haben. - Jmabel ! talk 07:02, 22 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

Jag är helt ny. Hur får jag tag i texter att korrekturläsa? AndersJvall (talk) 20:49, 21 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

@AndersJvall This is the help desk of Commons, basically a website that stores a lot of images, mostly for Wikipedias in different languages. Are you in the right place? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 06:36, 22 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

I uploaded a photo and I forgot to add the category, please. Cute tut (talk) 03:09, 22 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

Most users do not have the right to delete pages, including files. Only administrators do. So, you can't delete your images yourself, @Cute tut.
But adding categories (and descriptions) after the actual upload is easy and never a reason to delete something. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 05:20, 22 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
@Cute tut: If it is a picture you uploaded in the last 7 days, you can mark it with {{SD|G7}} (see Commons:Criteria for speedy deletion for explanation) and it will be deleted. However, as Grand-Duc says, it's easy to edit the file page after upload to add categories. - Jmabel ! talk 07:06, 22 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
Thank you so much! @Jmabel Cute tut (talk) 03:09, 23 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

I'm working on en:Big Duck and want to include some photos from https://www.davisbuildingmovers.com/specialty-moves. My plan is to write to the company and ask for their permission, but my experience in the past is that these requests often go nowhere not because the photo owner is unwilling but because they get bogged down in the details of uploading and licensing. What's the best process to maximize my chances of success? RoySmith (talk) 12:22, 22 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

@RoySmith I've only tried that once myself, never heard back, though I've had some success when asking people on WP who turned up there themselves. I think you need to be lucky, we're asking them to make an effort, possibly complicated, that doesn't obviously pay. Maybe using Commons:Permission requests increases your chances. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 15:57, 22 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
@RoySmith: Commons:Uploading works by a third party#If you need to obtain a license for copyrighted work may or may not contain some advice that would be useful to you; conversely, you might have something to add to it, or some suggestions to make for improving the section. - Jmabel ! talk 22:15, 22 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
You could send them a link to en:Wikipedia:Images from Corporate Copyright Holders (using the URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Images_from_Corporate_Copyright_Holders. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:24, 23 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

I recently added three photos to various NRHP that had not had photos taken yet and they are not showing up on the page yet. It has been about three weeks since I uploaded them. Please advise. MRobison (talk) 12:59, 22 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

Are they on this list?: Special:ListFiles/MRobison
These images?:
They're here on Commons, They're on Wikipedia at: en:Wikipedia:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places/Unused images. That much seems to be working.
If you added them to articles on Wikipedia, then that's an issue for Wikipedia. This is Commons, and we can't hep much.
Looking at your global contribs history: https://guc.toolforge.org/?by=date&user=MRobison you don't seem to have added them to Wikipedia articles at all? I don't know which articles they'd belong on.
Commons is a library of images. But it's not Wikipedia. To appear on Wikipedia, you also need to go to the pages where you want them, and add them to those pages. It's not automatic. You might find en:Help:Pictures to be a useful read. Is en:National Register of Historic Places listings in Bernalillo County, New Mexico the first place to add them? Andy Dingley (talk) 13:18, 22 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

I have a photo of a US military aircraft that I was flying. The photo was taken by an RAF photographer that was in another aircraft flying in formation with us. The purpose of the photo was to document the SACEUR (at the time) last flight departing UK airspace before his retirement. I would like to upload this photo to the Wiki Page that will be used to document this Flying Unit (SACEUR Flight Section) CrewRest (talk) 14:07, 22 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

@CrewRest Welcome! You have some reading to do, see COM:THIRD. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 16:55, 22 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hello, I'm in the process of uploading my own photos to the Wikimedia Commons, and the only photos I have of a certain person are group shots. I was wondering what the proper caption for this would be as the header on their page, as the page does not currently have a photo. I assume "[Name] (left) in [year]" would be fine, but should I name the others in the photo (ex. "[Name] (left) with [person] and [person] in [year]"?

Thanks in advance! ReverendPoppins (talk) 21:11, 22 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

@ReverendPoppins: If their identities are known, definitely name them in the description. Probably name them in the caption if they are either strongly connected to the person in question, or notable in their own right. Probably not, otherwise. Also, is the photo high enough resolution that it might be possible to also do a cropped version to show the individual in question? - Jmabel ! talk 22:30, 22 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
One of the people in the photo is very well known, but the other doesn't even have a Wikipedia page. I will crop the photo with just the individual, thank you! ReverendPoppins (talk) 01:05, 23 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hello, I would like to use a short notification sound (this one, size of about 10ko) in a user script on Wikipedia France. However, it needs to be uploaded on Wikimedia due to policy restrictions on using files hosted by other websites. It is a free sound licensed under CC 0.
Can I do it even though there is no educational value associated? And the upload wizard automatically blocks mp3. Any solution? Jethro8 (talk) 10:53, 23 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Jethro8: Just convert it to another file format like .ogg using an external program and upload it here, see Commons:Audio on how. Looks in scope to me. HyperAnd [talk] 20:15, 23 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
It's up, thanks ! We'll see if it stays that way. Jethro8 (talk) 06:16, 24 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

The file File:Smith chart bmd.svg is not vector graphics. Neither is File:Smith chart bmd.gif.

There is a vector version of this file available at: https://eecs.wsu.edu/~shira/ee331/hw/smith.pdf -- Hplooijer (talk) 13:11, 23 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Hplooijer: Hi, and welcome. You are welcome to convert that to svg and upload it here, then nominate the other two for deletion.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:39, 23 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
Thanks Jeff! Actually, the svg version in the Wikimedia page proves to be vector graphics - but it requires a viewer that can properly handle it. Unfortunately, the upload wizard does not contain a "public domain" option, so I'll leave it for now.
What I will upload: a (vector!) version of the Immittance Smith chart, created by myself. Hplooijer (talk) 14:20, 23 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hello, I got in trouble for this before, so I want to make sure I do it right here. How do I request multiple files to be deleted (author's request). Coldstreamer20 (talk) 16:40, 23 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Coldstreamer20: If you want to delete all of your own recent uploads between two particular times, just reply here and indicate the range of upload times. (It would have been better asked at COM:AN, but since the conversation is started here, let's keep it here.)
If it's something else, can you characterize at all what this is about (roughly how many files, are they all in some one category, etc.), so I can make a good suggestion? Some things are a lot easier to do quickly with a tool than others. - Jmabel ! talk 22:14, 23 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
So. I'm specifically looking for my AI uploads to be removed (there's been a discussion to remove them, and I don't want to cause any issues so I'm requesting they be removed). They are from: File:VBK 34 remake.png, File:VBK 100 remake.png, File:VBK 11 remake.png, File:VBK 31 remake.png, and File:VBK 33 remake.png. Then also File:VKK 611 remake.png, File:VKK 612 remake.png, File:VKK 613 remake.png, File:VKK 623 remake.png, File:Gardes-Française Regimental Colours - realistic.png, File:Royal Dragons guidon - realistic.png, File:Colonel-Général Dragons guidon - realistic.png, and File:Maestre-de-Camp Général Dragons guidon - realistic.png. Coldstreamer20 (talk) 01:52, 24 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
@Coldstreamer20: Because these are uploaded more than 7 days ago, in terms of deletion process it is largely irrelevant that you are the uploader/author. "Author's request" really doesn't apply. If they should be deleted on some other grounds, fine, but you'd have to approach this the same way as any other user.
That's not terribly many photos, so a mass deletion request isn't mandatory, and I see at least one of these (the last) is already nominated for deletion by someone else. Of course, on any where there are already DRs, it would be helpful if you would !vote delete ({{Vd}}) and make it clear you were the uploader.
For the rest: if you are pretty sure the decision whether to keep or delete will be the same for all of them, a mass DR is preferred. See Commons:Deletion requests/Mass deletion request. You have few enough uploads in the relevant period of time that it should be pretty simple to create the mass DR from your own uploads list using VFC. If you already know that tool, you can probably do it in about 10 minutes. If not, you may have a bit of a learning curve here, but I'd still guess it can be done in 30 minutes or so (and you'd learn a useful tool). - Jmabel ! talk 06:03, 24 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

hier jai entré deux documents que je ne peux plus retracer pourquoi? d'accord je suis nouveau et innexpérimenté pour la présentation de mon invention comment représenter mes documents? merci. 1936tenac (talk) 17:19, 23 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

@1936tenac: (via Google Translate:) Il s'agit bel et bien de votre première modification sur ce site web (Wikimedia Commons). Si vous avez importé des fichiers, cela a dû se faire sur un autre site. - Jmabel ! talk 22:18, 23 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

Sinds ongeveer een week kan ik met mijn laptop op Commons allerlei bijzondere tekens niet gebruiken, bijvoorbeeld de tilde, het dollarteken, het at-teken en het teken voor procent. Dit probleem heb ik niet op Wikipedia en Wikidata. Het lijkt erop dat Commons maakt dat mijn laptop van toetsenbord wisselt. Hoe kan dat, en hoe kan ik dit herstellen? Vriendelijke groet, Kattiel (talk) 18:57, 23 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

deleted "edit" I'm Photographer SPIRAL please fix my page SPIRAL(Photographer) (talk) 04:05, 24 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

@SPIRAL(Photographer): This appears to be the only edit this account has ever made on this site, so there is nothing to fix. - Jmabel ! talk 06:04, 24 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

Good afternoon! I am a student from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines – Sta. Mesa Campus, and I’m currently working on a brochure project as part of our academic requirements. I would like to respectfully request permission to use your photo of Emilio Aguinaldo Shrine hat I accessed through https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emilio_Aguinaldo_Shrine.jpg.

Rest assured that the photo will only be used for educational purposes. It will not be posted online, published, or used for any commercial content. The brochure will be presented solely within our class as part of our midterm presentation.

Proper acknowledgment and credit will also be given to you as the source of the image.

Thank you very much for your time and consideration. ~2026-24961-76 (talk) 09:59, 24 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

@~2026-24961-76: Hi, and welcome. That photo "is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license." Please follow the terms of that license. If those terms are unacceptable, please contact Starsabroso, who has not been heard from in 15+ years.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 10:10, 24 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hello, I have created a photo in Wikimedia Commons, but with the wrong information regarding the author : I would like to be able to delete this file, and then recreate it again with the right author Can you explain me how to proceed (the jpg file is named "Photo WS La Rochelle 2025", and is used in tha article "Bandes du réchauffement climatique". Thank you for your help !! LE PAGE Christophe (talk) 14:23, 24 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

@LE PAGE Christophe, hello! You can just edit the page directly and modify the author without deleting the file. Deltaspace42 (talk) 14:28, 24 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

I made a mistake. I uploaded a pdf file instead of a png or tiff file.

How should I convert or replace File:Torque as a function of slip.pdf with a pdf or a tiff file? Comfr (talk) 18:36, 24 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

You can just upload the proper file(s) and go back to the PDF and add {{speedy|accidentally uploaded PDF}}. There are other similar tags you can add to the top of a file to request deletion, but this is fastest. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:52, 24 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

I am a newbie, and would like to replace the image that was put up on my Wikipedia link with another. I have looked at the various 'help' links /pages within wikimedia, and I've only become more confused. Can someone please outline the appropriate procedure I will need to take for requesting a deletion of the current image and replacing it with another? Many thanks! Janelle (Parks) Graham CornfedinOhio (talk) 05:29, 25 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

@CornfedinOhio: are you referring to the article en:Janelle Parks? In any way, you will have to address several points.
  1. Images aren't deleted (usually), they can be replaced in articles and other pages. The file itself remains available, but not displayed on Wikipedia, for instance. If it's indeed about the en:Janelle Parks article, a better image is certainly welcome.
    • Deletion will occur when a copyright violation is demonstrated, or any other kind of site policy violation.
  2. You can provide better imagery? Very good! But that entails the observance of several mainstays for the sites. Prime is: a clarified copyright situation. Commons cares much about the respect of copyrights.
  3. If you want to provide imagery that was not taken by yourself, a lot of prerequisites has to be fulfilled. A comprehensive guide is available at COM:THIRD. In a nutshell: find the actual copyright owner, have them agree to a free license or show evidence of a complete transfer of copyrights to you and forward that documentation to our "permission archival service", the COM:VRT. The needed details are found on the linked tutorial page.
  4. If you have imagery produced by yourself (meaning: you grabbed a camera, set up a delayed-action shutter release or used some kind of selfie function and imaged yourself with that setup), go ahead and follow the steps shown in the COM:Upload wizard to upload the image here.
Imperatively avoid:
  1. the uploading of press images without explicit free license, those aren't free enough for Wikimedia's purposes.
  2. the uploading of photos of which the actual photographer is unknown. It's against the needed precaution mandated here.
I hope that I managed to solve some of your confusion, but feel free to ask again if something remains unclear! Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 07:03, 25 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
Thank you for explaining that. I will endeavour to find a photo that I can track down the photographer for clearance. Cheers! Janelle CornfedinOhio (talk) 07:48, 25 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
A small clarifiaction about uploading photos by unknown photographers. In all cases photos have to satisfy US copyright law and local copyright law. Under US copyright law, photos that were taken 120 years ago or published 95 years ago by an unknown (annonymous) photographer are out of copyright provided that they are also out of copyright under the law of the country where they were taken. Thus, a photograph of Queen Victoria by an unknown photographer is no longer protected under US copyright (Queen Victoria died 125 years ago). If such a photo was taken in the United Kingdom, you will of course also have to satisfy UK copyright law. Martinvl (talk) 21:19, 25 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
Did you notice that we're talking about someone born in 1962? I don't think any of that applies to her. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 22:58, 25 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hello, Many pictures I want to copy has a permanent frame, I want to remove it but the border function is not operating. How to remove the frame (For example it is the case of chemical formula? Randdu (talk) 06:23, 26 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

How can I post an article Reetaswara (talk) 12:03, 26 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

I want this photo to be placed on the Wikipedia page Adriatik Llalla Adriatik Llalla (talk) 12:14, 26 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

I want this photo to be placed on the Wikipedia page Adriatik Llalla Adriatik Llalla (talk) 12:15, 26 April 2026 (UTC)Reply